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Native Energy
 
  Community Arts Perspectives #6
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A Decentralized National Conversation: The Curriculum Project Report
Introducing a study on culture and community development in higher education. By Arlene Goldbard (November 2008)

Safe Spaces Community Creations: The Mosaic Wall Project
Working with Baltimore teens to create a 2,000-square-foot glass mosaic on the American Visionary Art Museum. Includes video. By Mari Gardner (November 2008)

Reform or Enrichment: Policy Mandates and Program Goals in Community Youth Arts
More and more attention is being paid to what kids do after school. By Lori Hager (November 2008)

Finding Our Wings: A Community Documentary Program
Cameras in the hands of teenage girls give them the courage to finish high school. By Kirsten D'Andrea Hollander (November 2008)

Insights from Arts and Civic Engagement: 13 Profiles
Pathways to building a participatory culture. By Rebecca Lena Richardson (November 2008)

Community Spectacle: A Place of Magic
The artists, musicians, technicians, lanterneers and visual alchemists of Nana Projects are in it together, and so is their audience. Includes video. By Molly Ross (November 2008)

The Circle Is Already Listening: Littleglobe's Collaborative Creative Process
A means to know one another, to witness one another and remove hierarchical and preconceived notions of the “other.” By Molly Sturges (November 2008)

The Metrics Syndrome
When they ask you for the metrics on community art, just say no. By Arlene Goldbard (October 2008)

Promoting Self and Community Empowerment Through Critical Pedagogy in a Community Art Program
Learning about the consequences of social injustice in Austin’s Greater Tomorrow Youth Art Program. By Christopher O. Adejumo (October 2008)

Young People's Art Works Toward Social Change: Performing Visions of Utopia
An analysis of art works created by young people in struggle. By Sharon Verner Chappell (October 2008)

Art Jump Off!: Choice at the Center of a Middle-school Afterschool Arts Program
Embracing student choice and personal attention as ways to help young people develop artistic skills. By John Giordano and Kassandra Derby (October 2008)

The Practices and Pedagogy of Pepón Osorio
How risk and trust and hope for a reciprocal practice can bring communities to life and life to communities. By Amalia Mesa-Bains and Pepn Osorio (October 2008)

A New Beginning: The Evolving Relationship between Artist and Community
A comic roller-coaster ride through a semester of community arts learning. By Christina Ralls (October 2008)

The New Hybridity: HOME, New Orleans and Emerging Forms of Community/ University/Arts Collaboration
The ins and outs of a conflicted and fragile undertaking. By Ron Bechet and Amy Koritz (September 2008)

Belongings - A Neighborhood Search: Creative Alliance at The Patterson
We are born into our family, our skin color, our culture and class. Can we really choose a community? By Luisa Bieri de Rios (September 2008)

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Recent News

December 2, 2008
Coming Up in Miami: danceABLE 2008
DIN.jpg danceABLE, Florida's upcoming mixed-ability dance festival, will feature Germany's DIN A 13 Dance Company and a film and workshops by Gerda König. [more]

December 2, 2008
RFP: Ecodrama Playwrights Festival and Symposium
The Ecodrama Playwrights Festival and Symposium on Ecology and Performance calls for proposals for the symposium, May 21-31, 2009, in Eugene, Oregon. [more]

December 2, 2008
Coming Up Taller Nominations Due Jan. 30
January 30 is the nominations deadline for the 2009 Coming Up Taller Awards from the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities (PCAH). [more]

November 25, 2008
Baltimore: Remembering Rosa Parks
parks.jpg On December 1, 2008, MTA buses in downtown Baltimore will reserve the front seat of each bus in honor of civil-rights pioneer Rosa Parks. [more]

November 25, 2008
New Funding Category at NEA: Artist Communities
The Alliance for Artists Communities has announced that a new funding category will be established in 2009 at the National Endowment for the Arts. [more]

November 21, 2008
2008-9 K-12 International Art Exchange
1world.jpg OneWorld Classrooms invites classes, schools or groups to participate in the 2008/2009 K-12 International Art Exchange. [more]

November 20, 2008
Exploring Ensemble Theater & Social Change
coat.jpg Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble is "celebrating artists who are driving social change" with "NETnite," an evening in N.Y.C. showcasing ensemble theaters. [more]

