Alternate ROOTS will be participating in South Arts’ Performing Arts Exchange taking place in Atlanta, GA, September 29-October 2, 2014. The organization will be represented in a number of ways during the conference, including hosting an exhibition booth, as well as…
Call for Artist Participation: Performing Arts Exchange Convening
Performing Arts Exchange Convening An evening of Dialogue. Community. Performance Alternate ROOTS will be participating in South Arts’ Performing Arts Exchange taking place in Atlanta, GA, September 29-October 2, 2014. Alternate ROOTS will be represented in a number of ways…
6 Big Questions I’m Asking Myself After Experiencing the Hemispheric Institute’s Encuentro
Article by Nicole Garneau; photos by Melisa Cardona We are present in the space with each other, relaxing shoulders and tingling feet. We have time to listen to each others’ truths. We are climbing, crawling, crying, and laughing up the…
Partners in Action Transforms
Article By Nicole Gurgel In the past two years, Partners in Action — formerly the Community/Artist Partnership Program (C/APP) — has undergone a dramatic, dynamic transformation. The program’s new name reflects deeper structural changes. Compelled by the 2012 strategic plan, the…
Alternate ROOTS to Manifest at the Encuentro
Article by Nicole Gurgel, Photos by Carlton Turner This June, six ROOTS members will travel to Montreal to lead a week-long workshop at the Hemispheric Institute’s tenth biennial Encuentro. The workshop will be led by Ebony Noelle Golden of Betty’s…
Announcing New Webinars & Workshops on Digital Storytelling
Dear Friends, StoryCenter’s 2015 Public Workshop schedule will be posted on our website in the coming weeks, but we want to share a few exciting workshops and webinars taking place this summer. Please follow links below for more information or…
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Alternative Thinking: Presenting A Different View of the World
A Conversation on Aesthetics between Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier and D. Patton White This conversation took place at the Starbucks in the Emory University Bookstore. D. Patton White teaches social dance at Emory and visual artist Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier taught photography there.…
Talkin’ Revolution with Dr. Doris Derby
Article by Michael “Quess?” Moore Dr. Doris Derby is a small woman, a small woman who left a big imprint. Standing barely over 5 feet tall, the first thing that jumped out at me were her enthusiastic eyes. She’s got…
Whisper, Howl, Sing: C/APP Projects Listen, Then Tell
This year’s Community/Artist Partnership Program (C/APP) projects share many connections. Each of the four projects merge art and activism, spring up out of local communities, and address the need for healing in the face of trauma and oppression. Last month we heard…
Project South
Project South, Atlanta, GA The University Sin Fronteras recognizes that successful popular movements in the U.S. have always endeavored to deploy art and culture as a substantial, capable, and strategic conveyer of the espoused goals of their efforts. Through research,…
Soundtrack ’63
Stephanie McKee, Junebug Productions, New Orleans, LA Junebug Productions, Inc. (JPI), proposes a new project that is being built from the partnerships of artists, activists and educators interested in documenting and reflecting on the legacy of the civil rights movement.…
Magical Moments, Critical Connections and Cry You One
Article and Photo by Monique Verdin People keep asking me how I got involved with Cry You One. The journey deserves its own chapter really as it has been an unimaginable story involving a magical series of critical connections and unexpected…
Safe In Our Streets: A Precursor to SpiritHouse’s Harm Free Zone Project
Judgment they pass first, always tryin to break us, we always survive Black August Haiku of 2011 Community, safety, love, food, security, family, fun, dance, song, life, death, poverty, wealth, elders, youth. All of these things exist in our communities…
Today, with the spotlight on us, it is harder than ever to deny that Baltimore has deep-seated problems that run sharply along the lines of race, class, and the distribution of power. Would-be allies to protesters have been vocal in…
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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…