The Need for a Community Arts University Without Walls
Community arts training must engage community scholars in the field, community institutions, artists, students and professors as equals.
By Marta Moreno Vega
(February 2010)
Cultural Exchange vs. Cultural Tourism
There are significant questions about the ethics of cultural tourism, and they extend to the ethics of cultural exchange.
By Bau Graves
(February 2010)
The Curriculum Project Dialogues
Imagining America has three key conversations about higher education -- its teaching of and partnering for community cultural development -- at NYU, the University of Pennsylvania and Macalester College.
By Jan Cohen-Cruz
(January 2010)
A Text as a Bridge — for You, You and You
Reflections and lessons learned during five conversations with Alternate ROOTS about Resources for Social Change.
By Gwylene Gallimard and Hope Clark
(January 2010)
March 17, 2010 At D.C. Environmental Film Fest: The Green House
Participants at the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital will learn how to build a carbon-neutral house today with filmmakers Jason Scadron and Liv Violette and builder Mark Turner.
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March 16, 2010 Indigenous Pitch Dance Collective Gets Big Boost
Philadelphia's Indigenous Pitch Dance Collective has received a grant from philanthropist Betty Londergan for its work with children. Londergan is giving away $100 daily for 365 days.
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March 15, 2010 The Beat Within: A Zine from Juvenile Detention
At juvenile detention centers across the country, young offenders have an above-ground zine of their own: The Beat Within, a collection of youth-produced writing and art.
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March 12, 2010 Creative Cities Summit, Lexington, April
Creative-economy specialists Richard Florida, Charles Landry and Bill Strickland are among speakers at the Creative Cities Summit in Lexington, Ky., April 7-9, 2010.
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March 12, 2010 From New Village Press: Poetry, Prison, 2 Lives
Oakland's New Village Press has a new book out by two CAN writers: "By Heart, Poetry Prison and Two Lives" by Judith Tannenbaum and Spoon Jackson.
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March 12, 2010 12th Annual Allied Media Conference, June
The 12th annual Allied Media Conference will examine participatory media as a strategy for social-justice organizing, June 18-20, 2010, in Detroit.
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March 12, 2010 1000 Kites Campaign: Stop Prisoner Renting
Appalshop's Thousand Kites initiative is working with the Virgin Islands Prison Project on a campaign to "Stop Prisoner Renting."
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March 10, 2010 Art in Agriculture at Auburn University, Ala.
This spring, Auburn University continues its annual interdisciplinary series, Art in Agriculture, which brings together artists, designers and scientists to examine a topic related to agriculture, food, the environment or natural resources.
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March 10, 2010 For Kids: Pages of Possibility in Providence
Artist Mary Geisser is blogging from Providence, R.I., where she's leading "Pages of Possibility," a book-making workshop with children ages three and up at the Fox Point Community Library.
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March 10, 2010 Beehive Collective: The True Cost of Coal
The Beehive Collective's latest project is "The True Cost of Coal," a graphics campaign that details the ecological effects of the coal industry and mountaintop removal.
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March 9, 2010 Mary Miss to Keynote 2nd iLand Symposium, N.Y.
Landscape artist Mary Miss is keynote speaker at the second annual symposium by iLand (interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature and Dance) in New York City.
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March 9, 2010 NCCA's Civic Engagement & Gardening Symposium
The National Center for Creative Aging is expanding its frontier to the garden with "Creativity Matters: Civic Engagement and Gardening Symposium," April 12-14, 2010, in Washington, D.C.
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"Home: Composing the Rooted Local in the Rapid Global Environment," 5th annual Arts in the One World Conference, by Brown University's Theatre Arts and Performance Studies Department and the Interdisciplinary Genocide Study Center, Providence, R.I., March 17-21, 2010.
Go to the Reading Room for a complete listing of all essays 
Participants at the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital will learn how to build a carbon-neutral house today with filmmakers Jason Scadron and Liv Violette and builder Mark Turner.
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Philadelphia's Indigenous Pitch Dance Collective has received a grant from philanthropist Betty Londergan for its work with children. Londergan is giving away $100 daily for 365 days.
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At juvenile detention centers across the country, young offenders have an above-ground zine of their own: The Beat Within, a collection of youth-produced writing and art.
[
Oakland's New Village Press has a new book out by two CAN writers: "By Heart, Poetry Prison and Two Lives" by Judith Tannenbaum and Spoon Jackson.
[
Appalshop's Thousand Kites initiative is working with the Virgin Islands Prison Project on a campaign to "Stop Prisoner Renting."
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Artist Mary Geisser is blogging from Providence, R.I., where she's leading "Pages of Possibility," a book-making workshop with children ages three and up at the Fox Point Community Library.
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The Beehive Collective's latest project is "The True Cost of Coal," a graphics campaign that details the ecological effects of the coal industry and mountaintop removal.
[
Landscape artist Mary Miss is keynote speaker at the second annual symposium by iLand (interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature and Dance) in New York City.
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