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Taking Over and Talking Back: Theater as a Forum on Gentrification

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)

Taking Over and Talking Back: Theater as a Forum on Gentrification
New York's citizens talk about what happens when communities change. By Caron Atlas (February 2010)

Children's Choir Bridges Racial Divide in Michigan
Sometimes Martin Luther King's dream doesn't seem so far away after all. By Larry and Sandy Feldman (January 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)

All Over the Map: The Top 20 Stories on the Community Arts Network, 2009
CAN readers' tastes are as diverse as imaginable. By Linda Frye Burnham (January 2010)

Teaching Museum Studies Through a Social-justice Lens
A significant statement about the role of the contemporary museum in exploring and defining community values. By Lila Staples (December 2009)

What Can You Teach Me? Intergenerational Community Arts in the Baltimore Lumbee Community
An artist helps strengthen her community's culture by bringing together its two “anchor” generations. By Ashley Minner (December 2009)

Condom Sense: A Real Life Education with About Face Youth Theatre
Kids still have a lot to learn about sex and HIV/AIDS. By Paula Gilovich (December 2009)

LA Commons: Engaging Youth in Community-based Cultural Tourism
Artists, teens and city planners leverage local cultural assets to develop the economic and social capital of L.A.'s ethnic neighborhoods. By Karen Mack (December 2009)

Getting It Wrong: How We Fail and What We Learn
In community arts practice, brave and honest conversations about failure are an untapped resource. By Nicole Garneau and Sanjit Sethi (December 2009)

Trimming the Sails: Assessing a Program in Midstream
With four graduated classes now working the field, Columbia College engages with the community to see if its AYCD program is delivering value. By Phyllis Johnson (December 2009)

Learning Culture and Change: A Place-based Community Arts Training Model
The Institute for Community Cultural Development shares its pedagogy. By William Cleveland, Wendy Morris and Erik Takeshita (December 2009)

What’s Good Enough? Excellence and Expertise in Community Arts Training
There is tension between community arts and the academy. Who are the experts? By Jerri Allyn (December 2009)

The Liberatory Critique
Step by step, a critical pedagogy that nurtures the artist's unique voice in relationship to a broadly inclusive community of peoples, values, ideas and opinions. By Ken Krafchek (December 2009)

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Recent News

February 8, 2010
Health Policy Journal Credits Arts Techniques
CAN writer John Sullivan has an article in a professional health policy journal about community artists, neighborhood residents and researchers working on public health collaborations. [more]

February 5, 2010
Lerman Dance Exchange's Rabbi in Residence
Rabbi David Bauer has joined Liz Lerman Dance Exchange as the first-ever Rabbinic Fellow in Residence. [more]

February 5, 2010
MOMA's Agnes Gund on Jobs for Artists
Times are hard, says MOMA's Agnes Gund in the Huffington Post (2/4/10), but two recent studies reveal that a bad situation is even worse for performing and visual artists. [more]

February 5, 2010
An L.A. Angel Speaks Up for the Arts
A coda to our item yesterday about the L.A. City Council's decision not to end guaranteed funding for the Department of Cultural Affairs: An angel appeared at the hearing. [more]

February 4, 2010
New in Places to Study: Public Practice Degrees
CAN has added to its Places To Study database the M.A., M.F.A. & Ph.D. in Performance as Public Practice (PPP) from the University of Texas at Austin. [more]

February 4, 2010
Call: Chapters for Civic Education Textbook
The editor of a new textbook on the university and democratic societies is looking for chapter proposals on how the arts and arts communities work with colleges and universities to pursue citizenship education. [more]

February 4, 2010
Obama's 2011 Budget Cuts Arts, Arts Ed
On February 2, 2010, the Obama Administration released FY 2011 budget request to Congress which includes cuts to the NEA, NEH, IMLS and the Department of Education's Arts in Education program. [more]

February 4, 2010
World Economic Forum Vows To End Poverty?
Last week, the filmmaking team behind The End of Poverty? partnered with the Yes Men to create a parallel, imaginary World Economic Forum in which world leaders came up with real solutions to poverty. [more]

February 4, 2010
Launch: Always Expect Miracles, Asheville
"Always Expect Miracles," a new community play written by CAN blogger Jules Corriere, debuts in Asheville, N.C., February 11, 2010, and runs through March 6. [more]

February 4, 2010
Imagining America Syndicates CAN News
As part of CAN's current partnership with Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life, pertinent items from APInews are appearing automatically on IA's newly launched online News Page. [more]

February 4, 2010
Launch: Suzanne Lacy's “Tattooed Skeleton”
California artist Suzanne Lacy will launch “The Tattooed Skeleton/El Esqueleto Tatuado,” a new performance project focusing on violence against women, at the ARCO Art Fair in Madrid, Spain. [more]

February 4, 2010
L.A. City Council Spares City Arts Funding
After listening to often impassioned pleas during a public hearing, the Los Angeles City Council unanimously shot down a proposal that would have eliminated guaranteed city funding for the arts. [more]

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Performing the World 2010, NYC...
posted 01-22-2010
Huang Xiang: Poet on Fire...
posted 01-11-2010

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Recent CANblog Posts

Checking Out da' house, Mississippi...
posted 02-05-2010
9th Political Theatre Festival, St. Paul, Minn....
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Six Words for Nonprofits To Avoid...
posted 02-04-2010

