Member Profile: Nikki Brown
Nikki Brown is one of the newest members of the Executive Committee and an active member of one of our most vibrant organizations - SpiritHouse in Durham, NC.
About her service with the ExCom, her goals are to learn a lot and gain a lot of information from the more experienced ROOTS Members. Nikki says, "I'm also hoping to bring my special skill set to the table as an audio documentary maker and as an visual artist. I'm also hoping to make the organization more accessible to a different group of people."
Today, Nikki brings us a wonderful video report about what the folks at SpiritHouse have been up to in the two months since the Annual Meeting. Click here to watch "Down From the Mountain." Nikki's tells us about an inspiring new program with women from CAARE, as well as the launch of NOMMO, the Magical Power of the Spoken Word.
|
Alternate ROOTS Named One of the 17 Most Highly Effective Arts Nonprofits by Philanthropedia
In a recent issue, Philanthropedia ranked Alternate ROOTS one of seventeen of the top arts organizations in the United States. A nationwide survey asked arts and culture professionals to name organizations that are the most effective, high impact organizations, and Alternate ROOTS was ranked number 12 out of the top 17.
Alternate ROOTS Executive Director, Carlton Turner, states, "It is a great honor to be acknowledged as one of the top non-profit arts and culture organizations by a group of our peers."
ROOTS is proud to extend a warm applause some of its longest running partners for also appearing on the list, including the National Performance Network (NPN), Fractured Atlas, and the National Association for Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC).
(We were also pleased that a number of the respondents especially commented on the helpful and informational nature of our newsletters!)
Click here to view the Philanthropedia Press Release.
|
This year's Grantmakers in the Arts conference will be held in Chicago, IL from October 17 - 20. Once again Alternate ROOTS will have a presence, Executive Director Carlton Turner is facilitating a session on Art & Environmental Justice at the Arts & Social Justice Pre-Conference.
The session on Art & Environmental Justice will feature Carol Bebelle, Ashe Cultural Arts Center; Jane Larken, Public Outcry; and Edgar Arceneaux, Watts House Project.
ROOTS will also lead Community Artists Responding to Unnatural Disasters a conversation in the main conference around the ongoing work ROOTS is doing in West Baltimore, MD. This session will be led by Ashley Milburn of Culture Works.
|
Association of Performing Arts Presenters
January 7-11, 2011
New York City
ROOTS will also be returning to APAP in January to represent artists in our region. If you are interested in participating, please contact Shannon for details at shannon@alternateroots.org or call 404-577-1079.
|
 Race, Culture, and Aesthetics
Network of Ensemble Theaters Micro-Festival
Atlanta, GA
October 8-10, 2010
Congratulations to the Network of Ensemble Theaters for a successful first Micro-Festival. Alternate ROOTS was honored to partner with NET to engage a very attentive and thoughtful audience in a weekend-long conversation about race, culture, and aesthetics.
Thank you to Youth Ensemble of Atlanta, Progress Theater, Out of Hand Theater, and Teo Castellanos for providing us all with thought-provoking, boundary-pushing performances, rigorous workshops, and material for discussions that lasted for hours. In short, it was an amazing weekend.
Be on the lookout for the next two events in this cycle. They will be held in Los Angeles in December, and in Philadelphia in February.
|
|
Alternate ROOTS Recognizes
Its Individual Donors 2002-2010
ROOTS wishes to acknowledge the incredible support, commitment, and dedication over the past eight years of the following donors who've generously played a role in the financial stability of Alternate ROOTS since its founding thirty-four years ago. As you know, we're getting our records in order. So if, by chance, we have accidentally left your name from our list, please send us an email so we can acknowledge your generous donation in our next donor recognition campaign in the spring. Thank you again for your wonderful support over the years!
