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This just in: The 34th Annual Meeting will take place August 10 - 15, 2010 at Lutheridge Conference Center! Read more about the 2010 Annual Meeting here.
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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 very excited about the new website, and the impact it will have in serving the membership of Alternate ROOTS. If you have any comments or suggestions, please click here and tell us what you think!Introducing our Members...
I'm a storyteller who "carries words" from times in places where the Old South met the Original South; stories born by melding and conflicts between Indigenous peoples and colonizing immigrants, truly southern stories lived in spirit and flesh. As a writer and performer for WagonBurner, the Native American radio theater directed by Leanne Howe, my characters often spoke from the lives of people who I knew as neighbors living in small, Indian settlements in rural Alabama. Theater written from oral literatures, oral histories, papers tossed into courthouse basements or jumbled for sale with recipe books by a roadside flea market vendor.
My scholarship retains a focus on the American Indian south during segregation, seperate Native communities along the gulf coast. As a shell-shaker, a stompdancer, I'm intrigued by the relationship between revivals of danced spirituality traditional to southeastern Native American cultures & Indian identity.
Participants in Charlotte's Tree re-fashion often discarded materials into holiday art items & ornaments, a re-cycling project by which socially marginalized or disadvantaged persons participate in community life while celebrating holidays. Artists & organizations along the central gulf coast re/circulate human, material and creative resources through ArtShares, a collaboration affirming art as a meaningful exchange to nurture healthy lives and grow vibrant community life.
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Resources for Social Change (RSC) is a training program developed by ROOTS that teaches ideas and techniques to create social change through art. This program began in recognition of the need to institutionalize ROOTS’ knowledge in the field. RSC trainers are artists experienced and schooled in the methods of using and bringing art into communities that traditionally may not have considered the important role that the arts can play in addressing oppressions and effecting social change.
