Heat Map of Roadside's Performances: Researchers at the Economic Empowerment and Global Learning Project at Lafayette College analyzed decades of data from Roadside’s national touring program to create this “heat map.”
Part of Performing Our Future

Performing Our Future is a multiracial coalition of rural and urban communities working through culture to build power and wealth. Our goal is a future where everyone belongs and everyone's contribution matters -- where together, we own what we make. Performing Our Future was initiated by Roadside Theater, emerging from Roadside's decades of community cultural development residencies across the country and internationally.
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- Heat Map of Roadside's Performances: Researchers at the Economic Empowerment and Global Learning Project at Lafayette College analyzed decades of data from Roadside’s national touring program to create this “heat map.”
- Mining Beyond Coal -- Presentation by EEGLP at Lafayette College
- Planning for Equitable Development by Artistic & Cultural Advocates
- Economic Empowerment in Appalachia (Video)
- Making a Rural Culture Hub
- Diagram of How We Work
- ArtPlaceAmerica: "Appalachian Solidarity with Black Lives Matter"
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- Free Think: "How a Bakery is Restoring Hope in an Appalachian Mining Town
- Secular Communion in the Coalfields: The Populist Aesthetic and Practice of Roadside Theater