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ACT Roxbury presents the third event in the Roxbury Discussion Series, a reading from and discussion of Red River by Lalita Tademy. Tademy, whose New York Times Best Seller book Cane River was a 2001 Oprah Book Club selection, will appear at the Roxbury Center for Arts at Hibernian Hall on Tuesday, April 10. There will be a reception from 5:30 to 6:45 followed by a reading and discussion at 7:00 PM.
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Hip-Hop
Artists Urged to Find Own Way
February
5, 2005 - The Boston Globe
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Do you.
That's what Berklee College of Music professor Bill Banfield told about
180 aspiring hip-hop artists yesterday in Roxbury during the Hip-Hop
Empowerment Summit: Making Your Music Heard. Banfield, who specializes
in black music, urged youths to share their unique stories in a world
that he said has become lopsided with tales of violence, drugs, and
sex.
The free event included a panel of hip-hop community members and a
live freestyle showcase, featuring improvizational performances. . A
crowd of mostly teenagers packed an auditorium in Hibernian
Hall to hear how they could make their music stand out
without selling out to what many consider the monotony of the mainstream.
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here to read the entire article.
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Resolved
to Making a Difference
January 1, 2005 - The Boston Globe |
Those who live, work, or socialize in Roxbury may have felt Candelaria
Silva's hand at some point this year. Toured art studios in October?
That's Silva. Discovered the work of filmmakers of color in August?
Silva. Purchased the neighborhood literary magazine filled with teen
writing in February? Yep, Silva. Attended a May stage reading of fledgling
playwrights' works? Silva, again.
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Roxbury
Writers Read Work at RCC
Teen
Voices Heard in ACT Roxbury Publication
March 18, 2004- The Bay State Banner |
Writers who call Roxbury home can be thankful for how Candelaria
Silva runs the ACT Roxbury Consortium, a program of the Madison Park
Development Corporation.
What other community has an organization devoted to authors of color
like this one? With Silva at the helm, Act Roxbury annually runs a film
festival with its emphasis on independent films made from scripts written
here. The consortium also offers a playwrights workshop led by the internationally
acclaimed dramatist Ed Bullins who assists writers to pull a play out
of themselves that ACT Roxbury then puts on in readings open to the
public and in some instances gives full productions to. Finally, the
consortium publishes a quality literary magazine that looks as smart
as anything else on the news stand.
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Acting
Up
Candelaria
Silva and ACT Roxbury use the arts to enliven a long-underserved community
October 3, 2003 - The Boston Phoenix |
WHEN MOST PEOPLE think of art in Boston, they think of the galleries
of Newbury Street. The city’s renowned museums. Fort Point Channel.
They do not, as a general rule, think of Roxbury.Candelaria Silva and
ACT Roxbury are working to change that.
ACT Roxbury is the cultural economic-development program of the Madison
Park Development Corporation, a 37-year-old community-development organization
whose mission is the social, physical, and spiritual renewal of long-embattled
Roxbury. In the six-plus years since its inception, ACT — it stands
for Arts, Culture, and Trade — has put together a host of events
and initiatives to enrich the community, including Roxbury Open Studios,
the Roxbury Literary Annual, and the Roxbury Film Festival, this year
attended by such Hollywood luminaries as CCH Pounder and Victoria Rowell.
As she prepared for ACT’s next major event, the fifth annual
Open Studios, Silva took time out from her busy schedule to talk about
the effect of the arts on the community she calls home.
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To
Be A Force for Positive Change
An
arts/development activist's vision, work, and prayer life.
Aug 26, 2002 - The Christian Science Sentinel |
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Candelaria Silva directs ACT Roxbury Consortium, a nonprofit organization
devoted to economic development fueled by the arts, culture, and trade.
Ms.
Silva lives and works in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood, which once had
Jewish, Irish, and other immigrant enclaves, but for more than a
half-century has been "hometown" to Boston's African American
community.
The Sentinel's Warren Bolon talked with Ms. Silva about the arts as
an
engine for community development, about her spiritual roots and search
for
meaningful worship. Ms. Silva began the conversation by explaining what
makes Roxbury distinctive.
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| Roxbury
Showcases Wealth of Talent
Aug
22, 2002 - The Bay State Banner
www.baystatebanner.com |
Special guest Kasi Lemmons, director of “Eve’s Bayou”
and “The Caveman’s Valentine” was on hand to help kick
off RFF 2002 with a private reception held on Thursday evening, August
15th at the Museum of Fine Arts, where over 250 guests turned out to
meet and mingle with the local filmmakers represented in the Festival.
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