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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 social justice.
Ebony Noelle Golden serves as the creative director of Betty's Daughter. Bringing over a decade of training, mentorship, artistic practice, and community action, Ebony is primarily responsible for overseeing, generating, and keeping the vision for the group.
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.
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 |
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| Support the knowledge of young women | Create high caliber art informed by everyday "lived experiences". |
How to Get in the Groove
Betty's Daughter is currently strategically planning for the 2010 season. Please join our email list, schedule a meeting to learn about projects, become a donor, or book one of our workshops or performances. Email our creative director at ebonygolden@bettysdaughterarts.com for more information.
"creating radical expressiveness in community"
