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Okay, this is really weird because I shot this with photo booth, so it’s flipped, and I’m acting really weird because it’s 7 in the morning after not sleeping (I think you can actually hear me yawn at one point which really expresses how I was feeling during much of the last two weeks), but here is a quiet tour of the residency space the morning I loaded out. 

Thanks so much for everyone who supported me doing this project and came and worked on it and also came and was audience (a very active role most times). I feel really lucky to have been able to do this and will be writing more about the things I am left with after this strange and changing experience in the journal

If you came and got something out of the experience or didn’t but was glad it was happening or would like to continue supporting this piece and get an artifact from it, please consider contributing money through the kickstarter project. Originally residency would have been paid for with ticket prices, but we didn’t have tickets (except one night), so I still owe AS220 $1000 (which is an amazing deal for all they gave me). Even a dollar is great and really helpful!

I’m gonna try and cry today at noon. 

Faces of the Afternoon with Sharon Mashihi. An intimate reckoning with Cassavettes’ Faces and each other. 

What has been developing in some of the showings

These are scripts of what Ren Evans, Vanessa Gilbert and I have shown in the residency so far. 

This video was brought to my attention today by Mimi Cabell. So confusing! What does the number 22 mean to Taylor Swift? Why does she need to count on her fingers? Or look at us when she lying on the beach with her friends? I want that shirt! This feels related Ren Evans, Dia Felix….

Reba last night. Sweet sounds. My mom was there (here she is in the morning). We lay on my bed and listened. Other people were there too. We talked and painted our nails and made a song together after Reba taught us how to use her magical pedals. It was pedal day it turned out. Scented candles. Reba is a generous powerful environment maker. Transfixing transformation to dark stage ready. Quietness. She and my mom talked for a long time afterward. Strange meetings. What day is it today? 

Tonight! Mimi Cabell! Also, now you can post to this blog!

Tonight at 95 Empire! Showing of work with Mimi Cabell! We are working on a performance we are going to do at a gender studies conference. Come, eat snacks and pretend you’re at a reception at a gender studies conference. 

You can now submit posts to this blog which I am excited about. So you can put pictures up or say things. Just tag them #Come in. Be with me. Don’t touch me. 

Tonight! Talk show with special guests

Amanda Davidson is the author of Apprenticeship, a chapbook on New Herring Press. She’s been an artist in residence at Art Farm Nebraska, MacDowell, and Millay. Visit partedinthemiddle.wordpress.com

Pilar Gallego is a Brooklyn-based artist and curator of objects. They are interested in semiotics and material culture. Pilar aims to peel and reveal layers of meanings from the coveted object, while exploring and developing a visual language that speaks to and of gender, feminism, and minority representations. Pilar is a graduate of Pratt Institute, where they studied fine art and creative writing. 

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Caitie Moore is a poet, essayist, and curator. She has a forthcoming chapbook from Argos Books, and forthcoming translations of Gabriela Mistral in Circumference. Last year, she curated an art sleepover at the boatel, to which Casey Llewellyn contributed her brilliant presence, mind, and work. Caitie is thrilled to be reading Barbara Guest’s words in response to talk show questions at Come in. Be With Me. Don’t Touch Me. 
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Pilar, the first visiting artist, has arrived! Here they are preparing their ‘archetypes.’

Pilar, the first visiting artist, has arrived! Here they are preparing their ‘archetypes.’

Come in. opens our space to you tomorrow

Here is an updated schedule of events:

Please note that showings are not shows, but more like open rehearsals in which you are invited to experience and be part of a work in the middle of its being made and hang out after.

Tuesday, March 5th, 9pm: showing of work with Vanessa Gilbert and Ren Evans

Wednesday, March 6th, 9pm: talk show with special guest experts: Amanda Davidson, Pilar Gallego, and Caitie Moore

Thursday, March 7th, 9pm: showing of work with Mimi Cabell

Friday, March 8th, 8pm: Ruth Margraff and Cafe Antarsia Ensemble

Friday, March 8th, 11pm: dance party!

Saturday, March 9th, 9pm: showing of work with Fischer Sherin

Sunday, March 10th, 9pm: showing of work

Monday, March 11th, 9pm: Family night, talk show with parents, screening of Tim Wright’s (Casey’s dad) movie Conservation of Matter: The Fall and Rise of Boston’s Elevated Subway

Tuesday, March 12th, 9pm: showing of work with Languages of Liveness II (Playwriting II) students from Casey’s class at Brown

Wednesday, March 13th, 9pm: showing of work

Thursday, March 14th, 9pm: showing of work

Friday, March 15th, 8pm: Blood from a Turnip: a night of short puppet shows curated by Vanessa Gilbert and David Higgins

Friday, March 15th, 11pm: Dance party!

