Thirty Days Project participant Jackie Dives (divesin) is having a show of her recent paintings at Kafka’s Coffee & Tea, 2525 Main Street in Vancouver. The opening reception is this Thursday, January 26 at 8pm.
She has an interesting write-up about how the show came about on her blog.
Congratulations, Jackie! All of us at Thirty Days Project hope you have a great show.
I’ve written a play.
Something I’ve always dreamed of.
This is how I got there.
Five months ago, I took part in the Thirty Days Project. I committed to writing thirty short stories in thirty days. I finished.
There’s no way I had written thirty complete stories before starting this project. Sure, I started plenty. But most of the time I got lazy. Or, more likely, I got scared. Scared that inspiration had failed me, that I could not write the beautiful story that existed only in my head.
This summer on the Thirty Days Project, inspiration lasted for about three days. From that point on, I had to push through. Sure, inspiration blessed me again, from time to time. But when a story didn’t work out, I didn’t give up. I finished it, and moved on.
Writing is no longer a mystery. It’s just a thing I do.
Now, I’ve written a play.
I’m a member of a theater company, and we all had an assignment: write something inspired by a fairy tale.
“Donkeyskin,” as told by Charles Perrault, got under my skin. It didn’t inspire me, it pissed me off; but the deadline was coming up and I had to submit an outline. So I bluffed my way through it.
Someone liked the outline.
I kept writing. Inspiration came, in rushes and trickles, but sometimes I wrote some crap just to patch things together.
I revised. I’d written perhaps forty thousand words in June; nothing seemed holy any more, and if something didn’t work, I cut it.
This Thursday, we start previews. My play, “Kate,” which started out at eighteen pages (and twenty six minutes), is now nine pages long and under a quarter of an hour. It hums like a top.
Oh, and we have some lovely actors.
If you’re in New York, I hope you’ll come see it.
And thank you, Thirty Days Project.
Michael
The Shelter Presents Fairy Tale
at The 45th Street Theatre
345 W 45 St, New York, NY
December 1st-11th
Thursday-Saturday, 8pm
Saturday & Sunday, 3pm.
Tickets: http://bit.ly/s42tFI
More about the show: http://bit.ly/tcZ4mj
Michael Bernstein participated in Thirty Days Project, June 2011, writing short stories every day.
He has since gone on to write a play called “Kate” that runs this December at The Shelter in New York City.
“Kate”, inspired by a French fairytale called “Donkeyskin”, is one in an evening of five plays running under the banner “Fairytale”.
Michael writes:
“Credit where due: honing my skills on the Thirty Day Project helped enormously in writing this play.”
Lucky Thirty Days Project visitors in New York City this December can buy tickets at this site. Anyone able to go? We would love to see a review posted here.
Congratulations, Michael! We hope it is a great run and we look forward to hearing more from you in Thirty Days Projects to come.
Vancouver’s Fraser magazine, which serves the Japanese community, published an article on Thirty Days Project:
３０ Ｄａｙｓ Ｐｒｏｊｅｃｔｓ
このプロジェクトは、以前持っていたはずの何かをしたい作りたいという情熱
を、ダラダラと流される日常生活という麻痺状態から復活させようという 活動
です。
グラフィックデザイナーが仕事用に絵を描くだけになってしまい、本当に描きた
いものを描かなくなってしまった・・・。そんな同じような悩みを持 ち、かつ
この状態から脱出したい人達が集まって話し合いをしたところ出た結論が、学校
の課題や仕事の締め切りに合わせてなら出来るならば、自分で 自分に任意に締
め切りを作ったらどうか、という事でした。
１日の中に新しい事をする時間を作る、というのは今までの日常パターンから何
かを削る、という事です。必然的に自分の１日を振り返り、管理し直す 事にも
なります。
このプロジェクトで重要なのは、参加して３０日間で３０作品を制作するという
わけでも、作り出す作品の質でもなく、その日プロジェクトについて考 えてそ
の人がした選択かも
しれません。
このプロジェクトは、Ｋｅｉｔｈ Ｉｋｅｄａ－Ｂａｒｒｙさんと、Ａｙａ
Ｉｋｅｄａ－Ｂａｒｒｙさん、Ｔｉｍ Ｇｅｒｗｉｎｇ の３人のクリエーター
が、７年前にで始めました。２年目には作品をオンラインで公開するようにな
り、その後北アメリカだけでなく、ＵＫ・日本・オーストラ リアなどからも参
加者が集まり、現在も参加人数・参加国は増え続けています。
何を作るかはその人次第、絵であったり音楽、詩、クラフトや写真、料理やエッ
セーなど様々です。そして、その日の成果をＨＰで公開します。
もし何かを変えたい、という思いがあれば是非一度３０Ｄａｙｓ
Ｐｒｏｊｅｃｔ を試してみませんか。
For those of us with rusty kanji-reading skills, it’s mostly taken directly from our Press Release (available on the sidebar).
