Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Hurray!
Here's a post from Kira Neel looking back at Saturday's performances! Look out for lots of pictures and video footage soon:
"It rained! It rained down energy and enthusiasm and lets-do-it-again and happy birthdays and audience appreciation and great performances! It rained down possibilities and growth and changes at Findlay Market on Saturday! It rained down grey mists and fat drops all day and still the kids admonished each other through texts and Facebook to show up and all got out there to perform!
That's a lot of exclamation points, but truly, the end of the Clark/Market project ended terrifically. I think we all pushed ourselves and each other to be more creative, more flexible, more thoughtful and more daring than many expected they would have to be. I applaud Clark Montessori, Dean Blase and the junior class for making this all happen.
If only it hadn't rained, maybe you would have been there too . . . Luckily we had plenty of photographers and videographers documenting the shows. Stay tuned!"
"It rained! It rained down energy and enthusiasm and lets-do-it-again and happy birthdays and audience appreciation and great performances! It rained down possibilities and growth and changes at Findlay Market on Saturday! It rained down grey mists and fat drops all day and still the kids admonished each other through texts and Facebook to show up and all got out there to perform!
That's a lot of exclamation points, but truly, the end of the Clark/Market project ended terrifically. I think we all pushed ourselves and each other to be more creative, more flexible, more thoughtful and more daring than many expected they would have to be. I applaud Clark Montessori, Dean Blase and the junior class for making this all happen.
If only it hadn't rained, maybe you would have been there too . . . Luckily we had plenty of photographers and videographers documenting the shows. Stay tuned!"
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Friday, March 12, 2010
Tomorrow's the day!
Tomorrow! Findlay Market! 1pm! project cincinnatUS! 83 clark montessori students! rain or shine! come get some vegetables and explore some original performances! hurray!
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
A look back at Week 2...
week #2 "the market" from Ethan Philbrick on Vimeo.
Here is a short video of out-takes and explorations from some of our preliminary performance work at Clark Montessori.
Get excited for the final performance!
Saturday, March 13th -- 1pm, Findlay Market!
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
We're Getting Close!
The final performance for "the market" is almost here! As we work together to deepen our performance vocabulary, the students have been thinking about issues in Cincinnati that are important to them. Here's a list that came out of one of those conversations:
IN CINCINNATI, WHAT BRINGS US TOGETHER OR KEEPS US APART?
*food and parties- social divides*
*lack of warmth- touch and eye contact*
*social cultural events bring people together*
-community restaurants- food - food culture as something that can unify communities, help to connect across communities and also demonstrate separations/segregation
-race
-prevalence of stereotypes
-afraid of being rejected, afraid of change
-people choose to be separate in their neighborhoods, they like what is familiar, prefer to stay in comfort zones
-"high school city" great loyalty and connection to high schools, but sometimes high schools bring people together across neighborhoods
-people don't understand folks from other walks of life
-prejudices
-class differences and backgrounds
-people come together around music, sports, ice and roller-skating, movies, kings island, churches, mall
-making personal relationships challenges these things that keep people apart and can bring people together
-money and access- segregation, poor transportation system
-violence: wanting power and respect: intense segregation leaves people feeling isolated, take out aggression in neighborhoods
-"anybody and everybody can do something": volubility of violence
-people can come together around tragedy ie riots (within certain communities), windstorms
-divide in schooling
******
Here's a note from Kira, the theater artist working with the students, about these conversations:
"The Clark students developed lists of how and why people are separated in Cincinnati, mostly by racial, economic and geographic factors. The next questions to discuss, from my point of view, are, why and how do these separations become dangerous to society and our individual and collective well-being? How do these separations connect to the other issues the kids are talking about? I'm thinking especially about violence within communities and the fact that many kids bring up a culture of fear and living in a city where they feel people on the streets don't want to recognize or reach out to each other, which is reinforced by a city that is divided. I think it is important to think and talk about access and power: culturally, people may enjoy different kinds of music or food or ways of relaxing, but the real question is what are the essentials that all residents of a city should have access to? Here is where we get back to the question of "What is the Cincinnati of your dreams?"
I think the next step in our work is to really examine all these issues the students have brought up and to explore the purposes of the performances. Given their observations, interpretations and analysis, what is their vision for how they'd like Cincinnati to be? Can these performances TRANSFORM, EDUCATE, ENTERTAIN? How can the work we do at Findlay Market challenge what the students have identified as problems in the city?"
See you all on Saturday!
IN CINCINNATI, WHAT BRINGS US TOGETHER OR KEEPS US APART?
*food and parties- social divides*
*lack of warmth- touch and eye contact*
*social cultural events bring people together*
-community restaurants- food - food culture as something that can unify communities, help to connect across communities and also demonstrate separations/segregation
-race
-prevalence of stereotypes
-afraid of being rejected, afraid of change
-people choose to be separate in their neighborhoods, they like what is familiar, prefer to stay in comfort zones
-"high school city" great loyalty and connection to high schools, but sometimes high schools bring people together across neighborhoods
-people don't understand folks from other walks of life
-prejudices
-class differences and backgrounds
-people come together around music, sports, ice and roller-skating, movies, kings island, churches, mall
-making personal relationships challenges these things that keep people apart and can bring people together
-money and access- segregation, poor transportation system
-violence: wanting power and respect: intense segregation leaves people feeling isolated, take out aggression in neighborhoods
-"anybody and everybody can do something": volubility of violence
-people can come together around tragedy ie riots (within certain communities), windstorms
-divide in schooling
******
Here's a note from Kira, the theater artist working with the students, about these conversations:
"The Clark students developed lists of how and why people are separated in Cincinnati, mostly by racial, economic and geographic factors. The next questions to discuss, from my point of view, are, why and how do these separations become dangerous to society and our individual and collective well-being? How do these separations connect to the other issues the kids are talking about? I'm thinking especially about violence within communities and the fact that many kids bring up a culture of fear and living in a city where they feel people on the streets don't want to recognize or reach out to each other, which is reinforced by a city that is divided. I think it is important to think and talk about access and power: culturally, people may enjoy different kinds of music or food or ways of relaxing, but the real question is what are the essentials that all residents of a city should have access to? Here is where we get back to the question of "What is the Cincinnati of your dreams?"
I think the next step in our work is to really examine all these issues the students have brought up and to explore the purposes of the performances. Given their observations, interpretations and analysis, what is their vision for how they'd like Cincinnati to be? Can these performances TRANSFORM, EDUCATE, ENTERTAIN? How can the work we do at Findlay Market challenge what the students have identified as problems in the city?"
See you all on Saturday!
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