Haley Maddox Leanne Serbulo UNST 220 01/19/13

SOAP
My chosen community is the community of SOAP members at PSU. Soap stands for Student Opera at PSU. We are a group of PSU students who get together and discuss opera and various performances. We also create our own performance opportunities to better ourselves as performers and to offer a rare art form to the city of Portland. All of our events are open to the public to watch and usually to participate in. Performance opportunities include master classes, opera scenes, fully staged operas, and audition feedback workshops. I chose the members based on the current guidelines of being a member of SOAP created by the current Co-Coordinators. To be a member you must be a PSU student who pays students fees, and you must attend at least three out of five meetings per term, if you cannot attend you must have e-mailed a SOAP co-coordinator with a good faith reason, and you must have volunteered at one SOAP event per term (excluding summer term). SOAP is a community because we are a group of people who have a lot of things in common, we are all PSU students, we all live in close enough proximity that we commute or live in Portland, we are all involved in the music department at PSU, we love opera, and we all have the same goal, to promote opera in the community. I have classes with each of these individuals and see them on a regular basis, even outside of SOAP meetings and events. We all have pretty solid relationships with each other (work, or social), whether or not we are the best of friends. I chose to use bold lines in the diagram to connect each SOAP member because we all have so much in common, even if we arent all the same age, and havent been in the same number of staged operas. All of SOAPs current members are more than just acquaintances.

Haley Maddox Leanne Serbulo UNST 220 01/19/13

SOAP
This is one reason why SOAP this current school year has been more of a community than ever before (since I have been involved). We all know each other pretty well and that is what makes us a close knit community.