Saturday, March 16th, 12pm: Faces of the Afternoon with Sharon Mashihi

Saturday, March 16th, 5-7pm: Tether and Dungeon Broads visit

Saturday, March 16th, 9pm: showing of work with Dia Felix

Sunday, March 17th, 12-4pm: Community playwriting workshop, open to all! We will write plays collaboratively.

Sunday, March 17th, 9pm: final showing

Ruth Margraff and Cafe Antarsia this Friday, March 8th, 8pm

RUTH MARGRAFF has written five martial arts operas with Fred Ho for BAM’s Next Wave Festival, Guggenheim Museum, Japan Society, the Apollo Theater and a CAMI-produced tour of Performing Art Centers nationwide.  She tours regularly with her Café Antarsia Ensemble and other plays throughout the UK, Canada, Western and Eastern Europe, Russia, India, Japan, Azerbaijan and Egypt. Her plays have been presented at Ice Factory Festival, Hourglass/Century Ballroom/PS122, HERE Arts Center, Cooper Union, Fordham/Lincoln Center, The Kitchen, etc.; Actors Theatre of Louisville; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; Red Eye, Frank/Walker Art Center; Rude Mechanicals, Salvage Vanguard, CentralTrak Gallery/ProjX, Granada, Club Dada; Theater of Note, Bottom’s Dream, Overtone Industries, etc. In Chicago, Ruth’s
 ANGER/FLY opened to critical acclaim at Trap Door in 2012; she’s now working with Link’s Hall and Pivot Arts Festival and has also worked with Red Tape, World Music Festival/Navy Pier, Chicago Cultural Institute, Viaduct, Silk Road, Chopin, Martyr’s, Uncommon Ground, etc.  Ruth has received awards from the Rockefeller, McKnight, Jerome, Fulbright foundations, Arts International, TMUNY, NEA/TCG, NYSCA, Illinois Arts Council and published with Dramatists Play Service, Kendall/Hunt, TDR, Performing Arts Journal, American Theatre, Theater Forum, Playscripts, Inc., Applause, NuMuse/Brown, Conjunctions/Bard, Autonomedia, Innova Records, Skyhorse and RED FROGS & OTHER PLAYS (NoPassport). She’s taught at Yale, Brown, UT/Michener and is Associate Professor at the Art Institute of Chicago currently on sabbatical. www.RuthMargraff.com

I moved into the theater last night with Vanessa’s help. I didn’t sleep much. It was strange sleeping with the exit signs as the only light. This morning I had my first rehearsal with Mimi Cabell. It was really cold in the space but exciting. Tonight I’ll be rehearsing with Vanessa Gilbert and Ren Evans. Here are some pictures I took of the space with my computer. 

There are some updates.

A new artist has joined the luminous line up: Pilar Gallego! Coming tomorrow! They will be making some movement and also some visuals. But all that could change tomorrow when the space speaks to them. 

Other artists have begun performing themselves (at my request)! Bios in the coming posts. 

Dance party this Friday night (March 8th) after Ruth’s band. 

More thoughts soon on what it means, these ‘showings.’

It’s happening! (Schedule so far)

Tuesday, March 5th, 9pm: showing of work with Vanessa Gilbert and Ren Evans

 

Wednesday, March 6th, 9pm: showing of work with Amanda Davidson and Pilar Gallego

 

Thursday, March 7th, 9pm: showing with Mimi Cabell

 

Friday, March 8th, 8pm: Ruth Margraff and Cafe Antarsia Ensemble

Friday, March 8th, 11pm: dance party!

 

Saturday, March 9th, 9pm: showing of work with Fischer Sherin

 

Sunday, March 10th, 9pm: showing

 

Monday, March 11th, 9pm: Family night, talk show with parents, screening of my dad’s movie Conservation of Matter: The Fall and Rise of Boston’s Elevated Subway

Tuesday, March 12th, 9pm: showing of work with Languages of Liveness II (Playwriting II) students from my class at Brown

 

Wednesday, March 13th, 9pm: showing

 

Thursday, March 14th, 9pm: showing

Friday, March 15th, 8pm: Blood from a Turnip: a night of short puppet shows

Friday, March 15th, 11pm: Dance party!

