[rsc] Re: Charlotte Gathering at Crossroads working agenda

  • From: Hope Clark <hopeclark@xxxxxxx>
  • To: rsc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:39:04 -0700

Thank you Sheila!
This, and the other document are really helpful for us. 

Can you explain a little more about: 
"Rounds with whole group
On any idea connected with the topic.
Rounds discussion"

Thank you.
Hope

On Monday, June 02, 2008, at 04:01PM, "Sheila Kerrigan" 
<kerrigan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>Dear folks, Several people have asked me if they could see the agenda for
>our Charlotte event this weekend. I am attaching the still evolving agenda
>for the Charlotte Gathering at the Crossroads this weekend. It may get
>stripped, so I am pasting it below. I'm afraid the formatting below is
>messed up, but I haven't the time to fix it. It's in landscape, not
>portrait. (wide, not tall.) The two sidebars don't line up with the central
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>My discussions with Latonya and Omari lead me to believe that what we do in
>Charleston the following week will not look the same at all, because more of
>the Charleston people most likely to appear have more community
>arts-activism experience than the folks in Charlotte. 
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>In Charlotte, April Turner will lead the Strategic planning process on
>Friday night. We don't know who is leading the listening session in
>Charleston for the strategic planning process. Omari has said he could do
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> but, more importantly, what are the questions? Who can we contact to get
>the information we need to conduct the listening sessions? Could someone who
>knows please email me, April Turner, Jeff Mather, Omari Fox, Latonya
>Wallace, and Eleanor Brownfield what you know about the strategic planning
>process, and what we need to know?
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>Thank you!
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>Best,
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>Sheila Kerrigan
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>kerrigan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>2310 Stansbury Rd
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>Chapel Hill NC 27516
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>919-929-1624
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>Check out my book, The Performer's Guide to the Collaborative Process:
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>www.collaborativecreativity.com
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>www.heinemanndrama.com/products/E00311.aspx
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>Goals for the Day
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>ROOTS Goals
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>Introduce people to Alternate ROOTS, to CAPP
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>Invite people to the Annual Meeting & to join ROOTS
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>Give people technical support for CAPP
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>To Provide a learning exchange that shows:
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>*         How arts and activism can support each other
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>*         How the arts can effect transformation
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>*         What the principles of community arts engagement are
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>*         How the principles can be applied to a community arts residency
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>Attendee Goals
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>To get information about:
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>*         How to use art to address community race issues
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>*         Practical tools artists can use when working in communities (Will
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>*         Who in our neighborhood is engaged in community arts activism
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>Coming together
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>Goals
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>Find out who is here
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>Help all feel welcome
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>Start to build a sense of support among those present
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>Sequence and Activities:
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>Welcome people, invite them to get a drink/snack and to make a nametag. 
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>Ask people to post any resources they know of that have helped them in their
>work in communities using sticky-notes and markers on the wall. Look at
>what's up there and converse informally about them.
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>Also, point out Burning Issues/Questions paper and ask people to use it.
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>Getting Started: Resources for Social Change Principles of Community
>Engagement
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>*         To model ways of using art to address issues/questions
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>*         To model ways of sharing power and building leadership
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>*         To model using art and dialogue as paths for learning
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>Sequence & Activities:
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>In four groups, in 10 minutes. 
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>Group up according to preferred art form-movement/dance, literary/spoken,
>dramatic, visual art.
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>If the groups are larger than 3 people, assign roles:
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>*         Director-listens to ideas, tries them out, and makes decisions
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>*         Facilitator-makes sure everyone is heard; if someone is quiet,
>asks, "What do you think?"; if people are talking over each other, gives
>time for each to speak and listen.
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>*         Timekeeper-keeps the group on task and lets them know how much
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>*         Empath-pays attention to emotions, names them or checks in with
>someone who is exhibiting strong feeling.
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>Each group explores a different principle: 
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>Group 1: Create (a) statue(s) and/or movement phrase or dance that looks
>like equitable partnership
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>Group 2: Create a short poem, haiku, rap, or other written piece that
>demonstrates or describes the change we want to be and see. 
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>Group 3: Create a short dramatic scene that shows more than one instance of
>shared power.
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>Group 4: Create a visual art piece that has an aesthetic that includes both
>justice and beauty.
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>At the end of 10 minutes, everyone solo create a short movement and phrase
>that is the change we want to be and see.
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>Show the results, with the solos last.
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>Lead an open dialogue/exchange on: 
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>*         What have we seen, felt, heard? What are we thinking? 
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>*         How was it to have different group process roles? What are the
>implications in terms of power, leadership development, & equity? 
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>*         How do you feel now about your group members, as opposed to when
>you came in? What caused the change? 
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>*         What have we learned? What do we want to remember? What can we use
>in our community? How do we need to modify it?
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>*         What questions do we have?
