Monique Wilmoth – Ten Lenses: What a Riot!

1. Content: What is the issue, need, idea or opportunity addressed by this project?
   Give a historical overview of the civil rights movement by zooming in specific colored people, Rodney King & Claudette Colvin to guide the narrative.
   
   
2. Form: What medium and techniques were used to embody the content?
   The character of the Joker and the chorus involve the audience in the telling of the story allowing for discussion and more excitement by allowing audience members to voice themselves.
   
   
3. Context: What are the circumstances and setting that frame our understanding of this project?
   Again, both the Joker and chorus really set the context for the play by intervening with questions and context clues for the audience.
   
   
4. Stakeholders: Who can affect or be affected by this project?
   The participants of the play and their peers. They are presented with an opportunity to really analyze their role in this production and be engaged. Also, anyone who is an audience member in the community.
   
   
5. Audience or communities engaged: For whom and/or with whom was this project created?
   Since it was a production by CAP at Plaza de la Raza, it was created for the surrounding community and the youth.
   
   
6. Engagement strategies: How were the stakeholders, audiences, and community members engaged in this project? How were the goals of the project advanced?
   Getting the community involved and invested – get them participating in the discussion.
   
   
7. Resources: What tangible or intangible resources were used to pursue the project's goals?
   The use of historical figures and trying to encapsulate the backgrounds of the participants in the production.
   
   
8. Goal: What are the project's objectives?
   To create an educational and participatory event by striking the attention of the youth by inspiring them with stories and a production about the civil rights movement – facilitate a dialogue between play participants + audience.
   
   
9. Outcomes: What were the results and the impact of this project? Did they match the goals?
   With the participation of the students and their engagement + involvement in the project, I think the project met the projected goals by giving the youth the opportunity and the place to voice their opinions in this important dialogue.
   
   
10. Values: What were this project's guiding values and/or core beliefs?
    As said above – give students a place to voice themselves.