Organized by Judi Jennings, executive director, Kentucky Foundation for Women.

Moderated by Keryl McCord, theatre artist & director of resource development, Alternate ROOTS. Presented by Carlton Turner, director, Alternate ROOTS; Gwylene Gallimard, visual artist, Alternate ROOTS; Nickole Brown, writer and recipient of 2009 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship.

In urban and rural areas across the US South, artists draw on community networks and local resources to achieve a big impact with small amounts of funding. This session offers new perspectives on the work of progressive artists in the US South and provides opportunities for grantmakers from all localities to consider the impact of small grants on individuals and communities.

Presenting 101

Alternate ROOTS and the Southern Arts Federation collaborated to bring Nick Slie and Hope Clark together to lead two workshops on Presenting 101; one at the ROOTS Annual Meeting in August, and another in September at the Performing Arts Exchange (PAE) Conference in Norfolk, VA. Given a curriculum developed by David Rowell, a Professor of Theatre Management and Communications Manager for the School of Theatre at Florida State University, we used his business-based Presenting 101 course outline to create what we thought would be helpful to emerging presenters and artists at ROOTS interested in conversations about different presenting models. At PAE we focused on presenting community-arts and used the ROOTS Resources for Social Change program principles that refer to Power, Dialogue, Partnership, Aesthetics and Transformation to discuss social justice and cultural equity. (read more)