Recommended Reading

• Beyond the Building: Performing Arts and Transforming Place (convening)
• Art of Relevance by Nina Simon (book)
• Animating Democracy (website)
• Createquity Archive — Cultural Equity (website)
• Howlround (website)
• “The Great Divide and the Pronoun ‘We’” (article)
• “Belonging: A Cornerstone of Placemaking in the Region” (article)
• Arts and Democracy (newsletter)
• The Opera House (film)
• Engaging Matters by Doug Borwick (blog)

Noteworthy Organizations

• Sojourn Theatre
• Center for Performance and Civic Practice
• Cornerstone Theater Company 
• Urban Bush Women 
• Campus Compact (see the compiled list of civic action plans from higher education institutions)  
• National Conference on Citizenship

OPERA America Resources

• Opera Conference 2015 Opening Session (at minute 29)
• Opera Conference 2015 Opening Session (at 1 hour, 23 minutes)
• Opera Conference 2015 Closing Session (at minute 25) 
• Opera Conference 2017 Creating Change: Equity, Diversity and Inclusion 

This list of reference materials is part of the report, An Introduction to Civic Practice, published by OPERA America. The report was derived from the meetings of the Civic Action Group, a peer-learning cohort of company representatives working to explore how opera can increase its capacity to address civic priorities, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.