The roof is on fire incorporates a multitude of community outreach strategies. The most obvious one it uses is elevating the voices of those less heard. Often community outreach focuses on letting unheard voices be heard and that is entirely the focus of this piece. I think in the context of this performance there is a lot of potential for this to be successful in spreading the communities concerns. I do think however that it might not be functioning exactly how the directors or performers think it is. The people who really should be engaging with this piece are not the people who are likely attending it. I’m sure that the people who really need to be exposed to the voices of these kids are entirely unaware of the performance. It’s difficult to reach those people as they live in completely different worlds, and I wonder what techniques can you incorporate to attempt to reach those kinds of people.
Issues that have been impacting my life and the ones around me mainly revolve around environmental issues. One of the pressing issues that affects the agriculture community in California is the State’s distribution of water. Now a tactic that the State Government has had for many years is to take water from Northern California and send it down to the South. The south is in need of water as they do not get enough to support themselves, but the issue is a bit larger and encompuses the states refusal to create more reservoirs to store water to be used during the dryer months. But the main issue is that the focus is uneven and falls heavily on the side of sending it to the south instead of distributing it evenly so farmers in all regions but mainly central and southern california have the proper amount of water to grow their crops. California is one of the leading states in the production and exporting of agriculture products due to our vast and wide scale of geological environments, but ...
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