if . . .

See: Images :: note :: ... the hoarfrost touched trees around the temple ... compliment another earlier set ...

- See: Terms :: note :: ... second life ... an educational tool ... some think so ...

Cries Cries of apologies gather dust in hearts land of broken promises land of broken land of broken land of broken promises land of broken hearts land of broken promises land of broken land of broken hearts land of broken promises land of broken land of broken land of broken cries cries of apologies gather dust land of broken land of broken in hearts in hearts land of broken promises - See: Poetry :: note :: ... wrote a Ghinnawa ... |||AS/IS 2||| suggested the structure ... events created the emotion ...

- See: Terms :: note :: ... bless all this year ... year started off with a presentation of Grass Jelly ...

"I know someone who speaks, in his pathetic, ignorant, yet smug and condescending fashion, as if serious were the highest of accolades rather than the most banal of modifiers. As if to call academic work serious were to qualify it in some discernible fashion. He is a stupid man, a parasite only capable of feeding off the conversation with others without offering anything himself. I think of him as a soul wasted because of the hideous personality entrapping it. He venerates the emptiness of seriousness, I'm sure, because of his correct intuition that he lacks understanding, insight, and analytic acuity." ( I cite | I want to be taken seriously ) - See: Terms :: note :: ... will simply quote ... attending the past conference this observation was voiced silently ... great to express however obliquely ...

"Keynote Speaker: Erin Walsh (Sid Buckwold Theatre) All the way from San Francisco, Erin Walsh, training consultant, comes to us with a vast knowledge on topics such as media's impact on children, families and communities, violence against women in the media and video game violence. Erin is a dynamic speaker who has presented to youth groups as well as adults and professionals. She has worked at the National Institute on Media and the Family for the past five years and is a principal architect of the MediaWise movement. " ( Strong Teachers, Strong Families, Strong Communities | STA Convention [pdf link] ) - See: Terms :: note :: ... past days listened to Erin Walsh & Larry McCallum ... mediawise & Traditional First Nations Spirituality ... powerpoint presentations ... stories ... discussion ...

- See: Image :: note :: ... cd cover done ... all pleased ... space was at a premium with the middle hole ...

... with only obligation & sense of duty attended ... then wrote ... No Exit & The Bald Soprano performed on the same evening create a wonderful juxtaposition and exploration of the space between word and action. Even the title Greystone Shorts 4 Evening A (or is it B) makes existential absurdity. Sartre & Ionesco, two French playwrights of now classic stature, challenge student directors to sharpen their understanding of theater history, translate dramatic style into living action and live the question of theatrical conventions in a very practical way. The evening depends on confronting the rejections which Sartre so brilliantly outlines in his 1966 lecture, Myth & Reality in Theater . It is much more than letting a play speak for itself ... it may not make a sound ... it needs to be heard ... Each production must ask the vital question which measures all. Why theater? The modern classics may be anachronisms of quaint, old monuments and yet the inner unity of a comp...

"As long as the outside does not put a value on you it remains outside but when it does put a value on you then it gets inside or rather if the outside puts a value on you then all your inside gets to be outside." ( The world of Gertrude Stein | via wood s lot ) - See: Terms :: note :: ... my own steinism : when I am alone I am not ... when I am not alone I am with you ...

"There isn't an overview, an over message; there are strands and themes and connections and broken links, and a lack of contact in the midst of all sorts of media." ( I cite | Babel ) - See: Terms :: note :: ... directing students i often encouage free association & kind of babel ...

""To understand the work one must move from ontology, (what is art?) to pragmatism (what can art do?). Herein lies a possible revival of avant-garde politics - no longer historically "ahead", nor operating through shock and estrangement, but rather producing works that make things possible right now..."" ( - empyre - | Sharon Daniel ) " ... an artist as not one who continually advances existing vocabularies ( dominant cultural legacies ) but one who is reinscribing existing social-economic imperatives and, subsequently, must then defend the position created by that reinscription." ( - empyre - |Christiane Robbins ) - See: Terms :: note :: ... discussion on a January form ... "What is to be done?" as a quotation of V. I. Lenin's famous book from 1902 with the subtitle "Burning questions to our movement." ... we need skills for a participatory culture to develop sense and sensibility allowing consideration & conte...

"There are secrets that are kept from the public and then there are "public secrets" - secrets that the public chooses to keep safe from itself, like the troubling "don't ask, don't tell." The trick to the public secret is in knowing what not to know. This is the most powerful form of social knowledge. Such shared secrets sustain social and political institutions. The injustices of the war on drugs, the criminal justice system, and the Prison Industrial Complex are "public secrets."" ( Sharon Daniel |Public Secrets | Vector Journal ) - See: Terms :: note :: ... a powerful web essay voicing secrets ... an aporia that gnaws at the core ...

"I use 'ethics' broadly to refer to obligations that present themselves as necessarily to be fulfilled but that are neither forced on one nor enforceable? Ethical resistance involves the individual more than the institution or the population. It may be the basis for an individual's choice of engaging in social or political resistance. Yet it requires a different kind of explanation. For Emmanuel Levinas, ethical resistance is not the attempt to use power against itself, or to mobilize sectors of the population to exert their political power; ethical resistance is instead the resistance of the powerless." ( Critical Resistance |David Hoy ) - See: Terms :: note :: ... seeing in frames of power & struggles ... an alternative is testimony, witness, create context, conversations, narrative and evidence ...

- See: Artist :: note :: ... so much to see ... hidden archives ... infinights ...

"You can't step twice into the same river, wrote Heracleitus, "for fresh waters are ever flowing in upon you." Memories, images, and written words preserve only the residue." ( Village Voice | Dance | Vanishing Acts by Deborah Jowitt ) - See: Artists :: note :: ... review of Meredith Monk's music-theater work Impermanence ... the words of Heracleitus continually haunt ... as the term ends for my high school students the strong undercurrents stir the riverbed deposits deep ... saw monk in venice (the travelogue series) decades ago at the beginnings of my travels ... so much to be open to i thought & still think ...

"Divine music is one of the highest mercies extended to us by God. It is as powerful as prayer itself. The potency of sacred music has in certain instances superceded the curative properties of medicine, mantra, and affirmations. This is due to the heart's principle of love, purity, and innate receptivity. Often, the mind that knows the use of recitation and affirmations, at times has found that little value results when it exhaustedly abandons the constant repetition. Divine music is a curative virtue; it is a gift from God that brings healing and comfort to the soul. This music can uplift one's spirit up to a higher dimension of being that is filled with peace and joy. Divine music is the sound of true life, wisdom, and bliss. This music transcends geographical boundaries, language barriers, age factors; and whether educated or uneducated, it reaches deep into the heart and soul, sacred and holy, like an Infinite sound of glory entering the Lord's sanctuary....

- See: Image :: note :: ... day after the blizzard ...

- See: Image :: note :: ... new beginnings on epiphany ...

- See: Terms :: note :: ... turning ...

Gustin House is pleased to announce the 2007 Recital Series! Soprano Ileana Montalbetti, and pianist Kathleen Lohrenz Gable perform songs and arias by Bellini, Berlioz, Puccini, Richard Strauss and others. Friday, January 5, 7:30 p.m., Grace-Westminster United Church, Saskatoon. - See: Artist :: note :: ... be splendid & fine ...