Radical Hope:
Wonderings:
1. As a white Latino, I wonder how much I can explore my own African heritage without stepping on the Afro-Caribbean culture.
2. How much of this information applies to Puerto Rico, since the country has different political ties with the United States?
3. They don’t want to HEAR you. They don’t want to SEE you. They don’t want to TALK to you. How would silence work when you are being avoided at all costs?
Observations:
1. "I spoke silence better than I spoke English or Spanish": “On one level, silence was a priceless survival strategy for those of us coming out of a dictatorship, in a post-dictatorship society that had not yet undone the work of that dictatorship. In the long afterlife of dictatorship, silence was invaluable, holding your counsel, not allowing people to know what you were really thinking. That permitted, for many, many families and many, many, community, permitted survival.”
2. “ [W]e are not a culture that has built into our way of being, our way of thinking, our civic imaginaries — contemplation, mourning, working through difficult contradictory emotions.”
3. “Vulnerability is the precondition to contact. You can form no intimacy without vulnerability. I mean how many of us are in intimate relationships where we have incomplete vulnerability? We, ourselves, are not completely, yet, in, because we're not completely vulnerable; and therefore, we have emaciated the opportunity afforded by these relationships.”
My Radical Hope
My vision of radical hope is artistic accessibility for all. No matter how much money or how much privilege someone has, the arts should not be granted only to those who have a lot. Coming to CalArts is an extreme economic burden for me, and I know that there are a lot of other students going through the same burden. I know that choosing the arts as a professional career is not an option for many minorities because of the economic factor, and the arts are being presented out there only from one point of view, the point of view of those who can afford it.
One of the things that has come to my mind when listening to this video and merging it with my art for was “disrupting Broadway”. From the moment I wanted to be an actor, to the moment I lived in New York City, my dream was to be an actor on Broadway. But to come to the realization that for someone like me, a Puerto Rican actor with a strong accent, Broadway has no place, it has create a sort of radical hope. Meaning that maybe Broadway is not for me not because Broadway is too much for me, but because I am too much for Broadway. The main audiences that go to Broadway are wealthy white people and whenever there is a showcase of minorities on stage, is merely for the entertainment of those white people. Hamilton: The Musical, the best example of minorities showcase on Broadway for the entertainment of wealthy white people, because the minorities being showcased can’t afford to see themselves on stage.
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