Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue archive, 1997-2000.

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Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue archive, 1997-2000.

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The archive contains administrative records focused primarily on the practical issues of organizing the summer sessions for the years 1998, 1999, and 2000. Materials include correspondence, administrative hiring, records for housing, intern applications and activities, budgets for the organization as well as for individual projects, and promotional materials. Among the records of the many productions produced over those three years are records relating to the development of House Arrest by Anna Deavere Smith. This work was presented as part of the Institute in the summer of 1998; it was staged at the Mark Taper Forum in the spring of 1999 and at the Joseph Papp Public Theater in 2000. Included in this collection are records relating to its development such as transcripts of group discussions, videotapes of its staging at the Institute and finally at the Public Theater.

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