Democracy Is A Creative Practice (Voices of democracy)

Spend Independence Day with Us
Our second America250 affiliation community engagement event.
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Power of Place – Doing History – Inclusive Stories – For the Common Good

6:00 PM Democracy Open Mic
Already have a 3 minute poem, song, essay to orate. Share here with others who have worked together collectively through the day.

Tentative Schedule
3:30 – 5 Crockpot picnic and creative engagement about evolving a multi-voice performance piece together over food. (Swedish Meatballs, Chili, Baked Beans & cocktail wieners, Mac’n Cheese, Potato Salad — and what you bring to share. Drinks included. We will open the bottle of champagne left behind by Ubuntu Storytellers to toast to our successful day! )
5 – 5:30 Staging the evening performance in studioW
6:00 PM Democracy Open Mic Starting with Multi-voice performance piece
More food & drink & engagement (maybe catch some fireworks on large screen TV)

Invitation to ACTORvist, Musicians & Poets in Greater New Haven and beyond to explore “Democracy Is A Creative Practice”
Share original or representative work similar to our response to the shuttering of theaters in the pandemic 7 Years Ago: Ghostlight This example for content not production optics.

If you are not a creative by trade, but are concerned about democracy, you are welcome too. Find your creative advocacy voice with us.

Help us build this multi-voice performance piece. Lend your words, your voice. (inspired by @Defiance13 https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJEPeUDOMii/ ) Daffodils in Ashes The First 100 Days

Drafting has begun. (add your words, your voices, a counterpoint piece). Inspiration First Hundred Days Daffodils can transcribed here.

REFRAIN: We dare to bloom like daffodils pushing through concrete. (maybe dandelions?)

Voice 1: “As the noose tightens around our freedoms.”
Voices WE march,
WE speak
WE cry,
WE laugh,
WE —
WE —
WE —
Voice 2: In a world scorched by tyranny,
Voice 3: —resistance is our anthem! because hope whispers louder than fear.”
Voice 4: Let the first hundred days be a testament, not just to shame, but to the stubborn hope that refuses to die!

Refrain:
We dare to bloom like daffodils pushing through concrete.

Voices: They try to silence us,
To silence the press
To silence the educators
To —
To —

Voice 5: we turned our voices into a symphony of defiance.
Voice 6: Remember the child with the sign? ‘Be kind or be quiet’—that’s our revolution.
Voice 7: They can build walls, but they can’t cage our spirit.
Voice 8: From church basements to punk shows, we rise—united in resistance.
Voice 9: And as long as we breathe, our reasons will multiply like wildflowers in the cracks of their pavement.
Voice 10: Let them write about the daffodils, for that’s where the heart of America still beats.

Refrain:
We dare to bloom like daffodils pushing through concrete.