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foto © r.trepanier ca-nada"> A young girl found herself on the moon. The stars above seemed so close that she reached up with her right hand stretching her arm higher and higher till she plucked one from the sky. The star whispered quietly, "If you place me tight to your heart I'll grant you a wish." Trembling she pressed the talking, magical star to her wildly beating heart, thought carefully and hoping beyond hope wished for a dog. Instantly the most beautiful dalmation she could imagine appeared at her side. Overjoyed and excited she flung the star out into the ocean sky only to see her companion run bounding after it. Just as the star disappeared into the Milky Way the gorgeous black and white spotted dog leapt, caught it and pranced proudly back to the moon. She laughed pulling the slobber covered star from between powerful though gentle clenched teeth. Suddenly an icy chill crept up her back. Turning she saw behind her a most fearful alien. Panic gripped h...

Officials give river art icy reception Jordan Jackle The StarPhoenix Saturday, January 27, 2007 The fire department's water rescue team spent Friday morning retrieving wooden chairs from a frozen portion of the river in the River Landing area.After finding out about the chairs from concerned Saskatoon residents, surface divers used a boat and a rope to crawl onto the ice and remove them. "We found out they were placed there by the Mendel (Art Gallery). It was form of art," said assistant fire Chief Bob Fawcett. It wasn't done by the Mendel Art Gallery, said spokesperson Betsy Rosenwald, but rather an artist with an installation at the gallery. Local artist Michael Hosaluk has an exhibition titled Containment that involves many chairs, she said. "He and some of his cohorts undertook what they call "chairorrist actions" and placed, as part of the exhibition, chairs around Saskatoon," Rosenwald said. "He does consider it part of his exhibition, ...

Manifesto of the Perfect Art Form Today's theater is in crisis. It has lost significance. To imagine a full powerful theater it must bring faith to humanity. We must rediscover a new language-on-theater. The new language-on-theater is not a parasite living on what society has built for Darwinian survival. It is a theater to reawaken our numbed sensibility by retracing the organicity on how to be human. The new language-on-theater is an action and voice in rhythm. First of all, we must destroy the text crafted by the playwright that leaves room for only interpretation or the debatable logic of intellect. Theater is not possibly understood through studies of aesthetics or accomplished by persuading the actor into action. Logical rational argument or reading of the text cannot create a theater. Theater must be composed of an intuitive re-action. Destroying the text, we destroy our enslavement to the text and text as a trap. Non-scripted text is then chosen. The text must be a means fo...

"So what is the process for exercising and stretching the imagination so that that capacity returns?" ( Dave Pollard | How to Save the World | The Process of Imagining ) - See: Terms :: note :: ... an incredibly practical guide ...

Manifesto of the Perfect Art Form Today's theater is in crisis. It has lost significance. To imagine a full powerful theater it must bring faith to humanity. We must rediscover a new language-on-theater. The new language-on-theater is not a parasite living on what society has built for Darwinian survival. It is a theater to reawaken our numbed sensibility by retracing the organicity on how to be human. The new language-on-theater is an action and voice in rhythm. First of all, we must destroy the text crafted by the playwright that leaves room for only interpretation or the debatable logic of intellect. Theater is not possibly understood through studies of aesthetics or accomplished by persuading the actor into action. Logical rational argument or reading of the text cannot create a theater. Theater must be composed of an intuitive re-action. Destroying the text, we destroy our enslavement to the text and text as a trap. Non-scripted text is then chosen. The text must be a means f...

"We all feel that we talked with Kurt, don't we? Which isn't very possible, but it is as necessary as peace." ( AlterNet | Reverend Billy | Reflections on Kurt Vonnegut, a Man of Funny Fearlessness ) "He believed, after all, that literature could play the role of the canary in the coal mine, warning against the suffocation of values. It was the function of literature to be "a slow-acting poison". He had himself been infected by the socialist writers of the 1930s. Now he, in turn, wished to "infect young people with humanity"." ( openDemocracy |Christopher Bigsby | Kurt Vonnegut : a voice for life ) - See: Memorium :: note :: ... been infected since the late '60's ... this poison makes in his own words: "Death is not an acceptable side effect." ... Vonnegut took me on the pilgrimage towards being unstuck in time ... a brilliant critical thinker ...

Chairs on Ice, January 25, by John Penner Not long ago it became known that an artist was fined for leaving chairs on the ice across from the so-called new River Landing development. The self taught wood turner stated this act of "chairorism" was executed by a fellow artist and friend, infamous for his own phallic snow sculpture of a mushroom with a bulbous stem, who canoed to the spot and placed, as an unauthorized part of the Containment Exhibition, four maple chairs on the ice hoping to attract attention to the lack of space at the local Art Gallery and focus awarness of the arts in the community. It was also known this community prided itself as a cultural capital. The Gallery's founder a local meat packer businessman, internationally known as The Ham Man , who built the single largest pork processing plant in the country which specialized in the killing, cutting and value-added processing of hogs and had selected this stunning location alongside the river for a bu...

- See: Theater :: note :: ... reflections on a work ... a work that may be called SleepWork ... entering something from the sleep side ... an incognito glimpse ... unrecognized, hidden, unknown because we judge something of worth is hidden ... SleepWork is hopeful ... SleepWork premises "to awake to a reality more real than the waking world" (Anne Carson | Decreation | 22) ...

- See: Theater :: note :: ... students create Tableaux of moment in "Run" ... explored FASD & more ...

she dreamed ... returning to my homeland for a visit found myself in a strange neighbourhood ... third sister had recently moved to a new area ... she had called giving directions and requested my immediate arrival ... despite repeated calls and detailed instructions the house could not be found ... ... each call added more and more urgency till finally I demanded if I was so close then why wouldn't she simply come out to get me ... further angering me with her hesitancy she continued to talk ... the background noise made listening impossible ... she was occupied with something else while talking and couldn't be understood ... ... angered I pleaded for her to come get me ... she hung up and moments later was standing at a gate motioning me to come ... looking directly & sternly into my eyes through clenched teeth ... "I was trying to tell you - Mother is Dead!" ... peppering her with questions dazed and in shock followed her inside ... "What? Are you...

- See: Theater :: note :: ... took high school drama classes to "Run"... a Nutana Collegiate's Drama production written and directed by Tom Simes a home schooling dad and high school teacher ... an exploration on F.A.S.D. ... a wonderfully human 'message' play full of rich emotions & committed playing ... congrats to Nutana class ... hosted by White Buffalo Youth Lodge ...