Art.Insan Family
This post is basically part 2 of the previous post about the English Drama. For this one, I wanna talk more about the production team under our college which is Art.Insan Production. Our style is indie and underground. We’re not afraid to try something new and risky. We don’t care about Best Props, Best Scenery or the other awards. Our goal is to touch people’s hearts. To make them feel like they can relate to the stories and characters. We wanna spread truths, create awareness and share stories that are real even if it’s fiction or fantasy but in them there’s truths, there’s reality. We don’t just entertain. We inspire. We become their voices. At least that’s the goal. Even if one person in the audience felt inspired and touched by what we shared then we reached our goal.
Now moving on to the play. The postmortem was extremely emotional. LABELS. is a very emotional and personal play so it was very hard for us to let it go. Being a part of Art.Insan and this play gave me the opportunity to grow closer with friends and make new amazing ones. We learned so much about each other. We were all once strangers who thought nobody could understand us. We were once afraid to open up. We once thought we were alone in this world. We once thought we were all very different which is true but each night we learned that we’re not all that different. We all have baggage, we have fears, we have insecurities, we have secrets that we thought we could never trust anyone with but we did and the best thing is that everyone accepts who you are and everyone still loves you. We’re all broken but that’s okay cause we have each other to pick up the pieces. Little by little.
Being a part of this family is by far the best thing that could happened to me. It gave me the space to be who I am and not be ashamed of that person. I’m eternally grateful to have found people who made me feel safe. Who made me feel proud. Who made me feel loved. I’m so happy to have found people who are willing to stand up for each other cause we genuinely care for one another. I would do anything for them. I fell in love with them. They’re my family who I can run to when I really need someone. They understand even though we don’t go through the same thing but they have given me the space to express and share and just be me.
I learned to open up and share secrets and stories I never thought I’d share with anyone. I never knew how much weight I was carrying until I started opening up and I feel so great afterwards. We’ve shared our darkest secrets, we saw each other at our worst, and like I said, we help each other to pick up the pieces.
This was my first time being involved in theater and I couldn’t ask for a better production team and experience. We laughed, we cried (a lot), we love, we care, we performed, we did our best. This is my family. We’re very broken but we love and accept each other for who we are. Fuck people’s labels on us. Fuck the things they say about us. We know who we are. We can be heroes. We can be us. Forever.