 all the joy and love you all generated out there and now we will yeah why don't you share some of your energy with us because we've been in here playing with figures okay so we're gonna and Marcos thank you for sharing that with us that's super cool okay what we're going to do now what we're gonna attempt to do we it's a process of coalescing of synthesizing your recommendations that were evolved out of your vision into creating some active potential active steps that if we think about what's the forward movement of the Latino theater commons not just us in the room but beyond because we are beyond what does that look like and what that encompasses is what does it look like on a national level on a regional level on a local level on an individual level so in other words thank you folks who circled things we took all of the stuff that came up we tried to condense it into the four areas that were recommended five areas excuse me advocacy and networking for art making scholarship and convening so this is gonna go kind of fast so I think it's gonna have to be somewhat shouted out kind of loud or stood up let's see what it feels like and how it flows but I'm gonna really quickly read through the list of how we coalesce the ideas around advocacy networking and some of this sort of collapses a little bit so one the notion of how do we advocate for new plays both by creating the new play Latina o Latina Latino mapping which yes we know can be done through cafe on that's part of cafe on that but also how might we do that in those variations and play submission opportunity so think of that as like how do we support plays plays how do we support about knowing about where they were to send our plays and knowing how to announce our plays then the notion of a resource board which encompasses a list of internships a list of artist profiles the idea of how do we develop regional advocacy plans and maybe we start that at a lower level that develop into a national advocacy plan how do we support local individual work I'm just making the list how do we well this is an action pick a mentor be a mentee how do we infiltrate existing organizations how do we connect artists to share with other Latino artists and among the larger community as a whole how do we make a list and maybe this is under a resource list list of recommendations of folks to fill leadership positions board leadership other leadership positions artists in government right how do we create advocacy training in our communities how do we in how do we identify regional delegates for the continuation of LTC be a mentee and how do we create networks between artists and scholars should we stop there and do the work groovy so on a national level and we're just going to kind of fill this in really quick and thank you guys we're going to be writing how would we on a national level and if you want to think of collapsing any of those or addressing any of those on a national level how do we do anything that's on that list gain access to the most powerful players is that something we need to do on a national level and forgive me David I'm just trying to process how to how to write that down how to reach the most powerful players and so is this an individual effort okay let's put it down sure it sounds it sounds like we you're asking us to contact people individually right individual players right so it sounds like it's developing and forgive me I'm just trying to process it sounds like it's developing a list of the powerful players in order to access them so that sounds like a national effort to get together a database if you will of the of the of the power players whatever that means thank you I think this convening provided access to the people that I would have had access to before and that are you know myself as an individual my company my region is that access that we've never had so it's a resource sharing model yes so it's a it's a develop the LTC resource sharing through a database of so powerful players includes a national resource list so under the resource list that we've been that we're identifying which looks to be a national thing that's that's that that that's included then power players as well as the artists as well as the work so opportunity so maybe we hold that for convenings for introductions okay I'm just hold on to that so can somebody write that under convenings maybe national provide introductions okay and now we put down your idea about copy the npn model is it npn or the nnpn model and it's a national new play right as opposed to the network of performance the national performing network thank you so much okay again back to here anything here that we could see addressing okay let's put it this way on a regional level we have this create a regional advocacy plan on a regional level could you imagine going back to your region whatever that means and developing an advocacy plan with your people we had five communities today rose no no no this is advocacy to hold the first bullet had to do with plays regional in Seattle okay so in Seattle regionally they're committing to holding Latino so you're talking West Coast then so regionally West Coast which is exquisite let's go okay so it's a it's a Northwest you got it beautiful details yes local knock on funders doors locally look civic government equity and funding so raise awareness around equity and funding on a local level if not if not so that's a national effort then review national arts funding report for lack of a better term thank you just to reiterate these are just suggestions so that we can populate the ideas on these levels and so all of this riffing is just making these goals practical so other ideas and we can move you can be right now we're dealing with advocacy we can move into art making things that came up and artists or writers convening I think it's a little bit like when cars first came out they called the force was carriages you know and eventually became cars I think the Latino term will eventually phase itself out okay actually because it's it's too limited and it's not gonna give us the kind of support that we need because it's ethnic it is divisive ultimately really what are we about and what are we reflecting I think that what we are reflecting are the new Americans who are we with a new American theater you know we're not divorcing ourselves absolutely not completely agree with you we are providing a new beginning for the American theater so we're the new American theater that's beautiful because we were actually having conversation about whether we needed to put the word Latino Latino up there at all so let's just do this so right on so let's just do this let's call it nationally reframe or rename rename ourselves rename our theatrical movement because that's not just going to take one person that means we all embrace it like rebranding right rebrand okay thank you next other thoughts yes and