November 19, 2008
News from Animating Democracy
ADkit.jpg Animating Democracy has announced a new field resource: "The Arts and Civic Engagement Tool Kit: Planning Tools and Resources for Animating Democracy in Your Community." [more]

November 19, 2008
News: Community Arts Convening/Research Project
The date for the next convening has been set and deadlines for text submissions have been extended for the Community Arts Convening and Research Project. [more]

November 18, 2008
Coming Up Taller: Egypt's Working Children
fridayworkshops.jpg Friday Workshops for Working Children at the Townhouse Gallery in Cairo, Egypt, is among the recipients of the 2008 Coming Up Taller awards, [more]

November 17, 2008
Brooklyn at Eye Level
eye level.jpg Brooklyn, N.Y., residents, community activists, developers and politicos will discuss the social ecology of their borough, December 4-7, 2008, after performances of "Brooklyn at Eye Level." [more]

November 14, 2008
New in CAN's Bookstore: Cold War Exiles in Mexico
CAN's Bookstore has added "Cold War Exiles in Mexico: U.S. Dissidents and the Culture of Critical Resistance" by Rebecca M. Schreiber, just published. [more]

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Recent CANblog Posts
Don't miss Calls from Home, December 9!...
posted 12-02-2008
Art Culture Nature offers fellowships...
posted 12-02-2008
New RSA Arts & Ecology Web site goes live...
posted 11-21-2008
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Recent Guest Blog Posts
Sammy Unblocks the Well
by Jules Corriere on CPI, 12-01-2008
Looking For An Honest Voice
by Jules Corriere on CPI, 12-01-2008
Game Days
by Jules Corriere on CPI, 11-10-2008
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Recent Blognet Posts
Handy tips for the new nuclear age (3): make your own plutonium
from The Arts Catalyst (Dec 2, 2008)
Call For Musicians (ages 14-18)
from Education and Community Programs (Dec 2, 2008)
Short bursts
from Arts & Ecology (Dec 2, 2008)
1000 Kites
Listen to Appalshop's 24-hour Internet radio project on arts & criminal justice.
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Recent Forums Posts
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Recent Links
Earth Matters on Stage
Program of Department of Theatre Arts, University of Oregon. Mission: "to nurture connection and collaboration...
Cross Cultural Collaborative
Educational nonprofit that invites people to Ghana to promote cultural exchange and understanding through the...
Bond St. Theatre
New York physical-theater ensemble that create educational and artistic programs for refugee camps, theaters, universities,...
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Upcoming Conferences, Workshops and Special Events
"Witness: Photographers, Journalists and Social Workers Respond to Tragedy," panel discussion by Open Society Institute Documentary Photography Project, Columbia University School of Social Work and Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, New York, N.Y., December 3, 2008.
"International Colloquium on Cultural Mediation," by Culture pour tous, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, December 4-5, 2008.
"Public Art Master Planning: Developing a Plan for Your Community," knowledge exchange by Americans for the Arts, Initiative for Public Art Reston, Arlington County Cultural Affairs Division and Arts Council of Fairfax County, Reston and Arlington, Va., December 5-6, 2008.
"Districts & Culture," knowledge exchange by Americans for the Arts, Greater Columbus Arts Council and Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, December 5-6, 2008.
"hyphen-NATIONS: Immigration Matters," community dialogue by Pangea World Theater, Minneapolis, Minn., December 8, 2008.
"Creativity Matters: Lifelong Learning through the Arts Symposium," by National Center for Creative Aging and Metlife Foundation, Miami, Fl., December 9-10, 2008.
"Leadership in Tough Times," Webinar by Americans for the Arts, on the Web, 2 p.m., December 10, 2008.
"Human Rights and Us: Getting the Message Out," panel discussion accompanying "Human Rights: Student Voices: poster exhibition, by Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, Calif., December 11, 2008.
"iLAB Collaboration Seminar," by interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature and Dance, New York, N.Y., December 16, 2008.
"Culture & International History IV," symposium by Center for North American Studies, Historische Seminar of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main and Institute for Cultural Diplomacy, Frankfurt am Main , Germany, December 19-21, 2008.
"Resilent Aging for Extraordinary Times," event series by National Center for Creative Aging, Washington National Cathedral and Gerontological Society of America, Washington, D.C., November 23-25, 2008.
"Making the Difference: Dance and Taboo in Sâo Paulo," film showing, part of danceAble, by Tigertail Productions, Miami, Fl., December 28, 2008.

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