Not surprisingly, CMW’s work with emerging and established arts leaders and organizations has begun to resonate in the wider world. CMW answers invitations to join an increasingly urgent national conversation. Central to the conversation is the simple but profound question Sebastian Ruth first posed 20 years ago: How can the arts help build healthy communities where social justice and civic engagement are the norm, not the exception?
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Music and Social Action
An online course based on Sebastian’s lecture series at the Yale University School of Music, Music and Social Action was launched in 2015 and has reached over 10,000 learners.
The World You Want to Live In: New Paradigms for the Arts (2016)
Essay by Lucy Caplan on the symposium Art and Social Action: New Paradigms and Practices co-presented by Community MusicWorks and the Brown University Arts Initiative.
Music & Civil Society (2011)
A publication from the Community MusicWorks conference in collaboration with the Cogut Center for the Humanities at Brown University.
Imagining Art + Social Change (2008)
Community MusicWorks’ conference in collaboration with Providence Youth Arts Collaborative. Documentation including photographs, video and more.