{"id":209,"date":"2016-03-14T11:35:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T18:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/home\/?p=209"},"modified":"2016-03-14T11:38:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T18:38:01","slug":"this-week-as-an-artivist-31216-chicago-vs-trump-brown-u-mujeres-de-maiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fanshencox.com\/home\/this-week-as-an-artivist-31216-chicago-vs-trump-brown-u-mujeres-de-maiz\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week as an Artivist 3\/12\/16: Chicago vs. Trump, Brown U, Mujeres de Ma\u00edz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4XmGzMHfjzY?rel=0&amp;controls=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>TRANSCRIPT<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>0:00:00.000,0:00:05.220<br \/>\nHey Artivists! How are you all doing? I had a great week. I hope you did too.<\/p>\n<p>0:00:05.810,0:00:09.599<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s going on with you? How was your<br \/>\nweek? What did you do towards your<\/p>\n<p>0:00:09.599,0:00:16.230<br \/>\nArt? Did you see any plays? Oh my goodness, I didn&#8217;t go see a play this week. That&#8217;s a first! I<\/p>\n<p>0:00:16.230,0:00:23.039<br \/>\nwas traveling. Did you go anywhere? Did<br \/>\nyou stay home? Did you write? Did you<\/p>\n<p>0:00:23.039,0:00:26.460<br \/>\nprotect your work? I&#8217;m gonna do an<br \/>\nepisode about how to protect your work. I<\/p>\n<p>0:00:26.460,0:00:31.480<br \/>\nthink that&#8217;s really important. But what&#8217;s<br \/>\ngoing on? How&#8217;s life going for you? Leave<\/p>\n<p>0:00:31.480,0:00:36.480<br \/>\na comment. Also if you like these videos,<br \/>\nplease do give it a thumbs up,<\/p>\n<p>0:00:37.110,0:00:42.320<br \/>\nsubscribe to the channel. I really<br \/>\nappreciate it. Alright. Oh wow &#8211; this is a<\/p>\n<p>0:00:42.320,0:00:47.710<br \/>\ngreat week. So last Sunday I participated<br \/>\nin the 19th anniversary of <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1TGJ932\" target=\"_blank\">Mujeres de Ma\u00edz<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>0:00:47.710,0:00:52.660<br \/>\nwhich is a an organization that is really dedicated to<\/p>\n<p>0:00:52.660,0:00:57.250<br \/>\nbringing together women -diverse women and girls to do<\/p>\n<p>0:00:57.899,0:01:07.189<br \/>\nprogramming, arts, culture, protest,<br \/>\nmovements together, politics and I was so<\/p>\n<p>0:01:07.189,0:01:11.180<br \/>\nhonored to be there. I met a lot of<br \/>\nreally cool people. Shout out to that<\/p>\n<p>0:01:11.180,0:01:14.439<br \/>\norganization. Of course there are links<br \/>\nbelow &#8211; check them out if you&#8217;re here in LA,<\/p>\n<p>0:01:14.439,0:01:18.140<br \/>\nsupport them. Go and be a part of what they do!<\/p>\n<p>0:01:18.140,0:01:23.680<br \/>\nOK I went to Brown University and<br \/>\nperformed One Drop there. This was their<\/p>\n<p>0:01:23.680,0:01:31.850<br \/>\nMultiracial Heritage series. They gave me<br \/>\nthis lovely lovely t-shirt, and I love this<\/p>\n<p>0:01:31.850,0:01:38.750<br \/>\non the back: Black Heritage Series and it was so wonderful I&#8217;ll show you some photos<\/p>\n<p>0:01:38.750,0:01:44.659<br \/>\nof our trip. So when we arrived for Tech,<br \/>\nthey were putting up black<\/p>\n<p>0:01:44.659,0:01:48.869<br \/>\ncurtains because there was this exhibit<br \/>\nbehind them. And I was like, &#8220;Oh let me see<\/p>\n<p>0:01:48.869,0:01:53.590<br \/>\nwhat it is,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/22ccqHJ\" target=\"_blank\">and it was a Black Lives Matter<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/22ccqHJ\" target=\"_blank\"> exhibit at the school<\/a>. And I was like, &#8220;You<\/p>\n<p>0:01:53.590,0:02:00.680<br \/>\nmust keep this up!