Coming Live – Tuesday, May 7th @ 7:00 PM The Mahaffey Theater David L. Mearns is a USF graduate student alum and the holder of three Guinness World R...
Open Partnership Education Network and Aresty Family, in collaboration with WUSF Public Media, The Poynter Institute and the The Community Foundation of ...
Craft brewers and urban farmers united for the “We Dig St. Pete” Beer and Garden Tour on Saturday, January 26. Bused between community gardens, attende...
This story was originally published on the USFSP blog. (March 9, 2018) –Lynn Pippenger Hall auditorium was packed to capacity on March 1, for a hot topic...
The OPEN community across St. Petersburg came together on February 21st at Green Bench Brewery to highlight and thank the many people connected to the 201...
The Venus Project – a remarkable vision for a world beyond politics, poverty and war – has been the life work of Jacques Fresco (https://www....
Introduced at the 2017 Et Cultura Festival, the RAD SCHOOLS JAM challenged the community to view K-12 education in a radically new way – from a schoo...
OPEN continues to grow conversations about topics that matter in St. Petersburg and beyond. The 2018 year brings two more themes to OPEN – Civility a...
FUTURE CITY, a program that tapped into visions for resilient, compassionate, prosperous city life, was one of four themes presented as part of OPEN’...
Thomas Pickering, Career Ambassador with over forty years of service to the U.S., headlined the St. Petersburg Conference on World Affairs annual gathering...
Will Allen has simple goals: to grow food, to grow minds, and to grow community. And he is changing lives in the process. Mr. Allen – the author of ...
OPEN leaders Walter Balser (director) and Jenny Fessler (associate director) gave Tampa Bay its first glimpse of USF St. Pete’s Open Partnership Ed...
Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone contributing editor and acclaimed author of the Water Will Come, Cool the Planet, and Big Coal is the Aresty Speaker at th...
Michael Sturtz is not your ordinary architect of the future. His unconventional and successful career path has put him at the forefront of innovation for d...
The Campbells – father T. Colin, scientist and writer and son Nelson, social entrepreneur executive and documentarian – lead a lineup of dist...
Geoffrey Canada is the keynote Aresty Speaker at this year’s Et Cultura Festival. His participation is a highlight of the launch of the Radical...
CONNECTING, SHOWCASING AND ENGAGING TO SUPPORT ST. PETE’s BRILLIANT FUTURE Inaugurating Year Two of its partnership, the OPEN Aresty Speakers program...
James Aresty, local investor and founder of OPEN, was featured by 83 Degrees on May 22, 2017 as part of the OPEN inauguration. OPEN – Open Partnershi...
Nomadic Tempest Q&A – A Take on Climate Change and Migration through Art and Dialogue OPEN serves as host for an enlightening conversation about ...
Pentagon Papers Hedrick Smith, Pulitzer Prize-winner whose 1971 expose’ of the Pentagon Papers altered America’s role in the Vietnam War and whose 20...