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NEW ARTiculations Dance Theatre
Re:Configurations
Re:Configurations explored the issue of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) identity and partnership through an evening of dance performance and storytelling. Presented by NEW ARTiculations Dance Theatre, a modern dance company in Tucson, AZ, this community-based art project aimed to give members of Tucson’s LGBT community an opportunity to voice their personal stories while contributing to a larger statewide debate in Arizona surrounding Proposition 107, a proposed constitutional amendment seeking to limit benefits to domestic partners.

Albany Park Theater Project
Saffron
The Albany Park Theater Project (APTP) is a multiethnic ensemble of Chicago teenagers who create and perform original plays inspired by real-life stories told by local community members. They gather material from their neighbors living in Albany Park, who are generally all immigrant, working-class families. Saffron is their latest show, based on true stories told by the owners, staff, and customers of Noon-O-Kabab, a Persian restaurant.

Appalshop, Inc.
The Robert F. Kennedy Performance Project
RFK in EKY (The Robert F. Kennedy Performance Project) was a site-specific, three day performance that recreated Kennedy’s 1968 “poverty tour” of eastern Kentucky. Led by artist John Malpede, and in collaboration with Appalshop, Inc., the real-time 2004 tour was performed along with a series of public conversations and activities about the politics of the 1968 tour and its relevance today.

Boise City Arts Commission
Portals/Portales
Portals/Portales was a public art event that literally opened doorways—or portales in Spanish—to different rooms which focused on Mexican American migration and the various experiences of local Latino/Hispanic community members who have settled in Boise, ID. The project’s goal was to provide a space where Boise residents could communally explore the universal experience of leaving someplace familiar behind and settling somewhere unknown.

Conjunction Arts
Silence
Silence is an installation by artists Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry that portrays the struggle of a church to desegregate its sanctuary’s seating in 1820. The multi-media photography exhibit was first displayed at the actual sanctuary site—the Center Church on the Green in New Haven, CT—and then moved to the Rush Arts Gallery in New York. A series of dialogues took place at both venues, addressing the underlying themes in the artwork and the controversy it caused within the church.

Foundation for the Carolinas
Crossroads Charlotte
Crossroads Charlotte is a two-year civic engagement project that aims to shape the future of Charlotte, NC. Throughout 2004 and 2005, organizations, institutions, and individuals will hear and respond to four different stories depicting plausible futures for the community in the year 2015, and will collectively decide which direction they would like to steer toward. The ultimate goal of this community-wide project is to collaboratively choose and pursue a future for Charlotte, NC, based on intentional choices and creative foresight.

Kirby Middle School
Honoring the Legacy: Learning it, Living it
Honoring the Legacy: Learning it, Living it was an event created and hosted by Kirby Middle School students at their local library in Memphis, TN. Scheduled on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the project sought to engage students and community members around issues of the civil rights movement, particularly in reference to the sanitation strike that took place in their hometown in 1968.

Michigan Opera Theatre
Margaret Garner
Margaret Garner is a new American opera written by Toni Morrison, celebrated novelist and winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature; and Richard Danielpour, Grammy Award-winning composer. The opera tells the true story of a fugitive slave, Margaret Garner, in pre-Civil War America. The goal for the three co-commissioning opera companies in Detroit, Cincinnati, and Philadelphia was to engage more diverse audience members, particularly from their local, prominent African American communities.

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Public Forum and Toxics Assistance (PFTA)
Public Forum and Toxics Assistance (PFTA) is a community outreach and education project of the National Institute of Environmental Heath Science (NIEHS) Center in Environmental Toxicology at the University of Texas Medical Branch. The core of the project centers on practicing and performing Forum Theater to hold community environmental health interventions, based on the recent scientific research being performed at the university.

Northwest Area Arts Council
Forever Told, Forever Kept
Forever Told, Forever Kept is a storytelling mural that depicts memories of local elders in McHenry County, IL, by exploring life before World War II. The goal of the mural, painted by teenage artists, was to begin a dialogue between the two participating generations. Forever Told, Forever Kept aimed to encourage dialogue between long-time Illinois residents and more recent immigrants.

Real Art Ways
Listening Out Loud: A Hundred Days in Parkville
Listening Out Loud: A Hundred Days in Parkville was a project conducted by Real Art Ways with their Poet-in-Residence, Verandah Porche. The project culminated in a published collection of poems called Listening Out Loud, created from interviews Porche held with a local community members. The goal was to create a living history of Parkville, and the year-long project was celebrated with the distribution of the book to the community and a public reading.