beautiful I think one of the things you're bringing up as well is that we're developing models so I maybe so top right LA the advocacy and then maybe the bigger picture or maybe the regional level is how do we share models beautiful other thoughts what can be done let's see we had peer review of work do you have under artwork art making it also comes up under convenings for example the Fortness Institute how do we approach that on a national level what do we need to do done done okay do we need to approach that on a regional level somebody can be right down find a location we don't know that's a good question find a location is the question find a location if they took it on a regional yes or the charge rather yes is that a national level national level task force to support the Fortness Institute thank you a central place for the Institute but have a bit in a row so that the Institute moves around the country beautiful define the Fortness Institute that might be under task force I mean if it's a national thing and people would like it to travel it becomes a national conversation folks want it all over right the question to east-west yes great and that'll be part of the task force is talk about what's the value of having home that's actually there and what's the value of having a bee itinerant and traveling what's it's what's its manifestation we just had a day escape okay other things other thoughts that we want to address on a national regional local or individual level individually what can you do to move forward I'm going to add something the Latino the play mapping has to be done on an individual level I have to commit to going on howl around and typing that stuff in thanks Mario Nesto is spearheading a website in Miami out of that Ravante that's going to chronicle capture a database a resource do you feel that that's an individual project a regional a local project a regional project even though it impacts the national field building trying to build a website at a national at the national level so that in addition to having a directory you're going to be able to update it and talk about your work about your fear company and your programming so hopefully you're all going to get an application so that you can join in and then you can update it yourself it's taking some time because I definitely want to be here first I think it's going to be delayed even longer beautiful and ideally it will link to cafe on them yes Tiffany I think individually we should also have something for managers and administrators development directors so that if you do know that local theater is hiring or even a foundation is hiring people you then have sort of like a LinkedIn where you automatically can recommend someone so that we can start infiltrating because they're really going to make changes the decision makers so you're supporting infiltration on a regional level by sharing the information that you receive with the national level yes so this speaks to infiltration and advocacy does that make sense or is that local to national I think everything but I think we individually individually needs to put ourselves and recognize that name these names because how we say they so the commitment on an individual basis is to make recommendations to positions of leadership for people we know who we think should be there beautiful yes Lisa yes yes yes how about a local local under local convenings because it sounds like there's a lot of power of people as good as skype is lots of power of people gathering in the room so foster local convenings and that could be on an individual basis of people move that forward but it's going to happen locally and then we'll see where that goes just a second David yes Jose Luis so as an academic as a scholar you are assigning you are actively assigning Latino canon to your students let's put that up somewhere maybe under scholarship individual individual individual because it is the I mean you know you have to actively if you some in some cases you have to ask for permission may I put this in my syllabus great okay do you see that as an individual local right on individual so what do we call that project submit to the end submit to the anthology so is it about the playwrights sending out their plays is it about inspiring those places to Latino I don't know how many places get submitted there right I don't I feel like we need like a national so generate a national call for new place sorry okay I'm trying to be concise thank you because I got the yellow card yes okay is that how do we do that on an individual basis on a local basis all of them okay so we have to look excuse me one year okay one thing at a time okay hang on so the picture I'm trying to frame the sentence because were you specifically talking about Lord yes so on a national level level motivate motivate the Lord theaters to commit to one to a Latino at least one Latina Latino play on their main stage that season yes whatever season that might be thank you so much for writing that down okay I'm sorry one second go ahead this is different this is different do we need a second to catch up are you okay right on because we've got a bunch of writers yes I'll get to you the Latino theaters but to all theaters especially the regional theaters for the casting directors and artistic directors not for all actors that have been flooded the casting cast and directors and artistic directors of the talent that is available in their region so they cannot use the excuse we could find a Latina so support a casting resource list national support a national casting it's part of okay it's right now so it's support the Hispanic organization of Latino artists which we can do individually I I'm not on it I'd have to get my head shot in there right I'm just saying so individually submit the and and nationally support all out to get the names of our artists to all out but beyond that not only just a list of all the Latino Latina actors nationally the artistic directors at the actors can call or if the upper-east or call someone who knows the Latino or Latino pool in their area so that's a regional effort identify regional casting consultants and I'm going to say identify designers drama turges stage managers coaches with cultural sensitivity forgive me I have to go to Rose we got I've got give a literally 15 minutes ideally there would be some sort of accountability from a regional large regional theater to see if indeed dead check to see all of these individual casting directors and stuff before they went ahead and cast the not Latina advocacy then establish accountability practice okay Rose has been dying I'm sorry Rose is going to faint I guess what I mean is when the rep did three Latino plays a year and then book it that didn't help build a movement in Seattle that did not help they brought the actors from somewhere else discuss the challenges of this proposal beautiful so that