{"id":480,"date":"2012-05-18T13:09:13","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T13:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/?p=480"},"modified":"2024-07-26T10:02:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T10:02:25","slug":"may-movements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/may-movements\/","title":{"rendered":"may movements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

may is a month of travelling for me; right now i’m briefly at home in munich, between berlin and nantes – enough time to wash clothes, plant out the tomato, basil & rucola seedlings, see a few friends and catch my breath after four make-shift<\/a> gigs in eight days. annoyingly, public holidays & pfingsten mean i’m not getting a yoga class, but i am being good & practising at home every day

my first trip in may was to vienna, for the libre graphics meeting<\/a> and a make-shift event, which was hosted by alexandra reill<\/a> as part of her birthday celebrations. i stayed with eva and rudi<\/a> who were excellent hosts, despite being in the process of packing up their lives in vienna to move to germany. martin eisenbarth had come with me to present DownStage<\/a> at the LGM, & we managed to have good discussions about the project, as well as enlisting the help of another developer, and a french translator for the UpStage manual<\/a>. we were joined online in our presentation by jenny pickett from APO33<\/a>, and by jenny & miljana peric for a 5-minute “lightning performance” to demonstrate UpStage<\/a>.

as well as the LGM activities, and trying to catch up with people there who i knew and meet new people, i was busy negotiating make-shift with sascha, sending out invitations and creating media for the event. as it was a party, people kept arriving throughout the event & i think by the end there were about 30 people there, a lot more than we usually have in the house for make-shift; so it was a little bit noisy & chaotic, but everyone had a good time, & the best thing was that afterwards i didn’t have to quickly pack up & leave as i usually do – but instead was able to sit down, eat & drink with the participants, & have some really interesting conversations about make-shift & other things.

after vienna i came home, washed clothes, repacked my suitcase, & took the train to berlin where i stayed with sandra sarala<\/a> & we had 2 make-shift events in her livingroom; the third berlin make-shift event was kindly hosted by brina & nikolaus. it was interesting to do three events in three days – i had been worried that i’d be exhausted, since each event involves about five hours of quite intense work, as well as the surrounding activity of publicity, host negotiation, tech set-up & media creation … well, it was tiring but i wasn’t totally exhausted; & i did find that i was able to get much more into the flow of things. i hardly needed to look at my cue sheet & i only forgot to turn my mic off once! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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on the social side of things, while in berlin i had the pleasure of \nreconnecting with a friend i hadn’t seen for 30 years; sarah drake had \nbeen in my year at intermediate & the first year or two of high \nschool, then her family moved to australia (actually, back<\/em> to australia) & we lost contact. she’s now known as sarah asling<\/a>\n & has been living in berlin for 25 years, starting as a \nsinger-songwriter before the wall came down and being involved in the \nvenue\/community schokoladen<\/a>.\n in fact, we realised that nearly ten years ago on my first visit to \nberlin, i’d been at schokoladen for the premier performance of the \ninimitable princessin hans\n (who i also had the pleasure of catching up with on this visit), & \nsarah was most likely upstairs with her young daughter; little did we \nknow that we had come so close to a chance encounter! would we have \nrecognised each other, if she had come down to the bar that night? \npossibly – we don’t actually look that different to 30 years ago! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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