Jaron Crespi - Week 2

1. Content: What is the issue, need, idea or opportunity addressed by this project?

One issue addressed by this project is the fear of addressing sensitive subject matter. Specifically subject matter that pertains specific to a community and the dispersion of perspective and thoughts regarding that subject matter. There is an opportunity for us to come together and be vulnerable with one another for the sake of peace and unity rather than a culture of divisiveness and hostility.

2. Form: What medium and techniques were used to embody the content?

The Joker System play is the primary technique used to embody the content of identity and moral confrontation by utilizing "outside" voices such as the joker and the chorus to provoke both the audience and the actors to really consider this content. That plus the cycling of actors for different parts distanced them from developing an attachment and bias towards a specific role and to understand each lense which the variety of characters see the world through.

3. Context: What are the circumstances and setting that frame our understanding of this project?

For us it is our residency at CalArts and inclusion within the community which inhabit our school that provides the context that we can relate to one another within to understand this project as a community.

4. Stakeholders: Who can affect or be affected by this project?

Those who are affected by this project are all who participated, those who witnessed the play as audiences, and those being witnessed to by the ones who fall under the first two categories.

5. Audience or communities engaged: For whom and/or with whom was this project created?

This project was really created for the kids who participated and their friends and family (community) who came to support and watch the show.

6. Engagement strategies: How were the stakeholders, audiences, and community members

engaged in this project? How were the goals of the project advanced?

The stakeholders, audiences, and community members were engaged by the content of the play, but what was really provoking for the audience and community members was that the ones providing the content and acting it out were their own children. This immediately gave the performance a lot of weight and influence for the audience to receive.

7. Resources: What tangible or intangible resources were used to pursue the project's goals?

The physical resources were whatever Plaza could provide for the show. However, the accomplishment of project's goals were realized through the people in the community as opposed to usable resources. The community provided itself as the resource for the impartation (I don't mean that the community is a thing to be used but that what I think is cool is that the experience went beyond the consumption of physical resource and the power was found in the people participating).

8. Goal: What are the project's objectives?

Some of the project's objectives were to create a dialogue and safe space to teach wisdom and learn from the humanity within one another.

9. Outcomes: What were the results and the impact of this project? Did they match the goals?

The results of this project included both the children and adults of the community asking real questions and dialoguing with one another. This result matched the goals of what the piece was aiming to achieve.

10. Values: What were this project's guiding values and/or core beliefs?

This project highly values putting on a pair of someone else's shoes and looking at the world through their eyes and to allow that to create within oneself a sense of empathy and understanding to pursue peace with their neighbor.