"Urbanism and Placekeeping" - Ben Ashworth, Teddy Cruz, and Alice Mizrachi
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Can the arts play a role in countering, instead of spurring gentrification? How do an architect, a skateboard activist and a muralist work to support thriving communities? Join us at Gallaudet University's DC Pavillion for an interactive conversation on urbanism and place keeping between Rome prize winning architect Teddy Cruz; artist, teacher and skateboarder Ben Ashworth, and muralist Alice Mizrachi. This installment of the ArtChangeUS@Kennedy Center National Conversation Series includes an open skate session accompanied by a DJ and emcees.
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ArtChangeUS@Kennedy Center National Conversations continues with a dialogue between cultural activist Liz Medicine Crow (Haida/Tlingit), President and CEO of First Alaskans Institute, and Ty Defoe (Giizhiig, Ojibwe + Onieda), a two-spirit writer and interdisciplinary artist whose art making challenges formulas of colonialism. They will explore the theme Water is Life: Living Our Legacy. What role do artists and cultural activists play in promoting tribal self-determination, and in advancing cultural equity. Can we re-idigenize the arts by integrating Native knowledge and values into organizational culture, social structure and daily life? And how can understanding the importance of water help us to co-create the future and live our legacy now? ArtChangeUS@Kennedy Center National Conversations is a series of dialogues between prominent artists and pivotal change-makers who are advancing a pluralistic vision of America. #KCNationalConvo Subscribe to The Kennedy Center! http://bit.ly/2gNFrtb
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Play video "From Cultural Movements to Social Movements" - Common and Chinaka Hodge
"From Cultural Movements to Social Movements" - Common and Chinaka Hodge
ArtChangeUS@Kennedy National Conversations launches Tuesday, March 21st with a dialogue between Grammy, Oscar, and Golden Globe winning rapper, actor, and activist Common; and Chinaka Hodge, a poet, educator, playwright and cultural organizer at the forefront of her generation’s voice. Their conversation will focus on the role of the artist in transforming times and how cultural movements propel social movements. In addition, Okayplayer and the Kennedy Center will partner to livestream this interactive conversation.” Common has been lauded for his work on the films Selma and 13th and his numerous albums including his new album, Black America Again. Chinaka Hodge is currently on tour for her new book, Dated Emcees; she has played a prominent role in the national spoken word movement, as a leader of Youth Speaks. She is currently the Associate Director of Programs and Pedagogy for the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts where she is evolving innovative curatorial practices. ArtChangeUS@Kennedy National Conversations is a series of dialogues between prominent artists and pivotal change-makers who are advancing a pluralistic vision of America. Future conversations to look forward to include: April 24th, Water is Life: Living our Legacy; May 22nd, Community Organizing and Movement Building; June 5th, Immigration; July 11, Placekeeping and Urbanism; (August TBD) Cultural Community Benefits Principles; (September TBD), Mass Incarceration and Detention. For more information please contact Ariel Shelton at aeshelton@kennedy-center.org or Kapena Alapai at kapena@artchangeus.com. Events will be live streamed.
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Play video ArtChangeUS@SHIFT Festival of American Orchestras
ArtChangeUS@SHIFT Festival of American Orchestras
ArtChangeUS@SHIFT Festival of American Orchestras will bring together an accomplished group of artist leaders to advance diversity and cultural equity issues in the orchestral and larger arts field. The forum will start with TED-style presentations by artists and cultural organizers who are boldly transforming the arts. This event will engage much-needed questions about the universal challenges facing orchestras as the audience landscape changes, communities call out for more engagement from their non-profits, and the art form seeks its place amidst the currents of contemporary American life. Subscribe to The Kennedy Center! http://bit.ly/2gNFrtb
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Play video "For Whom America the Beautiful" - Marc Bamuthi Joseph & Jose Antonio Vargas
"For Whom America the Beautiful" - Marc Bamuthi Joseph & Jose Antonio Vargas
How do you define American? What makes home, home? Iconoclast slam-poet and performer, Marc Bamuthi Joseph and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Jose Antonio Vargas, will bring their impassioned views to “For Whom America the Beautiful: An Immigration Dialogue” Through his new work, /Peh-LO-tah/, Joseph, also Chief of Program and Pedagogy at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, explores the role of soccer in freedom and citizenship through the lens of immigration. Jose Antonio Vargas, Founder of Define American,uses media as a powerful storytelling tool to traverse controversial issues and initiate pivotal conversations about immigrants, identity, and citizenship in a changing America. ArtChangeUS@Kennedy Center National Conversations is a series of dialogues between prominent artists and pivotal change-makers who are advancing a pluralistic vision of America. #KCNationalConvo Subscribe to The Kennedy Center! http://bit.ly/2gNFrtb
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Play video "The Courage to Change the Narrative" - Favianna Rodriguez and DJ Spooky
"The Courage to Change the Narrative" - Favianna Rodriguez and DJ Spooky
We’re live with our next ArtChangeUS@Kennedy National Conversation, featuring Favianna Rodriguez and DJ Spooky: “The Courage to Change the Narrative”. Favianna and DJ Spooky bravely speak to a past and future America. ArtChangeUS@Kennedy National Conversations is a series of conversations tackling the social and cultural dynamics that challenge inclusive art making, featuring notable leaders in the field and community members. Okayplayer and the Kennedy Center partner to live stream these interactive conversations on Facebook Live and Okayplayer.com.
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Play video "Dancing Histories/Dancing Futures" - Rulan Tangen & Denise Saunders Thompson
"Dancing Histories/Dancing Futures" - Rulan Tangen & Denise Saunders Thompson
How does culture establish a foundation that fuels choreographic ideas and approaches? How can dance translate and heal histories of the body — and how does it empower our future? Join Artistic Director and Choreographer of Dancing Earth and Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Fellow Rulan Tangen, and International Association of Blacks in Dance President and CEO, Denise Saunders Thompson, as they explore deeper meanings of movement arts as a means of protest, survival, resilience, social change, and the embodiment of futurities. Unpacking similarities, differences, and philanthropic paradigms within the dance field, Rulan and Denise discuss the parity between them as dance-makers, practitioners, and presenters in collaboration with global indigenous practices, intertribal and African diasporan artists. ArtChangeUS@Kennedy Center National Conversations is a series of dialogues between prominent artists and pivotal change-makers who are advancing a pluralistic vision of America. Subscribe to The Kennedy Center! http://bit.ly/2gNFrtb
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