Past Events
Creativity Is a Muscle, with Rhodessa Jones
A celebration of the new book Beginner's Guide to Community-Based Arts
Thursday, April 6, 7–8:30 pm
Center for African and African American Culture
762 Fulton Street (at Webster), San Francisco
Cultural Odyssey, the Center for Art in Public Life, and New Village Press present a multimedia event to premiere a new book for artists, youth leaders, and teachers: Beginner's Guide to Community-Based Arts.
Meet authors Mat Schwarzman, a theater artist and educator from New Orleans, and Keith Knight, a Bay Area cartoonist, rapper, and media-literacy teacher.
The evening celebration will feature a rare chance to flex your creative muscles in a community-based arts exercise led by local performance artist Rhodessa Jones.
Beginner's Guide to Community Based Art is a new comics-illustrated travelogue that visits communities across the country revitalizing themselves through art.
Graphic journalist Keith Knight shows how art can effect social change through 10 powerful stories, including Rhodessa Jones' life-transforming theater work with women prisoners at San Bruno County Jail.
The guidebook is the culmination of more than 10 years of research into arts-based community activism.
Books can be purchased through the Center for Art and Public Life. Purchases can be made from our office located at 5275 Broadway, Oakland (near College Avenue). If you would like a copy mailed to you, send a check for $20 plus shipping and handling (payable to California College of the Arts) to Center for Art and Public Life, Attn: Building the Code, California College of the Arts, 5212 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94618.
Books may also be purchased through publisher New Village Press. New Village Press is a new nonprofit publisher specializing in community building.
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