1. Content: They focus is on the issue of civil rights throughout history. They use historical characters interacting to question the larger theme of civil rights.
2. Form: The inclusion of a joker, inspired by Boal's Theater of the Oppressed work. She also includes the experience of the younger cast learning about the historical characters. There is a use of a chorus and an "aesthetic eclecticism" of the way the story is being told.
3. Context: An immigration movement was fermenting and real estate developers were threatening the South Central Farm.
4. Stakeholders: Anyone of any color acknowledging that there is racism rooted in American history along with current issues that want to make a difference. The Latino youth are learning about the history of civil rights and the patterns reflected in current standings in the U.S. In addition, the people watching are opening their eyes to the way all of these deaths are being processed by the children on stage.
5. Audience or communities engaged: Latinos in Los Angeles that were part of CalArt's Plaza De la Raza. Another community engaged are African Americans in LA in the audience that can perhaps directly relate to the content on stage. And anyone aware of racism and open enough to process the issue in the U.S. through another lens.
6. Engagement strategies: Everyone is developing their thoughts together. Because the youth processed the events happening and posed specific questions, everyone's thinking is being developed in the same way. It is an innocent and universal understanding of the world. It moves past just the issue of black and white, it begins to envelop the truth as being multicolored and bringing fear and rage across the spectrum from the past to the present.
7. Resources: The children's brains were their own resource. It helped to process the content of the show. The other resource is the form of the Joker inspired by Boal.
8. Goal: The students wanted to get a glimpse of their history through the exploration of another. They didn't want to play any more "poor Latinos." They asked questions like whom do we trust in moments of crisis? What is the role of the police?
9. Outcomes: The results of this project are kids learning that no one is a monster, there are just flawed human beings. They can learn from another history that is not their own. It stems the question of how do I relate to this and how is it still present today? The outcomes supported the goals of the project.
10. Values: Young people can handle material that is heavy and nontraditional staging. None of the information was dumb down. What can we learn from exploring another culture's history? How do the mind's of children help us process information? Where do we stand currently on the issue of race?
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