May 24, 2022 | Michelle Ramos, Executive Director, Alternate ROOTS Hello ROOTS Community, I hope that you all are holding strong and holding each other in the midst of the challenging times we find ourselves in. We are…
Author: Melisa Cardona
ROOTS Week 2022 – Southern Soil: Nourishing Our ROOTS
Nourishing Our ROOTS starts with the seeds. We are thrilled to share ROOTS: Seeds, a poetic short film conceived and co-directed by Melisa Cardona along with Jason Foster (Co-Director), Sunni Patterson (Poet), Ace Harney (Cinematographer and Editor), and Talamieka Brice…
WELCOME ROOTS NEW STAFF MEMBERS!
April 26, 2022 | ROOTS Staff We are excited to announce an incredible group of creative individuals has joined the ROOTS team! They join our other amazing 15 team members and bring their knowledge, passion, and expertise to our…
ROOTS Personnel Committee Seeking Members
ROOTS Week 2019. Photo by Melisa Cardona. April 21, 2022 | Personnel Committee Interested in playing an important role in Alternate ROOTS’ personnel processes? Submit an Interest Form for the Personnel Committee! The Personnel Committee (PC) is comprised…
ROOTS Week 2022: Reimagining How We Connect
ROOTS Week 2017. Photo by Melisa Cardona. April 4, 2022 | ROOT Staff After weighing all the options with input from staff, ExComm, and active ROOTS Work Groups, we’ve made the tough decision to delay our return to…
A Letter from New Membership Director, Aimee McCoy
ROOTers at ROOTS Week 2019. Photo: Melisa Cardona March 17, 2022 | Aimee McCoy Hello Fellow ROOTers, As I prepare to lead the newly created Membership Team I wanted to take this moment to happily introduce myself. First,…
2022-25 ExComm Nomination Period Now Open
Nominations for Alternate ROOTS Executive Committee (ExComm) service for 2022-2025 are open now until Sunday, March 27, 2022. With almost one hundred ROOTS voting board members, the ExComm is the body of 9-15 representatives that the voting members elect to…
ROOTS IS HIRING: TWO YOOTS ORGANIZERS
YOOTS at ROOTS Week 2015. Photo by Melisa Cardona. February 21, 2022 | ROOTS Staff Alternate ROOTS supports the creation and presentation of original art that is rooted in community, place, tradition, or spirit. We are a group…
A POET READS SOLIDARITY STATEMENTS FOR PALESTINE
Poster from Palestine Solidarity Event in Washington DC, May 2021. Photo by Rasha Abdulhadi February 2022 | Rasha Abdulhadi During the pandemic, I’ve noticed medical professionals and even Long Covid advocates start with data from an apartheid colonial…
14 ROOTS ARTISTS GRAPPLE WITH AN UNFAMILIAR WORLD
Rodger French plays accordion in The Theatrical Outfit’s production of Indecent, March 2020. Photo Credit: Jake Pearce Photography. February 2022 | Hunter Wes The decision to pursue a career in the arts is always fraught, with the fears…
AN ARTIST DANCES ALONE TOGETHER
Screenshot of the Social Disdancing Dance Party via Zoom. Photo by Bear Hebert, 2020. February 2022 | Marie Lovejoy March 12th, 2020. The artist opens her inbox. Abundance of Caution… Monitoring the situation… In accordance with CDC…
A FILMMAKER WORKS TO ERADICATE HUNGER
Feed Durham’s Katina Parker prepares trays of food for Thanksgiving 2021. Photo by Jas Leeward. February 2022 | Katina Parker Maybe 10 years back, I’d stood in my gravel drive, bewildered by the dozens of strangers purposefully criss-crossing…
ROOTS is Hiring: Executive Assistant (Full-Time)
January 21, 2022 | ROOTS Staff Alternate ROOTS supports the creation and presentation of original art that is rooted in community, place, tradition, or spirit. We are a group of artists, and cultural organizers based in the U.S.…
ROOTS is Hiring: Member Services Associate (Full-Time)
January 21, 2022 | ROOTS Staff Alternate ROOTS supports the creation and presentation of original art that is rooted in community, place, tradition, or spirit. We are a group of artists, and cultural organizers based in the U.S. South,…
ROOTS is Hiring: Partnerships Programs Associate (Full-Time)
January 11, 2022 | ROOTS Staff Alternate ROOTS supports the creation and presentation of original art that is rooted in community, place, tradition, or spirit. We are a group of artists, and cultural organizers based in the U.S.…
Not So Hidden Disability Erasure in the Theatre
Samuel Valdez and Paul Araujo in AND HE BECAME A MAN presented at Cine Libertad in Tijuana, Mex. Nov. 8th 2019. Photo by Bryant Hernande. November 2021 | Shannon Ivey According to the United States Centers for Disease…
Dreaming Together: Emergentheatre (for a better world)
Justice von Maur in Savannah, Georgia, Fall 2020. Photo by Doreen von Maur. November 2021 | Helms Jarrell Justice von Maur is an activist rooted in the sun, the ocean, the dirt, the body, and feeling. Justice is…
Lux Matters/Love Is All The Rage
Screenshot from muthi reed’s video work, Lux Matters/Love is All the Rage, 2021 Lux Matters/ Love Is All The Rage – a conversation with muthi reed November 2021 | Hunter Wes & muthi reed “My grandparents, the…
ROOTS is Hiring! Full Time Accountant
Alternate ROOTS supports the creation and presentation of original art that is rooted in community, place, tradition, or spirit. We are a group of artists, and cultural organizers based in the U.S. South, creating a better world together. As…
40 Magnificent Feet of Visibility: Creative Placemaking in Tampa, Florida
Detail of the mural “Painting Ourselves Visible” mural by Aya Tarek. Photo by Ameena Khan. September 2021 | Nicole Garneau “Painting Ourselves Visible” seeks to celebrate and increase the visibility of Arab, Middle Eastern/North African (MENA), and Muslim…