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Recent Blognet Posts

Youth AfriCamp
from Open Society Institute: Media and Arts (Mar 14, 2010)
Spotlight on Marie Ulmer: "Art Is Just Something I Have To Do ..."
from Creative Arts and Aging Network (Feb 9, 2010)
Photos reflect on movements in Manila
from Art Threat (Feb 9, 2010)
Axis Mundi
from ATA Blog (Feb 9, 2010)
Around the horn: Snowpocalypse�edition
from Createquity. (Feb 8, 2010)

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Recent Guest Blog Posts

After the Snow
by Jules Corriere on CPI, 02-02-2010
Snowed In
by Jules Corriere on CPI, 01-30-2010
The Open Circle
by Jules Corriere on CPI, 01-08-2010

Laurier Centre for Music in the Community
Research center launched 2008 at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ont., Canada. Campus-community partnerships, service-learning projects,...

City of Asylum, Pa.
Pittsburgh, Pa., sanctuary to writers exiled under threat of death, imprisonment or persecution in their...

Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning
Learning and arts center in a former Carnegie Library in Lexington, Ky. Programming for professional...

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Upcoming Conferences, Workshops and Special Events

"Blended Families: Tracing African-Native American Genealogy," genealogy workshop with Angela Walton-Raji, accompanying exhibition "IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas," by National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C., February 5, 2010.

"The Owl's Nest Retreat: A weekend long retreat for women who use the arts to engage community," by Lynn Hoare of University of Texas Voices Against Violence and Karen LaShelle of Theatre Action Project, Austin, Texas, February 5-7, 2010.

"Socially Engaged Projects," presentations by California College of the Arts students, by Center for Art & Public Life, February 4, 2010.

"Building Creative, Sustainable, Resilient Communities," by Colquitt Miller Arts Council & The Community Development Corp. of Southwest Ga., Colquitt, Ga., February 5-7, 2010.

"Making Your Media Matter 2010," conference by Center for Social Media, Washington, D.C, February 11-12, 2010.

"Always Expect Miracles," community play, by Community Performance Inc., Asheville, N.C., February 11-March 6, 2010.

"Public Art and the Planning System," seminar by ixia, Preston, Lancs., England, February 24, 2010.

"Creating Cities: Culture, Space, and Sustainability," the City, Culture, and Society Conference. Munich, Germany, February 25-27. 2010.

"9th Political Theatre Festival," St. Paul, Minn., February 25-March 13, 2010.

"Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness," Washington, D.C., March 10-13, 2010.

"Building Vocal Community: Singing in the African American Tradition," with Ysaye Barnwell, by Mountain Retreat & Learning Center, Highlands, N.C., March 11-14, 2010.

"Master Class in Applied Theater," master class with Tim Wheeler (Mind the Gap) in use of theater in learning-disability and mental-health contexts. By Formaat, Rotterdam, Netherlands, March 13-14, 2010.

"Joker Training Weekend," by Cardboard Citizens, London, England, March 20-21, 2010.

"The Art of Social Justice," conference by Durban University of Technology, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, March 21-24, 2010.

"Rainbow of Desire Training Week," by Cardboard Citizens, London, England, March 22-24, 2010

"CommonGround 2010," annual conference, by New York State Alliance for Arts Education, Albany, N.Y., March 24-26, 2010.

"CommonGround 2010," annual conference by New York State Alliance for Arts Education, Albany, N.Y., March 24-26, 2010.

"At the Crossroads: A Community Arts and Development Convening," by Community Arts Training Institute at St. Louis Regional Arts Commission, St. Louis, Mo., March 25-27, 2010.

"Arts Activated, Arts and Disability Conference," by Accessible Arts NSW, Sydney, NSW Australia, March 25-26, 2010.

"Planetary Dance Leaders Workshop," by Anna Halprin, San Francisco Bay Area, Calif., March 26-28, 2010.

"New Approaches to Research and Practice in Communication for Development and Social Change," by Ohio University Communication and Development Studies Program, Athens, Ohio, April 2-3, 2010.

"Arts Integration Schools: What, Why, and How," national conference of John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, Washington, D.C., April 7-10, 2010.

"National Arts Advocacy Day," by Americans for the Arts, Washington, D.C., April 12-13, 2010.

"Claiming Creativity," international symposium by Columbia College Chicago and European League of Institutes of the Arts, Chicago, Ill., April 21-24, 2010.

"Amnesty International Human Rights Art Festival," Silver Spring, Md., April 23-25, 2010.

"pARTners for HEALTH," Society for the Arts in Healthcare's 21st Annual International Conference, Minneapolis, Minn., April 28-May 1, 2010.

"Transforming Communities through Collective Action," 20th anniversary conference by Community Built Association, New Orleans, La., May 5-8, 2010.

"Creative Aging Symposium," by Center for Creative Aging-N.C., Greensboro, N.C., May 6-7, 2010.

"Open Engagement: Making Things, Making Things Better, Making Things Worse," conference by Portland State University Art and Social Practice program, Portland, Oregon, May 14-17, 2010.

"Understanding Sustainability: Perspectives from the Humanities," by Portland State University, Portland, Ore., May 20-22, 2010.

"THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp)," user-generated unconference on digital humanities by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, Fairfax, Va., May 22-23, 2010.

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