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Rehearsals have begun. The Fall production is a project based on the Marowitz Hamlet. HAMLET COLLAGE poses the question how we, who may not even have read Shakespeare's Hamlet, view the everyman Hamlet - the person, the play and the myth. Imagine watching an episode of the Simpsons (the one which contains a parody of Hamlet) and suddenly the Ghost (it is speculated Shakespeare played the ghost) snatches you and drags you into the mind of Hamlet, only you hardly know what is happening. HAMLET COLLAGE cuts & pastes traditional readings, modern interpretations, rewritings and foolish misconceptions into a theatrical collage something close to a subconscious mash-up. Have you been transported into the mind of Hamlet or is Hamlet all in your mind? - See: plays :: note :: ... a complex process ...

These past weekends Saskatoon theatre witnessed a historic moment. Henry Woolf strode across the stage surrounded by a formidable cast of actors who all began their acting studies in Saskatoon under his guidance, including director Del Surjik , and launched a new era for Persephone Theatre. "I agonized over it, I did, but it's a play I always wanted to do. It affected me deeply as a new, young theatre practitioner," Surjik said of Waiting for Godot. "I thought it would deliver an introduction of me to the audience and start our conversation together." ( Star Phoenix ) Staging a twentieth century masterpiece honours the past and challenges the future. More importantly utilizing the gifts of splendid theatre artists within the community and inviting back to their roots those who sought development elsewhere, Persephone recognized and strengthened the deep human connections that sustain and nurture the immediate place of theatre. This particular Waiting for Godot...

These past weekends Saskatoon theatre witnessed a historic moment. Henry Woolf strode across the stage surrounded by a formidable cast of actors who all began their acting studies in Saskatoon under his guidance, including director Del Surjik , and launched a new era for Persephone Theatre. "I agonized over it, I did, but it's a play I always wanted to do. It affected me deeply as a new, young theatre practitioner," Surjik said of Waiting for Godot. "I thought it would deliver an introduction of me to the audience and start our conversation together." ( Star Phoenix ) Staging a twentieth century masterpiece honours the past and challenges the future. More importantly utilizing the gifts of splendid theatre artists within the community and inviting back to their roots those who sought development elsewhere, Persephone recognized and strengthened the deep human connections that sustain and nurture the immediate place of theatre. This particular Waiting for Godot...

- See: Language :: note :: ... wordle of converstation @ Second Thoughts ... posted some (what i thought were ironic) comments ... irony was missed ... although the response was quite gentle: "you seem like a broken child of the internet" ... followed later by an oh get it post ... still realized my difficulty in conveying nuances ... still the wordle had a point ... showed who talked the most ... the danger is in some networks most = loudest = (lets say) griefer = remove ... not a representation of the quality of the conversation just graphics of words & we can use/manipulate words ... oh well as long as just talking to myself no problems ...

Organize/Narrat(ive)e learning experiment/challenge: how is connectivism related to enabling a participatory pedagogy Pre- Course signed up for Connectivism and Connective Knowledge Online Course visited blog signed up for: SL component & joined google group added dates to Doodle logged in to Moodle CCK08 listened to EdTechTalk #81 & #82 & interview read posts: Planning Page , English Pageflakes , support wiki , Sarah's Musings , Connectivism blog , The Connective uploaded latest SL, visited Chilbo & twittered from there. - See: CCK08 :: note :: ... accept those talking marks/grades/assessment/institutions is an important part of their narrative ... after this pre-course "work" must chip away to principles of personal practice by ruthless selection of info-nodes ... find it difficult to commit (be open) to any process structured/unstructured of "network" whether social, neuronal or conceptual ... live chaos ... love complexity & divers...

rubber duck project creative networking - See: Projects :: note :: ... old school post ... years ago many posts were of this link type ... rare now with social bookmarking & tags & microblogging ... a relentless change ...

