Spiral Q PUPPET THEATER’S

PEOPLEHOODSaturday, October 23rd 2010A Parade & Pageant

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Our Work: Spiral Q does a whole lot more than just puppets and parades. We work in schools, parks, universities, community centers, libraries, day cares, medical and health service facilities, and streets throughout Philadelphia with a wide variety of students, teachers, artists, community organizers, health service providers, activists, and other neighborhood residents. We lead workshops, community planning processes and meetings, produce exhibitions, engage in ground-breaking research, provide technical support to activist and community groups, and have developed an award-winning education pro-

gram. Spiral Q works across a variety of artistic disciplines (including printing and silk-screening, three-dimensional art and sculpture, drawing, painting, theater, music, spoken word, and street theater) and often combine several art forms in our productions and presentations. We engage mainly in three types of work:

Developing Youth: Through our program-ming, Spiral Q works to provide unique educa-

tional, artistic, and developmental opportunities for Philadelphia’s children and youth. From storybook hours at libraries and day cares, to school-wide parade projects in elementary schools, to silk screening classes at high schools, Spiral Q provides age-appropriate, hands-on education classes and workshops that empower

students to identify the stories they want to tell and to share those stories through a variety of creative means.

Working with Communities: When Spiral Q is requested to work with differ-ent community organizations, we bring a unique, collaborative planning process that leads neigh-borhood groups in finding new ways of forming partnerships around shared goals. From provid-ing support to the Coalition to Save the Free Li-braries and Casino-Free Philadelphia, to working with the Norris Square community for the past five years to build a safer, more unified neighbor-hood, Spiral Q is renowned for leading groups in discussions of difficult and important topics with skill and safety. These processes help communi-ties identify and mobilize their resources, develop and deliver powerful messages to their audiences, and feel less isolated and more connected to larger movements and institutions.

Researching and Learning: Spiral Q main-tains a strong dedication to furthering research and learning in our own work and the work of our partners and constituents. We lead trainings for community groups and organizers, study the

work of similar organizations like In the Heart of the Beast and work with both locally and inter-nationally known artists. Most recently Spiral Q traveled to South Africa to interview artists and study the role of grass roots, community art in the anti-apartheid movement, which then influ-enced an educational curriculum, a presentation, and several exhibitions. What it Takes: • One 8,000 sq. ft. warehouse: two studios, an office, an exhibition room, and storage • Over 2,000 puppets and other artifacts • 100 gallons of paint • 10,000 sheets of recycled cardboard • 40 Rapid 31 staple pliers • Hundreds of brown paper bags • A mountain of newspapers • 1 green Ford Econoline • At least 12 bikes • A bar-rel of bicycle tubes • Over 100 partner organiza-tions • 20 part-time staff • 10 Board members • 250 friends and volunteers • Four full-time staff • One beautiful, creative, equitable city we can all believe in • AND YOU!

Norris Square Pageant, June 2010

MISSION¬Spiral Q builds strong and equitable communities characterized by creativity, joy, can-do attitudes, and the courage to act on their convictions.

VISIONWe imagine a city whose streets reflect the full spectrum of its residents’ creativity. We see a responsive and engaged society that rallies consistently to overcome the challenges

of discrimination and oppression. We envision a world of abundance that mobilizes its resources to nurture shared vitality.

ACTIONWe take to the streets (real and virtual) our unflinching and joyous commitment to jus-tice and equality. We use our art to connect people, actions, values, neighborhoods, orga-nizations, and movements to each other and to their collective creative force for change. We remain steadfast in cultivating a climate of mutual respect, open to difficult conversa-tions, and committed to seeking a sense of shared purpose.

Parkway NW silk-screen residency, May 2010

3rd grade activists from Montessori Genesis II

Peoplehood community meeting, August 2009

Spiral Q Puppet Theater

Pageant TeamTracy Broyles Ted EnochLiza Goodell Shayne BargmanAnnie DaleyJamie CampbellJennifer TurnbullKestrel Plump

Alice ManosAlicia WillettAlison DuncanAnne Margrethe MelsomBarbara SheehanBeth Huegel Bethany LucasCharles TysonChristianne KappsDeney NguyenElizabeth VictorFran AulstonGrace KennedyImanni WilkesJenn DiBartolomeoJosh Herren

Karyl WeberKasia BrzeskaKate FarquharKatherine MalloyKatie BanasKelly ColliganKensey BerryKyle Goldbach

Liz BrownLorna PetersonMielele HawkinsNajee Haynes-FollinsNita AlgarinPablo VirgoPatrick SampsonPeter Fischbeck

