Celebrating self-expression as a basic human right essential for the

healthy growth of youth, individuals and communities

COMMUNITY ARTS ADVOCATES, INC.

Stephen H. Baird, Founder and Executive Director

PO Box 300112, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130-0030

Telephone: 617-522-3407 TTY/MA RELAY 800-439-2370

info@communityartsadvocates.org

www.BuskersAdvocates.org 

NOLA ARTS: New Orleans Arts and Artists Relief Fund!

Introduction and Services

Links, Festivals and References

Artists Directory

Photo-Journalism Project

Performance Locations Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas

Historical References

Books and References

Fine Arts Paintings, Photographs and Films

Legal Court Citations

Model Regulations

Sidewalk Democracy: Regulation of Public Space

The Malling of America: The Selling of America's Public Parks and Streets

India's Street and Transit Music

Avenues of Self Expression

Code of Ethics

Amplification Ethics

Subway Transit Artists

Women Street Performers and Sexual Safety

Email List

Stephen Baird's Home Pag

(Detailed site index at bottom of page)


www.TheBuskingProject.com

Tracking a Path Across the Globe to Interview, Photograph,

Film, and Discover the Life and Motivations of the World’s Street Artists!


Ninth Circuit Appeals Federal Court Case won 8-3 Berger vs. Seattle June 24, 2009

Glen Hansard, a former Dublin busker, with singer Marketa Irglova win the 2008 Oscar and Grammy for the best song Falling Slowly

Spokane Legal Battle Won November 24, 2008

Wilmington, North Carolina, Law and Enforcement Practices Ruled Unconstitutional November 3, 2008

Boston Crack Down on Street Performers and Artists August 2008

MBTA-Radio Threatens Subway Performances Oct 2007

Jakarta, Indonesia bans donations to buskers September 2007

Kansas City Council attempts to ban street performances February 2007

Welcome!
Please explore this internet research and information center on the Street Arts and Buskers traditions. The index above will lead you to historical references, court cases, regulations, performance locations and links. Also, there is an artists data base listing street and vaudeville artists in the Greater Boston area and the world. There is a detailed index at the bottom of each page.

The Street Arts & Buskers Advocates publishes model street performance ordinances, court decisions on street artists' rights, lists of traditional street performance locations throughout the world, maintains an internet web site and provides educational workshops, artists referrals and street festival production consultation.

The streets arts are dynamic and constantly changing. This site is only one gateway to this world. Please forward comments, corrections, and ideas back this way. The information is only as good as we share it.

This information has been published for over three decade now. Many copies are sent to national news organizations, libraries, arts councils and legal clinics free of charge as part of the advocacy to expand the public support of the street arts. Please support this effort by becoming a member or making a donation on form below or online through the secure site at Wainwright Bank on the link below. Many thanks.

Stephen Baird, Street Arts and Buskers Advocates

Statement of Purpose

Street Arts and Buskers Advocates cultivates ongoing fundamental relationships between artists and communities by celebrating self-expression as a basic human right essential for the healthy growth of youth, individuals and communities.

Street Arts and Buskers Advocates is a program of Community Arts Advocates, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to expanding public awareness, participation in and support of the arts through performances and festivals, exhibits and workshops, publications and publicity, educational forums, nonprofit arts management consultation services, and collaborative projects.

Background on Street Arts and Buskers Advocates

Street Performers Festival at Faneuil Hall Marketplace in Boston,

created in 1984, with consultant work by Stephen Baird

founder of the Street Arts and Buskers Advocates

Background on Stephen Baird

Stephen H. Baird is the founder and director of Street Arts and Buskers Advocates and Community Arts Advocates. He has over three decades of performances, arts advocacy and grassroots arts administration experience.

Stephen Baird restructured Club Passim, the historic folk music venue in Cambridge, as a nonprofit organization in 1995-97. He co-founded the Bread & Roses Festival in Lawrence in 1986, founded and directed the Folk Arts Network from 1982-96, published the New England Folk Almanac and New England Folk Directory from 1982-1996. He produced Jamaica Plain Open Studios and directed the Jamaica Plain Arts Council from 1999-2001.

Stephen Baird has been featured in Time, Newsweek, People, National Law Review, American Bar Association Journal and many other national magazines, a PBS documentary, a Discovery Channel documentary, and at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.

Visit these web pages for video clips, media reviews and appearance list, plus lectures and performance programs for festivals, universities and schools: Stephen Baird's Home Page

 

"Stephen Baird is the national authority on the history of busking"

- Patty Campbell, Passing the Hat: Street Performers in America

 

"But none has honored his roots--or his audience--

as fondly as the man street players now call

'the Dean.' Good show."

- People Magazine

Stephen Baird in "Street Art" from documentary film series America!

Black Light Films, Louis Schwartzberg, 1999

Services

The Street Arts and Buskers Advocates publishes model street performance ordinances, court decisions on street artists' rights, lists of traditional street performance locations throughout the world, and provides educational workshops, artist referrals and festival production consultations.
 
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Artist members should include a performance description, rates and a photograph or jpg image for inclusion in the artists referral files. Make checks payable to Community Arts Advocates and send to:

Street Arts and Buskers Advocates

Community Arts Advocates, Inc.

P.O. Box 300112

Jamaica Plain, MA 02130-0030

 Donations can also be made by credit card at the on line secure site of the Wainwright Bank (Click on logo)

For additional information call:

617-522-3407 or email:

info@communityartsadvocates.org

THANKS!


Street Arts and Buskers Advocates

For translations into different languages -- Arabic, Chinese, Italian, French, German, Russian, Spanish or others visit the web site: http://babel.altavista.com
Community Arts Advocates programs are supported in part by grants from the Boston Cultural Council, Cambridge Arts Council and Somerville Arts Council, through the local cultural council grant programs which are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

Community Arts Advocates

Copyright © 1999-2011 by Stephen Baird