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News from the Front!
March 2010
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 Alternate ROOTS 2009 Report
Please take a minute to review this document. It is a reflection of the
work done by the ROOTS staff during 2009. If there are any questions,
please don't hesitate to contact the office, info@alternateroots.org.
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Call for Proposals
The Annual
Meeting Innovation Ensemble is proud to announce the launch
of its call for proposals for Studios, Performances, and Visual Arts
Installations to happen at this year's Annual Meeting. The
descriptions and forms can be found as attachments at the bottom of the
Annual Meeting webpage.
The deadline for submissions is Friday, April 30, 2010.
 Hailing
from Houston, TX, Ebony Noelle Golden
is a cultural worker, artist, and creative director of Betty's
Daughter Arts Collaborative. She has been a member of Alternate
Roots since 2008 and serves
as a facilitator for Resources for Social Change. Earning degrees
from NYU (M.A.), American University
(M.F.A.), and Texas A & M University (B.A.),
Ebony is a 2009 Pushcart Poetry Prize nominee and has collaborated with
artists and activists from TX to NY. She has taught, published and
performed widely and is currently working on a full-length collection of
poetry, "again, the watercarriers".
About what she's most excited for
with this year's Annual Meeting, Ebony says:
"A partnership with NALAC
opens the door for a robust conversation about diversity and coalition
building with Latin American artists and cultural workers.
Collaborating with NALAC also opens the doors to look at how Latin
Americans are using the arts to address critical activist issues such as
immigration and workers rights. I am most excited to see what
coalition building, lasting transformation, cultural work, and artistic
projects grow and flourish as a result of this partnership."
 D.
Patton White joined Alternate ROOTS in 1997 as a "provisional member" and became a voting member in 1998.
Patton joined the AM work group at the 1998 meeting, and
served as the registration coordinator (as a volunteer) for the 1999
Annual Meeting. In 2001 he was selected to serve as the Annual Meeting
coordinator, and served in that capacity for four years, until 2004.
Patton has also served as a member of the Executive Committee, first as a
Regional Representative for SC/GA/AL for two years, and then as the
Vice Chair for two years before serving as Chair in 2005. He rejoined
the Executive Committee as the Secretary for 2009/2010. Patton is looking forward to the
exciting possibilities that loom ahead in our partnership with NALAC for
this year's Annual Meeting! He trusts that the creative spirit will
help shape a transformative experience for anyone who comes. Patton has
served as
the Artistic/Administrative Director of
Beacon
Dance since 1990. He was a member of CORE Performance Company as a
company member from 1992 until 2008. He currently is an Artistic
Associate
and Company and Production manager of CORE. Patton was an adjunct
faculty
member of Agnes Scott College from 1995-2003, and is currently an
adjunct
faculty member of Emory University, where he has taught since
2004.
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NALAC 20th Anniversary Conference
 The National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC) will convene its 20th Anniversary National Conference from April 14-18, 2010 at the San Jose Marriott Hotel in San Jose, CA. The five-day event will feature workshops, panel discussions and presentations by leading Latino arts figures from around the country as well as special performances by Grammy-award nominated musical group Sones de Mexico from Chicago, New York Puerto Rican music pioneers Los Pleneros de la 21 and Bay Area favorites Los Cenzontles. For information about registration, special student rates, hotel and schedule information, please visit http://conference.nalac.org/.
NALAC, which is the nation's leading Latino arts service organization, is a major provider of leadership training, professional development services, funding and advocacy for the national Latino arts and cultural field. This will be the first NALAC National Conference to take place in California, and the event will culminate a yearlong program of special 20th Anniversary projects, advocacy efforts and new research on the dynamic Latino arts field.
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 2010 United States Social Forum
June 22 - 26
Detroit, MI
What is the US Social Forum?
The US Social Forum (USSF) is a movement building process. It is not a conference but it is a space to come up with the peoples' solutions to the economic and ecological crisis. The USSF is the next most important step in our struggle to build a powerful multi-racial, multi-sectoral, inter-generational, diverse, inclusive, internationalist movement that transforms this country and changes history. We must declare what we want our world to look like and we must start planning the path to get there. The USSF provides spaces to learn from each other's experiences and struggles, share our analysis of the problems our communities face, build relationships, and align with our international brothers and sisters to strategize how to reclaim our world.
Workshop & Cultural Submissions Open Until April 20
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Crossing Mountains: To Teach All We Can and To Learn All We Can
March 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27 at 7:30PM , March 27th matinee at 2:30PM
The Rudyard Kipling , 422 W. Oak Street
Tickets: General - $15, Students and Seniors -$10
For dinner and the show, call 636-1311
For show only, call 638-2559
This
piece, created in 2001, celebrated the centennial of the Hindman
Settlement School
and its contributions to its community in Eastern Kentucky at the Forks
of Troublesome Creek. Looking for Lilith Theatre Company is pleased to
present a remount of their premiere production.
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Executive Committee ("ExCom") Retreat
March 12-14, 2010
Atlanta, GA
The Executive Committee met in Atlanta this past weekend and continued to bring its leadership and inspiration to the ongoing business of the organization between Annual Meetings. Some highlights from the agenda included:
- NEA Grant Application Report / Festival 2011 Planning
- Development Report
- New national and local initiatives in which ROOTS staff & board members will be participating
- C/APP Grant Report
- Annual Meeting 2010 Planning
- Financial Report
- Proposals to make donations to the Community Arts Network and Haiti relief
- Discussion of our Strategic Plan and how Work Groups (Innovation Ensembles!) will continue to move it forward
Full meeting notes [thanks to the intrepid, D. Patton White] are posted here.
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 The HeART of Your Story:
Grant Writing
101 for Artists
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
6:30 - 8:00 pm
Alternate ROOTS Office
Little 5 Points Community Center
1083 Austin Avenue, Suite 7
Atlanta, GA 30307
RSVP by March 30, 2010 to
404-577-1079 or keryl@alternateroots.org
Join Alternate ROOTS Development
Director,
Keryl McCord, for a fun and informative grant-writing workshop for
individual
artists, The HeART of Your Story.
There are opportunities for individual
artists to apply for fellowships and grants, beginning with Alternate
ROOTS Artistic Assistance and C/APP programs. Learn what makes an
application
competitive, how to set your proposal apart from the crowd, where to
look for other grant opportunities and grant writing basics. This workshop
is for beginners, or those who want a refresher. Join us for an evening of learning,
conversation, fellowship and fun.
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Are you utilizing our website fully to your advantage?
ROOTS members can use our website in a variety of ways! Please take a moment to check in on and update your...
Don't forget that you need to be logged in on the website to do most of these things, but once you're logged in, you stay logged in for a long time - like months! Feed free to call the office for a tutorial: 404-577-1079. And while we're at it, do you remember to talk about ROOTS when you're out there doing your thing? Please add the ROOTS logo to your promotional material if you're conducting a ROOTS event and mention that you're a member of ROOTS. You are the best recruitment tool that we have to offer! |
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Alternate ROOTS is supported by generous donations from the gracious members of Alternate ROOTS and the following: Nathan Cummings Foundation, Ford Foundation, Kresge Foundation, Shubert Foundation, Leveraging Investment in Creativity, National Endowment for the Arts, Appalachian Community Fund, McMaster Carr, City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs of Atlanta, Fulton County Arts Council, and Georgia Council on the Arts.
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