I know its been a while since I announced The Long Walk, an original Performance/Data collection piece I created about San Francisco’s Food Desert, Hunters Point. However, I wanted to share with you, the finished product of that process. In case you missed that incarnation, here is a little background on the issue I...
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Dear reader, I have a whole boatload of pots on the fire this summer: from the already in progress June poetry series at The Splinter Generation, to a show at Counterpulse Theater I am doing my best to remember to eat lunch everyday and respond to emails. So please be patient if I am...
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Unequal access to healthy food based on income and specifically within low-income neighborhoods is a huge problem in America. 2.3 million Americans live over a mile away from a grocery store without access to a vehicle. This has created something known as a “Food Desert” where entire low-income neighborhoods are under-served in access to...
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This was my first family free Christmas. It was the first time I was not at my parents house, or my boyfriend’s family’s house. I went to visit my family before Thanksgiving, but as soon as that was done, I hosted a Thanksgiving dinner with my boyfriend, in our home. It felt really grown...
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This winter had me up to my ears in music. I’ve been creating playlists and organizing my vinyl and digital music collections. On the winter nights that start now at about 5:30 pm, I find it soothing to order and organize music. It may come from an OCD streak or just my Taurean sense...
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I was lucky to have been invited to Rapid Descent’s version of Moliere’s Tartuffe by a Ko-llaborator and friend who was performing in the piece. It was directed by Megan Finlay, who formed the company two years ago, to explore the combination of movement and text with live music. Tartuffe is a classic French...
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Puss n’ Boat, Gay Frits, fancy beer, and lots of boats. Those are things that you might find in The Netherlands, or in my case, things I found in Amsterdam. The canals of the city reminded me of the Beirut song, by the same name. People seems to smile more there than in France...
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The thing about art is that it is ephemeral. Sometimes what seems progressive on minute is old hat the next. The street artists like banksy, become the next creative institutions. Be that as it may, I thought I would share a couple of the images I saw throughout the left bank, on buildings and...
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Parisian music and performance is everywhere: on the steet, on the metro, on then bank of the seine. Performers playing classic accordion music, upright pianos, marching band music, and even fire spinning. Paris is full of accordion music. That is just a given. On the the train into the city I saw two people...
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The strangest thing happened on the plane to Paris. I realized that I was leaving one part of my life behind, like discarding a well worn, favorite dress when it is beyond the point of wearing. This can be either too small, too large, worn with holes, or simply not right anymore. This dress,...
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