The Process
Our Process
There are two components to the project:
1. Community workshops and organizing activity
2. Performances and ancillary events.
We believe that there is a greater role for art to play in civic matters. The tools we employ to make art – consensus building, finding common meaning from multiple points of view, envisioning new worlds, and literally building them – can lead us to achieve community impact.
"You have to get unsettled to get unstuck."
-Maria Rosario Jackson
The Most Beautiful Home... Maybe
offers an organizing strategy based on the process of making theater, believing that we must bring together the widest representation of stakeholders together, repeatedly, to build trust, to hear each other’s stories, standing side by side, each contributing their experiences and envisioning solutions that work for everyone.
We start by hosting community workshops, group interviews, and creative activities organized with local partners in four cities – St. Paul, Los Angeles, Syracuse, and Mesa, AZ. – this brings together local stakeholders: housing insecure, policy makers, government workers, commercial and non-profit developers, activists, and advocates to have conversations.
At these sessions, we utilize:
- story circles,
- design thinking technologies,
- group composition exercises,
We understand that policy change does not adhere to a production schedule so we strive to connect participants to local organizing efforts, inspiring them to seek out housing advocacy efforts after the performances; to enlist folks, one by one, to move us collectively towards a present in which housing is a fundamental right, and a future where everyone can be housed.
In order to work towards a collective vision, an important part of the process is simply to see what the issues we're talking about can look like.
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