Betty's Daughter Arts Collaborative


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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
Betty's Daughter is enjoying the lushness of 2010 and is excited to collaborate with you.  Please join our email list, schedule a meeting to learn about projects, become a donor, or book one of our workshops or performances.  Contact us at ebonygolden@bettysdaughterarts.com to begin you creative journey with Betty's Daughter! 


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

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. 

Community-Based Collaboration

Africana-Women 

Lead

Holistic 

Knowledge

Creative 

Arts

Grassroots generated process

Support diversity in leadership styles

Cultivate a community knowledge bearers

Recognize the intersection of art and activism

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

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

 

 

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.

 
 

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