Share
your Travel Photos & Stories! Travelogues
IX: Postcards from the Edge Exploring
Holy Sites Around the Globe with
SSTCi Executive Director Lisa Martin Wednesday,
December 22nd 7pm-8.30pm |
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The Blue
Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey Join
us for part IX of an SSTCi special event: Travelogues: Postcards from
the Edge facilitated by SSTCi Executive
Director Lisa Martin Wednesday, December 22nd at
7pm as we connect and share travel stories. For this session, we
will explore holy sites and other sacred spaces around the globe. Share photos and a story of a special
place you've visited One photo of you, plus up to 5 others
and tell us about your trip! * Pick your 5-6 photos of ONE special
place/destination in the world you have visited. * Include a photo that includes you at
the site. * Then share with a 3 minute or less
story. During
the share & tell time, we will also be enjoying an
international happy hour, so please come prepared with a cocktail
(or other beverage) from a special place in the world. You may be
asked to share the recipe! This is a FREE event & everyone is
welcome, but space for "presenters" is limited. Others
who may not want to share, are still welcome to join us. But
everyone needs to RSVP for the Zoom info. |
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About Our Facilitator Lisa Martin has over 25 years of experience working with arts and cultural organizations on both US coasts, as well as across Europe.
Lisa has served as Executive Director of Silver Spring Town Center Inc since November 2011. As the first Executive Director of SSTCi, she has oversight of over 100 ongoing SSTCi programs and events that take place throughout the year in Downtown Silver Spring primarily at the Silver Spring Civic Building and Veterans Plaza.
These events include the Silver Spring Blues Festival & Blues Week, the Harvest Moon Festival, Tribute to America's Veterans Concert, as well as SSTCi's Arts Salon and Civic Café, plus performance series on Veterans Plaza, including Twilight Tuesdays and Wednesday Night STARZ. Lisa has also created a number of special events, as well as SSTCi's World Bazaars two other popular programs: SSTCi's Film & Lecture Series and SSTCi's SPARKLE "Senior Programs Aimed at Re-Kindling Lifetime Engagement presented in collaboration with Silver Spring Village.
She has over 25 years of experience working with arts and cultural organizations and events, both domestically and abroad, including the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, VSA Arts International Festival in Washington, DC; San Diego Opera, the San Diego Museum of Man, the Parnu International Anthropology and Documentary Film Festival in Estonia, as well as a wide variety of embassy events. She has also worked in research and evaluation for museums, galleries, science centers and historic sites.
Lisa is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer having served as an English Teacher in Estonia 96-98. She has served on boards related to international development and cultural exchange, including the international board of directors of Partners of the Americas, and as president of the Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of Washington DC. In 2013, as part of a Partners of the Americas cultural exchange, she traveled to Brasilia on an Education and Culture Program travel grant sponsored by the US State Department. As part of this exchange, she gave several presentations entitled Community Building Through the Arts in Public Spaces, which details her work with SSTCi in particular and creative placemaking in general.
She has a Master's Degree in Arts Management from American University, a BS in Cultural Anthropology and BA in Journalism from San Diego State University, as well as an Executive Certificate in Facilitation from the Institute of Transformational Leadership at Georgetown University. Lisa is recipient of the 2016 Montgomery County Executive's Award for Excellence in the Arts & Humanities for Community Leadership, and is a member of the 2017 Core Class of Leadership Montgomery. Lisa is an avid traveler having visited over 30 countries and over 40 of the 50 states with a tendency to visit certain places of the world over and over again where she has family and/or friends, or simply a special connection. In her spare time, she also enjoys visiting festivals and museums, films, theatre, comedy writing, doing art (encaustic, mosaics, mixed media & collage), and singing in two choirs, including the Washington International Chorus and the Baltimore Washington Estonian Choir. She and her partner Towfik live in Foggy Bottom in Downtown Washington, DC.
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