YOU’RE INVITED!
Animating Democracy!
Performances & Book Party
Monday, February 27, 7:00–9:00 p.m.
The Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery (foot of First Street, between Houston & Bleecker)
Come to the Bowery Poetry Club for a lively program of poetry, spoken word, and theater and refreshment to celebrate the release of seven new books from Animating Democracy that explore the role of the arts and humanities in civic engagement.
RSVP by February 23 by calling 212-992-9653, e-mailing apa.rsvp@nyu.edu, or completing the online RSVP form at www.apa.nyu.edu (Institute Events).
Co-sponsored by Americans for the Arts and New York University's Asian/Pacific/American Institute, Latino Studies and Asian/Pacific/American Studies in the Department of Social & Cultural Analysis, Drama Department and Department of Art and Public Policy at the Tisch School of the Arts, Department of History, Center for Religion & Media, and the Center for Media, Culture and History.
The Book Party!
Animating Democracy artists and authors will perform creative work. Regie Cabico (artist-in-residence, Asian/Pacific/American Institute, NYU) will host as well as perform. Also on the program: John Kuo Wei Tchen (Asian/Pacific/American Studies) and Renato Rosaldo, “anthropoeta” (Latino Studies, NYU), contributors to the anthology Critical Perspectives: Writings on Art and Civic Dialogue, an experiment to explore a multivoiced framework for critical writing about arts-based civic dialogue; Andrea Assaf, artistic director of New WORLD Theater (NYU performance studies and theater graduate); and Bob Holman, poet and participant in City Lore’s Poetry Dialogues project.Other Animating Democracy artists will also appear!
The Books!
Animating Democracy books explore the role of artists and cultural institutions, highlight best practices and outcomes, and identify the challenges and complexities in arts-based public dialogue work. In addition to Critical Perspectives, titles include Civic Dialogue, Arts & Culture, which synthesizes the findings of the Animating Democracy initiative; and the Art & Civic Engagement series, five thematically framed books that offer in-depth case study analyses on some of the most illuminating projects in Animating Democracy.Animating Democracy, supported by the Ford Foundation, is a program of Americans for the Arts that fosters civic engagement through arts and culture.
For more about Animating Democracy books, visit the publications section of the Animating Democracy website.