Read (or view or listen) and synthetize key ideas/learnings. Make sure to cite your sources as evidence to support your key points. Reflect on potential applications in your understanding of community-engaged arts practices or your understanding of your own artistic practice in particular. Share your writing via a blog post.
The Danger of a Single Story:
- Children will listen
- There is danger in media and lack of understanding
- History is written by the victors, by the rich, the most influential
- Ideas and mass-misunderstanding always have and always will exist... i.e. there is no way that the entire population of the earth will understand every aspect of life because there is no way to truly comprehend every life situation unless every life is exactly the same. Even communism doesn't reach that standard, and communism (while it is the most simple form of living) never has and never will truly work.
Sarah Jones: One Woman, Many People
- Is this considered comedy? Is it informational?
- Are these characters that she has curated or embodiments of something she has experienced and worked through? [Edit - I take that back.....]
- How many people have called her act racist? Rhetorical question - I think it's hilarious
- Oh the "teenage highschool" character being requested by the teacher to relate to her students.... XD
- I think the older woman is my favourite of her characters - she reminds me of my grandfather
- If you didn't see the screen and tool out all the references to her being all the characters, you wouldn't be able to tell that there is one person playing all of the speakers
- I wonder if she practices method acting in order to play these characters
Anna Deavre Smith Talks Theater and Activism
- It was wonderful to listen to someone talk to a woman she idolizes and respects
- *compliments photographic memory... performs as different characters and people she is definitely not for a living
- it's amazing what people will share in an interview - once people start talking about themselves, they can't stop (i'm referring to her interviewees)
The Danger of a Single Story:
- Children will listen
- There is danger in media and lack of understanding
- History is written by the victors, by the rich, the most influential
- Ideas and mass-misunderstanding always have and always will exist... i.e. there is no way that the entire population of the earth will understand every aspect of life because there is no way to truly comprehend every life situation unless every life is exactly the same. Even communism doesn't reach that standard, and communism (while it is the most simple form of living) never has and never will truly work.
Sarah Jones: One Woman, Many People
- Is this considered comedy? Is it informational?
- Are these characters that she has curated or embodiments of something she has experienced and worked through? [Edit - I take that back.....]
- How many people have called her act racist? Rhetorical question - I think it's hilarious
- Oh the "teenage highschool" character being requested by the teacher to relate to her students.... XD
- I think the older woman is my favourite of her characters - she reminds me of my grandfather
- If you didn't see the screen and tool out all the references to her being all the characters, you wouldn't be able to tell that there is one person playing all of the speakers
- I wonder if she practices method acting in order to play these characters
Anna Deavre Smith Talks Theater and Activism
- It was wonderful to listen to someone talk to a woman she idolizes and respects
- *compliments photographic memory... performs as different characters and people she is definitely not for a living
- it's amazing what people will share in an interview - once people start talking about themselves, they can't stop (i'm referring to her interviewees)
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