Appalshop, Inc., the nonprofit arts and education organization in Whitesburg, KY, is searching for a Director who will help lead the institution as part of an organizational initiative that engages the new generation of Appalshop artists and institutional leaders…
ROOTS’ Year of Aesthetics: An Incomplete Archive
Article by Nicole Gurgel (Albuquerque, NM); Photo by Doobious.org (Atlanta, GA) 2014 marked the beginning of Alternate ROOTS’ three-year initiative, A Call to Action, in which we will be deeply reflecting on our work as artists and cultural organizers. Each year of…
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Spotlight on Ferguson (Part 1): An Activist Framework
Article & Video by Katina Parker (Durham, NC) Don’t miss Part 2 of this series: Spotlight on Ferguson: A First-hand Account. To donate to support continued documentation by #SpotlightOnFerguson, please visit: igg.me/at/dontshoot. Mike Brown’s Memorial – Canfield from Katina Parker on Vimeo.…
Spotlight on Ferguson (Part 2): A First-hand Account
Article and Photos by Katina Parker Don’t miss Part 1 of this series: Spotlight on Ferguson: An Activist Framework. To donate to support continued documentation by #SpotlightOnFerguson, please visit: igg.me/at/dontshoot. August 30, 2014 Ferguson Today, I stood where 17-year old Mike Brown…
Decolonizing Aesthetics
Article by Nicole Gurgel (Albuquerque, NM); Photos by Melisa Cardona (New Orleans, LA) “For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable…
Speeding Through Texas: Reflections on the Speed Killed My Cousin 2014 Texas Tour
By Joe T. (Knoxville, TN) The Carpetbag Theatre recently took their new play, Speed Killed My Cousin, and the Creative Arts Reintegration project (C.A.R), on a three-week tour of Texas that included stops in Dallas, San Antonio and Houston. Speed…
Music Changes Everything at the Global Village Project
By Elise Witt (Atlanta, GA) The first bone to develop in a baby is the Earbone. The last sense we lose before passing from this life is the sense of sound. Babies are born with all sounds, and to learn…
Upon News of Plea Deal, Activists Vow to Organize Until Marissa Alexander is Free
NEWS RELEASE Monday, November 24, 2014 From: Free Marissa Now Mobilization Campaign FreeMarissaNow@gmail.com; www.FreeMarissaNow.org Upon News of Plea Deal, Activists Vow to Organize Until Marissa Alexander is Free Today, Marissa Alexander chose to accept a plea deal with the State of Florida. The plea…
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Call for Artists! Y’all Come Back: Stories of Queer Southern Migration
Y’all Come Back: Stories of Queer Southern Migration is a project of love and grit, created by Queer Southern artists to tell the rich and layered stories of migration to and from the U.S. South. Y’all Come Back seeks visual…
Aesthetics is a Verb: The Aesthetics and Documentation Learning Exchange, Transcribed
By Nicole Gurgel (Albuquerque, NM) This past ROOTS Week, several members facilitated a Learning Exchange on Aesthetics and Documentation, extending AlternateROOTS’ yearlong investigation into aesthetics as a concept and a practice. The panel was facilitated by Bob Leonard and Jan…
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Exploring the American Dream Mythology through Performance Art Workshops
Article by José Torres-Tama I see performance art as the bastard child from a drunken one-night stand between the visual arts and theater, and neither wants to claim this hybrid offspring at times. For the past twenty years, I have employed…
Cucalorus Film Festival: A Work That’s Constantly in Progress
by Shannon M. Turner Alternate ROOTS Manager of Programs & Services For the past seven years, Alternate ROOTS has been sending artists to the Cucalorus Film Festival as facilitators for their Works in Progress program and emcees for other films…
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Immigrant Dreams & Alien Nightmares: 25 Years of Performance Poems and Other Verse
By José Torres-Tama (New Orleans, LA) Alternate ROOTS congratulates member and Partner in Action José Torres-Tama, on the release of his first collection of poetry, Immigrant Dreams & Alien Nightmares. If you’re in New Orleans this week, you can attend…
Facing Race Spotlight: Southern Artist Carlton Turner
Check out this fantastic new article about our Executive Director, Carlton Turner. Click here. Thanks, Colorlines, for your leadership of the field.
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José Torres-Tama Sightings in California
IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: José Torres-Tama October 13, 2014 504.232.2968 José Torres-Tama National Projects & Residencies ALIENS, IMMIGRANTS & OTHER EVILDOERS Sci-fi Latino Noir Performance Sightings in California for Fall 2014…
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Driving Sustainable Change from Our Cultural Roots
By Carlton Turner, Executive Director, Alternate ROOTS (Utica, MS) The following statements were prepared for and delivered at the Activating Networks: Changing Culture Through the Arts convening at the Ford Foundation on July 29, 2014. This program was made possible by…
The Aesthetics of Valuing Difference: Art & Movement Building in the 21st Century
By Collette Carter, Operations Director, Project South (Atlanta, GA) Alternate ROOTS is proud to be collaborating with Project South through our Partners in Action Program. Founded in 1986, Project South has developed thousands of leaders within communities directly affected by…
Living in the Call & Response
Article by Cristal Chanelle Truscott (Houston, TX); Photo by Melisa Cardona (New Orleans, LA) Weeks later…the pulse of ROOTS Week still tenaciously lingers, the healing of ROOTS Space still soothes, the hope of ROOTS Souls still promising something more, the call…
Bring Your Mother to ROOTS: A Testimonial
Article & Photo by Nicole Garneau (Chicago, IL) My mother, Bonnie, came with me to ROOTS Week for the second time this year. She had a great time singing in the Impromptu Glorious Chorus, watching performances, taking swims, reading books,…
Territories on our Bodies
Article by Alison Hall Kibbe (New York, NY) this map creeps over my body I feel hills roll and rivers meander rushing to carve out space the highway carries the songs and stories of peoples etched into my side I…