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>*         What do you do in your community work that is in a similar vein?
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>Look at handout and go over the principles and explain some of the things
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>Answer questions. What handout? coming soon.
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>Artsharing
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>Three or four people get two minutes each to share their work.
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>CAPP Nitty Gritty
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>To let people know about Community Artist Partnership Projects:
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>*         Who can apply for ROOTS funding
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>*         How to apply
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>*         What is a viable partnership
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>*         What a rockin CAPP project looks like
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>Ask who is already engaged with a community partner and hear from them.
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> Ask everyone to take a blank sheet of paper and write down three
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>ideas for a partner for an imaginary (or maybe not imaginary) C/APP
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>*                     Who would be the most obvious choice for you as a
>community partner?
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>*                     What partner would be the easiest or most fun to
>collaborate with?
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>*                     Can you think of a potential partner that would be a
>real challenge to work with?
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>*                     Is there a potential partner that you might not have
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>asked you if there is a potential partner you might not have thought of?
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>    Ask for 2 or 3 volunteers to read out loud what they've written and
>explain briefly why they wrote down their choices.
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>Talk about CAPP.
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>Go over CAPP information.
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>Review application form.
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>Artsharing
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>Lunch!
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>We can ask people to caucus in groups that have something similar that they
>determine.  It could be people addressing similar issues, or people from the
>same place, or people working in similar communities or. whatever they
>identify. Or based on what was posted on the burning questions board-anyone
>can say what they'd like to talk about and whoever wants to join up can do
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>Artsharing
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>Tools for Building Community and Making Art for Change
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>To model:
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>*         How to use art to address community race issues
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>*         Practical tools artists can use when working in communities
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>Sequence and Activities
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>Story Circle on Race, Racism, & Oppression, &/or Opposing Racism & Working
>for Justice
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>Can we sing a song to start with? 
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>Introduce the topic
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>Explain how a story circle works (Also here cite examples of orgs that have
>successfully used story circles. Maybe like a case study of how and how
>effectively the tool can work): 
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>*         Everybody gets a chance to tell their story
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>*         Tell something that happened to you, from your experience, not
>somebody else's story
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>*         Tell the deepest story you feel comfortable sharing here
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>*         Everybody gets 3 minutes (we have to check the math) we'll give a
>signal at 3 minutes
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>*         Everybody's story is important 
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>*         Listening is as important as telling-listen fully! No cross talk,
>questions, or comments when somebody is telling
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>*         Avoid spending your precious listening time thinking about what
>you will tell-tell what comes up at the moment your turn comes 
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>*         You can pass if you're not ready when your turn comes; we'll come
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>*         If you have questions or comments, save them for the end
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>Brief conversation about what has come up in the stories. Think in terms of
>snapshots, images, metaphors, connections, conflict.
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>Rounds with whole group
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>Break out and create art
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>"Find two or three people you haven't been with yet."
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>Create a performance or visual art piece of any type on one piece of the
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>What have you heard, seen, felt, thought?
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>What questions came up for you?
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>What ideas do you have about what you saw?
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>How could you use these processes in your work?
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>What adjustments would you make? 
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>What unanswered questions do you have?
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>Exchange or Go-Round
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>What do you do in your work that is effective for building community or
>sparking transformation?
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>Next Steps
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>What are your/our next steps?
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>Affirmation Go-Round
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>What has someone (including yourself) said or done that you want to
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>ArtSharing if there are any more who want to
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>Evaluation
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>Farewell
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>Considerations &
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>Set-up
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>Beat box with music
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>Handouts
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>Paper on wall: "Burning Issues/Questions" 
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>"Principles of Community Engagement"
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>"Resources"
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>Sign-in sheet
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>Refreshments:
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>Name tags
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>Markers
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>Sticky notes & markers on tables
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>Art supplies
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>Mention how sticky-note brainstorms can foster equity, start dialogue, and
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>What song can we sing; who can lead it? 
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