Workbook Resources

Mixed Metaphor

Introduction

Welcome to the resources page for Mixed Metaphor: A Hybrid Approach Toward Liberatory Infrastructure for Arts & Culture Organizations. This webpage shares the media links from Mixed Metaphor in the sequential order in which they are found in the workbook.

As an initiative based in the cultural sector, Leveraging a Network for Equity (LANE) engaged all of our senses during our knowledge- and infrastructure-building process. We drew pictures, used our bodies, read, made things with our hands, discussed, wrote poems, danced, created playlists, and sang as ways to embody and activate our learning journey.

To invite you into this full-body praxis, the clickable hyperlinks on this page will connect you to various types of media to watch, listen, sing with, and move to. Enjoy.

Mixed Metaphor is a workbook for people who care about co-creating equitable and liberated arts leadership and organizations. Return to the Mixed Metaphor workbook. You can sign up for updates and opportunities to connect more deeply.

Learn more about the LANE initiative.

Chapter 1: A Blessing and a Welcome

The LANE Journey: Easin’ on Down the Road Home

Chapter 2: Cultivating the LANE Ecosystem

  • Bringing Black Back

    Junebug Productions

    Video

    npnlane.org/video-junebug

  • Our Space

    Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center

    Video

    npnlane.org/video-suteatro

  • Bingo! How Lived Experience Informs Learning: Episode #4

    Linda Parris-Bailey and Jonathan Clark of The Carpetbag Theatre, Inc. and Meena Natarajan, Dipankar Mukherjee, Adlyn Carreras, and Anh-Thu Pham, of Pangea World Theater

    Blog

    npnlane.org/bingo4

  • Liberation Through Love and Rage

    Southsea Sangha and Lama Rod

    Playlist

    npnlane.org/love-rage

Chapter 3: Cornerstones to Guide Us

  • Cultural Wellness Playlist

    Native Governance Center

    Playlist

    npnlane.org/cultural-wellness

  • LANE’s Black August Calendar

    Writing and other co-creation from Sara Carminati, Alleyha Dannett, Stephanie DeWolfe, and Bryan Graham, Big Tada, Inc.

    Political Education Calendar

    npnlane.org/blackaugust

Emergence

  • Complex Adaptive Leadership: Embracing Paradox and Uncertainty

    Nick Oblensky

    Book

    npnlane.org/cal

  • LANE’s TACtile Podcast: The Cornerstones Series – Emergence with adrienne maree brown

    Sage Crump & adrienne maree brown

    Podcast

    npnlane.org/tactile-emergence

  • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

    adrienne maree brown

    Book

    npnlane.org/emergent-strategy

  • Building a Stronger ALAANA [African, Latinx, Arab, Asian, and Native American] Arts Community: Keeping an Eye on Systems,

    Janet Brown and Angelique Power, GIAReader

    Article

    npnlane.org/alaana

Racial Justice & Cultural Equity

Design Justice

Chapter 4: The Sacred Seven: An Invitation to What’s Possible

Leadership

Relationships

Transformation

  • Sucession

    The Carpetbag Theatre, Inc.

    Video

    npnlane.org/video-succession

  • Emotions, Resilience, & Courageous Conversation

    Elissa Sloan Perry (adapted from Marshall Ganz).

    Blog

    npnlane.org/emotions

  • LANE’s TACtile Podcast: Transformation is Necessary

    Sage Crump and LANE Alpha Cohort

    Podcast

    npnlane.org/tactile-transform

  • LANE’s TACtile Podcast: The Nonlinear Nature of Change

    Merri Anne Osborne and Nina Yarbrough, of Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas

    Podcast

    npnlane.org/tactile-nonlinear

  • Bingo! How Lived Experience Informs Learning: Episode #1

    Nina Yarbrough and Merri Ann Osborne, of Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas, and Evelyn Francis and Harold Steward, of The Theater Offensive

    Video

    npnlane.org/bingo1

Risk

  • Courage

    Studio Thalo ​(Olivia Levins Holden, Nell Pierce, Donald Thomas)

    Graphic Recording

    npnlane.org/courage

  • Coming Back After Our Third Near-Death Experience

    Junebug Productions

    Video

    npnlane.org/video-near-death

  • Naming Our Conditions (Headlines from 2030)

    Brandon Black, Drawnversation

    Graphic Recording

    npnlane.org/conditions

  • Organizers in Space: What Movement Organizing & Space Exploration Can Learn From One Another

    adrienne maree brown and Autumn Brown

    Podcast

    npnlane.org/organizers-in-space

  • Bingo! How Lived Experience Informs Learning: Episode #3

    Damia Khanboubi, of Junebug Productions, and Tara Dalbo and Natalia Neira Retamal, of La Peña Cultural Center

    Video

    npnlane.org/bingo3

Organizational Culture & Power

  • Free to Be Honest

    Studio Thalo ​(Olivia Levins Holden, Nell Pierce, Donald Thomas)

    Graphic Recording

    npnlane.org/be-honest

  • Timeless Cultural Roots and Rebirth

    Hayti Heritage Center

    Video

    npnlane.org/video-hayti

  • A Home To All

    Natalia Neira Retamal and Bianca Torres, La Peña Cultural Center

    Video

    npnlane.org/video-lapena

  • LANE’s TACtile Podcast: Creating Secular Social Space in the Rural South

    Jackie Clay and Audra Tignor, of the Coleman Center for the Arts

    Podcast

    npnlane.org/tactile-coleman

  • Bingo! How Lived Experience Informs Learning: Episode #5

    Krys Holmes, of The Myrna Loy, and Angela Lee, of Hayti Heritage Center

    Video

    npnlane.org/bingo5

Organizational Capacity & Infrastructure

  • Campos de Castilla

    Antonio Machado

    Book

    npnlane.org/campos

  • The State of Your Organization

    Karina Branson, ConverSketch

    Graphic Recording

    npnlane.org/your-org

  • Welcome

    Coleman Center for the Arts

    Video

    npnlane.org/video-coleman

  • Do You Heal (We All Got Our Medicine)

    Co-written by Lu Aya Nephew & The Peace Poets, Akua Smith, and Lex Barlowe

    Audio Recording

    npnlane.org/do-you-heal

  • Building a Culture of Exchange

    Emily Simons

    Graphic Recording

    npnlane.org/culture-of-exchange

  • Change Capital

    Studio Thalo ​(Olivia Levins Holden, Nell Pierce, Donald Thomas)

    Graphic Recording

    npnlane.org/change-capital

  • LANE’s TACtile Podcast: Queering Organizational Change: Trust the Rollercoaster

    Harold Steward and Evelyn Francis, of The Theater Offensive

    Podcast

    npnlane.org/tactile-tto

  • LANE’s TACtile Podcast: Mind over Matter: How Shifting Our Thoughts Shifted Our Organizational Health

    Anjee Helstrup-Alvarez and Letetia Rodriguez, of Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA)

    Podcast

    npnlane.org/tactile-macla

  • Bingo! How Lived Experience Informs Learning: Episode #2

    Angela Two Stars and Alex Buffalohead, of All My Relations Arts at the Native American Community Development Institute (NACDI), and Anjee Helstrup-Alvarez, of Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA)

    Video

    npnlane.org/bingo2

Influence

Chapter 5: Openings, Closings, & Transitions

Appendix: Additional Listening & Learning

Contributing Materials

Reading

Watching

Listening

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