It was an exciting week for me that I had field trips for my classes three days in a row, but sadly here I'm only documenting the event this class went to simply for the purpose of this site. About a week before the event, the class were thrilled to hear that Guerrilla Girls is coming to Seattle. The Guerrilla Girls is a group of females who use humour to address issues such as sexism, racism and corruption in different creative industries. The gorilla masks they wear are to keep themselves unidentified in order to make the public focus on the issues rather than on members themselves. The event was held at the North Seattle College on April 19th. The content and form of the performance were kept in secret, so we totally didn't expect to meet Aphra Behn from Guerrilla Girls on Tour. At first, I was confused to see Coco Chanel as one of the guerrilla girls in the take-away, and then I learnt that each guerrilla girl adapted a deceased female artists' name and use it in the movement. In addition to introducing Guerrilla Girls, Aphra mainly focused on GGoT such as how GGoT was formed and what movements they had done in the past, including the ones that were not considered successful. It was really a surprise to learn that there are different branches under Guerrilla, and they as well have different dress codes. In this case, a black wig with a half mask are the uniform for Guerrilla Girls on Tour. Since they are specifically targeting the sexism and racism in the theatre industry, they found the original masks were not effective in a way that barriers were created between them and the audiences. I really like this adjustment though I heard that some original guerrilla girls were not happy about that. It was an amazing experience to attend Guerrilla Girls' event. I learnt so much about the theatre industry and was so inspired by the talk. Somehow in the past, I never thought about inequality in theatre industry since I always only heard about how the minorities were underrepresented at the Oscars or in the movie industry. Yet, inequality is everywhere and we need to be vigilant about that.
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