Question.2458 - In lieu of working on-site with a community partner, you will write a 4 to 6-page paper addressing ways in which communities (with an emphasis on underrepresented groups) have traditionally engaged performance to celebrate their culture, including options related to how these communities have used performative tools to cope with, protest, respond, etc., during the COVID-19 pandemic. You can choose from the list below, or research community responses (protests, etc. including BLM protests, anti-vax protests, the Capitol Insurrection on Jan. 6, parades in your home town, etc.) If you research your own, these need to be available in online public platforms (videos posted by orgs., people, news clips, etc.). You need to copy the links to these videos in your paper. This paper will follow the same kind of 4-part format as the response papers: descriptive, analytical, reflective, and critical (tie-ins with course content) related to two to three community performance examples addressing contrasting themes (i.e. comic personal COVID “shelter in place” video vs. social protests). Special attention should be placed on who is performing, and what is being performed. Follow these prompts (not exhaustive, meant as guidelines): 1. Descriptive Section: What is the community / neighborhood where the performance took place? What is the physical description of the site? The atmosphere? Can you tell the make-up of the intended audience or community that the performance connects with? 2. Analytical Section: What is the performer(s)’s skill level? Were you able to identify any narratives or discourse relating to themes? In your opinion, how successful was the performance in conveying its points to the community? Does the community (or others) respond in any way? How? Can you identify any central challenges and/or obstacles that the performer had to face? Can you identify key components and positive elements? 3. Reflective Section: What impressed / surprised you? Why? What “worked” or engaged you? What aspects of the course work and readings can you relate to the performance? Can you articulate a connection with larger community needs? In which way(s) are the performances relevant to the community? In which ways did they confirm what you already knew...? 4. Critical Section: You must engage other course material: What aspects of the course work, discussions, and readings, including foundational readings and plays, can you relate to these performances? San Francisco-based options: Note: If the community where you come from holds a meaningful community parade / event featuring underrepresented populations, you can propose that instead: Carnaval San Francisco: Brilliant procession of contingents, most of which will feature beautifully adorned floats depicting rich multicultural themes and featuring performers who engage and entertain the crowds. Brazilian-style “escola do samba” schools, Mexican Aztec performers, traditional African drummers, Polynesian dancers, Japanese drummers, giant puppets and folkloric groups representing Guatemala, Honduras and Bolivia. http://www.carnavalsanfrancisco.org/parade (http://www.carnavalsanfrancisco.org/parade) San Francisco Pride Parade: San Francisco Pride is one of the oldest and largest LGBTQIA parades in the world. Contingents march through the heart of the city, along Market Street, with more than 100,000 spectators. Over 270 contingents participated in the 2019 parade, making it one of the largest in the history of the event. https://sfpride.org (https://sfpride.org/) San Francisco Parol Lantern Festival: This festival of lanterns is the quintessential Filipino holyday parade. For last year’s festival, check this link (https://www.parollanternfestival.com/) . San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade: A San Franciscotradition since just after the Gold Rush, the parade continues to delight and entertain the many hundreds of thousands of people who come to watch it on the street or tune in to watch it on television. Happy Year of the Ox! (https://chineseparade.com/) Dia de los Muertos Parade & Altars: A San Francisco original started by visionary Mission artist René Yañez and Galeria de la Raza in the 1970’s, this community event has endured to be the most relevant community event in the Fall. Click here for last year’s info. (https://www.dayofthedeadsf.org/) Note: Since this is a CEL course, COMPLETION OF THE CEL PAPER IS A REQUIREMENT TO PASS THE CLASS *All papers will be checked with Turnitin, so be clear on your citations. They must be typewritten, double-spaced, using a 12-point font and one-inch margins top, side, and bottom. All papers must be stapled. Papers that are not properly formatted will be marked down by one grade point (A to A– etc.) Late papers are marked down by a half letter grade for each late calendar day (not class meet) up to two days. DON’T FORGET TO WRITE YOUR NAME, COURSE, DATE AND ASSIGNMENT TITLE.