that that Lord project engages local local theaters they're there yep absolutely Lou then I get to you one into that union versus how that dollars gets distributed to our Latino membership again accountability accountability for membership union accountability okay Juan wanted to say something and then Tiffany sorry generating enough work right how are they how are our advocacy organizations actually advocating for us how are our advocacy organization actually advocating one and then Tiffany beautiful local level art making writers groups beautiful Tiffany I'm sorry Tiffany I want to hear from people I haven't heard from them if you hold up a second Tiffany yeah okay force a force of publication of union demographics of union work demographics including the critics that's under advocacy okay a breath because I think can I get a time check please thank you so much to that end yes so is this a is this like a virtual repository of the canonist is a scholarship model is that right okay so with this and it sounds like this is a local effort or an individual effort at one university so let's let's talk about this as an individual level as an individual practice and that would be not only provide the list and forgive me I'm reframing it create a virtual library for the use of their colleagues and I would I would add to that because I'm just inspired link that because it's virtual to a national repository a national library so the big picture is create a national library of the canon paradigm shift the America's beautiful yes Tony trains those actors include your roots in your bios we might need more paper from somebody who can rip off a piece of paper and put it out there please yes under scholarship develop a best practices white paper for the worst of the patient beautiful create a touring network okay and those universities are actively looking for Latino works that have the curriculum the theater or the kind of place now whatever place programs so that we can send them in immediately and compile I see so establish a list of universities or organizations that are seeking Latino works and that's compiled on an individual basis and that's toward the beautiful beautiful okay in who haven't I okay yeah she with a group that she's going to start of Latino commons we're going to connect them and then we invite any other students Latino students across the nation to connect to our group so that we start on an individual level connecting our students maybe using cafe on this pipeline so let me let me see if I can reframe that then if I understand it so we can write it so it sounds like you're creating a network between across academic organizations of art making students right so but at this point at this point I'll be right there at this point thank you very much at this point then it's an individual reaching out to it a co a colleague at another university or system to establish a relationship between my students and their students and that's where that starts and then that colleague or this colleague and there's a network that grows out of that so the individual effort is to simply reach out to another university to establish a cohort of across academic institutions got it create and then maybe that's a slightly different thing then also create many latino theater commons like convenience commons at your university thank you yes create a people of color is that advocacy or convening americas create an americas convening create a new americas convening national level new america new america alliance okay okay yes Maricela going on in the bay area but there needs to be more funding and their data mapping not just a little bay area it's their counting gender parity for actors directors play rights and they see the data showing that as you go up with the theaters that have more money resources the disparities are getting really really big but they're not including right now ethnicity right now I think in DC they are so we would be funded scholarship support to be able to I think get a baseline so they can really hold up a mirror to these theaters to show them what they're they're doing what they're not doing so it sounds like grabbing a kind of a pulse which may be sort of what is happening with Jorge and Tiffany creating a pulse against which or a map of what's happening successfully in some places against which we can say look this is what's happening in Dallas this is what's happening in Miami this is what's happening in Seattle why isn't this happening where you live is that what you mean something like that right collecting so collecting the data that reflects the successes and perhaps our weaknesses successes and weaknesses the term I want to be clear with you all but the term new American theater can be very confusing you throw that into the establishment is a oh yeah well you know down is in English American play right here you know it has to be the theater of new Americans that's a very important distinction who are the new Americans well look at the demographics okay this is a theater for by about new Americans and questions for the American public new Americans yeah yeah that's right so that so that all the Latinos are taking care of Asians are taking care of reading you know and the thing is that that's just a point of clarity that's all thank you for clarifying that because now we know what you're speaking of and if you've brought it forth Alexandra oh sorry Alex can you go ahead and use the mic please thanks some you know some folks are yelling and some folks are writers about just reframing language I'd like to sort of begin a conversation about reframing the word or substituting the word reading because I feel like the word reading is giving a lot of theaters license to make it feel produced because they hire these great actors and these great directors and they you know and then it's a one-time thing and it's like you know go home so so I was thinking like spoken text and to have a conversation about how okay this is development and what's the next step in the process with the with the theaters so that so that it's not like well they get the grants to sort of develop us we get the one-night thing which is performed right music stands so rework that like do we need to change the word and what's the conversation with the theater that we need to have so that that's the first step in the development of the play and what's next and thank you Alex and I'm wondering is that something is that an individual effort is that a local effort with a group of so for example if you've got a writers group and the writers group goes to the theater in their town that has been supporting but only as far as readings and says you know what we really think it's time I think that for me I mean I don't know what the answer to that is but I think if I say to my theater listen I'm not gonna call it a reading anymore I'm gonna call it text out loud