Welcome To Alternate ROOTS!
Alternate ROOTS Hosts NEA Chair
To watch a recording of this event, please click here.
On Wednesday, May 9, 10:00 a.m. at The Fox Theatre, Alternate ROOTS will host a community conversation with Rocco Landesman, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, during his first official visit to the state as chair. The event is presented in partnership with the Georgia Council for the Arts.
Although there is no cost to attend this event, advanced registration is required in order to ensure adequate space. To register, email Jhai James at Georgia Council for the Arts with your name, organization and the number of people in your group. Email Jhai James at: JJames@gaarts.org.
Read the full press release here.
36th Annual Meeting & Artists Retreat: Traditions
August 7-12, 2012
Lutheridge Conference Center
Arden, NC (near Asheville)
Registration for ROOTS Members now open!
September 19, 2011
(pictured here: Carlton Turner, ROOTS Executive Director
& Jo Carson, Founding Member, at ROOTS Fest)
ROOTS' Friends, Fans, & Family Program
Do you love ROOTS and want to know how to stay connected in new ways? Please read more about our Friends, Fans, & Family Program here.
ROOTS Ranked Amongst Top Arts OrganizationsPhilanthropedia, an online publication whose mission is to improve nonprofit effectiveness by directing money to and facilitating discussion about expert recommended high-impact nonprofits, ranks Alternate ROOTS one of seventeen of the top arts organizations in the United States. In a recent nationwide survey of arts and culture professionals asked to name organizations that are the most effective, high impact organizations, Alternate ROOTS was ranked number 12.
Executive Director, Carlton Turner, states, "It is a great honor to be acknowledged as one of the top non-profit arts and culture organizations by a group of our peers."
Read the full press release from Philanthropedia here.
Read more about what the experts had to say about ROOTS here.
Check out this video submitted recently as a part of a final report to the Tour & Residency Program. It speaks highly to the importance of arts in education.
Alternate ROOTS' Mission: Alternate ROOTS is an organization based in the Southern USA whose mission is to support the creation and presentation of original art in all its forms, which is rooted in a particular community of place, tradition or spirit. As a coalition of cultural workers we strive to be allies in the elimination of all forms of oppression. ROOTS is committed to social and economic justice and the protection of the natural world and addresses these concerns through its programs and services.
Alternate ROOTS is a proud resident of the Little 5 Points Community Center.
Introducing our Members...
Donate to Alternate ROOTS!
A donation to Alternate ROOTS is an important part of contributing to arts and social change in the Southeast. We are an organization with over 30 years of experience helping artists make a difference through activism and creating community.
ALTERNATE ROOTS EVENTS...
06/15/2012 - 7:00pm - 11:00pm
Cost: FREE
05/18/2012 - 7:00pm - 11:00pm
Cost: FREE
www.JaehnClare.net