Annual Meeting 2010
Less than 2 Months Away!
Annual Meeting general registration is now open.
If you have any questions about the registration process, please feel free to call Shannon in the office at 404-577-1079.
The Most Invigorating/Exhausting
Week of Your Life
Every year when we come together, it feels like there are critical, timely conversations to be had both at the national level and within ROOTS. Never has that been more true than this year. The NALAC partnership affords us a tremendous opportunity to talk about immigration issues brewing on our national landscape. For this edition of the newsletter, we asked Jose (Daniel) Canta, a new member and spoken word poet from Richmond, VA who'll be performing this year to write about coming to the AM for the first time, the NALAC partnership, and what he considers to be one of our most important conversations. You can view his writing by clicking on his picture.Jose (Daniel) Canta, Richmond, VA  | Additionally, we will have another all-conference session on Uprooting Racism facilitated both by Angela Winfrey and co-facilitated by our own ROOTers. The Gulf Oil Spill will still be ever-present in our mind, and the Loup Garou will be returning to help us build powerful metaphors around that issue.
Turning our thoughts to our internal work, this Annual Meeting will be the last time we'll be together as a whole before the 35th anniversary festival. Time will be spent discussing and planning that event. Additionally, more attention has been paid to the visual arts this year, as we will have five featured visual artists bringing installations.
We had one of the most high-quality applicant pools we've ever seen for studios and performances. Here are just a few highlights of what you'll see:
- Performances - The Conciliation Project, Jose Torres-Tama, JumpStart, ArtSpot Productions, a film about the differently abled...spoken word, dance, sound installation pieces...it's a veritable buffet!
- Studios - Multimodal New Media, Time Management, World Harmony: Singing in Community, May I See Your ID?, Aesthetics of You, Happy Feet (Tap Dancing!), and much, much more!
And, of course, the grand social experiment: The Work Co-op returns as we build a model working community across the six days that we're together.We hope you'll be with us this summer!
In community,
The Annual Meeting Planning TeamP.S. One more thing, if you want to get really inspired and excited about this year's AM, there's a fun new video picturing clips of last year's "working party" on the front page of our website. Check it out! |
 United States Social Forum
June 22 - 26, 2010
Detroit, Michigan
ROOTS will represent at the USSF!
More than 20 ROOTers will travel to the USSF, and many will be featured in workshops, panels, and performances. Here are some of the highlights of where you can find them:
In addition, Alternate ROOTS is a co-sponsor of the Creativity Lab. The Creativity Lab is an Open Space at Cobo Hall that will take place from 11 am-6 pm from June 23-25. It is open to ALL artists, cultural workers, media makers, organizers, & allies!
There will be performances by ROOTS members Liza Garza, Skipp Coon, Sunni Patterson, and Omari Fox.
For more information and registration,
visit www.ussf2010.org or call 877-515-8773.
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 Theatre Communications Group
National Conference
June 17-19,
2010
Chicago, IL
Alternate ROOTS Executive Director Carlton Turner will present a 5 minute manifesto on race and gender at the 2010 TCG National Conference: Ideas into Action.
In addition there will be many ROOTS members participating in both the National Conference and the NET Pre-conference, NETWorks: The ABCs of Today's Creative Touring
Partnerships, will be held at the Lookingglass Theatre
located in the Chicago Water Tower Water Works from 9am to 5pm on June
16. Anyone can attend.
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Alternate ROOTS
Webpage Webinars
Do you
find yourself wondering if you could be using the ROOTS webpage better? Did you know that you can build your own artist's profile and add pictures on it? Is registering for the AM stressing you out? Shannon Turner, Manager of Programs & Services will help unpack the mysteries for you in two
back-to-back webinars. Just click on the links above to RSVP. If you have any questions, please call the office at 404-577-1079.
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2011 C/APP Grants
Applications for the 2011 C/APP Grants will be available to eligible members on August 15, 2010. The deadline for applications is October 15, 2010.
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AMERICAN THEATRE
In Katrina's Wake
By Christopher
Wallenberg
When the levees broke in August 2005,
everything seemed lost. But a jolt of new theatrical activity is
offering New Orleanians fresh perspectives on the disaster and its
aftermath.
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Introducing
Cecille
Alternate ROOTS
Finance & Office Manager
After graduating from the University of
Santo Tomas in Manila, Cecille Ericta worked with United Nations
Development Programme on the "Strengthening Institutional Mechanisms for
the Convergence of Poverty Alleviation Effort" project. Born
and raised in the Philippines, she came to the US a decade ago on a
work exchange program for Business Administration. While she started out
in Austin, TX, eventually she found here way here to Atlanta... by way of
California and a series of jobs in the private sector. Finally able to
get back to work with the community, Cecille is thrilled to be working
with Alternate ROOTS. Since 2004, Cecille has
been living in Marietta, GA, and she is a proud mother of two
teenagers.
Cecille will be working 20 hours per week. Her e-mail is cecille@alternateroots.org.
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Your feedback is appreciated...
Here at the home office, we've been striving to make the
monthly newsletter timely, relevant, colorful, and full of pretty
pictures. Please take a minute to tell us how you think we're doing here.
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Fractured Atlas University Classes become free!
You may remember that, a few months ago, ROOTS and Fractured Atlas joined forces so that our members are now eligible for a free Associate Membership with Fractured Atlas. If you don't remember the details of this partnership, read about it here.
Well, now, one of Fractured Atlas's best loved services, Fractured U. has become totally free. Read more about it here.
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Alternate ROOTS
Little 5 Points Community Center
1083 Austin Ave.
Atlanta, GA 30307
404-577-1079
info@alternateroots.org
www.alternateroots.org
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