[rsc] APAL and C/APP (RSC) Fall 2008 Learning Exchange Takes Shape
- From: "Carolyn Morris" <carolyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <rsc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:48:23 -0500
Greetings all,
Below and attached please find the notes from the recent meeting by APAL and
Alternate ROOTS to begin laying the foundation for the APAL & C/APP (RSC)
Fall 2008 Learning Exchange Planning Meeting Report.
APAL & C/APP (RSC) Fall 2008
Learning Exchange Planning Meeting Report
To: Members of RSC and APAL (Atlanta Partnership for Arts in Learning)
Members
From: Carolyn Morris, Executive Director, Alternate ROOTs
Lauryn Menard, Administrative Director, APAL
Jeff Mather, APAL Board Chair/President
Date: February 20, 2008
Introduction
The last quarter of 2007 RSC decided to work in partnership with APAL on a
Community Artists Partnership Program Training Workshop. Today was the
first of many meetings to plan for this training workshop. The primary goal
will be to convene diverse communities, inclusive of our membership, and
those that they traditionally work with on C/APP projects including, but not
limited to: teaching artists, community artists, artists-activists, school
teachers, community centers and others.
Through this gathering we want to share best practices through discipline
specific workshops, case studies and performances for the purpose of
engaging in community art projects in and out of schools, and empowering
participants to take RSC Principles (Principles of Community engagement
(power, partnership, transformation, dialogue and aesthetic), as well as
APAL's Key Components (co-teaching, metaphorical thinking, equity; research
and witnessing); and infuse them in their future work. In addition, the
workshop will allow RSC trainers to apply their newly developed skills from
the spring RSC Retreat. We hope to weave a thread of connection from the
spring retreat, and the ROOTS Annual Meeting that naturally weaves into the
fiber of the C/APP Training Workshop.
Laying the Ground Work
Dates: We tentatively set dates of September 19th through 21st for this
event.
Possible Venues: We want to expand our reach in terms of participation and
are looking into having the event at one of the following venues:
South Bend Arts & Culture Center
South Atlanta High School
Emory University
In order to accommodate the diversity of participants, we agreed that we
want to build a strong core planning team of RSC and APAL members. We
envision this core group would meet as one unit, and then segment into
smaller planning teams with the goal of working interdependently throughout
the planning process. We also envision that this event will need a dynamic
name, something that captures the diversity of those we want to attract. In
addition, we want to plan for several tracks within the structure, also to
meet the needs of the diverse audience.
Audience participants: Teaching artists, community artists,
artist-activists, teachers, community organizers and activists and others.
Partnership with APAL (Atlanta Partnership for Arts in Learning):
Alternate ROOTS was one of the founding organizations of APAL in 2001, along
with the Center for Urban Educational Excellence (GA State Univ.) and the
Fonda Family Foundation. Several APAL teaching artists, since its
inception, have been Alternate ROOTS members. APAL also has a history of
providing professional learning exchange opportunities for artists and
educators.
By partnering with APAL, the RSC is tapping a source of veteran arts
infusion activists who are already familiar with RSC Principles. Celeste
Miller and Jeff Mather, both core APAL teaching artists and APAL board
members, have been part of the RSC initiative this school year with Spelman
College.
Other artists who may be ideally suited for designing and facilitating this
Fall 2008 Learning Exchange, being involved at points with both APAL and
ROOTS, are: Barry Stewart Mann, Wayne Smith, Priscilla Smith, Sandra
Hughes, Dana Lupton, and Felton Eaddy.
Themes: As a design team is identified for planning this fall 2008 Learning
Exchange guiding questions will emerge as themes. Some that emerged during
our discussion already are:
* How is the process of engagement in the classroom different from
engagement through other community channels?
* How can effective strategies from one area be potentially applicable
in the other?
Next Steps
We want to have another planning meeting in late March, following the RSC
monthly conference call, and bring more participants to the table at this
meeting. We also want to get more clarity around who the members of the
core planning team will be, and create a timeline for future meetings and
unfolding the overall plan into the fall workshop
Best,
Carolyn Morris
Executive Director
Alternate ROOTS
1083 Austin Avenue, NE
Atlanta, GA 30307
404-577-1079 [W]
404-577-7991 [Fax]
carolyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <BLOCKED::mailto:carolyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
www.alternateroots.org <BLOCKED::http://www.alternateroots.org>
"Creativity is food for the artistic soul. Never stop feeding your soul."
-- Carolyn Renee
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