Tech EDGE Art TEAMS - Poetry Reading from the 2022 Summer Workshop
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Tech EDGE Art TEAMS - Poetry Reading from the 2022 Summer Workshop
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- [00:00:00.000](upbeat instrumental music)
- [00:00:05.490]Hi, and welcome to the Art Teams podcast.
- [00:00:07.260]Today we have a special twist for you.
- [00:00:09.450]We've got a poem written by Fernando,
- [00:00:12.630]who was one of our artists in residence during the summer.
- [00:00:15.990]He worked with us in our teams.
- [00:00:17.670]He's still working with us on other things,
- [00:00:19.680]and this poem really summarizes what he's learned
- [00:00:23.070]from interacting with teachers during the summer
- [00:00:26.160]about the beauty
- [00:00:27.960]and the struggle of being a teacher in school today.
- [00:00:30.900]So enjoy.
- [00:00:32.190]Especially now,
- [00:00:33.150]especially after these exhibitions of learning,
- [00:00:34.860]walking around and getting to see the ways
- [00:00:37.980]that you composed your thoughts,
- [00:00:39.360]the ways that you allowed yourself
- [00:00:41.190]to express all of these different fears, and hopes,
- [00:00:45.150]and dreams, and ideas for changing this system,
- [00:00:48.960]were incredible, beautiful.
- [00:00:51.570]These all could be art exhibits on their own.
- [00:00:54.240]They're amazing.
- [00:00:55.910]So I wrote something very short
- [00:00:56.970]and I literally just wrote it within the last,
- [00:00:58.950]like five minutes.
- [00:00:59.783]So if it's bad, I'm sorry.
- [00:01:02.070]I felt like I had time, so.
- [00:01:04.950]I have memories of school buildings
- [00:01:06.450]being something like prisons.
- [00:01:08.220]Big imposing brick walls
- [00:01:09.780]that felt unbreakable
- [00:01:10.980]as my fingertips slipped past that smooth white
- [00:01:13.320]glossy paint,
- [00:01:14.790]fingers finding the grooves that shaped concrete
- [00:01:17.130]into separate sections of a whole.
- [00:01:19.200]Reminded of the way learning came with barriers
- [00:01:21.480]that often felt worn away
- [00:01:22.890]by tired teachers beating against a system
- [00:01:24.900]like rivers in canyons,
- [00:01:26.910]streams that engrave their existence
- [00:01:28.740]on stone over millions of years to create natural wonders.
- [00:01:32.010]And I think about how they have only been doing this
- [00:01:34.380]for a short while,
- [00:01:36.270]nowhere near long enough to create a natural wonder.
- [00:01:40.740]Yet streams continue to trickle,
- [00:01:43.230]this space, this environment that fostered trust
- [00:01:46.410]like it was a child in itself,
- [00:01:48.120]that allowed trust and vulnerability
- [00:01:50.070]to create an atmosphere we could undress ourselves in.
- [00:01:53.280]The eyes of administrations that often force learning
- [00:01:55.740]into the bottom line don't exist here.
- [00:01:57.900]Within the open air of creativity and freedom
- [00:02:00.210]we held each other, breathed each other in
- [00:02:02.670]to become a collective of brainwaves
- [00:02:04.320]stimulated on the idea
- [00:02:05.400]that education doesn't need to separate itself from hope.
- [00:02:09.180]I heard teachers tell stories
- [00:02:10.410]of the guidelines they crawl under,
- [00:02:12.090]creating those two familiar grooves
- [00:02:13.860]in the same white walls that trapped them.
- [00:02:15.750]Feeling incapable of escaping systems
- [00:02:17.730]built on the bones of children.
- [00:02:20.520]But here, here they were unbound.
- [00:02:25.500]They became artists who molded thought into vision,
- [00:02:28.860]into spectacle with meaning,
- [00:02:30.390]into the architecture of learning come alive,
- [00:02:32.940]smoldering fires of repressed passion,
- [00:02:35.430]enraged and impatient opportunity sprung from marker boards
- [00:02:39.240]and corkboards and allowed us to exist
- [00:02:42.540]in thought the way poetry allows us
- [00:02:44.700]to peer through the eyes of strangers.
- [00:02:47.460]We came here to force concrete structures
- [00:02:49.530]into malleable clay,
- [00:02:51.210]to reimagine an idea rooted in pasts
- [00:02:53.550]that no longer serve us.
- [00:02:55.800]We found hope beyond the system,
- [00:02:58.950]together we formed the beginning of something new,
- [00:03:01.800]something capable of carving those familiar grooves
- [00:03:04.740]in white glossy walls,
- [00:03:06.300]into canyons wide enough to fit this future
- [00:03:09.000]we have begun shaping together.
- [00:03:11.910]Thank you. (audience applauds)
- [00:03:16.802](upbeat instrumental music)
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