Acts of Indivisibility ( half sisters sitting on the edge of an empty theatre ) Libby:    Are we the angels? Fanny:   (Sewing wings for the swan)              Only if you trust that which you don't know. Libby:    But we humans hate ourselves. Fanny:   Only the very few trustworthy who dare to wholeheartedly               be in love will . . . Libby:     (interrupting) I just want to be happy Fanny:   Ah happiness ... I have heard, meditate on the difference              between the Important and the Essential,              you will learn something secret. Libby:     I feel I carry the rhythms in my face and hands. Fanny:   Hold here tight....

seesons uv th heart from narrativ enigma /rumours uv hurricane by bill bissett dansing a video poem created & read in the morning of august 11, 2008 by (inspired by meeting bill after decades of reading his work) click image to view - See: Video Poems :: note :: ... working with imovie & garageband ... compressing for the web is a serious deterioration of both sound & picture ... hmmm probably nothing new for the experienced ... once a year I play with this form and am surprised at both advancements and growing demands ... moving from the wow factor to the desire for better ...

amazements jaguar jumps from narrativ enigma / rumours uv hurricane by bill bissett a video poem created & read in the morning of aug, 9, 2008 by raymon montalbetti (inspired by meeting bill after decades of reading his work) click image to view - See: Video Poems :: note :: ... images of Lake Superior ... was there this time last year ... an awe inspiring lake of mythical spirit ... also visible @ youtube

Don't Say God by John Livingstone Clark accompanied by Ray Stephanson keyboards & Duane Dorgan percussion a temple reading video by Raymon Montalbetti - See: Video Poems :: note :: ... summertime & diggin ... this is a 2004 reading that never made it to the web ... it has now ...

Ain't that the truth (A clearing on the way to the dump. Two cars lay upturned at either side of the road like wrecked sentinels.) Lester: What say ... Cormac: Mornin. Lester: Mornin you aST? Cormac: Down yonder the day is cheatin. Lester: Let me see that there rifle. Cormac: Hold on. What can I do for ye? Lester: You ain't got nothin cept the rifle. Cormac: It's a known fact we's all childs of god. Lester: Stay away from here. Cormac: Sure I can't hep ye? Lester: You're a liar. Cormac: You ain't never married. It's a grief and a heartache and they ain't no reward in it atall. You just raise enemies in ye own house to grow up and cuss ye. Lester: You're crazy and cain't fool me just turn around and get goin. Cormac: You aIN'T needin' a watch are ye? Lester: Do you reckon i need a watch. Git. Cormac: (turning to leave) I jus don't know why people don't want to listen? (Walks off. Long silence.) Ain't that the truth. - Se...

1/? what is blood for 2/? what dies in you 3/? how do you like the war 4/? will you be here next year 5/? do u want 2 b emptee 6/? do you interrogate your impulses ... 'does Beckett strike you as a person who ever interrogated his own economic impulses?' ... 7/? is your id intact 8/? am I an imposter 9/? how to find that which i can't even remember is lost 10/? is it just a look 11/? when does the accident become the condition 12/? are we part of the anger 13/? beyond all help 14/? which irreversible process (decay, history) is too personal ... 15/? what does it mean to finish (Mark DuCharme) ... http://bit.ly/33gPqD 16/? how do you keep the faith - See: Questions :: note :: ... unconsciously asked a couple of questions on identi.ca ... now a discipline a little like Oblique_Chirps ... live the questions was a credo ... now I watch my questions ...

- See: Image :: note :: ... a wild few days around here ... high winds, tornado touch downs ... trees falling onto roofs & streets ... above is a picture down the street ... look through the window of the fire truck to see the fallen tree ...

"And so life is reckoned as nothing. Habitualization devours works, clothes, furniture, one's wife, and the fear of war. "If the whole complex lives of many people go on unconsciously, then such lives are as if they had never been." And art exists that one may recover the sensation of life; it exists to make one feel things, to make the stone stony. The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived and not as they are known. The technique of art is to make objects 'unfamiliar,' to make forms difficult, to increase the difficulty and length of perception because the process of perception is an aesthetic end in itself and must be prolonged. Art is a way of experiencing the artfulness of an object: the object is not important." ( -- Victor Shklovsky "Art as Technique" ) - See: Artists Speak :: note :: ... wonderful attending the Floyd festival (old link not up-dated) ... youth working in post post-modern ways ... ...

