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Participants In A Roadside Residency 2006

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Boys and Girls Club Send Link

http://www.theaterseatstore.com/theater-history-guide

Teenagers in a New Jersey after school Boys and Girls Club are working on a project to revamp sections of an informational website on theater and the arts. One student came across Roadside's website while conducting research for the project. She shared the Roadside resource with her group. By way of thanks, she shared the links with us. Thanks Kayla -- and good luck with your project!

Another Link

The Boys and Girls Club sent another link! Here it is.
http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Annex/links/Shakespeare_Sites/Perform...

Posted by roadside on Wed, 2013-02-13 16:25

A Matrix Articulating the Principles of Grassroots Theater

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By Dudley Cocke

By Dudley Cocke From: From the Ground Up: Grassroots Theater in Historical and Contemporary Perspective Dudley Cocke, Harry Newman, and Janet Salmons-Rue,Editors..

A Week-Long Immersion

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By Jamie Haft

A Week-Long Immersion in the Activist Theory and Practice of Appalshop New York University Tisch School of the Arts undergraduate students immerse themselves in the creation of grassroots film, theate..

Philosophy of Change

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Effective community organizing invariably begins small. The basic unit of such organizing is the individual discovering, through experience, his or her own truth of the issue, then testing and developing that truth in dialog with others who also have direct knowledge. Aggregate and organize this knowledge about an issue and communities can change.

General Theory of Cultural Organizing

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Cultural organizing is characterized by a willingness to reexamine basic assumptions and test hypotheses through repeating cycles of posing questions and trying to answer them. A humble curiosity, an openness to simple questions and unexpected answers, a willingness not to know the answers – these are the qualities of the learner that cultural organizing cultivates. Cultivation of this culture of intentional learning is a defining characteristic of cultural organizing.

Community Residency Methodology

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Roadside’s community-strengthening residencies can begin with public performances of plays selected from Roadside’s repertoire, complemented by workshops that explore Roadside’s history, purpose, and artistic process. In the second phase of a multi-year residency, the community, with Roadside’s help, begins to uncover its own stories and music through a specific story and music collecting process (story circles). This second phase culminates with public performances by the community of its stories and music – often in conjunction with big potluck suppers or community cook-outs.

Theory of Change

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By Dudley Cocke

By Dudley Cocke, drafted in response to a series of meetings he facilitated in New Orleans on the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, August 29, 2006 Effective grassroots organizing around issu..

Story Circle Introduction -- An Essay

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By Roadside Theater

Each one of our stories is a gift to those who are listening, with the quality of the listening a gift in return to the storyteller..

Story Circle Training

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Roadside's Story Circle methodology is deceptively simple. Because stories are so powerful, they can easily be used for purposes of domination and exploitation, rather than collective development. Consequently, Roadside is formal in its approach, and we encourage those interested in the method to contact the company for training. The training includes how to become a Story Circle facilitator and how to teach others to facilitate Story Circles. It's a lot of fun, and can be accomplished in one day or less.

Story Circle Guidelines

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By Roadside Theater

Here is a summary of the Story Circle methodology Roadside developed for creating and developing original plays and for telling and listening to stories in communities across the US.

Roadside Receives Otto Rene Castillo Award for Political Theatre

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In New York City on May 17th, 2009, Roads ide Theater received an Otto Rene Castillo Award for Political Theatre. The Otto Awards were established in 1998 to recognize and support the ongoing development of political theatre internationally. Previous recipients include The San Francisco Mime Troupe, The Bread and Puppet Theatre, Robert Wilson, and El Teatro Campesino, among others. Roadside’s director, Dudley Cocke, accepted the award for the company during afternoon activities which included a luncheon, panel discussion with recipients, the Awards ceremony, and a reception.

Community Voices: Ideas for Change

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Art in a Democracy

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Participant Responses & Reflections