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Creative Placemaking

As Jamie Bennett writes in “Creative Placemaking: Doing Art to Change a Place,” “creative placemaking” is used “to describe projects in which artists and arts organizations are explicitly working as part of a larger strategy to help shape their communities’ social, physical, and economic characters.” For some starting examples, check out the ArtPlace Grantee Summit 2014 on the subject in conjunction with the 2014 ArtPlace America Grantee Summit.

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Create Space with Gabriel Barrera
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Create Space with Gabriel Barrera
by Yura Sapi, Gabriel Barrera
22 March 2023
Worldmaking 101: Imagination and Reparation at Double Edge Theatre and Ohketeau Cultural Center
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Worldmaking 101: Imagination and Reparation at Double Edge Theatre and Ohketeau Cultural Center
by Jonathan Eburne
14 November 2022
Nothing About Us Without Us
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Nothing About Us Without Us
How Theatre and Performance Art Can Help Migrants and Refugees in Situations of Uncertainty
by VIKTOR VILISOV
27 October 2022
Decolonizing Theatre/La Descolonización del Teatro
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Decolonizing Theatre/La Descolonización del Teatro

an Introduction/Introducción

27 May 2018

Annalisa Dias and Madeline Sayet introduce the Decolonizing Theatre series by exploring the ways the American theatre has been and still is complicit in the legacy of colonialism.

PS122
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PS122

Past and Future

Monday 17 April 2017
New York, NY, United States

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center in New York City presented PS122: Past and Future with Vallejo Gantner, Mark Russell, and Jenny Schlenzka livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 17 April at 6:30 p.m. EDT (New York) / 5:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 3:30 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles).

The New Cities, Future Ruins Convening at Southern Methodist University
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The New Cities, Future Ruins Convening at Southern Methodist University

Sunday 13 November 2016 
Dallas, TX, United States

You’re invited to join the New Cities, Future Ruins convening from Southern Methodist University’s campus in Dallas, Texas for the Sunday morning mainstage presentations livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 13 November at 7:30 a.m. PST (Vancouver) / 9:30 a.m. CST (Austin) / 10:30 a.m. EST (New York) / 15:30 GMT-UTC (London). 

The Next Generation Rural Creative Placemaking National Summit at the University of Iowa
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The Next Generation Rural Creative Placemaking National Summit at the University of Iowa

Thursday 13 October and Friday 14 October 2016
Iowa City, Iowa

The Rural Policy Research Institute presented the Next Generation Rural Creative Placemaking National Summit livestreamed on the global, commons-based and peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 13 October and Friday 14 October 2016. See the livestream schedule below. In Twitter, follow @HowlRoundTV and use #howlround

The ArtPlace America Summit on Creative Placemaking
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The ArtPlace America Summit on Creative Placemaking

Monday 4 April to Wednesday 6 April 2016
Phoenix, AZ, United States

ArtPlace America presented the annual ArtPlace Summit in Phoenix, Arizona livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Monday 4 April to Wednesday 6 April. In Twitter, use #ArtPlaceSummit, and follow @ArtPlaceAmerica and @HowlRoundTV

Translations—CPCP Update 3
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Translations—CPCP Update 3

New Civic Practice Case Studies

18 August 2015

Michael Rohd with an update on the Center for Performance and Civic Practice’s Catalyst Initiative. 

Panel Gentrification & Business at The N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art
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Panel Gentrification & Business at The N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art

Thursday 19 March 2015
Detroit, MI, United States

The N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art in Detroit presented the panel discussion Gentrification & Business livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 19 March at 3 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles) / 5 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 6 p.m. EDT (New York). In Twitter, follow @NNamdiCenter, and use #howlround.

