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The Roof Is On Fire

1. CONTEXT: The circumstances that framed the meaning of this project was the year, location, relevance/problems facing that community. Many people generally do not listen to teenagers and their opinions, so why not give them a public platform to safely and respectfully share their realities with others.
2. CONTENT:  The content was about family, sexuality, drugs, music, neighborhoods and the future.
3: FORM: A large scale performance art event featuring public high school students sitting in 100 cars parked on a rooftop garage conversing with one another on family, sexuality, drugs, music, neighborhoods and the future.
4. STAKEHOLDERS: The high school teachers were the individuals that invested in the process and outcomes of the project.
5. AUDIENCE: The project was conceived for the students and the community. To give the teenagers a platform to share their opinions with a large number of people in a safe environment.
6. ENGAGEMENT STRATEGIES: The audience had the freedom to roam as they pleased and choose which car they would like to listen in on. Many of them were people who had not heard or thought to have consider the students point of view. As for the stakeholders, they wanted to show their students that they could create their own platforms through art to share their ideas with mass amounts of people.
7. GOAL: The projects objectives were to expose the problems the high school students were talking about and to give “outsiders” an insight on their lives, the situations they are in, and how they plan on changing things for the better or not.
8. VALUES: The projects guiding values were simple. To park cars on a rooftop and let them discus topics like family, sexuality, drugs, music, neighborhoods and the future. Hopefully to provide an insight to others who come to the event.
9. RESOURCES: Most of the resources came from the teachers directing this event
10: OUTCOMES: Some of the outcomes of this event were that it brought people together, exposed the teenagers in a rare and positive light, and to opened people's eyes and made them think about their reality.

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