Saturday, March 16th, 5-7pm: Tether and Dungeon Broads visit

 

Saturday, March 16th, 9pm: showing with Dia Felix

Sunday, March 17th, 12-4pm: Community playwriting workshop, open to all! We will write plays collaboratively.

 

Sunday, March 17th, 9pm: final showing

And dancing every night!

More Reveals!


We draw closer! and obviously everything has completely changed. I have written a new blurb. But I feel more ready.
Come in. Be with me. Don’t touch me. is an experiment in writing, collaborating, and making theater differently than I have previously. I will live in 95 Empire, a black box theater in downtown Providence, March 3rd-17th making new material everyday. I will be writing, exercising, having rehearsal investigations with Vanessa Gilbert, and hosting/collaborating on new work with a bunch of amazing people (in so far! Vanessa Gilbert, Mimi Cabell, Amanda Davidson, Ren Evans, Dia Felix, Sharon Mashihi, Cafe Antarsia Ensemble, Caitie Moore, Tether, Montana Ray, Fischer Sherin, Aleksei Wagner, Dungeon Broads). Each night at 9 starting March 5th, we will show 45min of what we have made that day and then hang out in the space.
 
There will also be special events! A queer salon, dance parties, bands playing, a night of puppet shows, participatory events, readings. 
 
This piece is a way for me to connect back simply with my process as a maker and with my community without the agenda of making a show. I am hoping I’ll be different after. And make differently. And make friends. I am also thinking about this experiment as a time to move from the personal material I been living in toward more civic and community thinking as I go into work on my adaptation of Our Town for The Foundry Theatre. I have been tracking my thoughts in this google doc.
 
Alone, in a theater in the center of Providence, trying to figure something out, I am offering a space we can inhabit together. The theater, a laboratory for interaction, collaboration and connection. An open process. Hi Providence.  
 
I welcome: inspirational objects to put in the space with me, mixes to listen to, costumes for lend, food and drink. Please come by and hang out.
 
Also, there is now a kickstarter campaign for if you want to receive an artifact from this making in the mail.

Okay, this is really weird because I shot this with photo booth, so it’s flipped, and I’m acting really weird because it’s 7 in the morning after not sleeping (I think you can actually hear me yawn at one point which really expresses how I was feeling during much of the last two weeks), but here is a quiet tour of the residency space the morning I loaded out. 

Thanks so much for everyone who supported me doing this project and came and worked on it and also came and was audience (a very active role most times). I feel really lucky to have been able to do this and will be writing more about the things I am left with after this strange and changing experience in the journal

If you came and got something out of the experience or didn’t but was glad it was happening or would like to continue supporting this piece and get an artifact from it, please consider contributing money through the kickstarter project. Originally residency would have been paid for with ticket prices, but we didn’t have tickets (except one night), so I still owe AS220 $1000 (which is an amazing deal for all they gave me). Even a dollar is great and really helpful!

I’m gonna try and cry today at noon. 

Faces of the Afternoon with Sharon Mashihi. An intimate reckoning with Cassavettes’ Faces and each other. 

What has been developing in some of the showings

These are scripts of what Ren Evans, Vanessa Gilbert and I have shown in the residency so far. 

This video was brought to my attention today by Mimi Cabell. So confusing! What does the number 22 mean to Taylor Swift? Why does she need to count on her fingers? Or look at us when she lying on the beach with her friends? I want that shirt! This feels related Ren Evans, Dia Felix….

Reba last night. Sweet sounds. My mom was there (here she is in the morning). We lay on my bed and listened. Other people were there too. We talked and painted our nails and made a song together after Reba taught us how to use her magical pedals. It was pedal day it turned out. Scented candles. Reba is a generous powerful environment maker. Transfixing transformation to dark stage ready. Quietness. She and my mom talked for a long time afterward. Strange meetings. What day is it today? 

Tonight! Mimi Cabell! Also, now you can post to this blog!

Tonight at 95 Empire! Showing of work with Mimi Cabell! We are working on a performance we are going to do at a gender studies conference. Come, eat snacks and pretend you’re at a reception at a gender studies conference. 

You can now submit posts to this blog which I am excited about. So you can put pictures up or say things. Just tag them #Come in. Be with me. Don’t touch me. 

