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Our Piecework fundraising campaigning is edging ever closer to the $5,000 mark, with less than $400 between us and that milestone as of this writing. Meanwhile, rehearsals have begun for my March performances at Lost Nation Theater, where the DVD will be shot. Production plans are developing with our videographer, Jeff Farber, and we are
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All this month I’m posting on topics related to Piecework: When We Were French, my solo show. The play was originally commissioned to honor the legacy of French-Canadian immigration to Vermont and New England. Of course, in the process, it does much more: it explores the immigrant experience more generally; it reveals how the family
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If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. I’ve borrowed this image from Facebook, where it was being used to honor today’s global day of action, One Billion Rising. Check their site to see live footage of events happening all over the planet, calling for an end
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On January 22nd, I launched a fundraising campaign to support the production of a DVD of my solo show, Piecework: When We Were French. Yesterday marked the beginning of the campaign’s fourth week, and I’m excited to report that, with 22 days down, we’ve been able to raise 60% of our overall goal. This is
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Today marks the beginning of my fourth week of fundraising to support the DVD production of my solo show, Piecework: When We Were French. In just three weeks, we have managed to raise $4,000, almost 60% of our overall goal. During these three weeks, I have been reflecting on the show’s creation, the themes and
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Once I learned that Jack Kerouac was Franco-American, I wondered how I had never figured it out on my own: his boxy, square head and dark eyes; his clean part; his humor and his melancholy, intertwined; the alcoholism that killed him; his visionary uprootedness. Suddenly, knowing his origins in a Massachusetts mill town, Ti-Jean Kerouac,
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We broke the $4,000 mark! On my fundraising journey, this is another milestone toward my $7,000 goal. We are now just $3,000 away (well, $2,995, to be exact) away from the amount needed to guarantee production of the Piecework: When We Were French DVD. The writing and creation of the show consisted of many hours
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All this month I’m posting on topics related to Franco-American history and culture, in honor of my ongoing DVD fundraising campaign. Thus far, most of these posts have been light-hearted in tone, and why not? Franco-Americans are first-class revelers who enjoy a good party and a good song. But it must be acknowledged that the
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If you’ve visited this site before, or if you’ve seen a performance of my solo show, Piecework: When We Were French, you no doubt know that the play was based on a series of interviews I conducted with Franco-Americans. The interview process was in no way exhaustive. It was meant to give me a sense
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The second week of my online fundraising campaign comes to a close, and have I mentioned that in those two weeks we’ve managed to raise 50% of our overall goal? To date 50 generous funders have stepped forward to support the DVD production of Piecework: When We Were French. They are among the many people
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