Fireside Chat
Fireside Chat Artist Statement As soon as the Fireside Chat assignment was announced in class, one artistic piece came to mind: Hamilton . Now I’ve never actually seen the play in person — I haven’t even listened to the full soundtrack. However, I’ve heard enough songs and been told enough about it to know what it’s about. It’s a musical done in the style of rap that covers the struggles of the founding fathers in the American Revolution, particularly following Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. It takes a musical genre that is so often overlooked as raunchy and meaningless and expresses a truly meaningful story through it, and I wanted to do something similar with my presentation at the Fireside Chat. The next step from there was to figure out what I’d make my rap about. I listened to BrenĂ© Brown’s TED talk “The Power of Vulnerability” and realized that I’d best connect with everyone else by making myself as vulnerable as possible. Of course, this idea wasn’t new to me