FRIDAY NIGHT

HOLIDAY SPIRIT

(East 23rd Street)

ART SHOW and FUNDRAISER

Creative Center for Arts in Health Care

Fabulous drawings, paintings, prints, collages and photographs donated by artists worldwide. All art $20 to benefit our art programs for people with cancer. A wonderful night to celebrate The Creative Center and the spirit of the season! Pot luck and Beverages to share.

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Music by Woodrow

Lovely riffs all night...

...and a jam session too.

Reunion with Nancy Beck

(one of my favorite people on the planet)

I was so busy, eating, looking at the wonderful art and schmoozing, I never photographed the art so you'll have to take my word for it that the Center has encouraged a whole lot of talent.

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Back in my neighborhood, the church steps are temporary sanctuary for someone tonight, as they always are

Winter Fall Summer and Spring.

A gift in the mail today from another one of my favorite people lifts my spirit. Thank you Nancy Erisman

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And so to bed with Teddy nearby keeping watch

LINK

 The Creative Center

http://www.thecreativecenter.org/tcc/our_organization/

"MY BARBARIAN"

 "The delightfully satirical performance collective "My Barbarian", working at the intersection of theater, visual arts, and critical practice, uses performance to theatricalize past and present problems and imagine ways of being together."  The interactive exhibition is currently on view at The New Museum in New York City.

 (shot this at Bowery on Houston Street when I got off the bus)

Thanks to The Creative Center we were given free access to explore different facets of the exhibition and to experience workshops derived from the My Barbarian performance manual. The first session was on 10/13 but the second on10/20 had to be postponed-a new date TBA.
(Our Creative Center Coordinator Sophia met us smiling)

Then Iviva Olenick gave us some of the exhibitions fascinating history, how it came to be, the purpose and describing in brief what we would be doing.
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Some Aspects of the Exhibition

Masks
Who do you think you are?

Who do others think you are?

Who are you?

Theater Games
Becoming community

Learning to trust


The transcript

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The entire project sourcebook is available


Several Videos are projected

From individual statements...

 and past group performances.


The Exhibition Map

The Five Techniques
Estrangement, Indistinction, Suspension of Beliefs, Mandate to Participate, and Inspirational Critique

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We spent time in a separate classroom enacting various theater games and getting to know one another better, after which we discussed our participation and plans for the next session.

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The Roof
Some of us went to the 7th floor to see "one of the most arresting public spaces in downtown Manhattan: an eleven-foot-high, 2,000-square-foot multipurpose space for events and special programs, the Sky Room features two walls of floor-to-ceiling glass surrounded by panoramic vistas of the city from an outdoor terrace that runs around the east and south sides of the building."

Outside...

looking in...

looking up...

(shaky hands. I have a touch of Acrophobia)

Looking South...

Looking East.

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Back to the Lobby
the Museum Shop

offers books

and more.

There's a suitably pricey concession stand too.

LINKS
1. The New Museum, designed by Tokyo-based architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa/SANAA, is a seven-story, eight-level structure located at 235 Bowery between Stanton and Rivington Streets, at the origin of Prince Street in New York City.

 http://www.newmuseum.org/building
2. Home site, past-present and future Exhibitions
http://www.newmuseum.org/

Post Script
There are no uptown bus stops on Third Avenue between Houston Street and Cooper Square at 6th Street I discovered, and after waiting forty minutes here in vain,  I walked the rest of the way home.

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TONIGHT WE READ ALOUD

 It's the launch and celebration of our newest chapbook

"Taking the Prompt"

 By the writers of the 'Moving Pen'
Winter 2014 led by Frank Haberle
Produced by the New York Writers Coalition
and
The Creative Center

info@thecreativecenter.org

The Amherst Method
(The method we use)
 

"Pat Schneider, founder of the method, has many gifts, but I personally think that the source of her strength as a writer, teacher, activist, and human being is her profound ability to be authentic and vulnerable. Something magical happens when Pat speaks; she creates room for everyone to go deeper, open up, heal, and write their absolute best, most honest work"
~Aaron Zimmerman~

Here are clips of Pat talking about writing;
Each is about two minutes.
(You tube won't let me post them today but I'll try to come back later and do that) 

http://youtu.be/2C413QIno9U

http://youtu.be/ZTWfh2uepiE

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