Cultural Experience Field Report #2
Note: This assignment has been adapted to adhere to the current guidance from the CDC for social distancing because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
For this assignment, you will choose a virtual cultural venue from the instructions below to visit online and write a 500-800 word report about your visit.
Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to introduce you to the process of engaging with diverse cultural venues and communities. This will help develop your knowledge of the Humanities and groups that support this academic and cultural field.
Skills
This assignment will help you practice the following skills that will be useful to you in your professional and personal life beyond school.
Identify cultural venues and inform you with deeper knowledge about the cultural form chosen.
Organize reflections about engaging with a cultural experience and community
Use concepts and skills learned in class to describe and interpret cultural experiences and communities
Use appropriate and proper grammar, organization, and academic-style formatting in order to communicate
Knowledge
This assignment will help you become familiar with the following important content knowledge in the Humanities.
Available virtual cultural venues and communities
Methods of interpretation within the Humanities
Instructions
For your report, choose one virtual venue from this pre-approved list that most interests you, or contact your professor for approval of your own online choice. If your choice below has both a website and a video, make sure you examine both. Explore beyond what the website or tourism sites associate with this site. Aim to develop your cultural understanding of how tourism and culture works in these sites. If you need special accommodations to complete this assignment, please inform your instructor and contact the Accessibility Accommodations office for guidance.
Please watch the entire performance or thoroughly explore the venue you choose.
THEATER PLAY
Shakespeare
First Encounter: King Lear (adapted for children)
The Tragedy of Richard II
A Midsummer Nights Dream
The Importance of being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
NEW MA by Dora Dee Hunter
Watch a full performance of one of the plays on this list of full length plays available on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4UvHdqgzgxyW8nqcnS5NU1FhIkL3NRyC
Watch a full performance of a Broadway musical that is available for streaming on various paid services. A list is available here: https://www.playbill.com/article/15-broadway-plays-and-musicals-you-can-watch-on-stage-from-home
POETRY OR BOOK READING, AUTHOR EVENT, OR SPOKEN WORD PERFORMANCE
Author interviews
Toni Morrison on The Bluest Eye and Paradise
Inside the Imagination with China Miville
William Gibson: Technology, Science Fiction & the Apocalypse
A conversation with Ursula K. Le Guin
George R.R. Martin On Strombo: Extended Interview ; Game of Thrones as an imperialist, Western product.
Salman Rushdie on Storytelling
Alice Walker
Poetry Readings
Joy Harjo
Leslie Marmon Silko
Rita Dove
Naomi Shihab Nye
Arthur Sze
Heather McHugh
Juan Felipe Herrera
An Evening with Robert Pinsky
Poetry Festivals, Slams and Spoken Word
The BreakBeat Poets
The Last Word Festival- Poetry Slam Final 2018
The Last Word Festival Poetry Slam Final 2017
Louder than a Bomb (Millennial Stage)
Henry Rollins Up for It spoken word performance (includes some obscenities)
Kate Tempest spoken word performance on KEXP
FILM COMMENTARY BY A DIRECTOR OR CINEMA EXPERT
Watch an entire DVD/Blue Ray film with the audio commentary special feature as long as the commentary is by or includes the director or a film historian/expert, not just the actors/actresses or commercial film critics.
Examples of a few films on DVD/Blue Ray with directors commentary:
Get Out, commentary by Jordan Peele
Lord of the Rings films, commentary by Peter Jackson
Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, GoodFellas, commentary by Martin Scorsese
Pans Labyrinth, commentary by Guillermo Del Toro
Das Boot, commentary by Stephen Spielberg
National Treasure: Book of Secrets, commentary by Jon Turteltaub
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