Tonight! Talk show with special guests

Amanda Davidson is the author of Apprenticeship, a chapbook on New Herring Press. She’s been an artist in residence at Art Farm Nebraska, MacDowell, and Millay. Visit partedinthemiddle.wordpress.com

Pilar Gallego is a Brooklyn-based artist and curator of objects. They are interested in semiotics and material culture. Pilar aims to peel and reveal layers of meanings from the coveted object, while exploring and developing a visual language that speaks to and of gender, feminism, and minority representations. Pilar is a graduate of Pratt Institute, where they studied fine art and creative writing. 

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Caitie Moore is a poet, essayist, and curator. She has a forthcoming chapbook from Argos Books, and forthcoming translations of Gabriela Mistral in Circumference. Last year, she curated an art sleepover at the boatel, to which Casey Llewellyn contributed her brilliant presence, mind, and work. Caitie is thrilled to be reading Barbara Guest’s words in response to talk show questions at Come in. Be With Me. Don’t Touch Me. 
image
Pilar, the first visiting artist, has arrived! Here they are preparing their ‘archetypes.’

Pilar, the first visiting artist, has arrived! Here they are preparing their ‘archetypes.’

Come in. opens our space to you tomorrow

Here is an updated schedule of events:

Please note that showings are not shows, but more like open rehearsals in which you are invited to experience and be part of a work in the middle of its being made and hang out after.

Tuesday, March 5th, 9pm: showing of work with Vanessa Gilbert and Ren Evans

Wednesday, March 6th, 9pm: talk show with special guest experts: Amanda Davidson, Pilar Gallego, and Caitie Moore

Thursday, March 7th, 9pm: showing of work with Mimi Cabell

Friday, March 8th, 8pm: Ruth Margraff and Cafe Antarsia Ensemble

Friday, March 8th, 11pm: dance party!

Saturday, March 9th, 9pm: showing of work with Fischer Sherin

Sunday, March 10th, 9pm: showing of work

Monday, March 11th, 9pm: Family night, talk show with parents, screening of Tim Wright’s (Casey’s dad) movie Conservation of Matter: The Fall and Rise of Boston’s Elevated Subway

Tuesday, March 12th, 9pm: showing of work with Languages of Liveness II (Playwriting II) students from Casey’s class at Brown

Wednesday, March 13th, 9pm: showing of work

Thursday, March 14th, 9pm: showing of work

Friday, March 15th, 8pm: Blood from a Turnip: a night of short puppet shows curated by Vanessa Gilbert and David Higgins

Friday, March 15th, 11pm: Dance party!

Saturday, March 16th, 12pm: Faces of the Afternoon with Sharon Mashihi

Saturday, March 16th, 5-7pm: Tether and Dungeon Broads visit

Saturday, March 16th, 9pm: showing of work with Dia Felix

Sunday, March 17th, 12-4pm: Community playwriting workshop, open to all! We will write plays collaboratively.

Sunday, March 17th, 9pm: final showing

Ruth Margraff and Cafe Antarsia this Friday, March 8th, 8pm

RUTH MARGRAFF has written five martial arts operas with Fred Ho for BAM’s Next Wave Festival, Guggenheim Museum, Japan Society, the Apollo Theater and a CAMI-produced tour of Performing Art Centers nationwide.  She tours regularly with her Café Antarsia Ensemble and other plays throughout the UK, Canada, Western and Eastern Europe, Russia, India, Japan, Azerbaijan and Egypt. Her plays have been presented at Ice Factory Festival, Hourglass/Century Ballroom/PS122, HERE Arts Center, Cooper Union, Fordham/Lincoln Center, The Kitchen, etc.; Actors Theatre of Louisville; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; Red Eye, Frank/Walker Art Center; Rude Mechanicals, Salvage Vanguard, CentralTrak Gallery/ProjX, Granada, Club Dada; Theater of Note, Bottom’s Dream, Overtone Industries, etc. In Chicago, Ruth’s
 ANGER/FLY opened to critical acclaim at Trap Door in 2012; she’s now working with Link’s Hall and Pivot Arts Festival and has also worked with Red Tape, World Music Festival/Navy Pier, Chicago Cultural Institute, Viaduct, Silk Road, Chopin, Martyr’s, Uncommon Ground, etc.  Ruth has received awards from the Rockefeller, McKnight, Jerome, Fulbright foundations, Arts International, TMUNY, NEA/TCG, NYSCA, Illinois Arts Council and published with Dramatists Play Service, Kendall/Hunt, TDR, Performing Arts Journal, American Theatre, Theater Forum, Playscripts, Inc., Applause, NuMuse/Brown, Conjunctions/Bard, Autonomedia, Innova Records, Skyhorse and RED FROGS & OTHER PLAYS (NoPassport). She’s taught at Yale, Brown, UT/Michener and is Associate Professor at the Art Institute of Chicago currently on sabbatical. www.RuthMargraff.com

I moved into the theater last night with Vanessa’s help. I didn’t sleep much. It was strange sleeping with the exit signs as the only light. This morning I had my first rehearsal with Mimi Cabell. It was really cold in the space but exciting. Tonight I’ll be rehearsing with Vanessa Gilbert and Ren Evans. Here are some pictures I took of the space with my computer. 

