Aaron Landsman has co-authored a book about the performance of democracy, and about how we can engage with communities outside our own in a way that honors difference, adventure, curiosity and creativity. The City We Make Together, published by The University of Iowa Press' Humanities and Public Life series, chronicles the creation and production of a participatory theater work called City Council Meeting in five US cities. It offers approaches to documentary and ethnographic performance-making, stories from the field, and a path toward a curriculum for civic engagement. In this particularly fractured political moment, The City We Make Together holds hope for democracy in local political action.