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Photos: Zebras by Angel Origgi
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Forecast: Issue #5: Housing, 2023
“A deficit of imaginative vision leads to strategies and tactics that fail to engage and energize—and that failure re-installs the status quo. Enter artists, those specialists in imagination. By helping advocates and communities see issues in new ways and craft fresh answers, artists increase the fund of options for activism and success.”
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“Created by Mark Valdez and Ashley Sparks, and produced by Mixed Blood Theatre in Minneapolis, “The Most Beautiful Home … Maybe,” uses time travel, statistics, policy-wonk factoids, audience participation, torch songs, interactive games and conversation to brainstorm workable solutions to one of our nation’s most pressing, entrenched problems.”
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Shelterforce, 2019
“Housing activists want to use this political moment to shift long-standing narratives surrounding housing. From film to theater, here are some arts strategies that might work.”
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Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson and Nikiko Masumoto, 2022.
“Our purpose in this essay is to help articulate and document the artists’ approach to the work, offer insights about process and method, possible impacts/contributions as well as considerations to help the artist team advance their practices. While our focus is singularly on TMBHM, the overarching goal is to offer insights with utility beyond this project. The stated values of TMBHM reach beyond arts, even when describing the ambitions of the play. The website describes, “The trajectory of the performance is ultimately one of hope; to invite radical imagination into policy spaces so that we can take the necessary steps to remediate past practices, and build a beautiful future where everyone is housed.” We hope this essay offers a framework for the kind of work TMBHM represents...”