Moon Mami Writes

( In photo: I'm performing with the theater company The Saartjie Project . We performed in the 2009 Pedagogy & Theater of the Oppressed Conference in Minnesota ) I was excited to learn week before last that my proposal was selected as a workshop for the upcoming Pedagogy and Theater of the Oppressed which will be in Austin, TX this year. I attended the conference last year with The Saartjie Project and we performed then. I enjoyed being in Minnesota, but I am really looking forward to being Texas. I've only been in Texas briefly when we stopped in Texas when I was a cruise of the Gulf of Mexico. The workshop I'm presenting is about my first play Shades of Black: a thought in progress which I wrote and produced when working as a college administrator. I will sharing with educators how to use theater as a tool of engagement.  ( In photo: Cast members of the play Shades of Black: a thought in progress produced in 2008 )  ( In photo: Promotional flyer for the pl...

So, right now, I am very, very, very tired. But I feel great! I am so tired that my legs are stretched out and I can barely move them. Maybe it has to do with my three-hour stay at the pool this afternoon with my family at friend's pool party and my non-stop flipping & diving off of the diving board. Maybe. But, I'm sure it has more to do with yesterday's fast-paced flurry of activity that ended with a late night performance with my sister circle The Saartjie Project at the Warehouse Theater in DC as part of this year's Capital Fringe Fest. That performance capped off a day that was pretty perfect in the way so many open projects and dilemmas closed with finesse. I also sold two copies of Liberated Muse Volume I: How I Freed My Soul ! Yeay! To begin, my car, has been in the shop since Monday. It's a 2007 Suzuki model, and, apparantly, according to my mechanic, Suzuki's are dying breeds and the maker is hard to get a hold of when parts are needed. So, for the...