There are some updates.

A new artist has joined the luminous line up: Pilar Gallego! Coming tomorrow! They will be making some movement and also some visuals. But all that could change tomorrow when the space speaks to them. 

Other artists have begun performing themselves (at my request)! Bios in the coming posts. 

Dance party this Friday night (March 8th) after Ruth’s band. 

More thoughts soon on what it means, these ‘showings.’

It’s happening! (Schedule so far)

Tuesday, March 5th, 9pm: showing of work with Vanessa Gilbert and Ren Evans

 

Wednesday, March 6th, 9pm: showing of work with Amanda Davidson and Pilar Gallego

 

Thursday, March 7th, 9pm: showing with Mimi Cabell

 

Friday, March 8th, 8pm: Ruth Margraff and Cafe Antarsia Ensemble

Friday, March 8th, 11pm: dance party!

 

Saturday, March 9th, 9pm: showing of work with Fischer Sherin

 

Sunday, March 10th, 9pm: showing

 

Monday, March 11th, 9pm: Family night, talk show with parents, screening of my dad’s movie Conservation of Matter: The Fall and Rise of Boston’s Elevated Subway

Tuesday, March 12th, 9pm: showing of work with Languages of Liveness II (Playwriting II) students from my class at Brown

 

Wednesday, March 13th, 9pm: showing

 

Thursday, March 14th, 9pm: showing

Friday, March 15th, 8pm: Blood from a Turnip: a night of short puppet shows

Friday, March 15th, 11pm: Dance party!

Saturday, March 16th, 5-7pm: Tether and Dungeon Broads visit

 

Saturday, March 16th, 9pm: showing with Dia Felix

Sunday, March 17th, 12-4pm: Community playwriting workshop, open to all! We will write plays collaboratively.

 

Sunday, March 17th, 9pm: final showing

And dancing every night!

More Reveals!


We draw closer! and obviously everything has completely changed. I have written a new blurb. But I feel more ready.
Come in. Be with me. Don’t touch me. is an experiment in writing, collaborating, and making theater differently than I have previously. I will live in 95 Empire, a black box theater in downtown Providence, March 3rd-17th making new material everyday. I will be writing, exercising, having rehearsal investigations with Vanessa Gilbert, and hosting/collaborating on new work with a bunch of amazing people (in so far! Vanessa Gilbert, Mimi Cabell, Amanda Davidson, Ren Evans, Dia Felix, Sharon Mashihi, Cafe Antarsia Ensemble, Caitie Moore, Tether, Montana Ray, Fischer Sherin, Aleksei Wagner, Dungeon Broads). Each night at 9 starting March 5th, we will show 45min of what we have made that day and then hang out in the space.
 
There will also be special events! A queer salon, dance parties, bands playing, a night of puppet shows, participatory events, readings. 
 
This piece is a way for me to connect back simply with my process as a maker and with my community without the agenda of making a show. I am hoping I’ll be different after. And make differently. And make friends. I am also thinking about this experiment as a time to move from the personal material I been living in toward more civic and community thinking as I go into work on my adaptation of Our Town for The Foundry Theatre. I have been tracking my thoughts in this google doc.
 
Alone, in a theater in the center of Providence, trying to figure something out, I am offering a space we can inhabit together. The theater, a laboratory for interaction, collaboration and connection. An open process. Hi Providence.  
 
I welcome: inspirational objects to put in the space with me, mixes to listen to, costumes for lend, food and drink. Please come by and hang out.
 
Also, there is now a kickstarter campaign for if you want to receive an artifact from this making in the mail.

Tonight! Mimi Cabell! Also, now you can post to this blog!
Tonight! Talk show with special guests
Come in. opens our space to you tomorrow
Ruth Margraff and Cafe Antarsia this Friday, March 8th, 8pm
It’s happening! (Schedule so far)
More Reveals!

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