Visual artist Emy Imoh will collaborate with the youth of the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Atlanta, GA to create a culturally relevant public mural. In cooperation with the Andrew P. Stewart Center, the youth will beautify an exterior wall of their…
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Rasha Abdulhadi
Develop pieces that use Palestinian embroidery and some forms of English/Southern embroidery. She is a fiber artist, and she works with materials ranging from yarn, thread and fabric to paper and collage. See ROOTS Member Profile here.
Cristal Chanelle Truscott
The Burnin’ is an a cappella musical inspired by two nightclub tragedies; one in 1940 in Natchez, Mississippi (the Rhythm Night Club fire) and one in Chicago, Illinois in 2003 (a stampede at the city’s popular E3 nightclub). Occurring decades…
Angela Bennett
Produce a promotional 4 song CD for the non-traditional musical Goddesspell, a current work in progress.
Trina Fischer
Support the research stage of development of Looking for Lilith’s Environment Play (title TBD). Most of the events will be within the company as we dig into the research to continue to hone in on the issues and themes to…
The River Runs Deep: Activism and the Art of Listening
Article by Rebecca Mwase & Hannah Pepper-Cunningham An outdoor performance set at the edge of our disappearing wetlands, C/APP partner project Cry You One is part song, part story, and part procession that celebrates the people and cultures of South Louisiana while turning clear…
Speed the CAR: Creative Arts Reintegration
Speed Killed My Cousin, The Carpetbag Theatre’s newest play, is a multimedia performance rooted in the story of an African American female soldier and her struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder upon her return home from Iraq. While driving down the…
Talking Aesthetics at the DC Learning Exchange
by Jeff Mather When I first became a member of Alternate ROOTS, I was a bit stunned by the stamina that ROOTers have for extended, deep dialogue on difficult issues. I did feel like some of these discussions and work…
Stand Your Ground Laws and Their Impact on Minority Communities in the United States
Stand Your Ground Laws and Their Impact on Minority Communities in the U.S. Briefing Paper for Thematic Hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights While organizing my thoughts for this coming Tuesday’s hearing, I was reading the briefing page trying…