A street festival in full swing.
Live Webcast & Twitter Discussions for Beyond the Building
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Live Webcast & Twitter Discussions for Beyond the Building

Performing Arts and Transforming Place—#PerformPlace—Mon, Nov 3

24 October 2014

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), with support from ArtPlace America, is hosting a convening that examines how performance-based organizations, and the artists they engage, transform places through their artistic practices: "Beyond the Building: Performing Arts and Transforming Place". This multiplatform convening will be live webcasted and will have Twitter discussions on hashtag #performplace on Monday, November 3, 2014, from 6am PST to 2pm PST / 7am MST to 3pm MST / 8am CST to 4pm CST / 9am EST to 5pm EST.

Biking Beyond Linear
Essay

Biking Beyond Linear

Past and Future in The Kirkbride Cycle

14 October 2014

Haley Honeman writes about The Kirkbride Cycle, a site-specific musical performed at Fergus Fall State Hospital, a deinstitutionalized asylum in Minnesota.

A person waving out of a window.
Community Building with the Chicago Home Theater Festival
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Community Building with the Chicago Home Theater Festival

24 June 2014

Dani Snyder-Young writes about the 2014 Chicago Home Theater Festival, which places participatory performances inside private homes.

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The Arts Factor 2014 Report
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The Arts Factor 2014 Report

Tuesday 10 June 2014
Boston, MA, United States

ArtsBoston livestreamed The Arts Factor 2014 Report on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Tuesday 10 June at 8:30 a.m. EDT (Boston) / 12:30 GMT / 1:30 p.m. BST (London) / 2:30 p.m. CEST (Berlin).  

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Grantee Summit on Creative Placemaking by Artplace America
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Grantee Summit on Creative Placemaking by Artplace America

Monday 3 March to Wednesday 5 March 2014
Los Angeles, CA, United States

ArtPlace America hosted the 2014 Creative Placemaking Grantee Summit in Los Angeles livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv from Monday 3 March to Wednesday 5 March. Watch the livestream and participate via Twitter hashtag #ArtPlace. 

A man holding a folder.
Creative Placemaking in Alaska
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Creative Placemaking in Alaska

Perseverance Theatre Summerfest 2014

2 March 2014

Perseverance Theatre has a long history of creating new work. A great deal of that new work embodies one of Perseverance’s core values: regional voice. In 35 years, Perseverance Theatre has premiered close to 70 new works. Two of the challenges of creating this work are the distance and isolation of being located in Alaska. These also serve as great opportunities to be unique in perspective and specific in terms of the type of work we do. This article is part of a series of four articles on Creative Placemaking publishing in conjunction with the 2014 ArtPlace America Grantee Summit. The Summit will livestream Mon, March 3 to Wed, March 5 on HowlRound.TV. In Twitter, use #ArtPlace to participate in the conversation. View the full series, schedule, and archive here: http://bit.ly/artplace2014.

Selected work from artist Wing Young Huie’s We Are The Other.
Creative Placemaking by Pillsbury House + Theatre, Minneapolis
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Creative Placemaking by Pillsbury House + Theatre, Minneapolis

1 March 2014

We completed our ArtPlace funded Arts on Chicago initiative in June of 2013. Arts on Chicago engaged forty artists in twenty placemaking projects to turn a ten-block stretch of Chicago Avenue into an arts district. It was a massive effort that taught us a lot about what Creative Placemaking means in the context of our South Minneapolis community. This post is part of a series of four articles on Creative Placemaking publishing in conjunction with the 2014 ArtPlace America Grantee Summit. The Summit will livestream Monday, March 3 to Wednesday, March 5 on HowlRound.TV. In Twitter, use #ArtPlace to participate in the conversation. View the full series, schedule, and archive here: http://bit.ly/artplace2014 .

A lantern festival.
The Great Chicago Fire Festival
Essay

The Great Chicago Fire Festival

Creative Placemaking & Redmoon Theater

1 March 2014

The Great Chicago Fire Festival is a new signature event for the City of Chicago. It is a citywide spectacle, co-produced by Redmoon Theater and the City of Chicago. It will be Mayor Emanuel’s first major cultural initiative and is wedded to his federally funded effort to convert the Chicago River into a hub of downtown recreation. What Mardi Gras is to New Orleans and the Running of the Bulls is to Pamplona, that’s what The Great Chicago Fire Festival will become to the Windy City. This article is part of a series of four articles on Creative Placemaking publishing in conjunction with the 2014 ArtPlace America Grantee Summit. The Summit will livestream Mon, March 3 to Wed, March 5 on HowlRound.TV. In Twitter, use #ArtPlace to participate in the conversation. View the full series, the schedule, and archive here: http://bit.ly/artplace2014.

