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MVL Podcast: Arts & Activism - Is There A Disconnect?
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Tuesday, Oct 21, 2008
In this MVL Podcast, Sean Thomas-Breitfeld talks with Amalia Anderson of the Main Street Project and Caron Atlas with The Center for Civic Participation and the Pratt Center for Community Development about the potential power and imagination that arts and culture can bring to our organizations and our movements for change.
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How can arts and culture apply to or can be used by different organizing models?
Listen to this 30 minute podcast featuring two of our movement's cultural organizers, Amalia Anderson and Caron Atlas.
Resources Mentioned in Podcast:
- Main Street Project - Main Street Project is a grassroots cultural organizing, media justice and economic development initiative working to help rural communities face today's realities with hope.
- Pratt Center for Community Development - The Pratt Center for Community Development works for a more just, equitable, and sustainable city for all New Yorkers, by empowering communities to plan for and realize their futures.
- Arts & Democracy Project - project of The Center for Civic Participation - The Arts & Democracy Project builds the momentum of a cultural movement that draws on a rich history of arts activism, social justice organizing, and grassroots engagement.
- Third World Majority - Third World Majority is a new media training and production resource center run by a collective of young women of color and our allies dedicated to developing new media practices that affect global justice and social change through grassroots political organizing.
- Urban Bush Women - Urban Bush Women seeks to bring the untold and under-told histories and stories of disenfranchised people to light through dance.
- People's Institute for Survival and Beyond - The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond is a national and international collective of anti-racist, multicultural community organizers and educators dedicated to building an effective movement for social transformation.
- Appalshop - Appalshop is a non-profit multi-disciplinary arts and education center in the heart of Appalachia producing original films, video, theater, music and spoken-word recordings, radio, photography, multimedia, and books.
- Thousand Kites - Thousand Kites is a community-based performance, web, video and radio project centered on the United States prison system.
- Kentuckians for the Commonwealth - Kentuckians For The Commonwealth is a statewide citizens organization working for
a new balance of power and a just society. As we work together we build our strength, individually and as a group, and we find solutions to real life problems. - The Bridge Conversations - of the Community Arts Network - The Community Arts Network (CAN) is a portal to the field of community arts, providing news, documentation, theoretical writing, communications, research and educational information.
- Alternate ROOTS - A regional arts service organization with over 30 years of history, Alternate ROOTS is an invaluable national resource to artists, organizers and cultural workers.
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