GRANTS, DONORS, & NEWS

I've been hard at work on The Easter Island Project, working with the beautiful "seeds" you fabulous people have created for the project. I'm also setting up an intimate Participation Tour for Seattle, New York City, and Oakland (Portland and Eugene dates TBD). Keep reading if you'd like to host an event or fundraiser, or become a donor.

The Easter Island Project is made possible by individual donations, the Tarot Reading Fundraiser, and a travel sponsorship from the Viator Travelblog. Thank you so much, everybody, for supporting my work. Funding is still needed; as the project grows more interesting and goes more places, it becomes more costly.

Please drop me a line at magdalen23 (! at) gmail.com if you'd like to join in. You could:

• Make a financial donation (non-profit receipt; specify "Easter Island")
  
• Become a business or organizational sponsor
  
• Buy a Tarot reading for yourself or a friend
• Host an Easter Island gathering, reading, or workshop -- at your venue, bookstore, college, or in your own home
  
• Volunteer
• Come to an event -- or participate in the project via email or postal mail

In other news, I've received from RACC, the Regional Arts & Culture Council, a 2009 Professional Development Grant. Thank you, RACC and Prof Dev panelists!

TAROT READINGS FUNDRAISER: HELP OUT 2GQ & THE EASTER ISLAND PROJECT

dear people of the world & beyond:

wouldn't you or one of your loved ones simply adore getting a genuine, proper Tarot reading as a gift? why yes, you would! my psychic powers predict it.

readings may be redeemed in person or over the phone. please see seedcake.etsy.com for more info & to purchase your gift certificate. let the mystical mayhem begin!

i've been reading Tarot for nearly two decades, have written about Tarot and other oracles for publication, and i am the creator of the Burning Tarot deck.

the Easter Island Project is an ongoing work inspired by my personal experience and subsequent research into childlessness in our culture. all Tarot proceeds benefit the non-profit arts and literary organization 2GQ—specifically, computer related expenses—and The Easter Island Project—specifically, expenses for related travels to San Francisco, Seattle, and of course, Easter Island, Chile, in the South Pacific. non-financial support is also welcome.

xo and thank you...

miss magdalen

PS: and i've lately been recruited to do parties with this, too. great fun.

SIGN UP FOR ONE-ON-ONE CREATIVE MENTORING & WORKSHOPS

For upcoming shows & publications, scroll down to my previous post. Thanks...

Tiffany Lee Brown is a writer, performer, independent curator, and interdisciplinary artist in Portland. She believes in the power of creativity to effect social change and explore difficult issues. But social change begins at home, with our personal lives and individual art practices.

CREATIVE MENTORING
Open creative doors, prepare for public appearances, and provide for unusual healing opportunities using methods evolved from practices such as Mikhail Chekhov Technique. Available for artists, writers, and non-artists wishing to explore their creative potential.

You determine the direction of your Creative Mentoring sessions. Possible areas of focus:

- New tools to get creative energy flowing freely
- Hands-on review of works in progress
- Moving past artistic or emotional blocks
- Expanding your creative practice
- Integrating creativity in your personal and professional life
- Honing artistic and professional goals for the future

WORKSHOPS
Embodying Character: New avenues for character development. Useful for writers, performers, actors, dancers, and anyone who creates living people as part of their work.

Creative Tools for Childless Living: Tap your imagination to approach childlessness with courage, creativity, and curiosity. Appropriate for biologically childless artists and non-artists alike. Screening process required.

RESERVATIONS
Please contact now to reserve a session or be added to the waiting list for 2009. Gift certificates and scholarships available.

CONTACT
magdalen23 at gmail.com • +1 503 997 0301 • www.magdalen.com


ABOUT MISS BROWN
Author of A Compendium of Miniatures, Tiffany is an editor at PLAZM magazine and directs the non-profit project 2GQ for 2 Gyrlz Performative Arts. Her work has been presented by PICA, Portland Center Stage, Performance Works NW, Wordstock, PNCA, Pacific University, Powell’s City of Books, and the Enteractive Language Festival, among others. Her writing appears in numerous books and anthologies, and in such periodicals as Bookforum, Portland Monthly, Wired, Tin House, Bust, and forthcoming in Oregon Humanities.

A non-faculty mentor for the Pacific Northwest College of Arts’ new MFA in Visual Studies, Tiffany was certified in Mikhail Chekhov Technique at the University of California, Berkeley, from which she graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Dramatic Art. She earned her MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College.

EASTER ISLAND PROJECT: CONTRIBUTE A SEED.

Announcing the inception of

The Easter Island Project

a creation of Tiffany Lee Brown and you,
a community of friends, artists, & supporters.

I would be honoured if you would contribute a seed to this collective creation.

The Easter Island Project explores the ideas of creation and renewal. Why do we make art? Why do we make babies? How do we experience the urge for new beginnings in our lives? The project arises from the grief, ambivalence, and joys of a childless and childfree woman living in a family-focused, pro-natalist culture, and expands into the realm of creativity in general.


EASTER ISLAND RITUAL

After the seeds gestate, I will perform
a ritual on Easter Island in the South Pacific, in August, 2009, followed by a performance in Portland with music collaborator
Eric Hausmann. Gatherings, performances, rituals, and online
participatory works will occur during the
gestation period. Please join us.


TO PARTICIPATE:

If you'd like to create a small, original contribution---whether or not you are an artist---it will seed a community creation in the form of writing, art, music, performance, and ritual. Please email for details about how you can participate.

CONTACT:

zzEasterIslandProject@gmail.com
(remove the zz's) or at
www.magdalen.com

WHAT DO THESE "SEEDS"
LOOK LIKE?

Each seed is a meditation on creation and new beginnings.

The first seed was sown March 30 in
New York City, and took the form of a bird
representing new beginnings and travel,
painted by tattoo artist PJ Blanchard
and then tattooed on my skin.

Another seed consisted of three small pink beads
and a slip of paper from a fortune cookie.

Someone at the last ritual contributed
a found sculpture made from the eggshell of
a recently-hatched bald eagle, together with
a feather.

Your seed might be a snippet of original
music, a clip of video, a slip of paper containing a few short words, a miniature bit of artwork, a tiny object of significance to you, or an action
documented however you like.

Email for details about what size the seed
can take, and how to get it to the artist, a.k.a.
me.

xoxo

tiffany