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Performing Community 2 : Short Essays on Community, Diversity, Inclusion, and the Performing Arts Performing Community 2 : Short Essays on Community, Diversity, Inclusion, and the Performing Arts By Blair Ruble Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars One Woodrow Wilson Plaza 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20004-3027 www.wilsoncenter.org ISBN: 978-1-938027-59-8 October 2016 SHORT ESSAYS ON COMMUNITY, DIVERSITY, INCLUSION, AND THE PERFORMING ARTS l III l THE WILSON CENTER, chartered by Congress as the official memorial to President Woodrow Wilson, is the nation’s key nonpartisan policy forum for tackling global issues through independent research and open dialogue to inform actionable ideas for Congress, the Administration, and the broader policy community. Conclusions or opinions expressed in Center publications and programs are those of the authors and speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Center staff, fellows, trustees, advisory groups, or any individuals or organizations that provide financial support to the Center. Please visit us online at www.wilsoncenter.org. Jane Harman, Director, President, and CEO BOARD OF TRUSTEES Thomas R. Nides, Chair Public members: William D. Adams, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Secretary of Health and Human Services; David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States; Carla D. Hayden, Librarian of Congress; John F. Kerry, Secretary of State; John B. King Jr., Acting Secretary of Education; David J. Skorton, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Designated appointee of the president from within the federal government: Fred P. Hochberg, Chairman and President, Export-Import Bank of the United States Private Citizen Members: Peter J. Beshar, John T. Casteen III, Thelma Duggin, Lt. Gen. Susan Helms, USAF (Ret.), Barry S. Jackson, Nathalie Rayes, Earl W. Stafford, Jane Watson Stetson WILSON NATIONAL CABINET Ambassador Joseph B. Gildenhorn & Alma Gildenhorn, Co-chairs Peter J. Beshar, Eddie & Sylvia Brown, Armeane & Mary Choksi, Ambassador Sue & Ambassador Chuck Cobb, Lester Crown, Thelma Duggin, Judi Flom, Sander R. Gerber, Harman Family Foundation, Frank F. Islam, Willem Kooyker, Raymond Learsy & Melva Bucksbaum*, Frederic V. & Marlene A. Malek, Ambassador Robert A. & Julie Mandell, Thomas R. Nides, Nathalie Rayes, Wayne Rogers, B. Francis Saul II, Diana Davis Spencer, Earl W. Stafford, Jane Watson Stetson, Leo Zickler *deceased SHORT ESSAYS ON COMMUNITY, DIVERSITY, INCLUSION, AND THE PERFORMING ARTS l V l CONTENTS Chapter 1- Communities and Change / 1 Living Diversity: Documenting Arlington, Virginia’s Inclusive, Safe, Resilient, and Sustainable Communities / 2 Washington’s Rose Park and the Lessons of Welcoming Public Space / 5 Feasts for Eyes Too Blind to See: Destroying Communities in the Name of Ideology / 8 Washington’s Changing Neighborhoods: Looking East / 14 From Collards to Kale: Redefining Washington’s West End / 16 Small is Beautiful: A Washington Tale of Little Red Rockers and Ducks / 18 Washington, D.C. The Anxious City / 22 10 Steps to a More Genuine D.C. Experience / 25 Chapter 2- Mobility, Community, and Equality / 27 A Public Management Train Wreck: The Lessons of Unaccountability and the Washington Metro / 28 CARPETing the City with Transit: Essential Elements for Promoting Mobility and Equity with Sustainable Development / 31 Returning to Plato’s Cave: How the Light of Smart Technology Brings Us Back to Old Debates / 36 Summer of Washington’s Capital Discontent: Lessons from the Past / 38 Chapter 3- The Arts and Community Making / 41 Feel that Funky Beat. The Sound of Converting Dreams of Community into Reality / 42 Hometown D.C.: America’s Secret Music City / 45 Down By the Riverside: Jazz Over the Volga / 48 How Naples Became Europe’s Great Musical Machine / 51 Building Community Through Theater; Lessons from the Setagaya Theater / 55 The Cirque Comes to Town. Learning about Culture and Cities from Montreal / 57 Bringing New York to the Broadway Stage / 61 l VI l PERFORMING COMMUNITY 2 INTRODUCTION The Wilson Center’s Urban Sustainability sufficient number had appeared to be Laboratory has long promoted holistic gathered in Performing Community: views of cities as places of promise. Short Essays on Community, Diversity, Whether sponsoring discussions about Inclusion, and the Performing Arts. This expanding peri-urban communities in first collection included twenty-one essays Africa, innovative housing in Latin America, focusing on the role of the performing arts or new smart transit systems in Asia, the in community building around the world. Center’s urban programming has sought This second collection adds nineteen to embed the discussion of specific more recent essays expounding on these urban challenges in larger