 It's Coming!
ROOTS Fest 2011:
Many Communities, One Voice
ROOTS Celebrates Its
35th Anniversary - June 22-26, 2011
Baltimore, MD
Stay Tuned!
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 Member Profile: SOA Watch Concert
It's a ROOTS Thing
On Nov. 18, Alternate ROOTS artists M.U.G.A.B.E.E. (Men Under Guidance Acting Before Early Extinction), Elise Witt, Pacha Mamas, Alice Lovelace, and Theresa Davis join musicians from all over the country for a concert to benefit SOA-Watch. The concert will be held at Eyedrum Gallery, an artist cooperative in Atlanta, where Priscilla Smith is the Executive Director and Allen Welty-Green is the Music Coordinator. Other ROOTS members are also heavily involved in volunteering and behind-the-scenes work in making the event happen. After the concert everyone migrates for the weekend to the gates of Fort Benning in Columbus to join with tens of thousands of peace activists from around the world to close the School of the Americas. Read more. |
 Alternate ROOTS Proudly Announces the Next Round of Grant Recipients
Community/Artist Partnership Program
Alternate ROOTS is excited to announce a total of $50,000 in support to the following recipients:
Appalshop / Thousand Kites
CultureWorks / Bon Secours
Jeff Mather
MAY WE SEE YOUR ID Collective
Sheila Gaskins
The Carpetbag Theatre
Junebug Productions
Mondo Bizarro
SpiritHouse Inc.
Artistic Assistance
Artistic Assistance enables member artists to enhance the artistic aspects of their work by providing critical funding to attend a workshop, study with a mentor, develop new work, invest in equipment that is vital to their craft, or simply explore their creativity.
Cycle XV (Fall 2010) for Artistic Assistance was dedicated to first time applicants and people that had never received the grant before. The panel is proud to award all eleven applicants to the tune of $10,000 in total funding. Click here to read the full slate of awards.
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Association of Performing Arts Presenters
January 7-11, 2011
New York City
ROOTS will 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. You must be a voting member to participate.
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FYI: Sustainable Housing and Community Planning Grants Program
 In the middle of October, 2010, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced the 2010 recipients of HUD's "Sustainable Housing and Communities Planning Grants Program grant awards. This three year planning grant program is predicated on the participation of an array of local stake holders in developing a long term plan for regional and local community sustainability. HUD intends for this array to include art and culture stake holders. In some cases, the recipients may have included art and culture stake holders in their original applications. In other cases, art and culture may not have been included in the original application. (HUD's call for proposals added the inclusion of art and culture at the very last minute.)
In any event, the actual planning process at the local level is now poised to begin but has probably not actually started. If art and culture workers are interested in being included at the long term community planning table, it would be appropriate to contact your local planning office (often located in your town or city hall or in the county administrative offices) to find out 1) whether it has received a Sustainable Housing and Communities Planning Grant, 2) whether there are arts and culture stake holders already identified within the grant application, 3) whether there might be a place at the table for interested arts and culture stake holders to be added, if you are not already there, 4) and, if the planning office applied for but did not receive a grant, whether there is a place at the table for arts and culture to be included in the community planning process regardless.
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Women Playwrights International Conference:
The Democratic Stage
Stockholm, Sweden
August 15-21, 2012 |
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A Report on the
Executive Committee
Fall Retreat
by Ashley Sparks, Board Chair
"I wanna eat what you eat," is something I heard Ashley Milburn say during the Fall ROOTS Executive Committee (Ex Com) meeting. Ashley is new to the Ex Com and was sharing some of his hopes for being a part of the leadership body of the organization. He, like others, was voicing a deep desire to connect with other members of ROOTS, especially outside of Baltimore.
Read the rest of the story here.
Officers
Representatives
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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!
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The Art of Public Memory ConferenceCall for papers. For details, click here.
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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.
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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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