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I’m thrilled to report that with our first week of fundraising behind us, we’ve reached almost 40% of our fundraising goal! That’s $2,740, donated by 36 pioneering donors, who stepped forward in these first seven days to show their support. How to celebrate? The way any good Franco-American would: with a song! Music plays a…
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Today is the last day of the first week of my online fundraising campaign to support the DVD production of my solo show, Piecework: When We Were French. In the past seven days, we’ve raised more than $2,600! I say “we” even though I’m sitting alone at this desk, have no staff — or boss…
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In conjunction with my current on-line fundraising campaign, I’m posting here daily on topics related my solo show, Piecework: When We Were French. On the one hand, the show explores the immigrant experience. But at least as important is the theme of storytelling and how the stories we tell — to others and to ourselves…
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In honour of my current fundraising campaign, for the next 45 days I’ll be posting thoughts and notes here about Franco-American identity and culture. One thing I ran into again and again in researching my solo show, Piecework: When We Were French, was people who were unaware of the extent of their French ancestry because…
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Yesterday I launched my fundraising campaign to support the DVD production of my solo show, Piecework: When We Were French. As an independent artist, I have to wear a lot of different hats: the writer, the actor, the businessperson, the spokeswoman, the receptionist. Some of these hats fit better than others, and the fundraising hat…
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Today I am launching a fundraising campaign to produce a DVD of my solo show Piecework: When We Were French! To learn how you can participate, please visit my fundraising page. Since Piecework: When We Were French premiered in 2009, I have toured with it to towns throughout Vermont and New England. The show has…
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Normally I would not urge to you download a PDF. Usually, when I download a PDF, it’s because I’m dealing with some kind of bureaucratic bullshit. Most likely there’s a form that needs to be filled out. I will probably end up cursing Jason Kenney under my breath and uttering the phrase, “How does anyone…
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David Budbill’s Judevine had a singular effect on me. Budbill is a Vermont writer, and growing up in Vermont, a writer seemed like a foreign species. When I attended a performance of the play Judevine (adapted from a book of poems by the same name) at Burlington’s Flynn Theater in my teens, it was (or…
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Want to see something pretty? Structo Magazine‘s on-line edition almost matches the beauty of their hard copies. And I’m so pleased to be included in their Issue #8.
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I was feeling some warm fuzzies for my new hometown of Ottawa last night at the Ottawa Writers Festival. This year’s John Newlove Poetry Prize winner was announced (not me), along with honourable mentions (including me). And, better than that, I got to sit back and listen to some poems, a too-rare pleasure for parents…
