1. Content: What is the issue, need, idea or opportunity addressed by this project?
Inner city youth of Oakland in high school that don't have the chance to speak about issues that they are directly involved with.
2. Form: What medium and techniques were used to embody the content?
There were cars on a roof that allowed for the audience to walk around. This is a site-specific piece. The cars are a motif of freedom. The kids were in cars and would be allowed to talk about issues of importance between each other. This gave them a chance to directly communicate to one another. The audience had to bend down and listen to their conversations. Their listening was a part of the performance. The audience finally wanted to bend over and listen to eavesdrop on the teenager's conversations.
3. Context: What are the circumstances and setting that frame our understanding of this project?
The teenagers are inner city high school students in the Oakland area. There have been riots that have broken out and the neighborhood is in a cycle of poverty.
4. Stakeholders: Who can affect or be affected by this project?
The students can become more informed and the people that come to the show will gain a respect of the teenager's views on major issues within their community. Getting high school students to talk about issues they deal with will give the outside watchers a new perspective of what is happening first hand within a community they may not be involved with.
5. Audience or communities engaged: For whom and/or with whom was this project created?
This project was created for inner city high school students in Oakland so that they would have a chance to be heard. It was also created for people of different communities to get a chance to really listen to voices that they are unfamiliar with.
6. Engagement strategies: How were the stakeholders, audiences, and community members engaged in this project? How were the goals of the project advanced?
The teenagers really got a chance to debate and share their views on charged subjects. This gave them a chance within their own community to find similarities and differences in views. It also gave them a sense of importance when people of other communities came in to listen to their views. For the audience that listened, it was a challenge to bend over a car and really hear a conversation and point of view from someone you would never think to listen too. The goals were met by giving the students a voice and having communities that have not heard these kid's voices finally listen.
7. Resources: What tangible or intangible resources were used to pursue the project's goals?
A parking garage with many cars made for a site-specific performance. The cars are a theme of liberty and independence. It also created a "gallery of stories" in sorts and really made the audience try hard to listen. This also allowed for multiple conversations to happen at once. This, in turn, created more opportunity for differing content to be involved. The cars were placed sporadically around the top floor of the garage and made the audience pick their own path and which group of kids they wanted to listen too.
8. Goal: What are the project's objectives?
Give the kids a voice and give the people from other surrounding communities a chance to listen.
9. Outcomes: What were the results and the impact of this project? Did they match the goals?
The kids felt that they had a voice and people gained new perspectives of the kids living in that area. The outcome did match the goals.
10. Values: What were this project's guiding values and/or core beliefs?
The kids are capable of talking about issues that concern them. Creating awareness both within and around their communities will end a stigma of the students meeting a generalized stereotype. Give the kids a voice and people to listen.
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