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		<title>The Long Walk: Mapping Hunters Point, a food desert</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 23:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know its been a while since I announced The Long Walk, an original Performance/Data collection piece  I created about San Francisco&#8217;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 blogged about earlier: &#8216;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 the basic human right of healthy, unprocessed food. People living in low-income areas spend significantly more time (19.5 minutes) traveling to the grocery store than the national average (15 minutes) according to the USDA. The USDA has also created this Food Desert Locator, albeit somewhat inaccurate as it does not take into account corner stores with fresh fruit and vegetables, it is still a step in the right direction.&#8217; Hunter&#8217;s Point is listed on the USDA Food Desert Locator and was named one of the &#8220;Top 9 Worst US [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stuff I&#8217;m doing this summer: a poetry series, computer dance, and lots of weddings!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2012 06:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 hard to reach. Experiments in Revision: Poetry You know how it feels to write or make a first draft of something, then rework it until it shines like the top of Chrysler Building? You know how you kind of want to burn that first draft, so that no one will ever know the embarrassing wreckage of over-obvious, trite, and self indulgent ideas you have put down to the page only to be edited out? Well imagine that that first draft gets published online for everyone to read. That&#8217;s the foundation of The Splinter Generation&#8217;s Experiments in Revision series. Seeing as no one else was self-effacing and brave enough to undergo this grueling process they chose me! Over the months of June and July they are publishing a series of poems I have written, which culminate in one final (hopefully) awesome poem, which demonstrates that I did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Long Walk: An Invitation to Explore A San Francisco Food Desert</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 the basic human right of healthy, unprocessed food. People living in low-income areas spend significantly more time (19.5 minutes) traveling to the grocery store than the national average (15 minutes) according to the USDA. The USDA has also created this Food Desert Locator, albeit somewhat inaccurate as it does not take into account corner stores with fresh fruit and vegetables, it is still a step in the right direction. To examine these inequalities I am creating a performance walk and interactive mapping project. “The Long Walk” will focus on the Hunters Point Food Desert that exists on local level, within the San Francisco community. This piece will combine a two and a half mile walk and shopping trip from the center from Hunter’s Point Hill to the Super Save Market and back, combined with an interactive web map recording the experience. At the market, which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Holidaze: Growing Up Together</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was my first family free Christmas. It was the first time I was not at my parents house, or my boyfriend&#8217;s  family&#8217;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 up. There is something about hosting holidays yourself that speaks of a coming of age. We were not the only ones to do this, we had San Francisco friends hosting both Christmas Eve and Christmas dinners. I&#8217;m not sure why that matters so much, maybe it matters because it seems that we are all growing up together, creating homes and places for others to come to. I belong to two expat communities: one from Santa Cruz and one from Wisconsin. The Santa Cruz folks are people I know from UCSC and their friends. We have a dynamic, lively, outrageous, kinky, generous, artistic, and loving community here in San Francisco and Oakland. I expect to know these people the rest of my life,  some of them I have known for ten years or more. Team Wisconsin is a newer group of people I have stumbled into. Theirs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Playlist and a New DJ Night!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This winter had me up to my ears in music. I&#8217;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 of order and harmony, but either way its a fun way to pass the time. It&#8217;s lucky I have been doing all this music listening, becuse after going to visit my friend and bartender Visa at his new bar, St Mary&#8217;s Pub, I offered to play some records for an upcoming Saturday night! Luckily, I was taken up on the offer by the well dressed, snazzy owner, Jimmy Driscol. So DJ Lady Bacon and I have put together one glorious night of music, Bacon/Styxx. It debuts on Saturday December 17th at 9pm.  Expect to hear bands like The Lightning seeds, Belly, Wild Nothing, and Joy Division. I would love to see you there! I&#8217;ve also been writing for and designing a new online women&#8217;s magazine with some talented friends called, Shamonica. It&#8217;s one part culture rag, one part comic, and one part magic. We are still in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tartuffed!