CSCW Bonus Reprise: Jan Cohen Cruz - Meeting the Moment

This Bonus episode of Change the Story / Change the World is in celebration of the publishing of https://nyupress.org/9781613321546/meeting-the-moment/ (Meeting the Moment: Socially Engaged Performance - 1965-2020 by Those Who Lived It,) by Jan Cohen Cruz and Rad Pereira. Hi this is Bill Cleveland. I'd like to welcome you to a Bonus episode of Change the Story / Change the World in celebration of a publishing milestone. For the past 4 decades Jan Cohen Cruz has been working at the crossroads of theater and social change, as a performer, as a teacher, and as a storyteller documenting the continuing evolution of socially engaged performance. Now, I'm very happy to announce that her new book Meeting the Moment, shines a light on that extraordinary history by sharing the stories of the people lived it. In this episode, first broadcast in November of 2021, Jan talks about her own history as an activist, performer and teacher, and the genesis of Meeting the Moment, which was recently released by https://www.newvillagepress.org/about-us/mission-statement/ (New Village Press.) Links to both New Village, and a related episode featuring https://change-the-story-chan.captivate.fm/episode/episode-46-carlton-turner-sipp-culture-rising (Carlton Turner) who wrote the book's forward can be found in our show notes. Jan Cohen-Cruz has given a lot to the field of arts-based community development. By that, I mean that there's a significant body of academic and community-based artwork, scholarship, teaching, and organizing that are absolutely covered with her fingerprints. BIOJan Cohen-Cruz was the founding editor of http://public.imaginingamerica.org/ (Public: A Journal) of Imagining America. She directed Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (2007-12), and for 28 years before that, was a professor at NYU, directing a minor in applied theatre and initiating socially-engaged projects and courses. She wrote Engaging Performance: Theatre as Call and Response and Local Acts: Community‑Ba