Author: Joseph Thomas

Creating Place Podcast: Art2Action

The War & Treaty perform at Veterans Community Open Mic, hosted by Art2Action. Photo: James Geiger. This podcast is part of the Creating Place project. View the full multimedia collection here. “If I don’t believe in the possibility of healing, I

Creating Place Film: ConNECKted — Imaginings for Truth and Reconciliation

This film is part of the Creating Place project. View the full multimedia collection here. “conNECKted’s” first collective questions were: Partnership with whom? Prosperity for whom? From there, as the field of our questioning leads us unmistakably from housing to education,

Creating Place Podcast: Hollerin Space

L-R: Hollerin Space artists Angela Davis Johnson and muthi reed. This podcast is part of the Creating Place project. View the full multimedia collection here. “It [the Hollerin Space] feels like placemaking to me, it feels like placemaking in the body

Making Home Away from Home

Poppy, Ashley, and Magic in the back yard, Dundalk, early 1980s. This article is part of the Creating Place project. View the full multimedia collection here. By: Ashley Minner (Baltimore, MD) | April 25, 2018 I grew up picking cucumbers and

Creating Place Film: SpiritHouse — Reshaping the Mo(u)ring

This film is part of the Creating Place project. View the full multimedia collection here. SpiritHouse is a multigenerational Black women-led cultural organizing tribe with a rich legacy of using art, culture, and media to support the empowerment and transformation of

Creating Place Podcast: Nikiko Masumoto & Kimi Maeda

Kimi Maeda performs Bend – the true story of two men interned in a Japanese American internment camp – at ROOTS Week 2015. Photo: Melisa Cardona. This podcast is part of the Creating Place project. View the full multimedia collection here. “I

Creating Place Podcast: Last Call

Last Call’s Alleged Lesbian Activities ensemble. Photo: Erin Roussel. This podcast is part of the Creating Place project. View the full multimedia collection here. “We’ve lost space to gather. We’ve lost physical space that it feels like our community can like center around.

I Am Powerful: Reclaiming and Uplifting the Power, Space, and Voice of Incarcerated Youth

Justice Parade 2017, Performing Statistics. Photo: Craig Zirpolo. This article is part of the Creating Place project. View the full multimedia collection here. By: Jeree Thomas (Richmond, VA) | April 25, 2018 “I am smarter than you think… I am not a

The Struggles & Successes of Building an Inclusive Arts/Activist Community on the Border

Reading of Letters from the Wall by Dave Rivas at the US/Mexican Border in Playas de Tijuana, B.C. Mexico, for the Bi-National Theater and Art Festival 2017. Left to right; Sylvia Enrique, Rick Zazueta, Dave Rivas, Mila Daniels. Photo: Enrique Chiu. This article is part

A Global South: Building Community through the Art of Chinese Dance

Atlanta Chinese Dance Company presents Ren and Shen: Chinese Humans and Superhumans at the Infinite Energy Theater in Duluth, GA, featuring guest artists from the acclaimed New York based Qi Shu Fang Peking Opera Company. Photo: Cheng Wu. This article is

Empowering Women at the Border as Creative Placemaking: Mujeres en Ritual Danza-Teatro

Kenia Delgadillo as Antigona in Antigona en la Frontera, Tijuana, Baja California. Photo: Alejandra Villalba. This article is part of the Creating Place project. View the full multimedia collection here. By: Dora Arreola1 (Tampa, FL) | April 25, 2018 Introduction: The Border Context and

Creating Place Film: Clear Creek Creative — Jubilee!

This film is part of the Creating Place project. View the full multimedia collection here. Clear Creek Creative is both a grounding place and an ever-evolving vehicle for living in harmony with nature and with one another. At Clear Creek, we

Creative Placetaking: It’s a Thing!

Akwete Bandele, owner of the Pan African Connection Bookstore, Art Gallery, and Resource Center welcoming ROOTS Weekend-Dallas participants to the space. Photo: Melisa Cardona. This article is part of the Creating Place project. View the full multimedia collection here. By: Vicki Meek (Dallas,

Home: a place to be from, a place to take with you, a place to which to return, and a place to inform and preserve for seven generations

The author, at center, with her parents, Mildred and Calvin Pevia. This article is part of the Creating Place project. View the full multimedia collection here. By: Kim Pevia (Robeson County, NC) | April 25, 2018 Home: a place to be from… Some of

roots, routes, alternate

In response to increasing KKK activity in the 1980s, Roadside and Junebug Productions began the Junebug/Jack collaboration, performing for each other’s home audiences – one predominately white, the other black, both low to moderate income. Photo: Roadside Archives. This article is

Now Hiring: Development Associate

  Click here to view the Programs Associate job description Alternate ROOTS seeks candidates for Development Associate   Alternate ROOTS supports the creation and presentation of original art that is rooted in community, place, tradition, or spirit. We are a

Now Hiring: Programs Associate

  Click here to view the Development Associate job description Alternate ROOTS Seeks Candidates for Programs Associate Alternate ROOTS supports the creation and presentation of original art that is rooted in community, place, tradition, or spirit. We are a group

Azule, a Place for the Arts: A Journey Towards Creative Placemaking

Azule contains myriad mosaics, all of them painstakingly designed and executed by Camille. Photo: Azule Archives. This article is part of the Creating Place project. View the full multimedia collection here. Article & Photo Collages by Alicia Arraya | April 25, 2018 Without

ROOTS’ new Executive Director, Michelle Ramos, announces the ROOTS Road Trip!

Porch circle at ROOTS Week 2017. Photo: Melisa Cardona. Dear ROOTers, I am so excited to spend some time to get to know you! I started as Executive Director on January 15th, MLK day, which was not planned, but incredibly

Buildings, Community, Art, and Building Community: Fetching Lessons from the Past

The Hapeville Performing Arts Center was one of several stops on the Grassroots Arts Bus Tour during ROOTS Weekend-Atlanta. Photo: Melisa Cardona.  Priscilla Smith (Atlanta, GA) | January 25, 2018 “I came away inspired. It completely transformed my vision of

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Alternate ROOTS supports the creation and presentation of original art that is rooted in communities of place, tradition or spirit. We are a group of artists and cultural organizers based in the South creating a better world together. As Alternate ROOTS, we call for social and economic justice and are working to dismantle all forms of oppression—everywhere.