TACtile

In this episode, we talk with Meena Natarajan And Dipankar Mukherjee of Pangea World Theater in Minneapolis Minnesota. Pangea World Theater is a member of the Beta Cohort of LANE. Meena and Dipankar share the adaptations made during the pandemic that have deepened the way their mission lives in the world.

This episode is the fourth installment of our Cornerstone Series, Racial Justice. The cornerstones are the pedagogy that guide the work we do. The Cornerstones are Emergence, Popular Education, Design Justice and Racial Justice/Cultural Equity. Artist, professor, curator and activist Wesley Taylor shares with us how to recognize when spaces are racist, the role of racialized capitalism in equity and how to navigate one's positionality and power to move towards justice.

This episode is the third installment in our cornerstone series. LANE (Leveraging a Network for Equity) uses the cornerstones to guide our work and operationalize the concept on equity. The four cornerstones are Emergence, Racial Justice/Cultural Equity, Popular Education and Design Justice. Marquez Rhyne is founder and principal consultant at Inventive Interventions LLC. Marquez coaches leaders in arts, social justice, formal and popular education institutions by curating experiences and creating materials to improve their effectiveness. He is also program manager at The Narrative Initiative. He works at the Nexus of Art and Culture, Policies and Practices, Wellness and Transformation.

In this episode, we talk with Anjee Helstrup-Alvarez, Executive Director and Letecia Rodriguez, Director of Operations at MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana in San Jose California. MACLA is a member of the Alpha Cohort of LANE, the first group of organizations to engage in the 4 years process. Anjee and Letecia share how their understanding of organizational health was curtailed by racialized conditions and how moving towards a people-centered infrastructure is giving them new vitality. Enjoy.

Welcome to Season 2 of TACtile, a practical guide to Transforming Arts and Culture. We are excited to continue to share this ideological and practical road to organizational transformation. In this episode, we talk with Jackie Clay, Executive Director and Audra Tignor, Operations Director of the Coleman Center for the Arts in York Alabama. The Coleman Center is a member of the Beta Cohort of Leveraging a Network for Equity. Enjoy Jackie and Audra discussing how the racial history of a place informs organizational decisions, the relationship between personal and organizational transformation and reimagining capacity growth.

In this episode, we talk with Stephanie McKee Anderson and Damia Khanboubi of Junebug Productions, a 40 year old presenting and producing company based in New Orleans Louisiana. Stephanie and Damia share the importance of being connected to a legacy and how to iterate without losing your center.

In this episode we talk with Harold Steward and Evelyn Francis, Producing Co-executive Directors of The Theater Offensive in Boston Massachusetts. The Theater Offensive is a member of the Beta Cohort of LANE and has been on an organizational journey from a white led organization serving, supporting and employing people of color to and arts organization of color. Listen to them share what they have learned about themselves and organizational development along this journey.

This episode is the second installment in our cornerstone series. LANE ( Leveraging a Network for Equity) uses the cornerstones to operationalize the concept of equity. The four cornerstones are Emergence, Racial Justice/Cultural Equity, Popular Education and Design Justice. Una Lee, principal at andalsotoo and Director of Design at Allied Media Projects, talks with us about design justice. She discusses the needs that gave birth to this idea, core tenets and it applicability to everything we do. Enjoy.

In this episode, we talk with Krys Holmes Executive Director of The Myrna Loy Center in Helena Montana. The Myrna Loy is one of two rural organization in LANE. Listen to Krys talk about her and the Myrna's experience as the only predominantly white organization inside an initiative the centers racial justice. There is so much to learn.

In this episode, we spend time talking with LANE Alpha Cohort Member CD Forum of Seattle Washington. As an organization dedicated to presenting emerging Black arts, artists, and ideas in the greater Seattle area , Executive Artistic Director Sharon Williams, Program Manager Merri Anne Osborne and Business Development Manager Nina Yarbrough share with us the the ways their work connects to community and how to manage unexpected challenges during times of transition. Happy 20th anniversary CD Forum. Here's to many more. www.cdforum.org

This episode of TACtile introduces our series on the LANE’s cornerstones. The cornerstones include Emergence, Popular Education, Design Justice, and Racial Justice. LANE embodies these core values as a way to practice equity. This episode Sage talks with adrienne maree brown, facilitator for liberation movements and author of the book “Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds” and the newly released “Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good”, about LANE’s cornerstone, Emergence and how changing the internal impacts the external.

This episode was recorded at the NPN Annual Conference in Pittsburgh, PA in December 2018. In this episode the LANE Alpha Cohort shares their take on what is required to make large organizational shifts.