2017 ROOTS Week

Alternate ROOTS is a 49-year-old 501c3 non-profit based in Atlanta, GA. ROOTS is a member-driven national resource for artists, cultural organizers, and their communities, with more than 600 members in all disciplines. Alternate ROOTS supports the creation and presentation of original art that is rooted in a community of place, tradition or spirit. Alternate ROOTS a group of artists and cultural organizers based in the South creating a better world together.http://www.alternateroots.org.

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<DIV CLASS="gmail_default">ROOTS Week online registration is closed. We are completely sold out for on-campus housing. And have limited day-rate off campus housing for some days at $40 per day per person. </DIV>
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<DIV CLASS="gmail_default">If you are interested in attending ROOTS Week for a day rate, please e-mail Paige Heurtin, Operations Manager at <A HREF="mailto:paige@alternateroots.org" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">paige@alternateroots.org</A>. A staff member will follow-up during business hours. </DIV>
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<DIV CLASS="gmail_default">Please note, day-rate registration fees will be collected at the onsite registration desk. </DIV>
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<DIV CLASS="gmail_default">If you are unable to make it to ROOTS Week, we encourage you to attend <A HREF="https://alternateroots.org/roots-weekend-atlanta/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">ROOTS Weekend Atlanta here</A>. </DIV>
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<H2><SPAN>Alternate ROOTS' 41st Annual Meeting & Artists' Retreat</SPAN></H2>
<H2><SPAN>Back to the Basics – Down to the ROOTS<BR></SPAN></H2>
<P>ROOTS Week Annual Meeting & Artists’ Retreat is a one-of-a-kind gathering – six days of performances, art and organizing workshops, visual art exhibitions, late-night cabarets, and ROOTS’ annual business meeting, in a retreat-like setting in the mountains of North Carolina. Artists, cultural organizers, and their families come from across the South (and beyond!), joining an ever-growing, ever-changing network of people committed to building a just world through arts, community, and activism.</P>
<P>ROOTS Week 2017 is our 41st Annual Meeting. Last year, in celebration of our 40th anniversary, we honored the legacy and spirit of ROOTS, as well as some of the change-makers who brought us to this point. This year, with the theme of Back to the Basics – Down to the ROOTS, we’re paring back to create a retreat focused on some of the basics: artistic practice, organizing strategy, self care, and community building.</P>
<P>As we say at ROOTS, innovation is remembering, and ROOTS Week 2017 will be reminiscent of our early days in the mountains. We’ll focus on artistic practice with artmaking workshops, skill shares, and master classes. Throughout the week, we ROOTers will facilitate a series of UpROOTing Oppressions sessions, weaving this learning into all other programming. We’ll continue to hold issue-based conversations at the intersection of art and social justice, and strengthen our alliances with the movements that are changing the South. We’ll witness visual and performing arts that extend from works-in-progress to tour/exhibition-ready pieces, and share a radical variety of art into the early hours at Late Night. We’ll sing, we’ll dance, we’ll share stories and quiet moments, and we’ll dig deep to the heart and soul of it all – our ROOTS.</P>

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