... imagine my surprise when out of the blue artist Chris Ashley offered to ship a work simply as an act of gratitude for my following his html pieces throughout the years ... asked if i had a request & shocked i replied whatever comes will be appreciated ... ... we don't "know" each other ... have never met ... a sporadic network connection at best ... the last few days he posted another of his gifts hanging ... here's where mine hangs ... above my computer work station flanked by my sons piece done at age 11 ... the reflected light line seems appropriate (to me) ... his recent work may be viewed at David Cunningham Projects in San Francisco & his most recent recent work may be viewed each day on his blog Look, See which links & reviews other work as well ... the last month has been particularly stunning as the daily practice demands & challenges both form & impulse ... daily looking means to see & to see I have discovered is to ...

There is the place we know and there is the place we live. This I realized staying the past fifteen years in The Temple situated beyond the CPR tracks, at the bottom of Caswell Hill just off of Louis Riel Trail in Saskatoon on the Canadian prairies. Something I've been reminded of as the walls flake and the roof falls. The Temple windows are a bit high meaning I see mostly sky and trees. Inside there is a story which remains mostly untold and not easily accessible. The Ladies Prayer Room in the basement with the now demolished bathroom, the attic with empty pulleys and asbestos, crumbling steps, fence planks missing, cracked windows and worn pathways speak of age and a relentless drive towards being junked or dispersed. Places vanish precisely because, a few years down the track, there is no 'guardian' left willing to pay the bills for the sake of posterity? There is no concealing the sourcing of alienation or the substance of tradition. Speaking in tongues the space...

free - a video poem of 'I want 2 b emptee' from narrativ enigma / rumours uv hurricane by bill bissett FLaRes - a video poem of 'ECHOGRAPHIES' from The House that HIJACK Built by Adeena Karasick - See: Video Poem :: note :: ... created these past early mornings ... inspired by an Adeena Karasick workshop presentation (not attended) at the recent EVOcative Festival/Conference ... the idea + my wife's discovery of sharing pictures using quicktime movies stimulated me to use the tools lying dormant in the computer ...

The Stranger. Camus: When was the last time? Shadow: What? Camus: The last time we talked? Shadow: Yesterday before the storm. Camus: And the last word? Shadow: What are you talking about - we don't talk. Camus: Do you remember then the last word you wrote? Shadow: No. Camus: You didn't even think about it. Shadow: (laughs) My name. How every correspondence ends Camus: Exactly. Shadow: Oh I get what this is about. Camus: Do you? - See: Plays :: note :: ... Suzan-Lori Parks wrote a play a day which inspired a nation-wide grassroots festival ... the published book acknowledges Paul Osher - who said it'd be cool. ...

"We are nothing alone. We cannot exist without reference points. We cannot know ourselves until another knows us. This is why we seek love - not just something to hold, but someone to know us and hold us as just us. Neither can we be together if we do not exist as individuals. Both are needed." "Dialogue is both our existence and what we do. We are beings in our doings." "Our purpose is to stir things up. The stirrings are the living edge of us. Where we leak into others, there we create new life. This is the work of conversation: to create new life. " "Dialogue then is not a mere tool, but the fountain of life. Drink from each other's mouths and ears the stuff of life." "The between is life. The between throws off life. The between lives. The between gives life. We meet in the between. We live in the between. What we do separately is done only to serve the between. The between is life." "Giving is what feeds the creation...

... clusters of interaction circulate around a deep, shared core connection & this "work" is where connection is maintained ... ... no place for psychological notions of the biologically tied family ... ... the noise of institutional hierarchies needs to be muted ... ... not easy as the traditional relationship canon demands a kind of cohesive, definable whole that is legitimized as fact & truth ... ... shape shift to negotiate a way to re-present ourselves in a credible manner ... ... link to survival, competition & traditional drives of monetary adherence to security ... ... replace convention with stripped, personalised, intuitive, introspective, living & open-ended actions (authenticity & inspired) ... ... replace status quo, comprehension, ease & predictability with chaotic, disordered and risky variations ... - See: Relationship :: note :: ... towards a manifesto of relations ...