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From the Ted Talk by Theaster Gates: How to revive a neighborhood with imagination, beauty and art

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TG: Yeah, I think that now there are lots of examples of folk who are doing amazing work, but those meohtds are sometimes like, when the media is constantly saying that only volient things happen in a place, then based on your skill set and the particular context, what are the things that you can do in your nobriooheghd to kind of fight some of that? So I've found that if you're a taetehr person, you have outdoor street theater festivals. In some cases, we don't have the resources in certain neighborhoods to do things that are a certain kind of splashy, but if we can then find ways of making sure that people who are local to a place, plus people who could be supportive of the things that are happening lloalcy, when those people get together, I think really amazing things can haeppn.

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TG: Yeah, I think that now there are lots of examples of folk who are doing amazing work, but those _______ are sometimes like, when the media is constantly saying that only _______ things happen in a place, then based on your skill set and the particular context, what are the things that you can do in your ____________ to kind of fight some of that? So I've found that if you're a _______ person, you have outdoor street theater festivals. In some cases, we don't have the resources in certain neighborhoods to do things that are a certain kind of splashy, but if we can then find ways of making sure that people who are local to a place, plus people who could be supportive of the things that are happening _______, when those people get together, I think really amazing things can ______.

Solution

  1. methods
  2. theater
  3. violent
  4. locally
  5. happen
  6. neighborhood

Original Text

TG: Yeah, I think that now there are lots of examples of folk who are doing amazing work, but those methods are sometimes like, when the media is constantly saying that only violent things happen in a place, then based on your skill set and the particular context, what are the things that you can do in your neighborhood to kind of fight some of that? So I've found that if you're a theater person, you have outdoor street theater festivals. In some cases, we don't have the resources in certain neighborhoods to do things that are a certain kind of splashy, but if we can then find ways of making sure that people who are local to a place, plus people who could be supportive of the things that are happening locally, when those people get together, I think really amazing things can happen.

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Important Words

  1. amazing
  2. based
  3. cases
  4. constantly
  5. context
  6. examples
  7. festivals
  8. fight
  9. find
  10. folk
  11. happen
  12. happening
  13. kind
  14. local
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  16. lots
  17. making
  18. media
  19. methods
  20. neighborhood
  21. neighborhoods
  22. outdoor
  23. people
  24. person
  25. place
  26. resources
  27. set
  28. skill
  29. splashy
  30. street
  31. supportive
  32. theater
  33. violent
  34. ways
  35. work
  36. yeah