International journalists spoke at USF St. Petersburg last Thursday about the global trend of fake news and the dangers of reporting on the politically cor...
Today, kids are leading the charge for change by taking the government to court. On September 14th, 2019 – one week before the Global Climate Strike ...
SOLD OUT! Pulitzer Prize winner Gilbert King packs the house. OPEN kicked off it’s 2019-2020 season by selling out the venue for OPEN Aresty Speaker, G...
Open Partnership Education Network and Aresty Family, in collaboration with WUSF Public Media, The Poynter Institute and the The Com...
Students and community members from throughout the Tampa Bay area had the rare opportunity to receive leadership training from an internationally-recognize...
By Ben Smet It’s not every day that two organizations align easily and with impact on their first meeting, but that’s what happened when Tapp Network...
Jim Aresty brings OPEN concept to USF St. Petersburg and the city it calls home When you meet Jim Aresty, it’s impossible not to notice the openness of h...
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...
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...