Summer Camp 2008!

The pictures from SALI (Summer Arts and Leadership Institute) are finally here! I think we had a great time. Students came to UM campus, slept in the dorms, engaged in a hilarious campus wide scavenger hunt, and learned Shakespeare from Prof. Menedeloff, Commedia Dell Arte from Prof. Martin Walsh, Playwriting from Prof. Charles Gordon [...]

Street theater makes it to the big time

From the BBC (again) “Week in Pictures”
A mock croupier posing as World Trade Organisation director general Pascal Lamy takes part in a protest by Oxfam on the sidelines of trade talks at the WTO headquarters in Geneva.
Read more about Oxfam’s concerns over the WTO here.
Each actor is posing as a country’s minister to the WTO.  [...]

The space in between

In the field of community-based arts, one is advised to experience it with a keen eye to the “spaces between”–that is to say (and this is emphasized in the class often) the meaning is just as much in the context as in the text.
I always knew John Cage was an influence, but couldn’t put my [...]

I know! It’s a new website!

So, I’ve been informed that it is no longer 2001, and I have updated the website to look more futuristic! No robots yet, but we’ve definitely taken some cues from our friends at 826 Michigan.
I’m planning on blogging at least once a week–subjects will include: upcoming events, recent events, stuff we like, community-based arts [...]