![]() ![]() In 2020 Ben was recognized by Time Magazine as one of "27 People Bridging Divides Across America." His writings on cultural work, organizing, pedagogy, and grassroots economic development have been published by, the Brookings Institution, Bill Moyers, HowlRound, ArtPlace America, and the National Endowment for the Arts. A lot of people dont believe me when I tell them Letcher County. Art in a Democracy: Selected Plays of Roadside Theater, Volume 2: The Intercultural Plays, 19902020. in cultural studies from the University of Minnesota, where he taught and trained instructors for many years. He has held positions on the board of directors of Appalshop and Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed, Inc., trained and directed the homeless-housed zAmya Theater Project of Minneapolis, and dramaturged the German-language premieres of several Broadway musicals. those of Jackson, Benjamin Butler, Silas. ' Art in a Democracy overflows like water from a well, chronicling a rural working-class theater's 45-years of crisscrossing the country bridging bitter partisan, racial, and other divisions by dramatizing the tremendous local intelligence and creativity inherent in every community. Professor Leon Fink of the University of. ![]() Paul, taught English at the Diesterweg Gymnasium (high school) in Berlin, and directed youth theater and creative writing programs at Appel Farm Arts and Music Center in rural southern New Jersey. Workingmens Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics. Free Spaces: The Sources of Democratic Change in America. Ben has organized with faith, labor, and community networks in Minneapolis-St. Plays of Roadside Theater, Volume 1: The Appalachian History Plays, 19751989 Ben Fink. He works at Roadside Theater, a part of Appalshop, a grassroots cultural and media organization in the east Kentucky coalfields. ![]() Ben Fink is the lead organizer of the Performing Our Future coalition and former/founding organizer of the Letcher County Culture Hub. ![]()
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