Pramod DibbleRebecca Quinn-WolfSamantha HymanSara OutingScotty KruegerSerena SaundersShandea BakerSolomon Moreno-RosaStephen LandisTara JaiyeolaThaddeus Govan Jr.Yasmona EdwardsZoe BassettBoard of DirectorsChristina Cantrill Dustin KiddPeter AppelbaumCamina CeasarJ. Martin FutrellMichelle FreemanTawanna JonesJake KaskeyVictoria Prizzia

Partner OrganizationsPaul Robeson House

Abington Arts CenterACT-UP PhiladelphiaBache Martin SchoolBoycott Divest SanctionsBroad Street MinistryBuild OnCasino Free PhillyEducationWorks

The FactoryeFriends of Clark ParkGirard Medical CenterHarris SteppersMontessori Genesis II New Freedom TheatreNeighborhood Bike WorksNew Life Consumer Center

North Philly StompersPark Pleasant Nursing & RehabPearl Pressman LibertyPenske Truck RentalPhila. Outward BoundPowelton SteppersProject HomePrometheus Radio ProjectSCI WestTasker Elite OfficalTeens 4 GoodThe Enterprise Center CDC and Street TeamUniversity City DistrictUnited Block Captains Assoc.Village of Arts & HumanitiesWalnut Hill Community AssociationWest Philadelphia Cooperative PreschoolYouth Build Charter School

The pulse of the people community conversations

about what matters workshops in public spaces

and partner organizationsbegin to yield a cast of characters

and sketches of scenes emergeThe push

finishing puppets at the studiopainting, stapling, paper macheing

sewing, stenciling, sculptingspinning cardboard into stories

putting the pieces togetherAt the park with puppetsin various stages of completion

scenes move from ideas to actionchoreographing, coordinatingdodging soccer balls and dogs

The big dayline up at Paul Robeson house drums beating, flags waving,

The parade steps off at onefriends waving and joining in

arrive at Clark ParkPlaces!

those who think that they know what is happening (?)

and those with no ideagravitate to the puppetsthe band strikes upA pageant unfolds

there are surprisesmoments of unrehearsed serendipityas the shadows move across the park

neighbor to neighbor

A story is told

How

PEOPLE-HOOD works

A Note from the Director -- Tracy Broyles

WELCOME TO PEOPLEHOOD!

The Ancestors

Every year, PEOPLEHOOD evolves from an unlikely force of individuals and organizations, friends, strangers, neighbors, coworkers, organizers, artists, grown-ups and children, bike riders, grandmothers, teachers, builders, drummers, dog walkers, fathers, singers, preachers, activists, storytellers, bankers, librarians, leaders, people of faith, atheists, americans of all racial and cultural

backgrounds, immigrants, exiles, refugees. We move through a meandering dialogue of drawing, listening, dance, words, puppet making, dreaming, truck loading, and finally walking through our neighborhood to Clark Park. Thank you to this year’s pageant team and the organizations who have worked together to bring you PEOPLEHOOD.

The People who make Peoplehood

Village of Arts & Humanities, Peoplehood 2009 Casino Free Philladelphia, 2009

Build On volunteer, 2010

The Puppets of Peoplehood

The Everyone The HousesHumanity

The Wraiths

Today’s Events12:00 - Peoplehood Parade Line-up1PM - Peoplehood Parade steps offAround 2PM - Pageant BeginsAround 4PM - The Factorye’s Post Pageant Music & Testimonials

rWe began the journey of Peoplehood this year surrounded by a viral rise of racism, discrimination, and vio-lence. Not new, but like a fever spiking, an anti-other movement is on the rise. A surge in political organiz-ing rooted in protectionism, speakers capitalize on the recession to build support through cloaked and not so cloaked anti-immigrant, anti-queer, and anti-poor rhetoric. The shrill call for religious intolerance sounds. Here in Philadelphia, we have seen the escalation of racially motivated hate crimes and violence in our schools and our neighborhoods.

In response, we set out within Peoplehood to engage our city in a conversation, to share our encounters with discrimination and to seek and to propose better ways of living together. Peoplehood begins with sharing stories, one of the oldest traditions in the world. We sit in circles and take time. We take time to share, to listen, to witness. We pause and interrupt the normal routines to reflect on what is and what we wish will be. Then a story evolves, woven together from the bits and pieces of our lives and imagi-nations.

People shared stories of personal loss, of shame and fear, of crippling isolation. They pointed to a lack of accountability and systems that reinforce and perpetuate the alignment of poverty with race. However, people also shared stories of hope, of wit-ness, of finding ground. People spoke of supporting one anoth-er, of unlikely alliances, and of strangers extending a hand.

Collaboration is not simply working together. Rather it is the space in which an idea is changed, transformed, affected by an-other. We each bring to this creative table a color, a vision, a song and when these blend, we ourselves are transformed, are affected by one another. Birds flock, dividing and coming together, wolves howl and hunt, we sleep, it rains, and in this vacuum we deposit our dreams, our highest expectations of ourselves and others. In pageants, we are allowed to be idealists. Indeed, it is the place in which we practice that which may seem impossible or at least improbable in our daily lives.

