Hello, dear readers!

We’re sitting here in the Adams ArtsSpace at Harvard.  Yep.  You heard me correctly: we’re spending the week at Harvard!

So, here we are, eating dining hall food and sleeping on couches.  Sounds just like school, doesn’t it?  Except this time, we’re the ones teaching.  After some healthy consideration last night, we decided that instead of creating something brand new with students, everyone would be best served by working on an existing text - and so we’re happy to announce that Meeting, Important is going to have a special workshop performance in Cambridge on Friday!  This is rare experience for a number of reasons:

1) We’re doing a show in Boston!  The last time that happened, Mary was just coming to love the writing.style.with.periods.  The last time that happened, nobody knew what an iPad was.  The last time that happened, Hillary Clinton was probably going to be the next President of the United States.  Yikes!

2) We’re so thrilled to have a number of talented Harvard students working with us on this production - these guys are the true stars of tomorrow, so you’ll get to see them here first.

3) Nick Delany.  Always.

4) more work-in-progress evidence of how art.party operates.  you loved our New York workshop - well, this is going to be a different show than the one you saw in New York.  It’s the beauty of developing a show and you can watch it unfold before your eyes.

SO:
if you want to join us on Friday at 7pm or 9pm, email artpartytheatercompany@gmail.com and reserve a space.  These things are going to go fast and they’re most certainly limited, so act now to avoid disappointment.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I hear the dining hall has chicken tenders for lunch.

—db

enjoying this wonderful expression of art that art.party.theater.company has put together / wet! / Summer is fun, Run, Summer is togetherness, summer is love and enjoying the outdoors / Bright Sunny days / mosquito bites & burned skin / croquet! / Fotzch / Bryant in the park! / FUN / framed by others / watermelon / COOL! / FUN & GOOD / sticky / ice cream / FREEDOM! / stickie / FUN! / This summer was dream for me. Because I’m NY. I’m from Turkey I liked NY. I enjoy it and I want to come back. But I don’t have enough facility…I hope everything bes good… / relaxing / I want to (cinema acting actress) fame, my dream fame and happy, peace / BBQ Time! / HUMID / sticky / love u Jacob <3 <3 Exhilerating Malky Appeldorfer / promising / SumMeR\…Summer\SUMMEr / miracle! /red fresh tomatoes <3 / Soon to be fall so that it can one day be summer again /vacation from school / Poppies / fun / Ripening / A Great Time us the year / Outdoors Meeting /Swimming in the Ocean / Cool Hot Red Spandex on a Friday Night / Pleasant walks in green fields–short life passages full of dreams that die too quickly– Learning us to dream again / Freedom / not being in the library! / hot weather / happiness, hope, love, family / india.chennai 2009 / beautiful / Celebration and Birthdays / The Summer Is Good / Vacation / the hotdog dance / FREE / long joyful day / the shade of leafy trees, fire flies, peepers, meteor showers / Wema mith nice legs / the warmest months of the year / evenings in the park / Sunshine summershine / Life / a good season. even though it’s hot / a cut that’s healed / possibilities / cicadas / Love & Bryan Park / awesome / bare skin in the hot sun / amazing nightfalls / Magic, in NYC as in Paris. A French Guy / the blow out of mental stress / Hope / fun / Gazpacho! Palomino. / beauty and warmth / hat / It’s a song! Summertime; or summertimes makes me feel fine, Blowing thru the jasmine of my mind / New Beginning! Open Air, Water, AC, Adjustment, Travel, Air, Sun, Shorts, Love, Hate, Heat, Skin, Friends, NYC, Pain / fun in Bryant Park! / vacation / Becky Keren / Fun with friends! / HOT! / fresh green smells and carefree winds / AWESOME paradise / I LiKE THiS SUMEr / hot / Almost Over / smoky / Beer\Beach\Best Bugs / Hot & Lovely / short skirts & motorcycles / Butt sweat / Sexy!! / barefoot / sweaty / for doing the things you thought about all winter. / beach sand between my toes / non-existant / FireFlies / sultry / SLUTTY / Beer-B-Q / naked / Magical & Exciting / HOT / SANGRIA / lazy / endless / SUN / helt harlig! / finally here! / SUN / anti-winter <3 / Summer (IN NEW YORK) is…CREATIVE EXPRESSION IN UNEXPECTED PLACES / Enjoying all outdoor activities / the rays of the shining sun, awaits to light us all and give brightness to mankind / breezy possibilities. sunny glimpses of hope anew. lingering moments. / [picture of sun] / Bumblebees. / Hot / Time of love and relaxing season / really Fun Fa [pictures of people, sun and trees] / Fleetingly Delicious / Family Fun! / CORN & TOMATOES! / I Voixing this Summer / LemonADe [picture of lemonade] / FANTASTIC! / OutDoorSie / MARVEL UPON MARVEL WITH ICE CREAM

As art.party enters the infant stage of identifying itself and its mission (”Who’s that baby in the mirror? Me?!”) I started doing some research about other companies to get a sense of how long it takes to get to a place where we will have “made it.”

Answer: A damn long time.

We are bound to toil in the darkness of obscurity for several years, slowly earning street cred with our peers until our breakout production. And though it feels like every production is our breakout production, logistics like funding and free time may force us to climb slowly and not meteorically.

While I see the value of having a vision (cf. Oprah’s The Secret) I think that what will continue to be my driving force as an artist–and art.party’s–will be to make art and have fun doing that. So far, we seem to be following that theme. That seems to be the only way to survive the slow, inevitable climb.

In September, we’ll take on another rung in the ladder as I’ll be the project leader for art.party’s residency with chashama (lower-case? what! what!). It will be hot off the heels of DUCHESS and art.party.outreach will be creating or polishing brave new work. (”O, brave new wor[k]!”) So, let’s have two big objectives: (1) make good art and (2) have fun. If we devote our energy to the creation, I feel it will come back to us. Even if ten years later.

Since I am not patient myself, I’m attaching a sketch I did yesterday for one night of the residency. Now I just need a performer or performers brave enough to do it. Any takers?

Lots of love,

JB