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Lets TOC Presents
The Common Ground Festival: A Multi-Cultural, Multi-Arts Festival
On the afternoon and evening of June 7, 2008 at the Sandoval County Fairgrounds in Cuba, New Mexico, Diné (Navajo), Hispanic and Anglo community members from northwestern N.M. presented a festival of personal stories, video and film, music and visual arts.
The event was free and open to the public. This festival, directed and facilitated by Littleglobe’s Common Ground Project, was the inspiring result of a six-month collaborative project between artists and community members of all ages.
A Santa Fe based non-profit that exists to create collaborative art, Littleglobe Productions, Inc. fosters meaningful dialogue and community health across the boundaries that divide us.
Littleglobe launched its first large-scale community collaboration in 2001 with The Creative Center for Women with Cancer and has since received numerous commissions for multi-month projects from (among others) the Santa Fe Opera, The European Union Capital of Culture, and the Lensic Performing Arts Center.
The Common Ground Festival is the most recent community-engaged project of Littleglobe, following their 2007 community opera Memorylines: Voces de Nuestras Jornadas (commissioned by the Santa Fe Opera and The Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe May 2007. Memorylines was created by an ensemble of diverse Santa Fe residents, ages 8-87, exploring issues of immigration, history and cultural identity.
Lets TOC or Cuba / Ojo Encino / Torreon is a partnership with three underserved and diverse small and connected rural New Mexico communities. Littleglobe Productions immerses contemporary and traditional artists, community organizers, students, elders, and community members together creating a 6 month creative arts project.
The Lets TOC project encourages participants to explore issues of primary concern in their communities. This project has created an intermedia performance, installation, film festival of social and artistic significance.
Participants have produced extraordinary works identifying personal and historical concerns involving their communities. A celebration of these works will be presented on June 7, 2008 in Cuba, New Mexico.
The LG team facilitated supporting teams and professional individuals to become an important contributor to the Lets TOC project and have created a succesful group of local individuals. Thank you to all supporters and funders. Join us as we celebrate our works.