Adrienne Clancy^
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Alicia E. Murphy^
Alicia Hicks
Allen Welty^
Allison L. Ewing
Amanda Shive
Amelia Pickering
Amy Diane Miller^
Ana Willem^
Anasa Troutman
Andrea Assaf
Ann M. Kilkelly^
Ann P. Cochran
Ann S. Rittner
Anne B. Redfern
Anne Sterchi^
April Turner^
Arianne King-Comer^
Ariel Luckey
Ashley Sparks^
Bailey Barash^
Barbara L. Brooks
Barbara Nesin
Barrie Barton
Beth Heidelberg^
Beverly Botsford^
Billy Munoz
Bond Anderson
Brian Francoise
Brooks Jones
C. W. Dahigreen
C.S. Watts
Camille H. Shafer^*
Carlton A. Turner
Carol Burch-Brown^*
Carol Morrison
Carolyn R. Morris^
Caron L. Atlas^
Cecelia A. Daratany^
Charles FD Warren^
Cheri C. Munske
Cheryl Watson Cooney
Chip Epsten^
Chloe Anne Smith^
Chris Doerflinger^
Christina A. Fisher^
Christina M. Korten
Christopher O. Fox
Cindy Lutenbacher^
Colgate F. Holmes^
Cornelia Kip Lee
D. Patton White^
Dagmar Epsten^
Dana Lupton
Daniel T. Holton
Daniela I. Lombardo^
Daryl Walker
Deborah C. Ruse
Deborah McClintock
Deirder W. McMichael
Diane S. Butler
Diane Williams^
Donathan Mark Medloh
Donna A. Breitenstein
Dora Arreola
doris davenport^
Douglas J. Wichert
Dr. W. Jean Heinrich
E. C. Holmes
Elayne M. White^
Eleanor Brownfield^
Elise Witt^
Elizabeth Carroll Hunley
Elizabeth E. Barker
Elizabeth T. Holmes^
Elizabeth Traina
Ellen N. Zisholtz
Emanual Bailey
Eric McMichael
Erika B. Scuadroni
Erika Sanchez
Felicia D. Furman
Felicia F. Dryden^
Fractured Atlas on behalf of Samuel Thompson
Francine C. Dibben
Franklin Briggs
G. AC. Jinks Jr.
Graham Egerton
Gregory J. Ruse
Gretchen S. Barbatisi^
Gwylene Gallimard^
Hannah Leatherbury
Hannah Pepper-Cunningham
Heather Lamb
Helen Beth Heidelberg^
Helene Vachon
Hope Clark
Howard G. Brown
Inge Witt^
Ingrid Obled
Isabel-Lee Malone
J. Keith Hennessy^
J. O. Manley, III
Jackson Kroopf
Jaehn Clare^
James J. Kerrigan, Jr.
James W. Dibben
Jane Goldberg
Janelle Treibitz
Janet L. Smith
Jardana Peacock
Jasmine Coles
Javiera Benavente
Jean M. Martinolich
Jean Martinolich
Jean-Marie Mauclet^
Jeanette Debouzek
Jeff Mather
Jeffrey Mount
Jessica Elise Robinson
Jessica Hirst
Jill Lavetsky
Jim Grimsley
Joan Hotchkis^
Joan M. Kerrigan^*
Joanna Russo
John C. Cochran
John Graham Tomlinson
John L. Kramel^
Jon Spelman
Jonathan Santos
Jose Torres Tama^
Josephus Martin
Joy S. Jinks
Judi Jennings
Judilee Reed
Judith G. Dewitt
Judith Jennings
Julie C. Hebert
Karen Peterson
Karen Stephens
Katherine L. Gardner
Katherine Niemela
Katherine Osterholt
Kathie deNobriga^*
Kathy A. Randels
Kazi Bure Wilkins
Kenneth Norman
Kent Klein
King Shakur
Kirk W. Breitenstein
Larry Buchine
Latonia Walea
Latonnya Wallace
Latoya Wah
Laura C. Schandelmeier^
Lauren C. Elder
Lauren M. Roelofs
Laverne Zabielski
LeAnn Loughran^
Lekia Hall^
Lesley Joy Allen
Lewis H. Faulk
Linda Burnham*
Linda Kesler^
Linda Parris-Bailey^
Lisa Mount^*
Lisa Suarez
Lise Kloeppel^
Louis W. Corrigan Jr.^
Lydia H. Botsford
Lyle D. Roelofs
Lynette K. Stephenson
M. Gail Gutierrez
Marcelo H. Roman
Margo Miller^
Marianne Lambert^
Marie Cochran
Mark Medlin
Marquez D. Rhyne
Mary Luft^
Mary Monica Nolan^
Mathew Schwarzman^
Mayo-Laughinghouse
McDermi
Meg Anderson
Melanie Elizabeth St. Ours
Melissa E. Martel
Michael Paccione
Mike Anestor
