A growing collection of Roadside's playmaking and community cultural residency methodology Related Programs: Building a Field for the Democratic Arts Story Circles Using Digital Tools in Community Cultural Development Tab ContainerAbout Community Residency Methodology Note 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- About: Story Circles Essay or Article 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. The stories we’re able to tell ourselves and others, those we can A Matrix: Articulating the Principles of Grassroots Theater Essay or Article Download original file By Dudley Cocke, Harry Newman, and Sanet Salmons-Rue A concise matrix designed to address the questions: What makes a grassroots theater a grassroots theater? What ideals and principles distinguish it from other kinds of theater activity in the country Booklet: You and Your Community's Story Essay or Article Download original file Booklet: Educational Residency Process Essay or Article Download original file Booklet: Community Residency Process Essay or Article Download original file General Theory of Cultural Organizing Note 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 Philosophy of Change Note 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 Story Circle Training Note 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, Story Circle Guidelines Essay or Article Download original file 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. Commentary A Matrix: Articulating the Principles of Grassroots Theater Essay or Article Download original file By Dudley Cocke, Harry Newman, and Sanet Salmons-Rue A concise matrix designed to address the questions: What makes a grassroots theater a grassroots theater? What ideals and principles distinguish it from other kinds of theater activity in the country Community Cultural Development as a Site of Joy, Struggle, and Transformation Essay or Article Download original file By Dudley Cocke Published in “Arts and Community Change: Exploring Cultural Development Policies, Practices and Dilemmas” (Routledge, 2015). You can purchase the book at http://goo.gl/aXkbJu Evaluation: Roadside's Story to Performance Workshop Essay or Article Download original file By Prevention Research Center, Lexington, KY Quotation: Flowing it Back to the People Essay or Article By Robert Gard "Perhaps because of the demands upon such men (the leaders), because of the very complexity of the things they attempted, they did not bring themselves to write down their experiences, let alone Testimonial: Community Cultural Development Essay or Article Download original file By Mike Gary Mike Gary was a student at Haysi High School who participated in a Roadside Theater CCD residency, through which students and senior citizens worked together to great performances from local stories Case Study: Story Circles as an Evaluation Tool Link Story Circles as Ongoing and Collaborative Evaluation -- Roadside Theater's "Story to Performance" Philosophy of Change 2 Essay or Article 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 Community Participation and Civic Dialogue Essay or Article By Dudley Cocke Remarks to Renewing Democratic Civil Society, The Centennial Assembly of the Commonwealth Club San Francisco, CA - February 27-28, 2003 Good morning. As Rich DeLeon just said, place matters. I'm from A Week-Long Immersion in the Activist Theory and Practice of Appalshop Essay or Article Download original file By Jamie Haft Preface by Arlene Goldbard Last year, I joined several colleagues in The Curriculum Project. Together, we investigated the state of higher education for community cultural development in the United Class and the Performing Arts: Class Diversity in Community Development Essay or Article By Dudley Cocke Fall 2008: An essay explaining how Roadside has been able to consistently attract an audience fully reflective of the nation ’ s economic, racial, and geographic diversity. Alexander Hamilton, Media Video: Save Our Towns Audio Interviews Save Our Towns addresses the opiod crisis in central Appalachia and Elaine Sheldon's vid Video: Art and Democracy - Aspects of a People's Theater Video Dudley Cocke, Director of Roadside Theater Video of Dudley Cocke, Director of Roadside Theater Audio: Q&A with Dudley Cocke at Lyric Theater Audio Interviews This question and answer session followed Dudley Cocke's Community Voices talk at Lyric Theater o dudley-cocke-q-a-audio download Podcast: Community Cultural Development as a Site of Joy, Struggle, and Transformation Blog Post Thursday, January 30, 2014 How can communities use art and culture to develop themselves? How do they define the issues they want to address? What steps need to be taken for this process to be inclusive and effective? How do the aesthetics of theater change in community-based contexts? Share this: Facebook Google Plus Twitter ReGen: Community Cultural Development
Community Residency Methodology Note 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-
About: Story Circles Essay or Article 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. The stories we’re able to tell ourselves and others, those we can
A Matrix: Articulating the Principles of Grassroots Theater Essay or Article Download original file By Dudley Cocke, Harry Newman, and Sanet Salmons-Rue A concise matrix designed to address the questions: What makes a grassroots theater a grassroots theater? What ideals and principles distinguish it from other kinds of theater activity in the country
General Theory of Cultural Organizing Note 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
Philosophy of Change Note 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
Story Circle Training Note 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,
Story Circle Guidelines Essay or Article Download original file 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.
A Matrix: Articulating the Principles of Grassroots Theater Essay or Article Download original file By Dudley Cocke, Harry Newman, and Sanet Salmons-Rue A concise matrix designed to address the questions: What makes a grassroots theater a grassroots theater? What ideals and principles distinguish it from other kinds of theater activity in the country
Community Cultural Development as a Site of Joy, Struggle, and Transformation Essay or Article Download original file By Dudley Cocke Published in “Arts and Community Change: Exploring Cultural Development Policies, Practices and Dilemmas” (Routledge, 2015). You can purchase the book at http://goo.gl/aXkbJu
Evaluation: Roadside's Story to Performance Workshop Essay or Article Download original file By Prevention Research Center, Lexington, KY
Quotation: Flowing it Back to the People Essay or Article By Robert Gard "Perhaps because of the demands upon such men (the leaders), because of the very complexity of the things they attempted, they did not bring themselves to write down their experiences, let alone
Testimonial: Community Cultural Development Essay or Article Download original file By Mike Gary Mike Gary was a student at Haysi High School who participated in a Roadside Theater CCD residency, through which students and senior citizens worked together to great performances from local stories
Case Study: Story Circles as an Evaluation Tool Link Story Circles as Ongoing and Collaborative Evaluation -- Roadside Theater's "Story to Performance"
Philosophy of Change 2 Essay or Article 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
Community Participation and Civic Dialogue Essay or Article By Dudley Cocke Remarks to Renewing Democratic Civil Society, The Centennial Assembly of the Commonwealth Club San Francisco, CA - February 27-28, 2003 Good morning. As Rich DeLeon just said, place matters. I'm from
A Week-Long Immersion in the Activist Theory and Practice of Appalshop Essay or Article Download original file By Jamie Haft Preface by Arlene Goldbard Last year, I joined several colleagues in The Curriculum Project. Together, we investigated the state of higher education for community cultural development in the United
Class and the Performing Arts: Class Diversity in Community Development Essay or Article By Dudley Cocke Fall 2008: An essay explaining how Roadside has been able to consistently attract an audience fully reflective of the nation ’ s economic, racial, and geographic diversity. Alexander Hamilton,
Video: Save Our Towns Audio Interviews Save Our Towns addresses the opiod crisis in central Appalachia and Elaine Sheldon's vid
Video: Art and Democracy - Aspects of a People's Theater Video Dudley Cocke, Director of Roadside Theater Video of Dudley Cocke, Director of Roadside Theater
Audio: Q&A with Dudley Cocke at Lyric Theater Audio Interviews This question and answer session followed Dudley Cocke's Community Voices talk at Lyric Theater o dudley-cocke-q-a-audio download
Podcast: Community Cultural Development as a Site of Joy, Struggle, and Transformation Blog Post Thursday, January 30, 2014 How can communities use art and culture to develop themselves? How do they define the issues they want to address? What steps need to be taken for this process to be inclusive and effective? How do the aesthetics of theater change in community-based contexts?
