Wooo let me just say that our community is alive!
Wu Tang Clan ain't nothing to fuck wit and hip hop initiated me.
Today we took tours to historically important areas for the apia community around the Bay Area. I went to the Eastside Arts Center. Our tour guide and facilitator of the day was Eden. She was the same Eden who was an RA at COSMOS my sophomore year of high school, and here she is now in my neck of the woods. What a small world! And a blessing at that.
In East Oakland, the San Antonio District, International Blvd has a collection of resources: Native American Medical Center, Goodwill, Taco and Burrito Stands, Ice Cream trucks, a Chinese school, McDonald's, taquerias, and then this arts center.
stage, drumset, piano, display cases: critical resistance to the prison systems, sprung floor, recording studio, locked doors, visual arts room, graf in the back lot.
stand shoulder to shoulder: inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale. we came here as a peoples who have a passion to make waves in our communities. don't forget the struggle, where we came from, who died for us, who die for us, who we die for...
stand toe to toe with someone: learn to embrace the uncomfortableness and let it be comfortable, intimate, trust, share 30 seconds of your thoughts. listen. share..listen
trust fall: balance, stance, you got my back, with eye contact? yes, i got your back! take a second to ground yourself. let the insecurities melt and just have faith....trust...ready? fall! falling...
back to back sitting and 10 seconds of it with the group: focus on your own power squat yet work with the greater collective in the squat pot.
beat machine: rhythm, layers, bass, sound, music, loud, quiet, loud. proud of our music
name game: upper body movements, callin out, calling in, around the world, and back again
YOU: point, eye contact, verbal communication minus the point, minus the verbal communication....be direct, stay focused, concentrate without getting all butt hurt
interrogation game: why you gotta be so mean? why is your whole team mean?
improv machine: theme-asian american sterotypes. act a stereotype and build it like a machine into a working scene. embody the stereotype and then challenge it. frustrating to do it over. sometimes your idea is not interpreted the way you think and you gotta let go of that ego because the idea may come at a later point. confusion. frustration. impatience. performance and success.
speak out: joy, trust, succes, pride, beauty, energy, fun, love, empowerment, englightenment, etc etc etc of fun gooey good stuff in the middle of our breath. in out 3x and OUT OUT OUT everything!
who came to who first? jacky
we aren't broken, we just have downfalls. we are survivors! bryant
chew chew chomp chew! panda express protest! phuong
monks wearing saffron robes. simone
2 sponges, damp and dry, damp and dry, with no water running between. simone
carry the energy within you....
”The role of the revolutionary artist is to make revolution irresistible.”
-Toni Cade Bambara, (1939-1995), writer, activist
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