Greetings from the Arts & Democracy Project!
In this update, we share resources with you on two important organizing opportunities: the U.S. Social Forum, and the 2010 Census.
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U.S. Social Forum: Arts and Culture Planning Call
The United States Social Forum (USSF) is taking place June 22-26 in Detroit. Learn more about the Forum and find out how to get involved.
Arts & Democracy Project, Alternate ROOTS, Art is Change, and MAG-Net are co-sponsoring an informational conference call focused on arts and culture at USSF.
When: Tuesday, March 2; 4:00pm Eastern Time
RSVP: anasat@aol.com
Please RSVP to get the call-in number and agenda, and so we can know how many people will be participating. Please send any questions you have for the call ahead of time to anasat@aol.com.
The call will describe ways to get involved, including:
- Participating in planning
- Submitting workshop proposals (deadline 3/20, early submissions encouraged)
- Opportunities to perform or exhibit art
- Creative Lab
We will focus on ways to deepen the infusion of art, culture and creative process throughout the Social Forum, with particular attention to organizing and movement building.
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2010 Census Cultural Campaign Tools
The Arts
& Democracy Project is gathering resources that support efforts to engage
historically undercounted populations in the 2010 census. Our primary
focus is on culturally based resources, although some other useful resources
are listed as well. We will also post this list on our web site. Please add
to this list by sending your resource and its link to info@artsanddemocracy.org.
State Voices Census 2010 Resource Guide
offers basic information and resources.
Make Yourself Count campaign from Leadership Conference on Civil Rights offers tool kits, campaign plans, multi-lingual resources, and materials for organizing around celebrations and cultural events.
Podcast of Biko Baker describing the League of Young Voters' census work.
Podcast of Steven Renderos describing Main Street Project's census work.
Numbers Don't Lie campaign from League of Young Voters will launch on
March 1 with new videos appearing every other week.
Multi-lingual community census guides in English, Spanish, Somali, and Hmong created by
Main Street Project.
Indian Country Counts: Our People. Our Nation. Our Future, from National Council for American
Indians. The initiative includes an art competition and resources include a
Toolkit for Tribes.
The Fair Count to Fair Share Census Initiative from the Praxis Project. Resources include a Census 2010 Toolkit and Building
Capacity Building Power Initiative Report, aimed at protecting the interests of
people of African descent.
Latino Census Network from the National Institute for Latino Policy
includes an informational listserv that publishes the Latino Census Network
eNewsletter.
Census 2010: South Asians Count! Campaign from
South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT) includes fact sheets in Bengali,
Gujarati, Hindi, Nepali, Punjabi, Tamil and Urdu.
Be Counted Represent from Voto Latino includes
census-themed itunes cards, a "pledge to be counted" page, and radio PSA's with
high profile celebrity artists available in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Queer the Census, from the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force,
seeks to ensure that LGBT people are accurately counted in the next census.
Increasing Democratic Participation: Motivating Historically Undercounted Populations to
Be Counted in the 2010 Census is a message manual for
census activists.
Communicating the Message Effectively is communication and messaging resource
that provides language you can use to create an effective message about the
importance of participating in the 2010 Census for the community you serve.
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As always, we're proud to highlight the great work in this field to
support and cross-pollinate an extraordinary network of artists, cultural
workers, policymakers, educators, and activists.
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All our best,
Amalia, Caron, Kathie, Jason, Javiera, Lena, and Yolanda
The Arts & Democracy Team
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The USSF
provides a space to build relationships, learn from each others' experiences,
share analysis of the problems our communities face, and bring renewed
insight and inspiration to social movement organizations.
Through the
USSF process, grassroots groups, coalitions and networks build leadership and
develop collective consciousness, vision, and strategies needed to realize
another world. "Another world is possible, another U.S. is
necessary."
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In Case You Missed It:
Great Resources
Sally Kohn's Movement Vision Lab is back, with a new site chock full of sharp insights on grassroots movement building and radical, hopeful alternatives.
In a keynote speech to the California Arts Advocates this January, Arlene Goldbard discusses how to reframe the role of the arts. New Articles, 2009-2010
From the Community Arts Convening & Research Project, a national platform for the work of universities with degree-granting programs in arts and community building.
Taking Over and Talking Back: Theatre as a Form on Gentrification
In her new essay Caron Atlas documents conversations across NY about values, gentrification, and engaging in community change. |
Who We Are
The Arts & Democracy Project builds the momentum of a cultural
movement that draws on a rich history of arts activism, social justice
organizing, and grassroots engagement. The program catalyzes and supports cross-pollination between
sectors, cultures, and generations and the linking of practitioners,
policymakers, educators, and activists.
Arts & Democracy is a sponsored project of:
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