 We introduced ourselves to each other coming from our particular regions And so now what we'd like to do is to create and form a circle again But it's going to be with intention this time We're going to use it as an opportunity to get a sense of who's in the room and what we're going to do is have Everybody line up in a circle starting from this side right now moving to our right by the years in the field so How many years have you been in the field? How long have you been working in the theater and it's a self-identification How long have you been working or believing or creating this is a self-identification So we're gonna start from the highest and then work our way around in a circle Two years So talk to each other, but you have to name how many years you've been in the field or been working in the theater So talk to the person next to you so we're gonna go 50, 49, 48, 47, 46, 45 We need to keep fighting. We want to get shoulder to shoulder We were able to form a big circle so shoulder to shoulder keep moving this way number of years We've actually been active and so we'll start here with the elders and make our way all the way around the circle to the here And the now so give out That we wear mold is the one that fires you up and gets you inspired It can be the origin or it can be the thing that the voice in your head So we're gonna break up into multiple groups and form clubs. So those club producers and designers Here so go ahead turn inward in your circle. Okay. Thank you Everybody in a circle so you can have a conversation even if you have multiple hats. Thank you. So All we're doing right. Some of you know each other. Do yourself To somebody you don't know if you know that there's somebody a connection that needs to be made I didn't know what I mean in other words Do you know do uh, uh, will we lorry do you know? I just know lorry. Do you know lorry? We introduce you to lorry willery things like that. So introduce each other To do yourself to someone you don't know Just meet yourselves. Don't be shy. And so we'll start with the playwrights Folks that are on this side A lot of our focus is going to shift to this attention So we need to have these chairs can help us pick up a chair If you could just please make some space so chairs can come through Thank you so much and just and then we're going to make a reaction Once you roll the ball take a seat steering committee members Help be our shepherds In configuring the rule steering committee members And so we have up here and some of you have already started putting your your contributions to the timeline You can put anything you want. She'll tell you about that. We're looking at the evolution of us Latina latino theater in In our country and we're looking therefore at all of you To not only provide information that is valuable to you, but also Of people who are not here. So there's somebody who's not here But you think well, this is something that I think belongs in the timeline. That's what this is for So this is going to be almost like, uh, daycare In the sense that we have scissors for you We have a lot of colored markers for you There are visuals you Some of you when you got here you would directly you you were such good students You went directly to the timeline and started putting things up there and that's what we want to do This is going to evolve over the Next two and a half days and we're doing time lapse photographing of it Where it was when we started it julietta and i at three o'clock today or several of us putting these Instances that are what we're thinking of as highlights So So what we're we're documenting personal and professional highlights But we're also documentary documents general highlights So it could be an event for example that you know of that happened that you have to know Relationship to it. So, um, we have a strategy I know some of you've already begun and you may have not followed strategy, but that's totally okay I So there are there are four or five different colors that we're using The red is for scholarship highlights and there are keys. There's a key there. There's a key there. There's a key over there Green is for organizational highlights Yellow is for production highlights Pink is for personal highlights And the orange it is for festival or a gathering highlights Um, I hopefully the broad images to accommodate the two company the highlights If you have a broad images, that's okay. There are extra images floating around. You're welcome to use them You're welcome to cut anything up. You're welcome to cut up the cards. You're welcome to Make up your own rules You know rules are made to be broken. So we create these rules that are that are there for you to mess up So and we also have tape. So it's just about taping taping the uh event close to timeline and then drawing a line to the actual year that it happens and if you don't know just make it up And uh Oh and the other the other thing that i'm i'm really interested in is how these different events connect within themselves So uh, for example, i'm going to give you a personal like, you know, I assistant director July McLeod is the public Jesse Borrego is in the production And uh, you know changed my life meeting Jesse and then I met Jesse later at the LTI So I might want to connect that that event to the LTI so So they'll be lined this way too as well um Yeah, but I give it so where he's going to give some example Um, just just a point. I mean some of you have already some of you have already Taken peaks at it and started to contribute one thing that I forgot to mention in those of you who read the blog that I wrote To this as a tapestry and then it occurred to me that it's our tapestry it is a revoso Or it will become a revoso of many colors and many textures and many ideas And I think it could be something quite Lovely and very historic. So think of that as you put it together that these are intertwining threats Because everyone in this room has made history And this is your chance to put your history up there and then we will document it in other words, you know transcribe it because I started a timeline as a historian and if you'll note the first The 1960s are pretty fair Because some of you were not born in Gleam in your papa's eye, but as it proceeds it's getting fuller and fuller And most especially take note that we have the future because what we're one of the major goals that we have here I'm sure you do too is where are we going? And that's where we will you know as as the weekend evolves as ideas come to you Well, this is what is going to be happening in the next 20. What is it 20 46, you know 20 46 what happens on 20 46 Or one i'll be dead, all right, but none the less Those of you who are younger are going to be the majority team. Okay, so an example for it So if you see the green cards the green cards represent the uh, what organizational landmarks And the pink as she said are the personal. Okay, don't get wrong tmi The red represents the What is the red? Scholarship Which is another very important