Building Community Through Grassroots Art Projects 4. Elder Voices - A Journey into Aging Through Song and Story 5. The Beat of the Street 6. Art as a Catalyst for Community Revitalization 7.
Leadership skills develop when the barriers to effectively communicate are lowered.
Begin lowering those barriers by using the words of others to entertain and inform. They have banded together to create a literary arts organization known as the Hub City Writers Project. Betsy Teter Exec. Grassroots Art Projects Participants learned how an inner-city neighborhood brought the arts alive in its neighborhood. It was demonstrated how the Broadside Project, a collaboration between visual and literary artists who work together to produce beautiful silk-screened art posters with poetry, short prose, and visual art, got started and how these arts programs have helped build a neighborhood community.