Community-based art, or art "of, by, and for the people" has emerged in the past twenty years as a genre that has rocked the fields of both art and activism by calling into question traditional notions of "community," "participation," "spectatorship,
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Tuesday, March 24 at 5:30pm - UM Social Justice Conference 2009
Dana Building
Thursday, April 2 at 5:30pm
Empowering Our Communities Through Creative Expression COPE students talk about violence and one student describes his experiences with the legal system.
Length:4:45
Empowering Our Communities Through Creative Expression The students reflect on the importance of having creative outlets.
Length:1:28
Empowering Our Communities Through Creative Expression Doin some Boal at a volunteer appreciation reception.
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Empowering Our Communities Through Creative Expression This is from the same recording session at U of M where Megan "MC" records, "Lil Sally", which appears on the cd, "Face Music."
Length:1:52
Empowering Our Communities Through Creative Expression This is a field trip where Telling It Teens goes to use University of Michigan recording facilities to record slam poetry (spitting) and rap songs the student have written themselves.
Length:1:39
Empowering Our Communities Through Creative Expression These teenagers meet once a week to express themselves through writing, art, poetry, and theatre. In this clip, Deb is giving directions that will lead to a writing exercise to reveal what a character of the teens creation feels inside, or "under their skin."
Length:0:56
Empowering Our Communities Through Creative Expression These are kids between the ages of ten to twelve. This one girl is describing things she likes.
Length:0:19
Empowering Our Communities Through Creative Expression This program was not an internship option this semester, but here the kids are making masks of themselves.
Length:1:05
Empowering Our Communities Through Creative Expression A clip from the new Telling it video featuring kids.
Length:0:57
Empowering Our Communities Through Creative Expression Deb invited some capoeria instructors in to teach COPE kids this traditional style of dance-like fighting. The background music is a song called "Grown Woman" written and preformed by Nicole Jones from the cd, "Face Music."
Length:1:05
Empowering Our Communities Through Creative Expression Deb invited some capoeira instructors in to teach COPE kids this traditional style of dance-like fighting. The background music is a song called "Face Music" written and preformed by BMC from the cd, "Face Music."
Length:2:15
Empowering Our Communities Through Creative Expression is the core course of the RCCTC, which is funded by the Corporation for National and Community Service: Learn and Serve and coordinated by Michigan Campus Compact.
The RCCTC is a 501C3 Non-profit organization Who We Are Based in the University of Michigan's Residential College, the RCCTC is an experiential learning program in the discipline of "community-based arts" or arts to empower our communities...
