"SEEDING EASTER ISLAND" AT FORT WORDEN AUGUST 16

Seeding Easter Island
A performance/installation by Tiffany Lee Brown and collaborating artists,
and by you, the audience participants.

Saturday, August 16
NEW TIME: 4:00 pm
Fort Worden, Port Townsend, Washington

Meet at Centrum Arts/Goddard College building #204
Proceed to abandoned military installation at Battery Vicar
Walking tour - alternate transportation available (see below)

Admission is free

ABOUT THE SHOW
On Easter Island, a.k.a. Rapa Nui, gorgeously crafted stone moai guard a barren landscape once teeming with forests. The monoliths gaze upon the island or sit half-carved in volcanic rock. Many believe that the islanders decimated the forests to build and move the gigantic moai; unable to build boats, the islanders were cut off from their supply of deep-water fish. Slavers and smallpox nearly wiped out the dwindling tribes. Now the moai attract visitors whose tourist dollars help sustain the tiny population of Rapa Nui.

Creativity---making, intervening, birthing---works in mysterious ways.

In “Seeding,” we’ll walk to the abandoned military site Battery Vicar, experiencing environment, performance, and installation art along the way, by Tiffany, Emily Stone, Nancy Boulmay, and other artists.

MAKE A SEED:
Audience participants may also offer a “seed” of creativity for Tiffany’s ongoing Easter Island Project, which gestates until she visits the South Pacific island in 2009. Online at www.magdalen.com or easterislandprojectZZZ@gmail.com (remove the Z's).

ALTERNATE TRANSPO:
Transportation will be provided for those who need it; arrive 10 minutes early. You'll still need to walk a short way at the battery. Please email me in advance if you're on wheels so that I can bring some of the performance to you on paved ground. Email magdalen23ZZZ@gmail.com (remove the z's).

CREATIVE WHORING at the back room

Earlier this year, Plazm editors and art director Jon Raymond, Josh Berger, and I were guests at Portland's lovely art discussion/food/music ritual, the back room, presently curated by Stephanie Snyder of the Cooley Gallery at Reed College. Each of us wrote an essay for the evening's chapbook, The Wife, the Mistress, and the Prostitute, designed by Plazm and published by the back room. My piece is about whoring one's creativity out.

So I suggested to Josh that we three wear t-shirts reading "WHORE" whilst being interviewed. He suggested that we have "WHORE" badges/buttons made instead -- which was fabulous, since this way the audience got to identify themselves as whores along with us.

It was quite the occasion... and now you too can experience the Whore love. Buy your book and "whore" button at Plazm.com.

To hear the conversation (and do keep in mind it's a small group of wine-swilling, feasting artpeople, rather than a Fresh Air sort of thing) check out the "documents" section of the back room website. Our evening featured Synder as interviewer, the mouthwateringly delightful Tastebud as providers of provender, and Tara Jane O'Neil as guest musician.

2GQ & TIFFANY LEE BROWN AT PORTLAND CENTER STAGE'S "JAW FESTIVAL" JULY 19

My piece "Play Me," a 2GQ production of audio installation and performance, happens July 19 at the Armory Building in the Pearl District, Portland, Oregon. Admission is free, and when I know more details about times and such, I'll post them here.

Collaborators include Eric Hausmann, Nora Robertson, Barb Klansnic, and Pecos B.

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