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  The Path of Stories: Artists and The Thousand Kites Project
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Neither That Nor That: Trading Stories at the Intersection of Arts and Penal Welfare
The Medea Project and Intersection for the Arts team up to explore the California prison system. By Nina Billone (May 2008)

Que No Se Vuelva a Repetir
El Salvador's Revolutionary Youth Theatre remembers the Scorched Earth massacre of 1981. By Aryeh Shell (May 2008)

The Path of Stories: Artists and The Thousand Kites Project
A long, deep look into a multi-arts collaboration that's starting a national conversation about the U.S. prison industrial complex. Includes video. By Arlene Goldbard (May 2008)

A Bridge Conversation on Innovative Approaches to Linking Nonprofit and For-profit Models
Adam Huttler and Ruby Lerner talk about entrepreneurial strategies and changing paradigms for arts-service organizations. By Adam Forest Huttler (April 2008)

A Bridge Conversation about Animating a Latin American Idea in the U.S.
Paul Chin and Vanessa Whang talk about crossing lines of culture and politics, race and ethnicity, and the local and global. By Vanessa Whang (April 2008)

A Bridge Conversation on the Interweave of Culture and Ecology
Ken Wilson and Caron Atlas talk about cultural context and creative philanthropy. By Caron Atlas (April 2008)

A Bridge Conversation on Creating with a Sense of Strategic Practice
Maribel Alvarez and Jason Bulluck on paying attention to the “little stuff,” engaging in critical discourse and understanding how power can be shaken up. By Jason Bulluck (April 2008)

A Bridge Conversation about Creating Transformative Spaces
Harriet Barlow and Kathy Engel talk about the Commons and crossing borders. By Kathy Engel (April 2008)

A Bridge Conversation on Traditional and Organic Bridging
Francisco Guajardo and Edyael Casaperalta on intentionality, consciousness and creating new opportunities. By Edyael Casaperalta (April 2008)

A Bridge Conversation on Anthropology as Social Activism
Alaka Wali and Lena Richardson on drumming circles, sustainable conservation and valuing difference. By R. Lena Richardson (April 2008)

A Bridge Conversation on the Spiritual Core of Indigenous Social Justice
Tia Oros Peters and Vanessa Whang talk about maintaining your vision and integrity in rooms of power. By Vanessa Whang (March 2008)

A Bridge Conversation on Connecting Action and Academia in California's Central Valley
Isao Fujimoto and Tim Marema on the power of "edgewalking." By Tim Marema (March 2008)

A Bridge Conversation on Politics and Humanity
Caron Atlas and Mark Ritchie talk about balancing work and life. By Caron Atlas (March 2008)

A Bridge Conversation on New Paradigms of Artful Change
Can art be as powerful a vehicle for change as it can be a bastion for maintaining the status quo? By Dudley Cocke, Peter Pennekamp and Craig McGarvey (March 2008)

A Bridge Conversation on the Creativity of Community Development
Gayle Isa and Jeremy Liu talk about the power of spaces “in between.” By Gayle Isa (March 2008)

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Recent News

May 13, 2008
Two Community Performance Projects for Summer 2008
While you're making your summer travel plans, note that there are two wonderful community performances scheduled in the Southeast -- both musicals in Georgia. [more]

May 13, 2008
Seeing Peace Billboards Go Up in S.F. May 26
seepeace.jpg Artist Richard Kamler's project "Seeing Peace: Artists Collaborate with the United Nations" surfaces with Peace Billboards, May 26, 2008, in San Francisco. [more]

May 12, 2008
Hoboken Artists Unite to Save Neumann Leathers
Artists in Hoboken, N.J., are working hard to preserve the building where they live and work, Neumann Leathers, "one of the city’s last artistic and historic arts complexes." [more]

May 12, 2008
Student Digital Legacies Project Now Online
legacies.jpg Documentary films by Boston Public School students about the civil-rights history of their city are posted on the Web site of the Digital Legacies Project. [more]

May 8, 2008
Annual CPA Prison Art Show Underway in Hartford
cpa.jpg Community Partners in Action's annual Prison Art Show is underway, through May 28, at Capitol Community College in Hartford, Conn. [more]

May 8, 2008
Waitresses To March for Living Wage, NYC, May 17
waitresses.jpg Join the All City Waitress Marching Band in a Protest March for a Living Wage up the Grand Concourse to the Bronx Museum, Saturday, May 17, 2008. [more]

May 7, 2008
API Names New CAN Advisory Board Members
Art in the Public Interest is proud to announce the names of four new members of the CAN Advisory Board: Sonia BasSheva Mañjon, Grady Hillman, Meena Natarajan and Shannon Turner. [more]

May 7, 2008
ArtReach XVI at City Without Walls in Newark
artreach.jpg Fifteen Newark, N.J., public high-school students and their professional-artist mentors will exhibit their collaborative artworks during ArtReach XVI, June 12-July 10, 2008. [more]

