I'm back home from Lyon and still processing the incredibly, energizing experience of Les Subsistances' "Points de vue, Nouvelles du monde" festival. Today I'm posting the photo comic which served as the introduction to each of my nightly performances. I produced the photocomic in the two days (June 21 -June 22) leading up to the festival. It's a ( Read more... )

Today is the final day of Les Subsistances' "Points de vue, Nouvelles du monde" festival. It's been a thrilling - and exhausting - journey. I've really enjoyed mixing with the rest of the participants: Congolese dancer Faustin Linyekula, French experimental theatre company Hauts & Court, Italian theatre troupe Compagny Motus, American radio ( Read more... )

So I'm flying to Lyon, France, tonight, for a week. I've been invited by the "international creative research laboratory" Les Subsistances to take part in "Points de vue, nouvelles du monde." For three days, me and a group of other creative spirits will create “on the spot” evening news bulletins in response to the events of the day (as reported by ( Read more... )

"406 Concord, I didn't get no papers today. 406 Concord, I ain't got no papers today."

- recorded on my answering machine, 7:46 this morning.

During my initial Red Cross orientation sessions, they stressed how important it was to avoid spreading rumors. Especially in a Mass Care/Sheltering environment, where the situation is fluid and people's lives are discombobulated, it is vital that only valid information be passed on. So the first thing I noticed when I got to SeaBee base is that we ( Read more... )