ROOTS Executive Director Honored in New York
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Carlton Turner and Claudine Brown at the Irondale Gala.
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Alternate ROOTS Executive Director, Carlton Turner, was presented the M. Edgar Rosenblum Award for Outstanding Dedication to Ensemble Theater on November 15, 2011 at the Irondale Center in Brooklyn, NY. The award was presented by Claudine Brown, director of education at the Smithsonian.
Also honored were Obie Award winning actress and founder of Theater for the New City Crystal Field, and the Office of the Borough President in Brooklyn. The evening also included performances by the Irondale Ensemble, Irondale Young Company, and Pig Pen Theater.
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Call to Action!
The following innovation ensembles are currently seeking new members! Please consider serving in one of the following capacities. (If you're new to ROOTS, this is a great way to get involved!) Interested? Write to the corresponding chair person listed below.
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Annual Meeting 2012
We are pleased to announce the Leadership Team for the 36th Annual Meeting, August 7-12, Arden, NC. This team represents a whole new way of working together to plan and implement the Annual Meeting, and we're very excited about it! Stay tuned for details about registration and the performance, visual arts installation, or studio proposal process in the coming months.
Sage Crump
Production Coordinator
Sage Crump has been involved in the arts community for over 20 years. Her company, Sagacity Productions, has produced music festivals, peace concerts and theatrical readings. She has also produced national, regional and international convenings such as Beyond The Global Divide, a gathering of indigenous elders and youth working for peace and the Performing Arts Exchange. Sage is Managing Director of Art is Change, a fiscally sponsored program of the Movement Strategy Center, as well as a performance poet and vocalist.
Lise Kloeppel
Work Co-Op Coordinator  Lise Kloeppel is an Assistant Professor of Drama at the University of North Carolina Asheville. Before moving to NC she lived in Phoenix, AZ, where she founded Theatre@Work (an apprentice artist jobs program), taught creative arts at an alternative high school, and worked as an artistic associate with QSpeak Theatre (Arizona's only LGBTQ youth theatre). She's been a ROOTS member since 2008.
Rebecca Mwase Work Co-Op Coordinator  Rebecca Mwase is a theatre artist based in New Orleans, LA. Her work lies at the intersections of race, gender, religion and class and seeks to illuminate and question the power structures that control our society. To that end, she is committed to arts education working with both ArtSpot and Junebug Productions to educate local artists, students and communities in effective ways to harness the creative arts for social change and empowerment. Rebecca also is committed to creating original work and was seen most recently in ArtSpot Productions "Go Ye Therefore..." and Voices Organized in Creative Dissent (VOIC'D) "Lockdown."
D. Patton White Studios Coordinator  D. Patton White lives in Atlanta, GA. He is the Artistic/Administrative director of Beacon Dance, and the Production/Company Manager of CORE. He has assisted in organizing the ROOTS Annual Meeting several times in the past, and is looking forward to focusing on the studio realm this year.
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PolicyLink Equity Summit 2011
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Carlton Turner and Margo Miller
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Alternate ROOTS leaders
attended PolicyLink's Equity Summit 2011 in Detroit, Michigan on November 8-11. The framing for this conference was to look at equity as the superior growth model. In the face of the Occupy movement, the constant struggles of the vanishing middle class, the heightening immigration debate, record unemployment rates, and the widening gap in wealth disparity, this conference offered an opportunity for those working at the grassroots level to gather and learn from each other.
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Dee Davis, Caron Atlas, and Carlton Turner at reception.
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As part of our organizational contribution Alternate ROOTS co-hosted Art, Culture & Social Change Networking Event, a reception for local artists, cultural organizers and funders. The event was sponsored by Arts & Democracy Project, Center for Media Justice, State Voices, MI Voice, Center for Rural Strategies, Allied Media Projects and Open Society Foundations.
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Invincible at the closing plenary.
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In addition to the networking event, ROOTS executive director Carlton Turner participated in More Than A Song: Arts and Culture in Community and Economic Development. Other panelists were Maria Jackson (Urban Institute), Sue Mosey (Midtown Detroit), and Dan Laurie (National Endowment for the Arts). The panel was moderated by Caron Atlas.
