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#LinkRoundup! — 11/28/14
Link Roundups feature articles and bits of internet goodness that our dramaturgy team digs up. If you find something you want to send our way, drop us a line on Facebook or Twitter!
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Here are a few links worth checking out in light of the events unfolding in Ferguson this week:
— Back in August, The Atlantic posted a fantastic crowd-sourced “syllabus” about African American and civil rights history that does a great job placing these awful recent events in context.
— Roxanne Gay’s essay Only Words eloquently frames the questions so many of us are asking ourselves about what justice in this country can look like.
How do we talk about race? How do we see one another as human, as having lives that matter, as people deserving of inalienable rights? These conversations are always so tense, so painful. People are defensive. We want to believe we are good. To face the racisms and prejudices we carry forces us to recognize the ways in which we are imperfect. We have to be willing to accept our imperfections and we have to be willing to accept the imperfections of others. Is that possible on the scale required for change?
— For those who consider themselves allies, check out this article about 12 Ways to be a White Ally to Black People and this great video for a few important tips:
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Maddy Costa, writing for The Guardian, cites a report from the Brooklyn Commune Project that suggests how theatre can make better citizens:
Performing arts, it declares, “are inherently social arts and provide a necessary opportunity to develop the skills of socialisation and communication required by a healthy democracy”. It emphasises: “Cultural activities and the performing arts specifically, can uniquely serve as a meeting place, a site for the formation of a shared communal identity as ‘the public’.”
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In honor of yesterday, here’s a fun post about what Thanksgiving dinner might look like if it was prepared by various famous artists.
Thanksgiving Dinner a la Jackson Pollack
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We bet there are a few folks out there who will get a kick out of this SNL sketch that aired last weekend.