The key takeaways
from being in the Arts and Activism class for me were gaining a higher
understanding of Cuba’s history with the U.S.
I did not know that relations between Cuba and the U.S. began in the 18th
century when European colonies of the New World began trading with Cuba for
sugar and tobacco. I also did not know
that Cuban baseball traveling teams began to travel to the U.S. to play Major League
Baseball before World War I. Only Cuban light-skinned
players were allowed to travel and play in the U.S. if they looked white by
American standards. The research that I have
done has opened up material that I can source to create art. In the future I will choose a topic from history
to inform my creative process and give me a starting point in devising a
project.
Another key
takeaway was going to TJ and meeting their local artists. I was struck by how these artists drew from
their family and neighborhood stories to create art. I will look into my own stories that range from
my parents coming to the U.S. illegally to my ten-year military career to
inform my creative process in the future.
Lastly, I will
review the book Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution to build
strategies and get ideas on how to organize and stage art to address issues
that I may be interested in affecting like Guillermo Gomez-Pena has done in “The
Couple in The Cage” and his guest appearance here at CalArts Bijou Theatre.
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