upcoming grant deadline: 05/15/2024

upcoming grant deadline: 05/15/2024

back to blog

Roots Weekend Richmond Seeks Proposals for 3-Day Gathering

Roots Weekend Richmond is seeking proposals from artists, activists, and cultural organizers to share their work and stimulate dialogue that cultivates connection over the three-day gathering. Deadline: January 23. 

ROOTS Weekend-Richmond – April 20-23, 2017 – is the fifth of six regional gatherings that Alternate ROOTS is convening throughout the South from 2015-2017. Through the theme of Creating a World Without Prisons, and in partnership with ArtChangeUS, ART 180, and RIHD, they take a close, critical look at the U.S. prison industrial complex – the largest system of incarceration in the world.

ROOTS Weekend-Richmond aims to lift up artist-activists who are working towards a world where prisons are a thing of the past. They are seeking programming around three programming arcs: Immigrant Detention, Adult Incarceration, and Juvenile Justice.

What are you working on that you would like to share? Who you would like to hear from? What would you like to see, to talk about? We invite proposals for performances, workshops, visual arts exhibitions, local excursions, and more. They are also inviting programming ideas — whether you know of a local artist or activist we should reach out to or a method of community building that might be integrated into the weekend.

If you have ideas, or work to share, please fill out the following Proposal Form by Monday, January 23, 2016 at 5 pm EST. For questions, contact Wendy Shenefelt, Programs Manager, at 404-577-1079, or wendy@alternateroots.org. Click here for more information. 

back to blog back to top