The significance of "Walk into Your Season" is that it ponders
whether a cultural worker can renew the role of free spaces of
empowerment to address power differentials utilizing key
contributors such as the traditions and language of a culture; the
cultural worker's potential to facilitate action and
transformation; and the intentional effort to make the hidden
transcript of resistance public. By illustrating how free spaces
are effective in discursive communities affected by the aftermath
of historical dominance and still vulnerable to the ploys of power,
"Walk into Your Season" illustrates cultural work in two different
settings, one with a history of free spaces (Thirty First Street
Baptist Church) and one without a history of free spaces (older
youth transitioning from foster care in the Richmond Department of
Social Services).
By uniting a group's words, narrative(s), images, visual art,
music, film, and other cultural legacies of voice in an effort to
inform and inspire individual and collective transformation,
cultural work creates a repertoire that exposes empowering features
of the group's free spaces. Tacit knowing, reflective practice, and
creativity, that is, the artistic, tacit, intuitive processes that
practitioners bring to situations of problem solving are
explored.
Cultural work as repertoire building and creating free space is
central to democratic progress and important due to its work in (1)
identifying, engaging, and illuminating, the empowering features of
free space (2) discerning the gaps between reality and the
democratic ideal, (3) facilitating a creative space in which
recognized gaps can be explored, (4) building a repertoire that
empowers individually and collectively through renewal and
initiation, (5) making hidden transcripts public when appropriate,
and (6) celebrating the emergent creative repertoire in the
community. A set of principles for effective cultural work is
revealed.
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