“Collaboratory artists are the future," says Great Leap Director Nobuko Miyamoto. "They give us new eyes to appreciate and negotiate the complex cultural maze we live in.” The occasion is "Collaboratory V," the fifth work in an Great Leap’s ongoing mentorship initiative designed to train emerging artists in cross-cultural collaborative performance and community-based leadership skills. The piece is "Leaps of Faithm," a collaboration among ten new interfaith artists, March 8-9, 2008, at L.A.'s Japanese American National Museum’s National Center for the Preservation of Democracy. The artists worked together for eight weeks, visiting religious centers, meeting with local mentors/elders/“wisdom-keepers," experiencing master classes and sharing personal stories of faith. Led by artists Dan Kwong, Young-Ae Park and Miyamoto, it's co-sponsored Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress, Jewish-Muslim Dialogue Group, Three Cousins, Metivta and Hyphen Magazine. [LINK]