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From the Ted Talk by Titus Kaphar: Can beauty open our hearts to difficult conversations?

Unscramble the Blue Letters


"NXTHVN" is a project that started about five years ago. NXTHVN is a 40,000-square-foot arts incubator in the heart of the dlewixl neighborhood in New Haven, Connecticut. This is a predominantly Black and Brown neighborhood. It is a neighborhood that has the hsiroty of jazz at every corner. Our nhooibrheogd, in many ways, has been disinvested in. Schools are surgilntgg to really prepare our population for the futures ahead of them. I know that creativity is an essential asset. It takes cattviiery to be able to imagine a future that is so different than the one that is before you. And so every artist in our program has a high school sudtio assistant: there's a high school student that comes from the city of New Haven who works with them and learns their cfrat, learns their practice. And so we've seen the ways in which pitninog folks at the power of creativity can change them.

Open Cloze


"NXTHVN" is a project that started about five years ago. NXTHVN is a 40,000-square-foot arts incubator in the heart of the _______ neighborhood in New Haven, Connecticut. This is a predominantly Black and Brown neighborhood. It is a neighborhood that has the _______ of jazz at every corner. Our ____________, in many ways, has been disinvested in. Schools are __________ to really prepare our population for the futures ahead of them. I know that creativity is an essential asset. It takes __________ to be able to imagine a future that is so different than the one that is before you. And so every artist in our program has a high school ______ assistant: there's a high school student that comes from the city of New Haven who works with them and learns their _____, learns their practice. And so we've seen the ways in which ________ folks at the power of creativity can change them.

Solution


  1. struggling
  2. studio
  3. creativity
  4. dixwell
  5. craft
  6. pointing
  7. history
  8. neighborhood

Original Text


"NXTHVN" is a project that started about five years ago. NXTHVN is a 40,000-square-foot arts incubator in the heart of the Dixwell neighborhood in New Haven, Connecticut. This is a predominantly Black and Brown neighborhood. It is a neighborhood that has the history of jazz at every corner. Our neighborhood, in many ways, has been disinvested in. Schools are struggling to really prepare our population for the futures ahead of them. I know that creativity is an essential asset. It takes creativity to be able to imagine a future that is so different than the one that is before you. And so every artist in our program has a high school studio assistant: there's a high school student that comes from the city of New Haven who works with them and learns their craft, learns their practice. And so we've seen the ways in which pointing folks at the power of creativity can change them.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


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