FINALLY! A SITE!

After much fretting, much redesigning, and much unanswered outreach, I was beginning to feel like I would never find a fieldwork site.  I do have some fairly specific requirements for my partner-group; They

1. Must be a non-profit organization
2. Must work with underprivileged urban teens
3. Must address and advocate social justice and community building
4. Must employ primarily video in the above endeavor
4. Must employ primarily art (mural, sculpture, theater, dance, video, etc) in the above endeavor
5. Must be in Chicago (my surveys will go to organizations in other places, but I had to be realistic here)
6. Must allow me to document with video the goals and progress of the educators and the teen participants. Sticking point.

But today! Today, over some very tasty sushi and in between political and academic discussions, it was determined that, starting in January, I will follow a group of students at  Insight Arts as they address issues in their immediate community through a theatrical form called Living Newspaper.  I've got a ton of surveys to send to other arts organizations in the meantime and the end of the Insight Arts program will still give me two full months of writing sans fieldwork.  I think this is going to work out just fine.