For this assignment, I read the first 3 chapters of Theatre
of Witness by Teya Sepinuck. Teya’s journey to Theatre of Witness feels to me organic,
born of an innate desire to understand deeper human truths and flourished by community. I’m immediately reminded of the natural connections and art that is
made when societies strive to not only understand each other but also uplift different
voices. This provides deep healing and strengthening, I believe, for the
community at large. The storytellers, facilitators, and audience members develop
a relationship based on shared human experience and support, even if their
individual lives are wildly different. Teya herself gives an excellent example
of this effect in her writing about the production of Home Tales. Carlos and
his daughter, Alicia, had gone through immense pain in separation,
displacement, and cultural shock, and in Teya’s own words, “the scale of the Morales
family’s story was huge in magnitude”. However, a scene showing the father and
daughter simply dancing together, as Carlos expressed his unwavering support
for his daughter, gave a window of relatability into their story that may
otherwise be inaccessible to many audience members. “It humanized what might
have been too big a story to drink in”.
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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