Annual Meeting 2010
1 Month and Counting...
Annual Meeting registration is open.
Early Bird prices end on July 23!
If you have any questions about the registration process, please feel free to call Shannon or Bethany in the office at 404-577-1079.
There's a lot to 'see' at this year's
Annual Meeting... We've mentioned it before, but this
year's Annual Meeting will have five curated visual artists showing off
their work. Melisa Cardona is just one of them:
Melisa Cardona,Visual Artist,New Orleans, LA  |
From a long-time fascination with the art of telling
stories through objects from her personal past and stories left behind in the
objects of others, Melisa's work began 5 years ago when she returned from
traveling through Europe. Returning with her in her suitcase were handfuls of
letters, maps and photos both found and taken during her trip. They were
stacked into her memory box, which was already full of mementos collected
since her childhood in Colombia, South America. (Read more about Melisa and her art here.)
Additionally, we will have an 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 and conversation 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.
Performances - The Conciliation Project, The Poet Daniel, JumpStart, ArtSpot Productions, SpiritHouse, Sheila Kerrigan, Just Home in the Mountains, a film about a theatre company dedicated to building new work with people in a range of physical and communication ability...spoken word, dance, sound installation pieces...it's
a veritable buffet!
Studios- Multimodal New Media, Time Management, American Fruits with African Roots, Zumba!, Safe Spaces, The Practice and Power of Medicinal Art, World Harmony: Singing in
Community, May I See Your ID?, Aesthetics of You, Happy Feet (Tap
Dancing!), and much, much more!
And who can forget our late-night cabaret? We hear tell that the unstoppable Ms. Holly Wood will be making a re-appearance on the scene so look out!
Now, doesn't that sound like fun? Wouldn't you hate to miss it because you forgot to register and all our spaces were filled by the time you finally remembered?
See you in a month!
In community, The Annual Meeting Planning Team P.S. One more thing, if you want to get really inspired and excited about this year's AM, there's a fun new highlight reel of last year's "working party" on the front page of our website. Thanks to the folks at MondoBizarro for putting it together. Check it out! |
 United States Social Forum
THE CHARLESTON RHIZOME BY WAY OF GWYLENE GALLIMARD
Really wonderful is the opportunity to go to a Social Forum. The
intensity of such an event can be compared to a world in action. And so
many young people in their teens and 20's are participating in it! This
is so encouraging, I am sure, for anyone who has felt or encountered the
weight of social despair or silence, of fear or hate. For The
Charleston Rhizome, and me this forum also provided an opportunity to
assess our position as artists and educators, as much as review the
place of the arts in the social struggle.
http://alternateroots.org/node/1361
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 Race and Gender: A 5-min Manifesto
Carlton Turner
I must begin this conversation about race and gender by putting this
message up front: Regardless of my intent or yours, regardless of
whatever goodwill may exist between us or not, this much is true: how
my remarks are perceived and received is colored by assumptions spoken
and unspoken by both of us.
Let me put one assumption on the
table, on the outside I'm seen as an African-American man in the United
States. It doesn't matter that my ancestral lineage includes not only
displaced Africans but Irish and Native American as well.
Despite
that, my physical appearance means that for too many, every statement
that flows from my lips is filtered by the reality that when I enter a
room the knowledge or ignorance of the history of African descendants in
America, whether accurate or not, precede my humanity.
Click here to read the entire post.
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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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