conversations previous themes to examine the impact about community, governance, and of enduring change, the importance of transparency. Our approach to the urban mobility and equality, and the role of the condition very much aligns with the arts in community making. intention of United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 11 advocating for Writing about Amsterdam, the eminent cities that are inclusive, safe, resilient and Dutch novelist, poet, and journalist Cess sustainable. Nootebom asks what makes a city? His response to his own question offers a The Laboratory began posting short broad framework for appreciating why essays about these themes by Director cities are indispensable. For Nootebom, a Blair A. Ruble in 2012. By 2015, a city consists of SHORT ESSAYS ON COMMUNITY, DIVERSITY, INCLUSION, AND THE PERFORMING ARTS l VII l “everything that has been said discourse, the pamphlet, the death there, dreamed, destroyed, announcement, the calling of the undertaken. The effected, the hours, the words of nuns, whores, disappeared, the imagined that kings, regents, painters, aldermen, never came to be. The living and hangmen, shippers, lansquenets, the dead. The wooden houses that local keepers, and builders, the were torn down or burned, the persistent conversation along the palaces that might have existed, canals in the living body of the city, the bridge which was drawn but which is the city. Whoever wishes never built, the houses still standing can hear it.”1 where generations have left their memories. But there is much more The purpose of the essays to follow is to than that. A city is all the words help those who want to hear the city in a that have been uttered there, an Nootebomian manner to do so. unceasing never-ending muttering, As in the first collection, the essays whispering, singing, and shouting presented here are by Blair Ruble. They that has resounded through the have benefited tremendously from the centuries and been blown away support and contributions of Urban again. This cannot have vanished Sustainability Laboratory colleagues Allison without having belonged to the Garland, Thea Cooke, Kathy Butterfield, city. Even that which is never to Savannah Boylan and Minh Tran. be retrieved is part of the city because once, in this place, it was called out or uttered on a winter night or summer morning. The open-field sermon, the verdict of the tribunal, the cry of the flogged, the bidding at an auction, the ordinance, the placard, the Endnote 1 Cess Nooteboom, “Amsterdam,” in De Filossof Zonder Ogen [1997], as translated by Manfred Wolf and Virginie Kortekaas in Manfred Wolf, editor, Amsterdam, A Traveller’s Literary Companion (San Francisco: Whereabouts Press, 2001), pp, 3-4. Communities and Change l 2 l Living Diversity: Documenting Arlington, Virginia’s Inclusive, Safe, Resilient, and Sustainable Communities On September 25, 2015, the United resilient and sustainable” city look like? Nations adopted 17 Sustainable One answer emerges from the once Development Goals intended to shape “suburban” county of Arlington, Virginia UN and other international development across the river from Washington, D.C. strategies and agendas over the next 15 With more than 200,000 residents, years. The goals replace the previous Arlington is a small city embedded in a Millennium Development Goals adopted larger metropolitan region which, over in 2000 to provide a roadmap for the course of the last half century or so, engagement with the globe’s most vexing has been transformed from a suburb that development challenges in a holistic was home to segregated populations manner. of Southern whites and blacks to an The new strategy explicitly identifies increasingly urbanized community in which urbanization as a key part of the UN no racial or ethnic group constitutes a framework for combatting global poverty minority. and inequality. Goal 11 recognizes cities Arlington, in other words, is at the and focal points for ideas, commerce, forefront of demographic processes culture, science, productivity, and social which are changing the face of American development while simultaneously communities as well as the United observing that many challenges strain States in its entirety. Arlington is doing urban well-being. Therefore, it urges UN so with relatively little rancor as well as actions to “make cities inclusive, safe, with improving economic opportunities resilient and sustainable.” and advancements, achieving low crime Words and exhortations can inspire; to rates and far-reaching transportation become calls to action they must embrace opportunities. Arlington, in other words, realizable visions of a new future. What, reveals how an “inclusive, safe, resilient we may ask, would an “inclusive, safe, and sustainable” city looks. l 3 l PERFORMING COMMUNITY 2 You don’t have to travel
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