point that we have for the first time scholars and artists in the same room talking to one another We're very kind and extremely excited about that possibility Just one more thing about the images The images don't have to be literal. It's it can be you know an explosion of emotion somehow Because what we're we're doing is we're kind of painting a visual landscape to that that expresses this journey as well as a literal I think that's I think that's everything uh, how much time do we have? We have 25 minutes Obviously you're not going to finish everything and that's why we're going to keep the supplies out So throughout the weekend you can add in and you think it's something you can add it in You can make a connection between somebody else's Moment and your moment you can add it in throughout the weekend But think of this as a kind of controlled chaos activity It's about art making together and creating this Historical tapestry together. So ready? Thank you so much really quick We have 10 minutes for this but the other part of it is This while eventually it as an object will need to come down There's a lot of really important information on this And it may not be so readily apparent to Professor Huerta and Juliet that all this relates to so if you would be so kind It doesn't have to be now. It could be now, but sometime before we leave Please put your name on some of these things You may not want to but if it's okay put your name on them so that there's a reference point So that we need more information. They can come to you and say hey Can you tell me more about this thing you wrote here that happened to you in michigan? Right, that's how we'll build the scholarship. Thank you so much. So 10 more minutes. Thank you We got five more minutes five more minutes If you're done you can go take a seat But back in five more minutes This is a two-minute morning ladies and gentlemen a two-minute morning if you're finishing up Or if you're still working finish it up. You'll have time over the weekend to complete your work two minute morning Take the seats And take a look at our beautiful work the collage that we've done. So please finish up what you're doing and find a seat We will make sure that we make all of this material available to you So find the seat get nice All right, let's settle down. Let's start shutting down a little bit as we come to a close In our uh this evening Just want to check in that's pretty incredible back there, huh? Yeah to close out on this uh very brief day like to do this thing where You know folks just shout out You don't have to raise your hand, but i'm interested in listening to You know one word what comes to you about how you feel right now at this moment. So what was that? Inspired um You know as as I as I again, I reflect upon everyone that's here in that book out there I'm sitting in the hotel kind of prepping for for this for this evening in the next couple of days I was just really like Wow, you know So so my word is uh blessed So i'm going to ask all gotta come come up and uh close us out On on our day one the eating and the drinking All right, thank you everybody. Um, so what we're having just really quickly what's happening tomorrow. There's going to be a lot of circles Conocimiento groups knowledge based on sharing our stories you all have in your on the back of your Your name tags you have conocimiento group for friday and those are all numbers and you'll be and that's how you'll know What conocimiento group you'll go to and those are You've been identified actually you've self identified Based on your responses to the survey By affiliation and it just means you'll be in a circle of about 10 folks who are also likewise affiliated Again to me to talk there's questions. It's moderated And then that will happen twice and then we'll have a larger A larger three series of circles three conversations The first one will be with what we call creators the second with interpreters and the third with pillars There are certain folks who already know they're participating in those you need to ask Everyone who is moderating Please be here tomorrow morning at 9 30 So we can just check in on on the moderation for the day of a couple of things have changed We'd love to touch base with you here at 9 30 and we'll touch base on that So tomorrow is deepening our knowledge conocimiento and sharing our experiences We are going out tonight Maybe maybe some maybe we're all going back to the hotel and creating a good night's sleep I know I But I might go out for a drink Um after this just really asking us to take care of ourselves in other words, um We're seeing old friends or meeting new friends. Let's pace ourselves with the party Right because we got three long days. We want to come here as present as we can be And so let's take care of ourselves tonight Raise a glass And and take it easy so we can come back tomorrow and work come back the next day and work And then Saturday We have an extra I'm just thinking yeah So so basically just just take care of ourselves beautiful. Um I think you should know about Thank you to everybody Thank you to everybody who's been Thanks to everybody who's been Sharing what's happening here with the rest of the world through your tweets and your facebook posts And I will say thanks to everybody who hasn't been Buried in your phones and buried in your business, but actually been here That is a feeling that presence and that is that's making this happen is your presence here However, do pick up your phones from time to time and tweet And post and get just share share whatever's happening out there So because this is part of the scholarship This is the part of the the chronicling of these thoughts of what's happening here over here We have all the hashtags Where the live streaming is the schedule for the live streaming because we're not live streaming everything But all of these larger convening parts. We are Block post updates people are blogging nightly. You can blog at lunchtime The latino new play map you want to look at that the wireless if you need to check into wireless There's our information there the password at shenanigans And over here if you haven't noticed This is the this is our our our tweet page This is the tweets that are emerging that relate to this So please take a look at this and see see what the word is what the buzz is it's coming from us That's coming from without We are going to be responding to these later on in our session Getting the questions and answering them. So this is a we're excited that How around that emerson has the capacity to make this as Technologically advanced as can be and so check look at that. So tweet on and now the important news fajitas and readas Is a few blocks away. We're going to we're going to walk over together There's a map in your program at the door Please grab a drink ticket The first drink Jamie has it hymen hymen has it the first drink is on us Thank you. How around thank you and appetizers will be provided. So con eso Mucho gracias Let's go grab stuff go