Impossible to work

A few weeks back, I took Sara Wookey’s workshop at Links Hall. By day three, my ass had been kicked. Why is that? Because I’m ridiculously out of shape and Sara Wookey is agile and athletic. Was this a bad thing? No. It was good to just move. There was a lot of moving, lots […]

When I think back on all of the people I met at Version this year, I remember that a lot of them were standoffish hipsters lacking good personal hygiene. But those people form a sort of ugly stinky backdrop to the tons of awesome people I did meet. I’ve mentioned Barry from the ABCO ArtSpace […]

I helped out with a Bookmaking Field Trip at 826CHI yesterday. The students from Washington Irving School (one class of 7th graders) were great. They all really got into making a story and illustrating it. After everybody had finished making their books (including illustrating the front cover) each story was read (I think that 5 […]

The second session of the Lucky Pierre Workshop was dedicated to developing the work we produced in the first week. Karen started us off with some yoga. A vocalisation exercise followed as well as being handed copies of everyone’s writing exercise from the first session. Then came the real fun: everyone’s show and tell.
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For the last two saturdays I participated in a workshop taught by the members of Lucky Pierre at Links Hall. It was a good workshop, filled with a very diverse crowd. Well, as diverse of a crowd as one might expect to find in a performance workshop. It was a great experience. Primarily because I […]