|
Alternate ROOTS 2010 Year-in-Review
& Youtube Channel Launched!
We are delighted to celebrate a stellar year such as 2010. Great board, great member, great volunteers, and great staff! ROOTS 2010 Year-in-Review is available online here!
Additionally, ROOTS has created a Youtube channel as a holding vessel of videos created by us and our members. If you've got something that should be added to our playlists, please send it in! |
 Get Involved in the Festival
- Festival registration is available online now. Please take a look at our website at this link and start planning now! Early bird registration ends May 13.
- Call for Participation: Community Choir - Do you like to sing? Are you part of a choir, performing group, or even just a tuneful individual? ROOTS Fest will culminate with a community choir concert on Sunday, June 22 on the outdoor festival site. Please contact Elise Witt if you are interested.
- Are you interested in hopping a bus? - The organizers of ROOTS Fest are considering chartering buses that would stop in many of our Rhizome cities. Please let us know if you're interested in participating in this endeavor by filling out this quick survey.
|
|
Announcing Festival Performers
With great enthusiasm, we announce the first of a wave of announcements about the performances to happen at ROOTS Fest 2011. Read here about our headliners.
We're also excited to announce the many other wonderful performers. You can view the full list here, but below are some highlights:
|
|
Pre-Festival QuickBooks® Training Opportunity 
Tuesday, June 21
Baltimore Theatre Project
Gregg S. Bossen, CPA and owner of QuickBooks® Made Easy (and ROOTS' auditor!) invites you to come to the Festival a day early for his highly acclaimed QuickBooks® Made Easy™ for Non-profits Seminar. Check out our flyer!
The workshop is divided into two parts to help give you even more of an advantage using QuickBooks® for your Non-profit! Plus we will be having refreshments, and lunch if you are attending both sessions! Now just
- $99 for both sessions
- $65 for Part 1: Essentials, 9:00-1:00
- $45 for Part 2: Advanced, 1:30-4:30
- 10% DISCOUNT FOR FESTIVAL PARTICIPANTS! Just enter 4ROOTS2011 in the discount code window as you make your purchase.
There will be non-profit professionals from all over in attendance, so don't miss it. Click here to register or see flyer here!
|
|
Announcing the National Honorary Committee for ROOTS Fest 2011!
We are proud to announce the long and distinguished list of arts professionals who have come on board as members of ROOTS Fest's National Honorary Committee. Read full press release with bios here.
Members of the committee include:
- Claudine Brown, Smithsonian Institution
- Maria De Leon, National Association of Latino Arts and Culture
- Teresa Eyring, Theater Communications Group
- Sandra Gibson, Association of Performing Arts Presenters
- Liz Lerman, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange
- Ruby Lerner, Creative Capital
- Luis Valdez, El Teatro Campesino, regarded as father of Chicano theater in the US
- MK Wegmann, National Performance Network
|
|
|
|
Artistic Assistance
Cycle XVII
Applications Due
Thursday, June 2, 6 p.m.
Artistic Assistance enables individuals to enhance the artistic aspects of their work within their discipline. All artistic disciplines are eligible. These funds are designed to provide ROOTS members with a source of 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. The next round of Artistic Assistance is due Thursday, June 2 at 6:00 p.m. Eastern. |
Executive Committee
2010-11 Slate of Officers & Representatives
Officers
Representatives
|
|
Fractured Atlas Extends ROOTS Member Benefits
Fractured Atlas offers health insurance, liability insurance, classes and more to its members.
As a member of ROOTS, you are also eligible for a free associate membership Fractured Atlas, which gives you access to insurance. You can also 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.
|
|
Alternate ROOTS
 Proud Resident of the Little 5 Points Community Center1083 Austin Ave.Atlanta, GA 30307404-577-1079info@alternateroots.orgwww.alternateroots.org
|
|
