As the current Chair of the Alternate ROOTS Executive Committee, Jaehn will host a monthly ROOTS rhizome ~ social event ... art salon  ... gathering  ~ on the 3rd Friday of each month.

There is no formal agenda ... fellowship, random acts of creativity, art-making or community activism could break out ... so bring something provocative to share!

Please join us.  An R.S.V.P. at least one week in advance is greatly appreciated.  Email Jaehn to RSVP, and receive the address/directions:

Please bring a modest amount of food or libations to share.
Are you allergic to felines?  Two small cats live on the premises ... take yer meds !

Jaehn (pronounced "Jane") Clare is a professional theatre artist, and a woman with a disability.

She began her career in theatre at the age of 16, recruited by her mother to audition for the local community theatre in Rapid City, South Dakota.  Jaehn was promptly bitten by the "theatre bug" and has been pursuing her dream of working in the theatre professionally ever since.

In 1980, Jaehn fell 27 feet from the top of a ladder leading up to the lighting grid, while working on a university theatre production of Samuel Beckett's Endgame.  She sustained a T-12 incomplete compression fracture, dramatically and permanently altering her life.  Jaehn uses a manual wheelchair to get around, and much of her work reflects her perspective of life on wheels.  Her mission is to contribute authentically to positive public images of people with disabilities in our culture.  Jaehn is a fierce advocate, a dedicated arts educator, a skilled arts administrator, a ParrotHead, and an enthusiastic participant in the banquet of Life.

Jaehn is currently employed with
The Woodruff Arts Center, as a Professional Learning Drama Teaching Artist.

feedback from a recent workshop with pre-service teachers, at GSU/Atlanta:

"Dear Ms. Jaehn:  Thank you for giving me permission to act silly, use my imaginatin, and be myself in my classroom. - Mary S. / P.S. I know my classroom is not a classroom; it's a box of imagination."

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For additional information, you may contact Jaehn directly : JaehnJaehnClare.net

"The word 'radical' gets over used, but it's the best word I can think of to describe this website. People create post cards of their secrets and mail them ... It's an incredible look at what it is to be human." ~ Laura W.

Years ago, Jaehn and Minna Hong interviewed each other, when the NPR StoryCorps project visited Atlanta.  Listen to streaming audio of the interview ~ ... learn more about StoryCorps.