To cap off the three days of conversations, workshops and plenaries, PolicyLink presented the work of local/national hip hop artist and political activist Invincible and New York based performance artist Rha Goddess.
Click here for more information on PolicyLink.
Photos courtesy of Margo Miller.
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Call for New Indie Films!
Are you a filmmaker ready to screen your work in front of new audiences? If so, apply today to be a part of the 2012 - 2013 Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers.
Southern Circuit is the nation's first regional tour of independent filmmakers, providing communities in a nine-state region in the South with an interactive way to experience independent film and engage with indie filmmakers. The tour utilizes an intimate context to connect audiences with filmmakers and films they might not otherwise have the opportunity to see. Films, including animation, documentaries, experimental and narrative work, can be submitted for consideration for the Circuit through an annual nationwide open call for submissions.
Southern Circuit is open to any filmmaker living in the United States with a valid driver's license. Filmmakers may submit a feature-length work or a group of short films whose combined time reaches feature length - at least 45 minutes with a maximum of 120 minutes. Apply here!
The application deadline is Wednesday February 15, 2012. Early Bird Registration ends Tuesday January 31, 2012.
For more information about Southern Circuit, visit thee Southern Circuit website or contact Teresa Hollingsworth at thollingsworth@southarts.org.
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RSC Corner #7
by Hope Clark
This is the Third year that Resources for Social Change (RSC) has been to Cucalorus Independent Film festival, and each year director Dan Brawley figures out how to further utilize the program to engage audiences in conversations about social justice issues. This year Omari Fox and I attended as facilitators for eight films, three Works in Progress, and 5 full-length documentaries. We previewed them all and talked with the filmmakers to plan their Learning Exchanges in conjunction with their screenings. Each film topic and filmmaker gave us a complex assortment of different ways to engage community. I will tell you about two of them now and soon you may read about the rest of them on our RSC Learning Exchange web pages. |
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16 Credit - Summer Intensive Program in Puerto Rico
June 4-29, 2012
The COMMUNITY ARTS CULTURAL ARTS ADVOCACY CERTIFICATE PROGRAM provides those interested in working within the community arts field courses taught by renowned experts culturally grounded in the arts, public policy and best practices that have made significant contributions to diverse communities. |
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APAP 2012: NYC
January 6-10, 2012
Hilton New York
Alternate ROOTS has a handful of slots for interested members to attend APAP along with us. Please contact Shannon Turner if you would like to join us in NYC in January, see some great work, and help promote ROOTS!
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Creative Capital's
Internet for Artists
Training Weekend
21 artists, including 5 ROOTS members, came together the weekend of October 21-23 for a training led by Creative Capital. Participants engaged in material from strategic planning & goal setting for individual artists, webpages, intellectual property, e-commerce, social networks and much, much more! A joint partnership between WonderRoot, Alternate ROOTS, and Emory Center for Ethics, this project was funded through a subsidy grant from Creative Capital and a project grant from the Fulton County Arts Council.
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Cecille's Recipe Corner
Cornbread in every shape and form is a mainstay of the Thanksgiving table in the South, and for some, probably an heirloom recipe passed down through generations. I share with you today the recipe for the cornbread that makes it to my holiday table every year - it's crisp on the outside, moist but not cakey on the inside, with kernels of corn in every bite and topped with crispy bacon bits. It doesn't get any better than this!
Bacon Cornbread
Read the full recipe here.
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Fractured Atlas Extends ROOTS Member Benefits
Fractured Atlas offers liability insurance, fiscal agency, on-line 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 their programs. You can apply for fiscal agency at no additional membership cost for the first year. For details, contact
Shannon at the ROOTS office at 404-577-1079.
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Alternate ROOTS
1083 Austin Ave., Suite 7
Atlanta, GA 30307
404-577-1079
info@alternateroots.org
www.alternateroots.org
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Little 5 Points Community Center
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