Arts & Democracy Profiles
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| ACCESS and the Arab American National Museum |
Since 1972, the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS) has supported long-term community building and empowerment for the Arab-American community in Dearborn, Michigan (a suburb of Detroit).) In May 2005, ACCESS literally broke new ground when it opened the Arab American National Museum. The first museum in the world devoted solely to Arab-American history and art, it reflects the Cultural Arts Program's philosophy that art is an important tool for nourishing the spirit and building relationships. |
ACCESS and AANM Profile.pdf | |
| All-ages Movement Project |
Where do teenagers learn democratic values and recognize their own power to effect change on a civic level? According to All-ages Movement Project founder Shannon Stewart, one major avenue is involvement in youth-run music and cultural spaces. Writing about the role of these spaces in fostering democratic culture and youth leadership development, she describes places where young people creatively express themselves, independently produce shows, records, and publications, learn democratic practices, make values based decisions, gain access to resources usually outside their reach, build networks with social and political capital, and grow into innovative leaders." |
All-ages Movement Project Profile.pdf | |
| Appalshop and Robert Salyer |
Founded in 1969 during the national "War on Poverty," Appalshop is a non-profit, multi-disciplinary arts and education center in the heart of Appalachia that produces original films, video, theater, music and spoken-word recordings, radio, photography, multimedia, and books. Core to Appalshop's work are media training programs, such as Appalachian Media Institute, which is for central Appalachian youth, and the Community Correspondents Corps (CCC), which trains local people of all ages to gather news. Appalshop provides the tools for documenting local stories: equipment, materials, and knowledge of the basics of interviewing, recording, and editing. Both AMI and CCC connect people to the means of media production and build media literacy: even if their stories don't get on the air, they become less likely to accept whatever they see. |
Salyer Appalshop Profile.pdf | |
| Arts & Democracy Resources |
Census Resources The Arts & Democracy Project is gathering culturally-based resources that support efforts to engage historically undercounted populations in the 2010 census. 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.
Podcasts mvl podcast: arts & activism - is there a disconnect?: http://www.communitychange.org/our-projects/movementvisionlab/blog/mvl-podcast-arts-activism-is-there-a-disconnect.mp3/view
Web sites Appalshop / Roadside Theater: www.appalshop.org Can't Stop Won't Stop: http://www.cantstopwontstop.com Christensen Fund: http://www.christensenfund.org Humboldt Area Foundation: http://www.hafoundation.org League of Rural Voters Main Street Project: http://www.leagueofruralvoters.org Third World Majority: http://cultureisaweapon.org Provisions Library: Resources for arts and social change: http://www.provisionslibrary.org Radio Bilingue: http://www.radiobilingue.org Research Center for Leadership and Action: includes cooperative inquiry research related to art, social change, and leadership. ext/javascript"> // --> t;http://wagner.nyu.edu/centers/leadership.php Alternate Roots, Resources for Social Change: http://www.alternateroots.org Animating Democracy Initiative: www.americansforthearts.org/AnimatingDemocracy Community Arts Network: http://www.communityarts.net
Recent Publications Art, Dialogue, Action, Activism. Washington DC: Americans for the Arts, 2005 Borrup, Tom, with Partners for Livable Communities. The Creative Community Builders Handbook. St. Paul: Fieldstone Alliance, 2006 Chang, Jeff. Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, A History of the Hip Hop Generation. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2005 Goldbard, Arlene. New Creative Community. Oakland: New Village Press, 2006 gt;
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| Future of Music Coalition |
The Future of Music Coalition (FMC) gathers expertise in the fields of music, technology, public policy, and law to promote public understanding and discussion about freedom of speech, control of music production and distribution, and public ownership of the airwaves and bandwidth. FMC's focus is fundamentally educational: conducting original research, writing for and speaking to arts communities, translating highly technical and legal language into plain English, and offering expert testimony on the implications of policy.
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Future of Music Profile.pdf | |
| Hip Hop Congress |
The Hip Hop Congress (HHC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that uses hip-hop culture to foster social action, civic service, and cultural creativity among young people. HHC's Politics Initiative marks a transition from HHC's primary status as a music and cultural organization to a network with an articulated human rights and social justice movement-building focus. Rooted in a belief in the powerful potential of the hip-hop movement, the Politics Initiative seeks to build on this history to develop organizing skills and a civic-engagement focus among hip-hop artists and community members. |
HHCProfile.pdf | |
| John Malpede and Los Angeles Poverty Department |
LAPD was founded in 1985 to "create performance work that connects lived experience to the social forces that shape the lives and communities of people living in poverty." Since then, they have created numerous productions that have toured nationally and internationally, receiving critical acclaim for both their artistic quality and social impact. Rooted in Los Angeles' Skid Row neighborhood, LAPD's performances reflect the "realities, hopes and dreams" of the people who make up this community, giving them a way to raise awareness about social and political issues and create opportunities for people to intervene in policy decisions that affect their lives. |
LAPD Profile.pdf | |
| League of Young Voters |
The League of Young Voters is a national youth-led organization with state-based affiliates in Maine, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, New Mexico, and California that support young people in developing the power to solve problems facing their communities. As the League's website describes it, "We work with young people who have been shut out of the political process to make politics fun, engaging, relevant, and meaningful. |
League of Young Voters Profile.pdf | |
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| Marty Pottenger |
Marty Pottenger is a critically acclaimed writer, director, and performer with more than 20 years of experience in creating and directing community-based arts initiatives. She uses art and art-making as a point of departure to "address social issues, reveal the underlying connection between people, and activate people's inherent desire and momentum for justice and equity." |
Marty Pottenger Profile.pdf |
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