THANKS!

Thanks so much to everyone for listening to my help-wanted writings. Your responses were warm and wonderful! A the week fills out, I think I just might be borrowing each of these items from helpful folks nearby. Thanks to one and all!

Help.

Dear Friends,

I'm writing now because there are three items I would like very much:

1) A Laptop (preferably mac)

2) A Digital Camera

Both of these can be old clunkers.

Perhaps you have just purchased a new computer or camera and have no use for your old one? Please let me know. jenine.alexander@gmail.com

The work I am doing with The Imaginists for this summer's traveling bilingual puppet event The Art is Medicine Show / El Show el Arte es Medicina involves returning to the kind of charcoal animations I did many years ago. Though a very hands-on process, the completion and presentation of this work requires the aid of a digital camera (for capturing the drawings in the process of stop-motion animation), and a computer (for compiling the photos and creating the final edited piece in a video editing program).

I am also sewing costumes and underwear, if you have an unused serger/overlock sewing machine around your house, just being able to borrow it for a few months would be of great assistance for my projects. So the last thing I'm looking for is:

3) A serger / overlock sewing machine.

Can you help me forge ahead?!

Thanks for reading.

Ejemplos...

Our vision: a bilingual bicycle touring show.

Our communities suffer. Job losses continue. Pollution spews unchecked. The Art is Medicine Show is born from the idea that in times of crisis we must break old patterns, seek visionary solutions, and connect to our local communities. In the spirit of the Federal Theatre Project of the 1930’s we want to make theatre that is vital to community life. The mainstream arts culture in general, and in Sonoma County in particular, often overlooks Latino and Immigrant communities. Performances that invite these communities and celebrate the diversity in our county are essential. Our vision: a bilingual bicycle touring show.

Nuestras comunidades sufren. Trabajos se siguen perdiendo. La contaminación vomita sin control. El espectáculo Arte es Medicina nace de la idea que en tiempos de crisis debemos romper nuestros viejos patrones, buscar soluciones visionarias, y conectar con nuestras comunidades locales. En el espíritu del Proyecto de Teatro Federal de los 1930s queremos hacer teatro que es vital a la vida de nuestra comunidad. Las artes culturas de corriente popular en general, y en particular en el condado de Sonoma, muchas veces ignoran las comunidades de Latinos e inmigrantes. Presentaciones que inviten a estas comunidades y celebren la diversidad en nuestro país son esenciales. Nuestra Visión: un espectáculo bilingüe de Tour en bicicleta.

Real City Planning

William Kentridge and the Handspring Puppet Company

William Kentridge and the Handspring Puppet Company are gracing San Francisco with their engaging art this March. More information at the SFMOMA. Kentridge has long been an inspiration for me. This is a rare opportunity to see the Handspring Puppet Company in the USA.

Alfred Jarry / Ubu Roi

...his last request was for a toothpick. "When he finally had one in his fingers it seemed, his doctor, writes, 'as if he were suddenly filled with a great joy as on the days he went off fishing or on a canoe or a bicycle trip. I barely stepped aside to talk to the nurse when he signalled me to turn around. He was drawing his last breath.'" (See article.)

Ride your bicycle to The Imaginists' UBU performance and receive a "That Which Rolls" bicycle placard, while supplies last.

Dedication, Commitment, Email Me

If you're also a puppeteer, I'm especially pleased to share with you the photos that follow. In creating a puppet suitcase sometimes one might feel silly, alone, lonely, or framed-as-aimless. It's ok, but... For these reasons, networking with other puppeteers is a lifeline. Bolstering our potential impact, let us unite with all while questioning, What do we have to give?

Onward musicians! bicyclists! activists! builders that demand sustainable building test sites! drawers! sewers! painters! print makers! mechanics! those who consider A Pattern Language! tree grafters! trailer remodelers! teachers! learners! non-consumers and makers of all sorts!

Gratefully yours,
Jenine

Why, What is this?

A runaway tiger cub of the Cyclown Circus snuck up on a gang of Imginistas, and pruf:

Here you have it folks

Forge Ahead Puppet Productions

Fully engaging, Busting into vivihood

Now you might be thinking:

Why, What's the meaning of this?!

You'll get yourself killed!

Oh no, we lead a charmed life. Plus, we die, and we do not die.