Center for Arts in Medicine - Activating the We-Making Framework

 

Activating the WE-Making Framework Using Arts and Culture to Unite People for Community Well-being Does your community use- or want to use- arts and cultural activities to work towards community well-being? Would you like to better articulate why/how it works? Are you seeking new tools to advance racial justice and COVID-19 recovery? Join us TOMORROW, Oct 5th at 2 pm ET/11 am PT for a free zoom webinar to learn about WE-Making, a ground-breaking framework for how arts and culture unite people to work towards community well-being. Featured Moments Performance: New Orleans-based poet, Carol Bebelle, reads, Weaving Our We Presentation: Anne Gadwa Nicodemus, founder of Metris Arts and lead author of the WE-Making resources, will present key terms and concepts and walk participants through the relationship between place-based arts and cultural strategies, social cohesion, and increased equitable community well-being. Panel Discussion: Victor Rubin of PolicyLink will moderate a discussion with Roberto Bedoya, Carolyn Johnson and BJ McBride, who will share examples of innovative practices from Oakland, CA representing different cultural strategies for building the strength and resilience of communities. 2 Funding Opportunities: Attendees will learn of a funding opportunity to share the story of your WE-Making work using arts and culture-based strategies to advance racial justice and COVID-19 recovery. Finally, enjoy remarks by Director, Lear deBessonet, who will also share a special funding opportunity to put WE-Making into action through a national initiative! REGISTER NOW The Cast of Characters REGISTER NOW Host | Kimberlee Nicole Smith, Center for Arts in Medicine Poem Reading | Carol Bebelle, Akua Productions, New Orleans, LA Presenter | Anne Gadwa Nicodemus, Metris Arts, Lead Author of the WE-Making resources Moderator | Victor Rubin, PolicyLink, Oakland, CA Panelist | Roberto Bedoya, Cultural Affairs Manager for the City of Oakland Panelist | Carolyn Johnson “C.J.”, CEO of the Black Cultural Zone, Oakland, CA Panelist | Benjamin “BJ” McBride, Producer, Oakland, CA Closing Remarks | Lear deBessonet, Founder of the Public Works program, Public Theater in New York City