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 06:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was lucky to have been invited to Rapid Descent&#8217;s version of Moliere&#8217;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 comedy, first staged in 1664 and censored by the king and archbishop of Paris on the grounds of the questionable virtue of the swindler, Tartuffe. Rapid Descent&#8217;s Tartuffe was playful and precise. It was whimsey and rhyme wrapped in an exaggeratedly physical container. The performers were working in sync to complete tumbles over and under couches, out windows, and through each other&#8217;s arms. All the while this near constantly choreography continued, the performers were delivering precise and rhyming text. Meandering through the scenes was a trumpet player, playing music for the audience and sometimes playing with the performers in the scenes. The speed and tension of the play just, worked. The characters were directed and bold and the energy of the piece flowed fast from one scene to the next. The show had some notable performances. Brian Livingston as Tartuffe managed to sleeze and ooze over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making it Dutch</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Puss n&#8217; 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 (I know, I know, but I think the smiling has more to do with the culture than the pot.) There were blessed, blessed Thai food places, that served amazing, and spicy food, sans cheese, wine, or baguette.Bikes, bikes, and more bikes crowded every corner, and they had these hourly bike rentals that we have seen all over France and England as well. Overall, Amsterdam seemed like the kind of place I could spend more time, with people who spoke my language and shared some of my tastes and values. I have put together some of the highlights in a photo collage, for your viewing pleasure. &#160; Puss n&#8217; Boat is a cat adoption houseboat in Amsterdam. It&#8217;s totally cute and filled with cats! I saw it because  Alan and I ended up on Amsterdam&#8217;s St. Nicholas Boat Club on a historic boat. The boat ride was not much of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ana Peru, Paris&#8217;s newest patron saint</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 06:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 walls and windows. There is the image of the girl. Placed next to Shepard&#8217;s obey on one wall, she becomes the latest image of big sister watching the Parisian streets. She is definitely a stencil, like andre the giant in &#8220;obey.&#8221; Unlike obey (pictured in the second image up top) she is weeping red over her face, she is something more sinister. Also, in her solo incarnation she bears the tag, &#8220;Peru ana ana Peru.&#8221; This little tag showed up all over Paris. Not sure if it is a female monomer, but it somehow worked with the woman it was written on. I like to think of thst image of the weeping woman as Ana Peru, Paris&#8217;s newest patron saint. Ana Peru has come to lead Paris toward a future where women can become world renowned grafitti artists and our street art watches us with compassion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parisian Street Performance</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 09:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 performing traditional french accordion music. Kind of Beats random people asking for money on the Bart train in San Francisco. The very next day I caught a glimpse of this adorable Parisian old woman dancing to street music. Tres Bon! One of the most exciting things I saw was Boula Matari, a Parisian marching band. They were playing on the bank of the Seine. They gave San Francisco&#8217;s Extra Action Marching Band a run for their money with song covers like the Beatles, Magical Mystery Tour. Check out the video I took on you tube. One magical night we stumbled across the courtyard of Notre Dame, only to find two fire spinners performing. A young woman using fire poi and fire hoop with grace and dexterity. Also a young man with speed energy moved through a number of throws and figure eights with fire poi and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The strangest thing happened on the plane to Paris</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 07:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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, we&#8217;ll call it, has become that which I hold on to and use to define me. I am not sure where I can go without it, who I will be, or meet. But I do know that it has been 10 years since I have spent a month traveling in Europe. I am even using the same backpack I got in 2001. This trip is almost like the marker on a decade of my life. No. Exactly like that. What it will do to me? How it will change me? Or will it make me more the same? Something else you should know is that I can&#8217;t sleep on planes. I can&#8217;t sleep in cars, or trains, or buses either. What this means is that I watched four movies over the span of 10 hours. It also means that when we experienced turbulence over the rocky [...]]]></description>
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