Glance at Culture - Michael Rohd on Theatre Arts, Social Cohesion, Social-Based Arts Programs and Civic Imagination

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To learn more, please visit the sites for Sojourn Theatre, One Nation/One Project, and the Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration exhibition. 

Cover Photograph: "Rohd co-facilitating an arts convening in Boston this past fall with Nicole Brewer and musicians from Silkroad Ensemble"

Show Notes:

3:45 Rohd’s background

4:50 'Hope is Vital' project in DC area

7:00 Sojourn Theatre

10:10 2003 disruption in Oregon legislature

11:50 'Witness Our Schools' project - role of public education today 

14:30 impact of bringing voices in and building relationships for a different kind of dialogue

15:15 criteria for success of arts-based work around civic issues 

16:10 One Nation / One Project rooted in post-Great Depression Federal Theater project

22:15 local community involvement centered on building relationships

25:30 approach to critics of social-based arts programs

28:10 Center for Performance and Civil Practice (CPCP) - collective of 9 

33:45 Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration exhibition with Arizona State University Art Museum Director Miki Garcia (Episode 79)

37:45 choreography / dramaturgy for Undoing Time

40:20 questions posed in Undoing Time

42:10 future project for the cards created from Undoing Time 

44:45 aspect of justice included in the question he focuses on: who are we responsible for?

47:30 influence of teachers that led Rohd to his current work

49:50 legacy 

51:30 Co-Lab for Civic Imagination in Montana

53:50 ‘Communities of Care’ model

54:15 Definition of Civic Imagination - like functional democracy

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