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04051aam a22004938i 4500 001 EEDC359C1DF111EDA8BEF4A423ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220817010036 008 211207s2022 iau 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021040708 020 $a 1609388275 020 $a 9781609388270 035 $a (OCoLC)1285916303 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a PS3603.A8954 $b C47 2022 050 00 $a PS3603.A89755 $b C38 2022 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Catlett, Mallory, $d 1969- $e author. 245 14 $a The city we make together : $b City council meeting's primer for participation / $c Mallory Catlett and Aaron Landsman. 263 $a 2205 264 1 $a Iowa City : $b University of Iowa Press, $c 2022. 300 $a xix, 229 pages : $b color illustrations ; $c 23 cm 490 0 $a Humanities and public life 520 $a "In the middle of unprecedented, ongoing national political polarization, local governments carry on their work of deliberating, administrating, and running the official structures of cities. City council meetings are often where seemingly mundane issues take on epic proportions, and where democracy moves forward in its clunky, wildly imperfect way. How much is a local government meeting an exercise in democracy, and how much is it an exercise in impression management? In 2009, theater artist Aaron Landsman was dragged by a friend to a city council meeting in Portland, Oregon. At first he was bored, but when a citizen dumped trash in front of the council in order to show how the city needed cleaning up, he was rapt. He saw for the first time how our civic bodies often result in a performance of democracy as much as the real thing. He began attending local government meetings across the country, interviewing council members, staffers, activists and other citizens, using an ethnographic method. Out of this initial investigation, Landsman and director Mallory Catlett developed a participatory theater piece called City Council Meeting in five US cities-from New York City to Houston, Keene New Hampshire to San Francisco. They worked with local partners to create endings in each city about issues on the ground and trained local staffers to take audiences through the experience. Along the way they got some things right, made mistakes and learned ways to approach community engagement across geographic, racial and class lines. Five years later Catlett and Landsman returned to local partners in each city to reflect together on what the impact of the project was, how it could have been better, and what they got right. No One is Qualified looks at how we make art with communities, how we perform power and who gets to play which roles, and how we might use creativity and rigorous inquiry to look at our structures of democracy anew. This book is ideal for interdisciplinary humanities courses, socially-engaged theater-making programs, and cross-disciplinary programs in sociology/ethnography, philosophy, politics and live performing arts"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 600 10 $a Catlett, Mallory, $d 1969- $t City council meeting $x Production and direction. 600 10 $a Catlett, Mallory, $d 1969- $t City council meeting $x Stage history. 650 0 $a Performance $x Political aspects. 650 0 $a Participatory theater. 650 0 $a Local government $z United States $v Drama. 650 7 $a Local government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01001300 650 7 $a Participatory theater. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01054039 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Drama. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423879 655 7 $a Drama. $2 lcgft 710 2 $a University of Iowa Press, $e publisher. 700 1 $a Landsman, Aaron, $d 1968- $e author. 941 $a 3 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117020514.0 952 $l A2PD787 $d 20230308010105.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20221005010343.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EEDC359C1DF111EDA8BEF4A423ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search