&#8221; So I was thrilled<br \/>\nto be incorporated into this exhibit for<\/p>\n<p>0:02:00.680,0:02:01.930<br \/>\nBlack Lives Matter and it was<\/p>\n<p>0:02:01.930,0:02:08.210<br \/>\nbeautiful. And there were some photos,<br \/>\na painting behind me and it was so<\/p>\n<p>0:02:08.210,0:02:13.680<br \/>\ninteresting just as I was moving on the<br \/>\nstage in tech and in the show, it was like<\/p>\n<p>0:02:13.680,0:02:21.930<br \/>\nI felt the ancestors. I felt this sacred<br \/>\nspace behind me, just kinda like<\/p>\n<p>0:02:21.930,0:02:28.560<br \/>\nencouraging me to keep going &#8211; and that<br \/>\nthis is part of the struggle &#8211; and also<\/p>\n<p>0:02:28.560,0:02:30.440<br \/>\nhopefully part of a solution &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>0:02:30.440,0:02:33.860<br \/>\ndoing One Drop and having these<br \/>\nconversations we&#8217;re having with audiences,<\/p>\n<p>0:02:33.860,0:02:39.120<br \/>\nso that was just really beautiful. I want to say thank you to the organizers. Nimisha: you<\/p>\n<p>0:02:39.120,0:02:42.780<br \/>\nwere incredible. I know what it&#8217;s like to<br \/>\nhave to organize something and you are<\/p>\n<p>0:02:42.780,0:02:46.560<br \/>\nalso a full-time student and you just<br \/>\ndid such a great job, so thank you so<\/p>\n<p>0:02:46.560,0:02:51.780<br \/>\nmuch for organizing the entire thing.<br \/>\nAlso to Sam and Anselmo who I know were<\/p>\n<p>0:02:51.780,0:02:56.290<br \/>\nreally integral to making things<br \/>\nhappen. Also to Elmo, the professor<\/p>\n<p>0:02:56.290,0:03:00.110<br \/>\nwho hosted our Folk Thought after the<br \/>\nshow.<\/p>\n<p>0:03:00.110,0:03:03.670<br \/>\nThank you for doing that with us. I<br \/>\nfeel like the students are so lucky to<\/p>\n<p>0:03:03.670,0:03:10.850<br \/>\nhave you. To Kathy and Alonzo for your<br \/>\nincredible tech work. They learned the show<\/p>\n<p>0:03:10.850,0:03:11.890<br \/>\nright away.<\/p>\n<p>0:03:11.890,0:03:18.900<br \/>\nAlso Alexandrina Agloro &#8211; thank you because I know<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re the reason that the show happened<\/p>\n<p>0:03:18.900,0:03:23.290<br \/>\nat Brown at all; that you connected with<br \/>\nthem after you saw it and let them know<\/p>\n<p>0:03:23.290,0:03:29.080<br \/>\nto add me to their list of folks to<br \/>\nbring. So I appreciate that you did that.<\/p>\n<p>0:03:29.080,0:03:34.440<br \/>\nOh and then who came to the show? Jessi Rizzi (who I knew as Jessi Rizzi<\/p>\n<p>0:03:34.440,0:03:40.220<br \/>\ngrowing up), she&#8217;s now Jessi Driskell,<br \/>\nfifth-grade y&#8217;all! Fourth or fifth it might have been<\/p>\n<p>0:03:40.220,0:03:45.320<br \/>\nfourth grade I&#8217;ve known he. Including our<br \/>\nfourth grade or fourth and fifth grade<\/p>\n<p>0:03:45.320,0:03:49.769<br \/>\nteacher Barbara Fox, and my high school<br \/>\nteacher Donald who did our Q&amp;A with Junot Diaz in<\/p>\n<p>0:03:51.220,0:03:56.390<br \/>\nCambridge were ALL there. It was just so<br \/>\nbeautiful to have you &#8211; what a magical<\/p>\n<p>0:03:56.390,0:04:02.600<br \/>\nevening. Shout out to <a href=\"http:\/\/lat.ms\/1M0rQHF\" target=\"_blank\">Black, Latino and<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lat.ms\/1M0rQHF\" target=\"_blank\"> Muslim students<\/a> at the University of<\/p>\n<p>0:04:02.600,0:04:11.769<br \/>\nChicago, Illinois for shutting Trump DOWN. I&#8217;m<br \/>\nso impressed I&#8217;m sooo and, and I&#8217;d say<\/p>\n<p>0:04:11.769,0:04:14.730<br \/>\nthis all the time and it&#8217;s still true:<br \/>\nI&#8217;m so hopeful<\/p>\n<p>0:04:14.730,0:04:20.290<br \/>\nabout the future because young folks are<br \/>\nnot playing anymore. Hopefully we&#8217;ve<\/p>\n<p>0:04:20.290,0:04:24.979<br \/>\nlearned from past mistakes, particularly<br \/>\nabout getting complacent. I keep<\/p>\n<p>0:04:24.979,0:04:28.610<br \/>\nthinking, &#8220;What happened?