Cultural Experience Field Report #2 Note: We encourage students to visit cultura

Cultural Experience Field Report #2
Note: We encourage students to visit cultural venues in person, if possible, but understand that due to local COVID or military situations, this may not be possible, in which case, please get approval from your instructor to do the alternative assignment where you visit a pre-approved virtual venue.
For this assignment, you will visit a cultural venue from the instructions below, speak with someone at the venue, and write a short 500-800 word report about your visit.
Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to introduce you to the process of engaging with the cultural venues and communities in your locality. This will inform you personally of art in your area and groups that support it.
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 local cultural venues and inform you with deeper knowledge about the art 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 local cultural venues and communities
Methods of interpretation within the Humanities
Instructions
For your report, attend one venue from this list.
theater play
poetry or book reading, author event, or spoken word performance
Film festival or presentation of a film by an academic author or cinema expert
religious service, ceremony or ritual for a religion different from yours, if you practice (for instance, if you are a Baptist Christian, you should go to a Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or different denomination of Christianity’s (Catholic, Lutheran etc.) service).
other displays or performances may be acceptable. Check with your instructor for approval beforehand.
Restrictions: The experience should be done in person during the current semester. If this is impossible, contact the instructor to arrange for alternatives. You may not report on a cultural experience from prior to this class.
Write a report after your attendance at the event or visit to a site.
Your report should include the following information. Include photos or links that help convey the information. As always, be sure to document all sources you consult in preparing your work. This includes brochures from the site or websites that informed you about the particular venue you visited.
Name and location of the site, play, religious institution, reading, or film event. If there is on-line information about the site or performance, be sure to include a link to it within the text of your essay in an appropriate place.
Type of site or event. For example is it an experimental film festival, a Shakespearean play, or poetry slam? If you attended a reading, name the author or the piece