Reaching for the Valley of the Sun: The American Festival Project's Untold Stories
The Drama Review, Fall 2000
Article: Reaching for the Valley of the Sun
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"Roadside Theater is dedicated to artistic excellence in pursuit of the proposition that the world is immeasurably enriched when people and cultures tell their own stories and listen to the unique stories of others."
ARTICLES contains essays, articles, blogs, and book chapters about Roadside Theater, Grassroots Theater...
- A Bridge Conversation on New Paradigms of Artful Change
- A Call for Experimentation
- A Short Story of Multi-Culturalism
- A Time of Questioning
- Appalachia on the Move
- Essay: Appalachia, Democracy, and Cultural Equity
- Appalachian Advocate Preserves Local History
- Art in a Democracy
- Appalachia's Roadside Theater
- Bridging Social Capital
- Change
- Coming Through the Wire
- Community Arts 2007 A Muscular Year
- Community Arts 2008-The Year of the Great Leap
- Connecting Traditions
- Contemporary Artists on Contemporary Arts
- Conversations at the Intersection of Art and Activism
- Cultural Organizing Session Opening Remarks
- Grassroots, Community-based Theater
- In Sync? For American ensembles
- Independence, Not Isolation
- Invisible Threads and the Place We Call Home
- Measuring the Intrinsic Impact of Live Theatre
- Only Connect
- Populism is Not the Problem
- Article: Reaching for the Valley of the Sun
- Rural/Urban
- “Styles”
- Take Charge of the Stories We are Telling
- Telling Tales and Connecting Communities
- The Art of Social Imagination
- Central Appalachia & the Founding of Appalshop
- The Joy of Producing Some Lovely Thing
- The Mountains: My Hopes
- The Unreported Arts Recession of 1997
- Philosophy of Change 2
- Using Arts to Bind the Community
- Where Has All the Grassroots Touring Gone?
- Article: Fire & Promise, a Saga of Collaboration
- Report: Thousand Kites Project
- Article: Voices from the Battlefront: Achieving Cultural Equity Through Critical Analysis
- Enactments of Power: The Politics of Performance Space
- End Cultural Isolationism
- A Week-Long Immersion in the Activist Theory and Practice of Appalshop
- Mountaineers, Farmers, and Cowfolk Create Two Plays About Place
- Community Participation and Civic Dialogue
- Class and the Performing Arts: Class Diversity in Community Development
- Playwright's Hanging: Appalachia in a Globalized Economic Reality
- Speech: Toward a Durable Pluralism
- Robert Gard - Excerpt "From the Ground Up"
- William Branch - Excerpt "From the Ground Up"
- Nicholas Kanellos - Excerpt "From the Ground Up"
- From Protest to Politics: The Future of the Civil Rights Movement
- Bridging Social Capital
- Conversations at the Intersection of Art and Activism
- The Art of Social Imagination
- Telling Tales and Connecting Communities
- Progress: Locating Conservative Philosophy in a Globalized Appalachia
- A Short Story of Multi-Culturalism
- Grassroots, Community-based Theater
- Appalachia's Roadside Theater
- A Call for Experimentation
- “Styles”
- A Time of Questioning
- Cultural Organizing Session Opening Remarks
- Measuring the Intrinsic Impact of Live Theatre
- Idiwanan An Chawe, A Zuni Language Theater
- Appalachian Advocate Preserves Local History
- Appalachia on the Move
- Connecting Traditions
- Using Arts to Bind the Community
- Change
- "Beasts of the Southern Wild:" Two Critical Perspectives
- End Cultural Isolationism
- Chapter: Community Cultural Development as a Site of Joy, Struggle, and Transformation
- Chapter: Seeking a Theater of Liberation
- Chapter: Becoming a Civic Artist
- Chapter: An Ideal Theater
- A Matrix: Articulating the Principles of Grassroots Theater
- Review: To Change the Face and Heart of America Selected Writings on the Arts and Communities, 1949–1992
- A Brief Introduction to the Organizing Principles of Appalshop/Roadside Theater
- ROOTS, Routes, Alternate
- Far Too Many Misconceptions about Theater in America
- 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
- "Beasts of the Southern Wild:" Two Critical Perspectives
- Secular Communion in the Coalfields: The Populist Aesthetic and Practice of Roadside Theater