Thank you!
We give immense gratitude and pleasure to have the assistance from our class facilitators Mike Grogan and Taja Will throughout this artistic process Our evening courses have been filled with thoughtful discussion on community involvement, reflection on our past experiences in other productions, and had an immense variety of members of the art community engage in conversation.
The artists/technical producers/lawyers/community members that we want to express our immense gratitude for being guides throughout this process are included below:
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Andrea Reynolds: Administration
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Maija Maiden and Xochi De La Luna: Self Producing
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Amy Esposito: Marketing
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Pearl Rea: Stage Management
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Jovan Speller: Grant Writing (MRAC Representative)
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Jeffrey Wells of Supergroup: Collaborative Producing
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Blake Iverson: Legal Issues related to Producing
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Marcela Michelle: Multi-Discipline Producing
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It is essential for us as a Production class to recognize the trend of sustainability. Caring for the earth and reducing overconsumption has been made popular because it has become accessible and convenient for financially privileged people and communities. Does sustainability truly lie within a society that has made land and people expendable? How do we, as a University class, recognize our history and attempt to implement practices devoted to cultures that have been ostracized from their own land?
With the hopes of continuing further conversation and equitable practices towards sustainability, we must acknowledge that sustainability is a practice that has been integrated in many cultures for generations.
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We have placed sources of organizations below to further research on groups that continue their practice of restoring health and well-being to communities and their lands.