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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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,…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
L-R Kam Kelly, LaQuita Marie Staten, workshop participant, and Corey The Talented Blind Guy leading the 757 Unity Drum Circle, June 2020. Photo by Karen Pino. September 2021 | LaQuita Marie Staten What do you get when you…
SoulCenter participant Ekio with Dr. Shanya Cordis. Photo by SoulCenter Fellowship Alum, Marcus Hughes, The Riff, 2019. September 2021 | Shanya Cordis The vision to create SoulCenter came to Erin Michelle Washington, Founder and lead Waymaker, in successive…
September 2021 | Jennifer Oladipo See members of the Lumbee tribe sitting together: sharing stories; sharing a practice; sharing space; sharing breath. I’ts the first weekend in July 2021: Lumbee homecoming weekend in Pembroke, NC, and it’s one of…
Ancient Chinese and modern-day American social justice heroes come together to defeat universal threats to humankind in the Atlanta Chinese Dance Company’s original piece “Together,” co-choreographed by Kerry Lee (Chinese dance) and AJ Paug (hip hop). Video stills from the…
2018 ROOTS Week UpROOTing Oppressions. Photo by Melisa Cardona A continuación en español. Welcome to the 2021 model of Alternate ROOTS’ very own organically grown, custom-made anti-racism/anti-oppression workshop series. ROOTS has a long history of anti-racist and anti-oppression…
Wendy she/her/hers Professional Auntie [Cultural Organizing Director] wendy@alternateroots.org The Programs Director executes the overall management, design, implementation, administration and evaluation of ROOTS Week and ROOT S Weekends, and our regranting program, Artistic Assistance. ROOTS Week is Alternate ROOTS’ signature event…