No Pina Colada for Mr. Play It Safe

Hello!

This week, we are ‘keeping the fort’,as Rahul said; Linda (the General Manager) is in vacation for 2 weeks. Repercussion Theatre has just started rehearsing a Shakespeare play in our joint space so there is a lot of mouvement on the battle field.

This week, I’m also painting a book. It’s about a mole named Lowell. I didn’t write it, I’m the image-maker. And an article I wrote in french on transhumanism got published on an online greek magazine, in english and in greek. I wrote it in french because I really cared about all the words I wrote, I wanted to be exactly sure of what I was saying,but, it got morphed in the translation. Alanis sang :

Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly
He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids good-bye
He waited his whole damn life to take that flight
And as the plane crashed down he thought
'Well isn't this nice...'

The translation does not feel so much like my words and even sometimes, meanings. Gotta talk to them.

Paradoxically, it feels like things are in suspension, floating around. Maybe it’s because everybody’s drinking pina coladas. Except all those who can’t. I’m hectic. Do you follow me?

We’re starting to meet with people who are interested in the panel discussions, and get more appointments. I don’t mean to give up at the first sign of resistance, but it’s just encouraging when you’ve got special friends to move on. Then, the world feels generous and less oppressing, generically speaking.

I would have loved to receive Patch Adams for one of those Panel. Yes, yes, THE Dr.He is such an amazing human being and an incredible speaker. He transforms people (at least, this is true for me). And you know, I thought it was quite related Peace and Peace. But it will not be possible. For those who are interested, he will be in Quebec city and in Montreal on the second week of September 2009,just when our play will be presented -which means 2 major events in the same week.



I like when people can be that frank with themselves and the world, and yet, still want to pursue their 'mission', for the better, again and again, indefatigably.

And talking about people who make much efforts to make the world a better place, here is Risa from Indyish. I mentionned this Montreal-artist-network-group earlier, they’ll feature us in mid-August at an event (the monthly mess) called ‘We made a deal with the devil.’ Apparently, their ‘May monthly mess’ was a chaos of fun. You should come in August, we’ll passionatly talk about true & deep vital life elements in this creative space! So to Speak- Rahul talking about his script.



For more info : www.indyish.com