Miriam C. Zarsy^
MK Wegmann^
Mollie Lakin-Hayes^
Monifa Jackson
Mountaine Mort Jonas
Nancy B. Bourne
Nancy Buchanan
Nancy C. Lee
Nicholas P. Slie
Nicole Garneau^
Noel F. Korten
Nora Daniels
Nyame Nsarewaya
Olga Garay
Olisa Enrico-Johnson
Omari Fox
Paul A. Bonin^
Paula Larke
Polly Medlicott
Priscilla G. Smith
Priscilla Smith^
Rajesh N. Bellani
Rajni Shah
Ramona Laroche
Ranji Shah
Raphael Cohen
Rapheal Williams^
Rebecca Dimmette Desmarais
Rebecca J. Williams^
Rebecca Moore Jernigan
Rebecca Ranson^
Ricardo Levins Morales
Robert B. KIlby
Robert H. Leonard
Robert M. Shifalo
Robert Martin
Rodger French^*
Rodney L. Grainer
Ronnog Seaberg
Roscoe Reddix, Jr.
Samuel A. Thompson
Sandra Lee Hughes
Sara Becker
Sara Becker
Sarah Turquety
Scott D. Campbell
Sean LaRocca
Shannon Turner^
Shannon Woolley
Sheila Kerrigan^*
Sheri E. Crump
Stephen Clapp^
Stephen J. Becker
Stevens Seaberg
Susan G. Harvey
Susan Hacket
Susan M. Taffe
Susan Swan King
Suzanne Pharr
Sylvain Chateauvieux
Tammy Clemons
Tawnya Pettiford-Wates
Teo Castellano
Theresa A. Cunningham^
Theron Schmidt
Thomas C. Kilby^
Toni B. Shifalo^
Trina Fischer*
V. N. Manley
Valentine Pierce
Vanessa Manley
Will MacAdams
^ - multiple donations
* -major donors |
|
|
Executive Committee
Fall Retreat
October 27-29
Baltimore, MD
The Alternate ROOTS ExComm will meet in Baltimore, MD from October 27-29. If there are any items that you would like to see addressed at the meeting or you would like to know how you can participate, please feel free to contact board chair, Ashley Sparks or any of the ExComm members listed below.
Officers
Representatives
|
|
Resources for Social Change
Fall Retreat
October 23-24
Baltimore, MD
|
|
Did you come forward for voting membership at this year's Annual Meeting?
Welcome aboard! We're so delighted to have you as the newest class in a long-standing tradition in the ROOTS family. If you haven't yet paid for an "upgrade" in your membership - from introductory to voting - please click here or contact Shannon at the office, 404-577-1079, so that you can formalize your new status!
|
|
House Parties
Sunday, November 7
Hot Springs, NC
Hosted by Camille Shafer
Saturday, November 13
Atlanta, GA
Hosted by D. Patton White
Participants at Margo Miller's kickoff house party in Knoxville, September 18, had a great time, sharing their talents of spoken word, song, dance, hula hooping, and much more. The event was as much a friend-raiser as it was a fund-raiser. We're looking forward to the house parties coming up next.
|
|
News From
Fractured Atlas!
Almost a year ago, we embarked on our new relationship whereby ROOTS members are eligible for a free Associate Membership with Fractured Atlas. If you don't remember the details of this partnership, read about it here.
This just in, our members are now eligible to apply for fiscal agency through their programs at no additional membership cost for the first year. For details, contact Shannon at the ROOTS office at 404-577-1079.
And don't forget about their free online classes through Fractured Atlas U! Read more about those here.
|
Alternate ROOTS
Little 5 Points Community Center
1083 Austin Ave.
Atlanta, GA 30307
404-577-1079
info@alternateroots.org
www.alternateroots.org
|
|
