Arts and Community Activities
The arts have long been a medium for expressing community concerns. The arts , through metaphor, analogy, exaggeration, illusion and many other methods, are able to point out injustice, inequalities, brutality, and misdirection often in subtle ways. The arts often provide the moral compass for a society. This web site examines the arts in three contexts: the performing arts which includes music and drama, the visual arts which includes painting, sculpture, and the literary arts including poetry and telling stories. These forms may be traditional in nature but may also be contemporary. Poems written or poems preformed, theater on stage, or street theater, paintings hung in galleries or graffiti, all may represent forms of social commentary. All these are now being expressed in an electronic world, spread by social media, witnessed by thousands. Click on the art medium you wish to examine.
Community Activity through Performance
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Community Activity through Visual Arts
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Community Activity through Visual Arts
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