Art installation in Sauk County.
Creative Placemaking
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Creative Placemaking

Doing Art to Change a Place—March 3-5, 2014

28 February 2014

“Creative Placemaking” describe projects in which artists and arts organizations are explicitly working as part of a larger strategy to help shape their communities’ social, physical, and economic characters. In other words, these projects are doing art to change a place. This work is not new—in ancient Greece, the theater was the literal, spiritual, and civic center of the community—but putting a name on it is. And creating a sense of community among previously unconnected projects is new as well. This article is part of a series of four articles on Creative Placemaking publishing in conjunction with the 2014 ArtPlace America Grantee Summit. The Summit will livestream Mon, March 3 to Wed, March 5 on HowlRound.TV. In Twitter, use #ArtPlace to participate in the conversation. View the full series, the schedule, and archive here: http://bit.ly/artplace2014.

Photo from Winter Pageant.
Winter Pageant at Redmoon
Essay

Winter Pageant at Redmoon

23 January 2014

Dani Snyder-Young writes about Winter Pageant, a collaborative spectacle piece created by the (now closed) Redmoom in Chicago.

Symposium on Entrepreneurship, the Arts, and Creative Placemaking at the Pave Program in Arts Entrepreneurship
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Symposium on Entrepreneurship, the Arts, and Creative Placemaking at the Pave Program in Arts Entrepreneurship

Friday 12 - 13 April 2013
Tempe, AZ, United States

The Pave Program in Arts Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University, Tempe presented its third biennial symposium: Entrepreneurship, the Arts, and Creative Placemaking livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 12 April and Saturday 13 April 2013.

The Twitter logo.
Weekly Howl on Thursday, April 11
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Weekly Howl on Thursday, April 11

What's On Your Mind? Volunteer to moderate this week's #newplay chat

8 April 2013

The Weekly Howl is a peer-produced, open-access discussion about theater culture and contemporary performance that happens on Twitter using the hashtag #newplay.*

Race and Representation in Chicago Theatre at Victory Gardens
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Race and Representation in Chicago Theatre at Victory Gardens

Monday 18 February 2013
Chicago, IL, United States

Victory Gardens Theater, The League of Chicago Theatres, Silk Road Rising and Lifeline Theatre collaborated on a new conversation series, Race and Representation in Chicago Theater, livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 31 January and Monday 18 February 2013.

An abstract illustration of two silhouettes reaching for each other.
The New Work of Building Civic Practice
Essay

The New Work of Building Civic Practice

9 July 2012

The needs of non-arts organizations, and theatre artists' assets can intersect through Civic Practice. This guide from Michael Rohd offers examples of application and what this work can accomplish.

Community Conversation with NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman hosted by Alternate ROOTS in Atlanta, Georgia
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Community Conversation with NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman hosted by Alternate ROOTS in Atlanta, Georgia

Wednesday 9 May 2012
Atlanta, GA, United States

 

Atlanta-based Alternate ROOTS hosted a community conversation with Rocco Landesman, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, during his first visit to the state, livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday 9 May 2012 at 7 a.m. PDT / 8 a.m. MDT / 9 a.m. CDT / 10 a.m. EDT / 14:00 GMT / 3 p.m. BST / 4 p.m. CEST.

a clown kissing a clear riot shield
When Clowns Fight the Power
Series

When Clowns Fight the Power

This series features a selection of folx from around the world who are all part of a long and diverse heritage of clown activists who subvert bigots and in cultivate hope in hard-hit communities. From rural villages to urban centers, from popular protests to refugee camps, each of our contributors use grit and humor to activate their communities toward equity and justice.