May 7, 2008
A River Flows in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley
"Another River Flows: Stories, Songs and a Celebration of the Lehigh Valley Black Experience," the product of three years of oral-history gathering in Pennsylvania, opens in Easton, May 30, 2008. [more]

May 6, 2008
2010: The Year of Mexico in Chicago
Chicago's National Museum of Mexican Art will be coordinating cultural events throughout the city during 2010, declared by Mayor Daley The Year of México in Chicago. [more]

May 6, 2008
Dogpatch Portrait Project Opens in S.F. May 15
Dogpatch.jpg Photographer Christopher Irion unveils The Dogpatch Portrait Project in the oldest, largest and most intact industrial complex in San Francisco, May 15, 2008. [more]

May 5, 2008
Revolution I Love You: 1968 in Art, Politics & Philosophy
1968.jpg "Revolution I Love You: 1968 in Art, Politics and Philosophy" is an exhibition in Thessaloniki, Greece, investigating the year 1968 as "an interlude of liberty and global resistance." [more]

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Recent Blognet Posts
Forewarned is forearmed? More on gallery notices
from Education and Community Programs (May 15, 2008)
a life’s work
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1000 Kites
Listen to Appalshop's 24-hour Internet radio project on arts & criminal justice.
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Art Share Los Angeles
Community arts incubator whose mission is "to shape lives through art, education and community action."...
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Online resources about community-based performance in Greater Baltimore, the Mid-Atlantic region and around the world....
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San Francisco-based organization including Dance Brigade, a six-member professional women's socio-political, dance-theater and drumming company;...
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Upcoming Conferences, Workshops and Special Events
"Intervene! Interrupt! Rethinking Art as Social Practice," three-day conference by U.C. Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, Calif., May 15-17, 2008.
"From Rust Belt to Artist Belt," conference by Community Partnership for Arts and Culture, Cleveland, Ohio, May 14, 2008.
"Yes Child, No Child, Whose Child, Every Child," 2nd Annual Teaching Artist Institute by Alliance for Arts Learning Leadership, California College of the Arts' Center for Arts and Public Life and Alameda County Arts Commission, Oakland, Calif., May 16-17, 2008.
"International Day for Sharing Life Stories," by Center for Digital Storytelling and Museum of the Person International Network, worldwide, May 16, 2008.
"Storytelling in Virtual Environments," online conference by Center for Digital Storytelling, Second Life, 10 a.m. PDT, May 17, 2008.
"Pulling a 180: Stories about Change, Transformation and New Beginnings," by Center for Digital Storytelling, Speakeasy D.C., and the Served Project in celebration of International Day for Sharing Life Stories, Washington, D.C., May 16, 2008.
"Annual Brooklyn College Community Partnership Open House," at Brooklyn College Art Lab, Brooklyn, N.Y., May 17, 2008.
"Protest March Up the Grand Concourse for a Living Wage," by the All-Waitress Marching Band, New York City, N.Y., May 17, 2008.
"Artists Working (with)in Community," panel with Roberto Ferreyra, Monsterrat Alisina, Gallery Colibri; by Cuentros Foundation, Chicago, Ill., May 17, 2008.
"Art Therapy Affinities," breakfast seminar with Helene Burt by Jumblies Theatre, Toronto, Ont., Canada, May 20, 2008.
"What is Change? What is Substantial Change? And How?," 14th Annual International Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed Conference, Omaha, Nebr., May 22-May 25, 2008. Pre- and post-conference workshops with Augusto and Julian Boal.
"Making the Case for Arts Education," Massachusetts Arts Education Partnership Institute, Cambridge, Mass., May 29, 2008.
"Transforming Lives Through the Creative Arts," BuildaBridge Institute, Bryn Mawr, Pa., June 3-8, 2008.
"Fes Festival of World Sacred Music," Fes, Morocco, June 3-15, 2008.
"Shaping Our Voice and Vision," 2nd National Asian American Theater Conference, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minn., June 5-8, 2008.
"Public Art Evaluation Toolkit Seminar," by ixia, London, England, June 5, 2008.
"Land of Spirit," community performance by Franklin County, Lavonia, Ga., June 5-28, 2008.
"Media Arts Leadership Insitute 2008," by National Alliance of Media Arts & Culture (NAMAC), Silver Falls State Park, Ore., June 8-12, 2008.
"Oral History, Advocacy and the Law," annual Summer Institute on Oral History, by Columbia University Oral History Research Office, New York City, N.Y., June 8-22, 2008.
"Beyond the Academy: Engaging Public Life," meeting of public scholars, by George Washington University, Arlington, Va., June 10-11, 2008.
"National Performing Arts Convention," cross-disciplinary convention, Denver, Colo., June 10-14, 2008.

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