Local folk work together through low cost media to define and address the barriers that prevent their communities from enjoying such things as access to health care, a safe environment, new technology, economic development, and more.

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About: Using Digital Tools in Community Cultural Development

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In 2005, Roadside Theater began working with Appalshop's Holler to the Hood (H2H) media component to address criminal justice issues in central Appalachia. Holler to the Hood's young filmmakers

Innovation Lab Guide

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This guide, developed by Nick Szuberla , Mark Kidd, and Donna Porterfield, is designed to help you learn, and in turn be able to teach, how developing a communication strategy can help organizations

Story Circle Guidelines

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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.

About: Working Narratives

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Nick Szuberla , a co-creator of Thousand Kites, is now the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Working Narratives. Mr. Szuberla was instrumental in developing methodology for using low cost media in community-developed, first-voice advocacy