So, this year’s Peoplehood is dedicated to the PEOPLE of PEOPLEHOOD, that is, to all of humanity. Today we do not pretend to resolve this struggle, however we are resolved in our commitment to see one another, to make a safe space, and to work together to build a city we can all believe in. We invite you to join us in this moment and beyond, to challenge that which causes us to shrink, which pulls us from compassion. We invite you to assemble with us, to encounter one another, and to create that beautiful world which can only come from the wealth of our difference.

A Big Thank You to Our Sponsors!

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Happy Peoplehood!

The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, is a national and international collective of anti-racist, multicultural community organizers and educators dedicated to building an effective movement for so-cial transformation. The People’s Institute considers racism the primary barrier preventing communities from building effective coalitions and overcoming institutionalized oppression and inequities. Through Undoing RacismTM / Community Organizing Work-shops, technical assistance and consultations, PISAB helps individuals, communities, organizations and institutions move beyond addressing the symptoms of racism to undoing the causes of racism so as to create a more just and equitable society. Today, The People’s Institute is recognized as one of the foremost anti-racism training and organizing institutions in the nation. The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond believes that an effective, broad-based movement for social transformation must be rooted in their articulated Anti-Racist Principles (excerpted below and found in full detail at www.pisab.org under Our Approach.)

Learning from HistoryHistory is a tool for effective organizing. Under-

standing the lessons of history frees us to create a more humane future.

Sharing CultureCulture is the life support system of a community. If a community’s culture is respected and nurture, the community’s power will grow.

Developing LeadershipAnti-racist leadership needs to be developed inten-tionally and systematically within local communities and organizations.

Maintaining AccountabilityTo organize with integrity requires that we be ac-countable to the communities struggling with racist oppression.

NetworkingThe growth of an effective broad-based move-ment for social transformation requires networking or “building a net that works”. As the movement develops a strong net, people are less likely to fall through.

Analyzing PowerAs a society, we often believe that individuals and/

or their communities are solely responsible for their conditions. Through the analysis of institutional power, we identify and unpack the systems external to the community that crate the internal realities that many people experience daily.

GatekeepingPersons who work in institutions often function as gatekeepers to ensure that the institution perpetu-ates itself. By operating with anti-racist values and networking with those who share those values and maintaining an accountable relationship with the community, the gatekeeper becomes an agent of institutional transformation.

UNDOING RACISM COMMUNITY ORGANIZING WORKSHOP

October 29-31, 2010at Temple University’s Mitten Hall

Contact Onaje Muid, MSW / Fatima Hafiz, PhD at 610.394.0512 or 201.647.4513 to sign up for the workshop. (Limited scholarships available.)

Go to www.pisab.org for more info about The People’s Institute.

ANTI-RACIST PRINCIPLES FOR EFFECTIVE ORGANIZING & SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONAccording to The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond

The actions of these puppets in today’s pageant were inspired in part by THE PEOPLE’S INSTITUTE For Survival and Beyond’s Anti-Racist Principles for Effective Organizing & Social Transformation.

Humanity

A limited listing of additional community resources in the work to overcome discrimination, create safe spaces, and build equity and justice include:

ACT UP Philadelphia - http://critpath.org/actupAsian Americans United - http://aaunited.orgNew Sanctuary Movement - http://nsmphilly.blogspot.com/The Attic Youth Center - http://atticyouthcenter.orgThe Council on American Islamic Relations - http://pa.cair.comThe Mazzoni Center - http://www.mazzonicenter.org/The National Coalition Building Institute - www.ncbiphilly.org

The Southern Poverty Law Center - http://www.splcenter.orgWomen’s Way - http://www.womensway.orgMexicanos JUNTOS - mexjuntos@yahoo.comCommunity Legal Services - http://www.clsphila.orgNAACP - www.naacp.orgACLU - www.aclupa.orgEducation Law Center - www.elc-pa.org

Resources

Spiral Q is supported by: The Barra Foundation • Connelly Foundation • Douty Foun-dation • Enterprise Rent-a-Car Foundation • Samuel S. Fels Fund • Independence Foundation • Lincoln Financial Fund • Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Fund • National Endow-ment of the Arts • Pennsylvania Humanities Council • Patricia Kind Family Foundation • Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Program Stream • Philadelphia Cultural Fund • Philadelphia Foundation • PNC ArtsAlive • Seybert Institution • Stockton Rush Bartol • Union Benevolent Association • American Street Empowerment Zone Community Trust Board • William Penn Foundation • And the generous donors like you.

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