

| JULY 30 - AUGUST 8, 2010 The Summer Leadership Institute (SLI) in New Orleans is an intensive 10-day “place based convening” where we learn effective ways to deepen or begin our work as artists who want to connect our art to community organizing and social change strategies. We will engage with the New Orleans community around our theme: Soul Deep: How do we work to build healthy sustainable communities? Starting in New Orleans in 1990 with John O'Neal and Junebug Productions, Urban Bush Women (UBW) has embarked upon 20 years of conscious community engagement that has taken us all across the United States. We continued our long term and deep commitment to working in New Orleans through the launching of our 2009 Institute in New Orleans. We are honored to return for 2010 working with our partners in Team NOLA, a group of local participants who have guided the planning process. The SLI forges an “artist as activist” methodology that offers a complex set of competencies and techniques that have evolved from UBW's 25-year practice of art-making. We believe it is valuable to “use movement to build a movement”. Our leadership development will include:
Groups
transform as they sweat, clap, and create together. Communicating non-verbally
is freeing in a debate-based society such as ours, and allows for an
intimate and authentic way of knowing other people. We deliberately
harness the joy and unifying power of rhythm and movement to inspire
respectful physical and verbal dialogue. We use art as a lab for struggling together. Dancing and creating together are the physical parallels to dialogue. We offer practice and tools for interacting physically and verbally. The Culminating Public Performances include all participants and use music, dance, theater, visual design and spoken word to address community concerns. The 10-day Institute schedule consists of full day experiences that often go into the evening. Join us in this important work!
2010 SUMMER LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE NOW ! Click HERE to download the 2010 application
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