&#8221; like, the civil<br \/>\nrights movement there was so much<\/p>\n<p>0:04:29.160,0:04:34.250<br \/>\nunification and activity and pushing<br \/>\nback and then at some point it just<\/p>\n<p>0:04:34.250,0:04:41.250<br \/>\nfeels like maybe we all got complacent,<br \/>\nor scared &#8211; very likely &#8211; when you&#8217;re<\/p>\n<p>0:04:41.250,0:04:46.850<br \/>\nreminded that your powerless, but, but<br \/>\nthese young folks are not having that! They&#8217;re like,<\/p>\n<p>0:04:46.850,0:04:52.440<br \/>\n&#8220;Okay maybe we don&#8217;t have the financial resources you have.<\/p>\n<p>0:04:52.440,0:04:56.970<br \/>\nWe don&#8217;t have the political<br \/>\nresources you have, but we have twitter!&#8221; &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>0:04:56.970,0:05:02.050<br \/>\nby the way I keep telling everybody I&#8217;ve<br \/>\nbeen telling you &#8211; I mean it&#8217;s getting late at<\/p>\n<p>0:05:02.050,0:05:06.479<br \/>\nthis point, but like, you need to be on<br \/>\nsocial media. This is how folks are<\/p>\n<p>0:05:06.479,0:05:11.580<br \/>\norganizing. This is how we are finding<br \/>\nlike-minded people and letting one<\/p>\n<p>0:05:11.580,0:05:16.389<br \/>\nanother know we&#8217;re here and we are<br \/>\nsupporting you. So I&#8217;m so proud of what<\/p>\n<p>0:05:16.389,0:05:21.349<br \/>\nyou all did. Congratulations. I&#8217;m<br \/>\ngonna put a <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1UmWMmP\" target=\"_blank\">link to a fund<\/a> for those<\/p>\n<p>0:05:21.349,0:05:26.870<br \/>\nprotesters who have been arrested. That<br \/>\ninformation is there.<\/p>\n<p>0:05:26.870,0:05:31.210<br \/>\nOK I don&#8217;t know if you remember that a<br \/>\nfew weeks ago I told you that submitted<\/p>\n<p>0:05:31.210,0:05:37.820<br \/>\nto the United Solo Festival. It&#8217;s a solo<br \/>\ntheater festival that takes place on 42nd<\/p>\n<p>0:05:37.820,0:05:44.570<br \/>\nStreet in New York for three months<br \/>\ntotal &#8211; and we got IN! HA!!! WE GOT IN! So One Drop<\/p>\n<p>0:05:44.570,0:05:51.789<br \/>\nwill be playing on 42nd Street Theater in New York City in October. This really is one<\/p>\n<p>0:05:51.789,0:05:56.470<br \/>\nof those cases where we&#8217;re going to be<br \/>\nproducing the show, so I&#8217;ve gotta find<\/p>\n<p>0:05:56.470,0:06:01.310<br \/>\nout about the Tech there, make sure<br \/>\nthey&#8217;ve got space for a projector and a<\/p>\n<p>0:06:01.310,0:06:05.770<br \/>\nscreen and I gotta figure out marketing<br \/>\nso I&#8217;m going to put together a budget this<\/p>\n<p>0:06:05.770,0:06:09.789<br \/>\ncoming weekend, then really already<br \/>\nstart doing social media pushes about<\/p>\n<p>0:06:09.789,0:06:15.139<br \/>\nit because if you sell out your show (and<br \/>\nwe just have about 55 seats so I&#8217;m confident<\/p>\n<p>0:06:15.139,0:06:18.770<br \/>\nwe can get folks in there) if you sell<br \/>\nout your show, they will extend your<\/p>\n<p>0:06:18.770,0:06:22.470<br \/>\nperformances. So I&#8217;m SO excited,<\/p>\n<p>0:06:22.470,0:06:29.330<br \/>\nso glad and will keep you posted on that. Wow about you? What&#8217;s up? What&#8217;s going on?<\/p>\n<p>0:06:29.330,0:06:33.510<br \/>\nHow was your week? What are your goals<br \/>\nfor this week? Are you writing? Are you<\/p>\n<p>0:06:33.510,0:06:38.080<br \/>\nproducing? Are you directing? What are you up to? Give us links to come and support<\/p>\n<p>0:06:38.080,0:06:41.740<br \/>\nyour work! Alright you all have a<br \/>\nwonderful, wonderful week. Mwwaa!<\/p>\n<p>0:06:42.280,0:06:46.900<br \/>\nGo. Hit it. DO it. Get going<\/p>\n<p>0:06:46.900,0:06:50.600<br \/>\nArtivists. Get some good stuff done and<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll talk to you next week. Bye!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRANSCRIPT: 0:00:00.000,0:00:05.220 Hey Artivists! How are you all doing? I had a great week. I hope you did too. 0:00:05.810,0:00:09.599 What&#8217;s going on with you? How was your week? What did you do towards your 0:00:09.599,0:00:16.230 Art? 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