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Welcome to Betty's Daughter Arts Collaborative
What is Betty's Daughter Arts Collaborative? Betty's Daughter Arts Collaborative is an "arts-in-action" group based in Manhattan, NY and Durham, NC that creates radical expressiveness in community. Betty's Daughter believes another world is possible through a multidisciplinary practice of cultural work, creativity, social consciousness, and grassroots activism. Betty's Daughter collaborates with individuals artists, groups, non-profits, and CBOs that work from a sound, progressive socio-political platform and seek to activate art as a tool for individual transformation and justice. Betty's Daughter has worked with a host of individuals and organizations including: SpiritHouse-NC, The Movement Theatre Company, Medgar Evers College, The Houston Slam Team, Alternate Roots-Resources for Social Change, Brecht Forum, Louisburg College, North Carolina A & T, Project Row Houses, The Hip Hop Mental Health Project, UNC-Chapel Hill, and Duke University. How to Get in the Groove | Featured Collaborator Betty's Daughter would like to make you aware of some cool people using art for social justice. Check out SpiritHouse-NC, one of our dearest collaborators, located in Durham, NC making big moves to make this world a better place. www.spirithouse-nc.org river/go: a movement film from ebony golden on Vimeo. |
The "Arts in Action" Methodology
Over the past decade, Betty's Daughter developed its "arts-in-action" methodology in communities spanning New York, DC, the south east, Louisiana, Texas and abroad.
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Community-Based Collaboration |
Africana-Women Lead |
Holistic Knowledge |
Creative Arts |
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Grassroots generated process |
Support diversity in leadership styles |
Cultivate a community knowledge bearers |
Recognize the intersection of art and activism |
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Community generated decision-making and conscious building |
Encourage creative and intuitive leadership |
Nurture individual’s ability to share her stories and experiences |
Create practical and relevant art |
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Engage diverse sectors of community |
Support mentorship of young women leadership and youth |
Augment experiential and exploratory knowledge |
Create art that informs and impacts community and policy-generating bodies |
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Support the knowledge of young women |
Create high caliber art informed by everyday "lived experiences". |
"creating radical expressiveness in community"
river/go: a component of the "again, the watercarriers" environmental performance project. |
