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What's happening at CC in June? 💼 Legal Office Hours | June 3, 2-3pm EDT Register: https://buff.ly/qJ17anj 🔭 The History & Legacy of Open Science | June 4, 10-11am EDT Register: https://buff.ly/M3bStL5 🌍 Community Office Hours | June 8, 5-6pm EDT Register: https://buff.ly/AzVyyQ8 🎨 The Legacy & History of Open Culture | June 16, 2:30-3:30pm UTC Register: https://buff.ly/upKZX9u 🍓 CC101: Intro to the CC Licenses | June 17, 10-11:30am EDT Register: https://buff.ly/ivVGNo3 Attribution: "Colour classification according to Mr. Chevreul's system" by René Henri Digeon and M. E. Chevreul, 1868 is marked in the public domain.

As part of Creative Commons’ 25th anniversary celebration, this special CC101 webinar invites you to dive into the world of CC licenses. Whether you're an artist, educator, researcher, librarian, or just curious, this session is the perfect way to dive into CC licensing (or brush up on your foundational knowledge for the experts out there!). Join us on June 17 from 10-11:30am EDT! https://lnkd.in/gx67kgGJ

Join us for  a virtual panel on The Legacy & History of Open Culture on June 16 from 2:30 pm-3:30 pm UTC! In the early 2000s, a handful of trailblazing galleries, libraries, archives, and museums made a radical choice: to digitize their collections and release them freely, without restriction, to anyone in the world. There was no playbook. There was no mandate. There was only a conviction that cultural heritage, the shared memory of humanity, belonged to everyone, and that the internet had made it possible, for the first time, to act on that conviction at scale. Hear about that origin story from a panel of Open Culture experts, featuring Medhavi Gandhi, Merete Sanderhoff, Andrea Wallace, and Giovanna Fontenelle, with opening remarks by Brigitte Vézina and moderated by Dee Harris. https://lnkd.in/gs927sqb

CC is excited to share our featured artists who have been commissioned to create limited-edition merch designs for our 25th anniversary! Check out their work (in order of appearance below). Merch with the new designs will drop in July 🔥 🎨 Abraham K. Tumwine is a 20-year-old Ugandan digital mixed-media artist, synthesizing painting, 3D modeling, and animation. His work explores the intersection of Afrocentricity and the breadth of global Black culture, examining how these identities have been shaped, translated and reimagined within shifting landscapes. To ensure each piece remains an open dialogue with the viewer, he also weaves together a cryptic visual language of contemporary doodles, modern signage, and ancient African symbols. 🎨 JUM is a Brazilian multidisciplinary artist currently based in Brazil after spending a decade living in Asia. Her practice has evolved and transformed around digital illustration and animations, mural painting, and exploring mixed media paintings and embroidery. Influenced by surrealism, early modern art, and Brazilian folk traditions, JUM creates dreamlike landscapes shaped by organic and imagined natural elements. Her work explores themes of belonging, womanhood, cultural memory, and the experience of returning home, creating visually striking compositions that aim to move beyond rational thought and connect with the viewer’s primal emotional world. 🎨 Amogh Bhatnagar designs books, visual identities, editorial illustrations, and exhibition publications, and is interested in how images, text, and structure produce meaning together. His practice involves image-making using collage as the primary medium to mediate between images that are already made, and images that can be made. The source material comes from various places: old books, the internet, and images of old books on the internet. 🎨 Ellis Tolsma a freelance illustrator and visual artist from Utrecht, the Netherlands. She uses a cheerful and graphic visual language inspired by vintage children's books, patterns & toys. Her work is characterized by geometric shapes, bold color combinations, abstractions, and a retro touch, which is enhanceed by printing with an old-fashioned risoprinter. Ellis also runs Studio Misprint and believes in the importance of constantly reimagining the creative process and making mistakes on the way.

The promise of open science is that openly available knowledge accelerates discovery, enabling researchers to collaborate more effectively, build on prior work, and advance new innovations and understandings of our world. CC's panel event "The Legacy & History of Open Science" will reflect on the origins of the movement, the milestones that shaped its growth, and the communities and infrastructures that continue to sustain it today. Hear from panel speakers Melissa Hagemann, John Wilbanks, and moderator Monica Granados.

If you weren't able to make the Legacy & History of Open Education event last week, now is your chance to see what you missed! Watch the event recording of CC's panel of Open Education experts as they share stories from the global movement. https://buff.ly/8F2vWm5

We have some big things coming, including a revamped general newsletter! Make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss any upcoming events, recent blog posts, and more. https://buff.ly/TubuANA

📣 Librarians, open culture practitioners, and educators 📣 There are still spots left in our CC Certificate courses that run June 1-August 9, 2026. Learn about CC licenses and become a knowledge resource at your institution through this interactive, engaging, and one-of-a-kind learning opportunity. Register today!

CC's virtual panel event The Legacy & History of Open Education is tomorrow! Hear from experts across the movement as they reflect on the origins of the open education movement, the milestones that defined its evolution, and the communities that carried it forward across regions and generations. Speakers include Kathryn Kure, Cable Green, PhD, Angela DeBarger, and Jennryn Wetzler. If you haven't yet, register now! https://lnkd.in/gDqgVPwc

Thanks to generous donors like Mark Waks and Diane Cabell, CC can continue to champion and facilitate the sharing of human creativity online! Cory Doctorow's new art book, Canny Valley, perfectly encapsulates the beauty and importance of this sharing. Canny Vally is a collection of 80 of his best collages, and donors who contribute $125 or more to Creative Commons' Keep the Internet Human campaign will receive a signed copy of the book while supplies last! Give a gift and get yours today! https://lnkd.in/ghwTmn5m