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.
Story Circle Guidelines
Part of About Roadside's CCD Methodology
A growing collection of Roadside's playmaking and community cultural residency methodology
- Philosophy of Change 2
- Community Residency Methodology
- General Theory of Cultural Organizing
- A Matrix: Articulating the Principles of Grassroots Theater
- About: Story Circles
- Story Circle Training
- Philosophy of Change
- Podcast: Community Cultural Development as a Site of Joy, Struggle, and Transformation
- Video: Art and Democracy - Aspects of a People's Theater
- Class and the Performing Arts: Class Diversity in Community Development
- A Week-Long Immersion in the Activist Theory and Practice of Appalshop
- Community Participation and Civic Dialogue
- Booklet: Community Residency Process
- Booklet: Educational Residency Process
- Booklet: You and Your Community's Story
- Audio: Q&A with Dudley Cocke at Lyric Theater
- Testimonial: Community Cultural Development
- Quotation: Flowing it Back to the People
- Evaluation: Roadside's Story to Performance Workshop
- Community Cultural Development as a Site of Joy, Struggle, and Transformation
- Case Study: Story Circles as an Evaluation Tool
- Video: Save Our Towns