At the Crossroads of Art & Activism
Community/Artists Partnership Program (CAPP) Learning Exchanges
Lead by
Resources for Social Change
A Training Program of Alternate ROOTS
JUNE LEARNING EXCHANGES
June 6-7
Charlotte, NC
Trainers: Sheila Kerrigan Lead Trainer, Jeff Mather Shadow
Host(s): April Turner
June 13-14
Charleston, SC
Trainers: Sheila Kerrigan Lead Trainer, Eleanor Brownfield Shadow
Host(s): Omari Fox, Latonnya Wallace, and Gwylene Gallimard
June 27-28
Atlanta, GA
Trainers: Carolyn Morris Lead Trainer, Priscilla Smith Shadow Trainer
Host(s): Eleanor Brownfield
JULY LEARNING EXCHANGES
July 11-13
Lexington, KY
Trainers: Bob Leonard Lead Trainer, Chetan Talwalker, Shadow Trainer
Host(s): Shannon Woolley
July 12 –13
Maryland (Eastern Seaboard)
Trainers: Carolyn Morris Lead Trainer, Hope Clark, Shadow Trainer
Host(s): Margo Mille and Hope Clark
July 18-20
New Orleans, LA
Trainers: Carlton Turner, Lead Trainer, Carol Marie Webster, Shadow Trainer
Host(s): Ashley Sparks and Stephanie McKee
For more information please contact the Alternate ROOTS office @404-577-1079 or email info@alternateroots.org.
RSC - Resources for Social Change
Resources for Social Change (RSC) is a training program developed by ROOTS that teaches ideas and techniques to create social change through art. This program began in recognition of the need to institutionalize ROOTS knowledge in the field. RSC trainers are artists experienced and schooled in the methods of using and bringing art into communities that traditionally may not have considered the important role that arts can play to address social ills and effect social change. RSC teaches methods for initiating and building partnerships between cultural workers and their community partners, and ways of using the arts as search engines in community work. It provides training, mentorship and peer education to artists, cultural workers, arts administrators, students, and community activists from multiple cultures and disciplines, using local community artists to present case studies of model projects taking place within their communities. The principals of shared power, collaborative partnership, open dialogue, aesthetics, and individual and community transformation are central to RSC community training workshops. Through these workshops RSC aims to provoke long-lasting, personal & social change, one person at a time.
Resources for Social Change Workbook
The work of RSC has been documented in a Resources for Social Change Workbook. This publication is available for download here. If you would like a hard copy of this publication please contact the Alternate ROOTS office. The download is free, the hard copy is $5. Also feel free to make a donation to help suppor the work of Alternate ROOTS.
CAPP - Community/Artists Partnership Program
CAPP was initiated in 1984 by Alternate ROOTS. Since its inception, the project has supported over 38 projects in eight states, convened a national gathering of community art workers and initiated a training program for the advanced study of community arts practice. The projects selected in the latest round of competitive applications focus on social issues in a variety of community settings.
RSC is a program of Alternate ROOTS devoted to teaching ideas, methods, and techniques for creating social change through the arts. The core method we teach is the development of partnerships between artists and communities, leading to the empowerment of both. A core idea is the equitable sharing of power, knowledge, and resources within partnerships.
RSC offers WORKSHOPS and TRAININGS: - for initiating and building community/artists partnerships through which to discover, pool and share vision and resources; - for planning collaborative projects that turn community goals into long-term community solutions; - for using the arts as tools or search engines in community work.
The arts help give life to communities. The Arts give spirit and support to community efforts. The Arts move people to action as well as to enjoyment.
WHO WORKS WITH US?
ARTISTS: performers, visual artists, writers, musicians and others
CULTURAL WORKERS
ART and ACADEMIC EDUCATORS
ARTS ORGANIZATIONS / INSTITUTIONS
COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS, which may include service providers, youth programs, libraries, community organizing groups, crisis centers, churches, leadership development programs, preservation and historical groups, community development organizations.
RSC, Alternate Roots Resources for Social Change workshops feature:
LEADERS experienced with the arts as tools for social change
STORIES of positive transformation using the arts to address difficult issues
CONTACT with individuals capable of leading community in creating their own unique arts experience.
The end goal of working with RSC, Alternate Roots Resources for Social Change, is THE CREATION OF A RIPPLING AFFECT IN THE COMMUNITY, THAT EXTENDS PAST A RSC TRAINING.
Excerpts from a special issue of HIGH PERFORMANCE Magazine on the partnering of Artists and Communities:
"I like to think of the partnering process as a dance, a series of movements through which partners learn of each other... They circle each other, watch each other¼s movement and play off of each other¼s responses"
- Nayo Watkins
"I am more confident than ever that, as complicated as the questions seem to get, finally the negotiations are simply between the partners, whether between collaborators at the beginning of a project or between artists and audience at the other end. The point of the negotiations is to discover whether we may be of a like mind, whether we can identify and assert our mutual interdependence and whether we can begin creating togethers".
- Bob Leonard
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