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LITTLEGLOBE CENTER FOR CREATIVE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Submitted by LG Admin on Mon, 03/21/2011 - 14:08

LITTLEGLOBE CENTER FOR CREATIVE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Littleglobe, together with a range of community partners, is developing a training initiative that will develop a pool of skilled artists and cultural workers to promote arts-based civic engagement in the southwest and nationwide.

Coal: A Musical Fable

Submitted by LG Admin on Thu, 06/17/2010 - 16:52

COAL: A MUSICAL FABLE

We are hungry for the power of coal. It energizes our daily world and yet has devastating consequences for all life. More than a musical, COAL is an experience that invites us into a shared, imaginative response to our current paradox. Here is a story told through music and theatre that brings us together as we shape our common future in the spirit of connection.

TURN THE LENS: COMMUNITY FILM PROJECT

Submitted by Valerie on Wed, 08/25/2010 - 19:40

TURN THE LENS: COMMUNITY FILM PROJECT

Turn the Lens is a series of filmmaking projects empowering community members to tell their stories. The pilot project, "Centennial Class," is funded by the NM Dept. of Higher Ed/GEAR UP and produced/directed by Littleglobe. The pilot utilizes collaboration and mentorship to create a feature-length documentary about five NM students in their last two years of high school.

SANTA FE BUS OPERA

Submitted by LG Admin on Mon, 06/21/2010 - 12:09

SANTA FE BUS OPERA

Littleglobe, in collaboration with city residents, is creating an interactive, inter-media new opera that will premiere on active Santa Fe bus lines. The bus opera will delve into the real and imagined stories, interactions, and personal dreamscapes of bus riders, those who live and work along city bus routes, and city residents.

Garden

Submitted by LG Admin on Sat, 06/19/2010 - 11:37

GARDEN

GARDEN is a series of live, music-driven intermedia performances, developed over five years, that uses linear-immersive media (live music, installation, transparent screens and projected video) to explore expressive, atmospheric, metaphorical and cross-cultural realms of night-time and the intersection of the human and natural environment.

Lifesongs

Submitted by LG Admin on Thu, 06/17/2010 - 17:24

LIFESONGS

Lifesongs, a project of The Academy for the Love of Learning and Littleglobe, is an intergenerational arts project that promotes social inclusion and dignity for elders and people in hospice care. Central to the Lifesongs process is the artist-facilitated creation of original musical works by people in nursing homes and hospice care. For more information about Lifesongs: www.aloveoflearning.org

RIVERS RUN THROUGH US

Submitted by LG Admin on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 08:39

RIVERS RUN THROUGH US

In the late spring/early summer of 2012, a group of women will walk the length (46 miles) of the Santa Fe River. This four-day journey will serve as a deep exploration of our river and the Santa Fe Watershed and is designed to engage, create art, educate, and illuminate our relationship with river systems, earth and water.

ARTIST-TO-ARTIST/OPEN BOOKS

Submitted by Daphne on Tue, 08/10/2010 - 11:13

ARTIST-TO-ARTIST/OPEN BOOKS

Littleglobe artists are working closely with at-risk youth (ages 16-21) in foster care to encourage new creative work, nurture their artistic development, and publish/present their artwork and poetry. Drawing by Jerry G-- (youth artist)

COMMON GROUND NEW MEXICO

Submitted by Valerie on Thu, 08/19/2010 - 10:47

COMMON GROUND NEW MEXICO

Littleglobe’s Common Ground New Mexico Projects revolve around creative community collaboration and capacity-building. Littleglobe collaborates with inter-generational, diverse communities on long-term, large-scale creative projects that generate significant works of art/performance followed by community-led development work.

SHARING THE SAME SPACE: RACIAL HEALING

Submitted by LG Admin on Mon, 03/21/2011 - 15:02

SHARING THE SAME SPACE: RACIAL HEALING

Littleglobe believes that New Mexico ’s wealth lies in the richness and diversity of its multi-ethnic, economically-diverse, and inter-generational population.  The depth and breadth of this diversity provides an unusual potential for New Mexico to lead the nation as a model for racial healing.

MICA Community Arts Fellowship

Submitted by LG Admin on Wed, 10/19/2011 - 20:14

MICA COMMUNITY ARTS FELLOWSHIP

In 2010, Littleglobe was chosen by the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) to be one of five Community Arts Convening & Research Fellows. Littleglobe's collection of essays about community engagement work has now been published on the MICA website.