The Defining of Community (Cultivating the Architecture)How do we design a community that reflects the values and voices of all its members?In this episode of Beyond the Screen: OTV’s 10-Year Legacy, hosts Elijah McKinnon and Dr. AJ Escoffery are joined by Ricardo Gamboa (writer, director, and creator of BRUJOS) to talk about the courage it takes to create work that tells the truth. Together, they unpack the politics of permission, community accountability, and what it means to build radical art movements from the ground up.Mentioned in this episode:Brujos by Ricardo GamboaCredits:Beyond the Screen: OTV’s 10-Year Legacy is hosted by Elijah McKinnon and Dr. AJ Escoffery.Executive Produced by OTV.Produced by Tribble at Ask Tribble, Inc. and Respair Media.Associate Producers: Rasheed Peters and Stefanie Wong.Theme music: The Secret Life of Dandelions by Roy Kinsey feat. J.A. Grimms + Edith YokleySpecial Guest: Ricardo Gamboa (they/them), PhD, is an award-winning artist, activist, and scholar based in their native Chicago. For over 20 years, Gamboa has created art, media, and theater that is radically produced, presented, and politicized, and aims to provide radical pedagogical interventions at the grassroots level. Gamboa's focuses their current work on endeavors with Concrete Content, an autonomous theater company they founded that mobilizes theater as a means of placemaking and popular education and entertainment. In 2019, Gamboa began working as a screenwriter in Hollywood and since then has written for Amazon Prime, FX, HBOMax, and Showtime. Ricardo has won several awards including a Joyce Award and an International Connections Award from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Gamboa has a doctorate degree from New York University’s Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and M.A. in Arts Politics from the Tisch School of the Arts. They have worked with hundreds of young people using art as means for political education and self-determination.Learn more about OTV at https://www.weareo.tv/Support the Vision:This audio series is powered by our community and generous supporters: the MacArthur Foundation, Pop Culture Collaborative, Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, Kashif Incubator, Twenty43 Ventures, Illinois Arts Council Agency, and DCASE. Together, we’re shaping the future of unfiltered storytelling. Keep the vision alive and donate today at https://www.weareo.tv/donate

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