because I'm hearing my text out loud but it's not a performance and I want to see a performance of my play like I'm not gonna invite your family and friends no I just want to hear it out loud thanks so much and great then when does the performance happen so how do we so it seems like advocacy reframing and promoting production I mean I think that's what I'm hearing for me Alex is promoting production so I think that's something that we can do at all levels and maybe it's art making killing the construct of the reading as performance you know the reading is to hear the play out loud because it does if the construct is that this is a performance of your play which is what it ends up being often then they're off the hook they don't ever have to really produce the play so performance it's reframing right just say play out loud okay promote production post reading promote production promote production I think we can do that all the way up and we'll frame it okay I have I think about three minutes to I have less I have two minutes we haven't heard from you Marcos that's okay yes yes I breathe rose in Seattle a city of our sizes just not a sustained support great engage local leaders engage local leaders yes Sandra white institution and so I'm trying to not only shepherd my very few Latino students but I'm also trying to help reframe how my Caucasian mainstream wealthy privileged students think about the theater and so I'm wondering if we can talk about somewhere along this not just Latino groups but Latino affinity groups because I do have a lot of interest for my Caucasian some of my how do we support allies how do we support ally ship thank you all right because we have a minute do we have burning burning okay we're burning over there the you know the convenings are as empty and just talking to Mark just talking to Mark about this about these micro festivals he was gonna be planning one the Southwest and I'd really like to get together people from Albuquerque and South Texas and Tucson but the thing that I really want to say is to figure out how to get the money to bring us together to have these exchanges because I mean we can all like we all know where we're at but like how do we fund that I guess urgency about the idea that there are teaching artists like me around the country who are helping to form the Latino audiences of the future with our young people stealing our money and so and with that I just you know I want to make sure that we're kind of like aware of that that is coming culture coaching coaching culture coaching culture coaching financially and audience negative one I'm over time yes okay thank you I got to stop because I got the negative one like time on your phone great okay while we're doing that everybody just take a nice big breath right what I would request of you to do right now in the next one minute I'm gonna be timed please text or call somebody quick please just say hey I gotta talk to you when I get back I gotta talk to you when I get back about something that came up go anybody and and it has to do with this it has to do with Latino theater commas about the convening about what's come up forgive me for being specific go I'm at the convening I want to share something with you this is networking thank you everybody for doing this okay we're almost done you to know because I'm negative one I want to shout out Mark Valdez for that recommendation okay we done okay the last thing and I'm gonna stop talking for a couple of minutes oh thank God can we sit in silence for national projects take a look at all of that so we got a list of things we could do under convenings to promote convenings a list of things we could do to promote scholarship a things list of things we could do to promote art making and a list a list and a list of things we could do to promote advocacy and networking on behalf of this commons is convening in the goals of our community in silence please envision where you as an individual might be able to put your time and energy look at them all some of them require a large commitment and time some of them require I just got to do it please just take a contemplate it all and see if you might distill it to one that you go I think I could commit to that please okay so the next step here is take out if you still have I hope you do your lot that he apart pull out your little ear parts pull them out if you don't have a raise your hand or stand up or have people bring you on if you still don't have yours and we're gonna huh just for this yes just one thank you for now just one all right so what we're gonna ask whatever thought you have in your head in terms of we need to card make sure we fill that in we're gonna ask that you write your name on the back of that little area card and you write down one thing you're willing to do moving forward either or on an individual a local a regional or a national level let me remind you that the national work big long-term rolling up the sleeves two three years out work festival stuff some cafe on that stuff steering committee work think about understand what that means and put a star next to your name so that we know as we collect all of these things that you're interested on that level in terms of the work and you may have gotten a sense of all of us running around here would been a steering committee up into this particular point that we've done a fair amount of work so you know this is the access point to that this is the opportunity here please put your name on the back of that little area card put a star next to your name if you're interested in doing that national commons steering committee based work but most importantly make a commitment to yourself that you're going to contribute to this movement the best way that you can to achieve our collective and common goals so if that's an individual thing if that's me contributing to a blog on cafe Honda if that's me making sure that when I'm in a room that doesn't have us I stand in my power and I advocate and I make sure that I'm a voice for all of us and that's what that means but make that commitment now and write it down on that piece of paper we'll give you a few more minutes and then he done is going to lead us into the clothing just hold on to them right now you're not doing anything please hold on to your cards coming to a close on these two and a half incredible days we've reflected talked about where we are and we've looked forward so a commitment is a commitment so as everyone gets back to their seats and you have your card we're going to start pulling down the work we've done over the last couple of hours we're going to go back to our timeline and our board so that it's in the space with us for our party tonight so that we keep being inspired and we keep putting things up on it because as we acknowledge earlier culture is a continuum and it's dynamic keeps moving so we're going to keep things moving