The Uniting Power of Art
Poets and planners. Strategists and storytellers.
Policy analysts and performers.
Think they should be talking with one another? So do we.
That's why Alternatives and The New Quarterly have partnered--to bring you smart, creative thinking from both environmental and arts communities. The results?
Issue 101: The ARTIST AS ACTIVIST
The New Quarterly goes behind the scenes with novelists, poets, playwrights, storytellers, musicians, visual artists and performers to reflect on the complex, often heartbreaking, world of arts creation and community collaboration. This book-length issue includes a live-recording CD of R. Murray Schafer's Wolf Project, plus
TNQ standards-- the best in new poetry and fiction.
An artist must be activist. Art is the great civilizer of our society--to me, it's the main difference between us and the animals. When we, with these big old brains, act like animals, there's mass destruction. It's the easiest thing for us to act animal. It's a big struggle to become human. Harder still to become godlike, and that's where we really want to go." ---Steve Kirby, excerpted from Soul Mining in Issue 101.
Teasers
Read the James Gordon interview- folk musician and producer/director of the Hardscrabble Road musical (interview is available only online!)
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CREATIVE COMMUNITIES 
The December 2006 issue of Alternatives features models of community engagement, from international eco-arts projects, festivals and film to storytelling and gardening, as well as visual and performing arts. This double issue includes what Alternatives always delivers: controversy, critique, resources, reviews, and fresh ideas about how to get things done locally and globally.
Visit our Rogues Gallery to find out more about the contributors to these great issues.
Find out how you can join the conversation.
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