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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.
- About:Performing Our Future
- Performing Our Future Coalition Delegations
- How We Work
- Excerpt: Community Cultural Development as a Site of Joy, Struggle, and Transformation
- Press Release: Performing Our Future
- Performing Our Future: RESEARCH
- Performing Our Future: INSTITUTE (JULY 2016)
- A Brief Introduction to the Organizing Principles of Appalshop/Roadside Theater
- Performing Our Future Coalition Delegations
- Logos: Performing Our Future Coalition
- Putting the "Art" & "Culture" in Community Driven Development
- Three Approaches to Making Change
- How to Organize for Community Cultural and Economic Development
- How to Facilitate a Story Circle
- How to Conduct a One-to-One Relational Meeting
- How to Map the Power in a Community
- Working Definitions of Key Economic Terms in Community Cultural & Economic Development
- How to Spot a Community Center of Power
- Performing Our Future Statement
- Performing Our Future Coalition Strategy 2019-2021
- Performing Our Future Coalition Governance Structure
- Letcher County Culture Hub
- ArtPlace America Features Performing Our Future
- PolicyLink Features the Letcher County Culture Hub
- Virginia Tech Institute for Policy and Governance Features Performing Our Future
- Building Democracy in "Trump Country"
- Building Economy & Community With Cultural Assets
- Discovering & Debunking Divides in the Heart of Coal Country -- Harvard Law School Podcast on Performing Our Future
- Everyone's Viewpoint is Like Part of a Wheel -- College Unbound Interview on Performing Our Future & the Letcher Co. Culture Hub
- Hands Across the Hills Bridges Political Divides (Video)
- Performing Our Future Interviews with Letcher Co. Culture Hub Leaders (Video)
- 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"
- Americans for the Arts: "On Cultural Organizing and Performing Our Future"
- Brookings Institution: "How a Conservative Coal County Built the Biggest Solar Energy Project in E. Kentucky"
- Time Magazine: "Meet 27 People Bridging Divides Across America"
- 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