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Table of contents Introduction 3 Descriptive Analysis 3 The movement gained its momentum 3 Forming allies to celebrate 4 Arranging virtual events for the LGBTQ community 4 Organisational strategies for the local pride celebration 5 Performances enjoyed by the community ground 5 Expressing the meaning of pride 6 Unity being an important factor 6 Pride movement- a huge success 7 Conclusion 7 References 8 Communities During Covid 3 Introduction The community can be described as a group of people who all reside in the same place or might share the same taste, attitude or interest among themselves. The community can be denoted as a social unit that all include the same or common norm, values, religion, identity or customs (Monteithet al., 2020). The community can be said as persons sharing the same geographical area or virtual space while using various communication platforms. Descriptive Analysis In this assignment, the community of LGBTQ are discussed as this community is gaining its space in the community for being United and coming in open with their choices. LGBTQ+ Pride is the promotion of dignity, self-affirmation, equality and also coming in the vision of the world for the gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexuals as a community. Pride has always been a social stigma and looked upon as shame is the boisterous movement for gaining their right as equal people. The movement gained its momentum The name of the movement gained its momentum and has successfully shared its name to various organisations, foundations, institutions, and libraries which are solely devoted to this community. While gaining momentum for its community success this community has faced criticism from people and other communities (Burraiet al., 2020). But the community stood together and the governments of various countries lent their support to this community. The community includes people who share their common interests like gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexuals these people have their own opinion and choices. Being independent these rights should be included in the Constitution of various countries so that Communities During Covid 4 these people do not face criticism or any questions. The community comes together to share their happiness in groups and share joy. Forming allies to celebrate In San Francisco, the community comes together to celebrate which is usually called San Francisco Pride which is held together in June every year in California. The community of gay, lesbian, queers, transgender people along with their allies. The last pride movement was held in 2019 as the 49th annual parade but after that due to the pandemic condition the government has strictly barred movement and making rallies. In 2020 also the community could not come together still in 2021 they could not conjugate together to celebrate (Tavares, Santos, Diogo& Ratten, 2020). But still, the community did not bar themselves. They came together in the last weekend of June and then brought all the parties together then hosted various events in honour of the community for the official celebration of pride. After a year of restricting them, the Bay Area came together and got themselves at the party. The San Francisco Bay Area has again seen various colours of happiness. The people are happiest and this is the oldest pride movement happening in the world. This is one of the biggest festivals which happen in the world and different occasions were arranged for happiness. Arranging virtual events for the LGBTQ community The community did not stay at home then came out in the open to celebrate their yearly happiness. The community has arranged a virtual event that was lined up for the weekend. The community planned to extend their happiness not just over the weekend but beyond the weekend. Communities During Covid 5 The people are happy with the events lined up like pride Month nights as the community has extended for the whole month and included screenings of 'In the heights' and 'everybody talking about Jamie' with all the live performances for entertaining people along with other concerts (Benfer & Wiley, 2020). Organisational strategies for the local pride celebration The secretary and director of the community in an interview had discussed the organisational strategies for making the local pride celebration a success as this is the consecutive second year for the COVID19 pandemic. The community has come forward as different magazines and media has covered the virtual celebration and events like 26th Annual pink triangle installation was done in Twin Peaks, the San Francisco gay men chorus had presented Wired along with bluegrass pride's Porch Pride Queer anytime music festivals, after dark online pride events, Friday mornings for Women and non-binary bike rides, and others (Sun& Han, 2021). Performances enjoyed by the community ground These performances were a hit as people enjoyed it and the community made this virtual event a success. The tickets were sold very quickly and were eventually sold out which describes the success story. The community gained a lot of profit and the hope of happiness was again flagged off. Their main point was to prove their success and also gain equal rights in the community. The US has always approved the right of the LGBTQ community and they share equal rights in the whole community. Pride Month in San Francisco is not only celebrated for the community in the area but this is observed as a world event where all the people of the community come together to share their space and enjoy openly. Communities During Covid 6 In most countries, this right for LGBTQ is still not granted and people cannot profess their choice due to criticism. This movement is to stand by them and enjoy the colours of life. The main motto of the community is colour they enjoy with various colourful apparels and makeup. Expressing the meaning of pride The meaning of pride is expressing one's own choice without any fear and the people did it with a lot of happiness and made it successful. The theme of the party is always colour and happiness which can be seen throughout the event. In this movement, the surprising factor was uniting and standing for all the LGBTQ community in the world. This is very mesmerising to observe as the people and together the community stayed strong and did not get held back from the pandemic situation (Meureret al., 2021). The pandemic had suspended the previous year's meet but this time the organisation came together to organise the event virtually. This unity is a success and a sight to behold for all of life. Unity being an important factor Unity is an important factor in any community as the community stays tied together only by unity and a sense of togetherness. The assignment helps in gaining perspective regarding the Togetherness of the community and everyone must look forward to staying together so that everyone gets the confidence to fight for any cause. During COVID 19 this protest for fighting against this discrimination has come to a halt as people cannot come out in open to protest as the government has barred the events of gathering (Vieraet al., 2021). But this event has shown the greatness of community power and events that can happen if the community stays strong for any cause. The cause is an important factor that makes the community stay strong. Communities During Covid 7 Pride movement- a huge success This pride movement was made a huge success by the unity of the community which has helped to gain momentum all around the year as the event happened through virtual means and still was a success. This needs to be looked up by all the communities who are fighting for any cause and must stay together with their creativity and innovation so that the other public like the idea and get engaged. The people of the community must be enthusiastic and supportive to make any event a success and everyone must support the cause so that it can be called successful (Bhaskaret al., 2020). The government and other people must also look forward to supporting the community who are fighting for their cause so that it reaches out to the critics and they understand the situation and also try to correlate with the people so that everyone can hear out their voice. Conclusion From the above analysis it can be drawn that, the moment of the LGBTQ community in the San Francisco Bay Area happens for almost 50 years and is termed as the world's largest movement for queers and people who choose to live their way. This movement should be supported by the people so that everyone gets the right to lead their life happily and satisfactorily. Living life happily and on one's terms is important so that people can express their feeling and are not forced to take any harsh steps for their next life. Communities During Covid 8 References Benfer, E. A., & Wiley, L. F. (2020). Health justice strategies to combat COVID-19: protecting vulnerable communities during a pandemic. 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Preventing suicide in rural communities during the COVID?19 pandemic. The Journal of Rural Health. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jrh.12448 Sun, S., & Han, J. (2021). Unflushable or missing toilet paper, the dilemma for developing communities during the COVID-19 episode. Environmental Chemistry Letters, 19(1), 711-717. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10311-020-01064-z Tavares, F., Santos, E., Diogo, A., & Ratten, V. (2020). Teleworking in Portuguese communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1108/JEC-06-2020- 0113 Communities During Covid 9 Viera, A. J., Barnett, J., Case, M., Epling, C., Halstater, B., Lyn, M., ... & Michener, J. L. (2021). Partnerships to care for our patients and communities during COVID-19. The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 34(5), 1003-1009. DOI:https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2021.05.210091More Articles From Ethics
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