Where Art Meets Activism - Arcadia students bring attention to gun violence in america

when you say to somebody there are twelve thousand homicides in america every year that's a large number this statistic is large but it doesn't resonate with people but when you draw that eight blocks long fifty feet wide that creates a reality due to my certain sort of said have circumstances having my life touched by *** is unusual and have people all different backgrounds all different cultures I'm whose whose how do I say this who recognizing and sort of making *** part of their language like really looking at the horror of it really looking at how you know the person that dies it doesn't the *** doesn't stop with the person that dies and I lived my life really outside of you know murders awful that's terrible we all know that but until it touches your life specifically and intimately you no one has any idea what thats Arcadia is a place that brings all kinds of people from all over the world together to learn and engage in an education that is global and this event does the same thing I mean we've got one of our students is from Norway we've gotten on feedback from people in Canada that I used to work with that are trying to do similar types events there so there's kind of a of global outreach and sort of local awareness that feet is a feels like a feedback exam you know think globally act locally and so this is an opportunity for people from all over who aren't just from Philadelphia aren't just from downtown that on Arcadia to come out and participate in the event what I am really interested in is really just finding ways that we as a world community can really co exist and the most peaceful way levy is much conflict is possible or at least to transform that conflict into something positive Everyone of these outlines you see on the ground is something actually happen in this country at some point so the fact that putting it all together just really makes a market I've how help be given magnitude this problem is in our country in the IPCR program in particular the grad students you know part of part of what their mission is in the graduate program is is to apply theory and actually engage in the world and they do that through internships and they do that through going I'm study away experiences whether whole idea behind it is to take what they learn in the classroom applied outside and getting the undergraduates involved on gives them the same kinda on experience and understanding that when you actually take what you're learning in the classroom and apply it outside to get the opportunity to change things you really can feel like the the work you're doing makes a difference in the world