Born Free* from Empty Room on Vimeo.
I find collective arts projects like this one very inspiring...a group of people using the artistic tools and abilities they have to communicate a particular message and/or explore a particular topic. They're one of my favourite things because they incorporate all the arts in a very organic way, piecing together thoughts, stories, songs, new and existing works, etc., into what results in a sort of big scrapbook come to life (an old-school scrapbook, not the sort where you need to buy all your scraps new at the scrapbook store).
The Empty Room theatre company is using the arts to raise awareness about modern-day slavery in Canada, one of those highly uncomfortable topics which we don't like looking at because it might make us have to do something about it, and maybe even rethink our lifestyle. I think that most things (all things?) worth saying should have that effect on people...the Gospel certainly does.
"What we're trying to do with this project is to get to people through our art."
Watch and learn, because I think that's one of the things we're trying to do too.
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Arts collectives are WAY underrated - perhaps we can post sometime about the great interdisciplinary projects going on today. You're right - it's incredibly inspiring.
From what little I've seen of arts collectives, I've been blown away by what they can produce... how a group of people can create something together which alone they could not produce. So someone who knows of more of these collectives, inform us, please, of what's going on! Thanks for the post!
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