Alternate ROOTS

🪕 The Alternate ROOTS office will be closed Friday, May 22-Monday, May 25 for the Memorial Day holiday.

🚲 Wishing you all a restful, creative, and fun weekend!

📞 ROOTS staff will respond to your messages on Tuesday, May 26.

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🐝 ROOTS Week is Coming to Arkansas for the First Time! 🐝

After almost 20 years of meeting in Appalachia, ROOTS Week 2026 will take place in Little Rock, Arkansas – the ancestral home of the Caddo, Osage, and Quapaw peoples.

🐝 Arkansas ROOTers, we also urge you to invite friends who may be interested in learning more about Alternate ROOTS. If they don’t have a full week to commit, we’re making it really easy to check out ROOTS Week for 1-2 days. Whether you’ve been to ROOTS Week before, or this is your first time, we’d love to be in community with our local AR folks! 🐝

🎟️ OFF-CAMPUS TICKETS 🎟️

Off-campus tickets are still available–find them at our “ROOTS Week” 🔗 Link in Bio.

Off-campus tickets include three meals per day and access to all programming; you will be responsible for your housing. Come for the whole week or check out ROOTS Week for a couple of days! Off-campus tickets are available until Wednesday, July 15. We will not be accepting any walk-up registrations.

⁉️ QUESTIONS ABOUT ROOTS WEEK? ⁉️

Please each out via the Contact Us form at our 🔗 Link in Bio

📢 Attention ROOTS Members! Register NOW for Virtual Business Meeting Friday & Saturday, April 24-25 📢

🛠️ Participatory governance is hard work! And it takes all of us. 🛠️

✉️ Check your March 25 email for full details and a link to register! ✉️

The Alternate ROOTS Executive Committee will be leading a virtual Business Meeting :

📊 Friday, April 24, 5:30-8pm ET / 4:30-7pm CT
📊 Saturday, April 25, 10:30am-3pm ET / 9:30am-2pm CT.

Big thanks to the Membership Development Work Group of 2022-2024 who pushed for more opportunities for members to be meaningfully involved in the work of the organization!

🧑🏼‍❤️‍🧑🏽 We will still hold the Annual Business Meeting during ROOTS Week in August. 🧑🏼‍❤️‍🧑🏽

🙋🏽‍♂️ Join us in April as we re-connect with community and engage deeply with our vision for the future of Alternate ROOTS! 🙋🏽‍♂️

✉️ Can’t find the link to register in your March 24 email? Reach out via our contact form at our link in bio. 🔗

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