We did enjoy the version below that Google Translate came up with. Favourite bit: “the creator of three of Tim Gerwing”
30 Days Projects
This project, a passion to make you want to do something that should have had before, and revive the activities of daily living is flowed and paralysis of loaf.
Sister is just painting a graphic designer to work, it became 描Kanaku what really draw. Such have a similar problem immediately, leaving the conclusion was that people who want to talk together and escape from this state, if we can do according to the deadline for school assignments and work, one’s own arbitrary deadline Whether you made, and that was it.
Time to make new things during the day, it will cut anything from the daily pattern now is that. Reflect on their day of inevitable, but it also re-administration.
The key to this project, nor does it produce 30 to 30 days work to participate, nor produce quality work, you may choose the person dislikes you think about the project that day.
This project, Keith Ikeda-san and Barry, Aya Ikeda-san Barry, the creator of three of Tim Gerwing, began seven years ago in. The second year began to publish works online, as well as North America and then, gathering participants from Japan and Australia, UK ·, still participating countries the number of participants is growing.
What you make is up to him, a painting or music, poetry, crafts and photographs, and essays such as cooking and many. Then publish the results of the day with HP.
If you change something, why not try us once 30DaysProject any desire to.
Ideas vague, parameters flexible, deadlines tight. The recipe works.
Stella Koons-Manet runs the popular and well-regarded art blog Artotate, which currently features an article about Thirty Days Project.
Thank you, Stella, and we look forward to having you as a participant.
Aya and I will be having a joint show at Kafka’s Coffee & Tea from September 16 until November 1, 2011.
Aya’s pieces are all sumi-e ink paintings from or based on her Thirty Days Project work. Mine are selected Thirty Days Project pieces with many new additions and some prints from my Kaiju collection.
If you can make it to the opening reception on September 16th, Aya will be providing some of her amazing catering.
Many thanks to our wonderful curator, Michael Schwartz, and also to Aaron and the staff at Kafka’s. They make the most incredible caffe macchiati.
Hi all,
I have taken my favourite poems from the past two Projects and compiled them into a book. It’s stripped down and bare-bones (kinda like my poetry), but it’s awfully nice to see my words printed on paper!
All proceeds from any sales are going to charity/worthy causes. Currently I am supporting my friend and fellow firefighter, Todd Holler, who was diagnosed with Lymphoma a month ago.
Books can be ordered from me by donation (suggested: $10-15, which gets it signed! Wowza!), or by ordering it directly from the printer.
To order from me, please email: jeanpaul ‘at’ stillpoint-clinic ‘dot’ com. I have a very limited supply of books on hand. Paypal is accepted.
Cheers,
Jean-Paul
I’ve been very honoured by having one of my tracks, “Distant Field” from 30 Days June 2011 to be used for a video about the work of Tada Katsuhiko, a farmer in Northern Japan, in the earthquake relief effort: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWSpWQw5S40
hey fellow 30-Day-ers!
having seen your talent in action, it would be wonderful to have your artwork as part of the first Papergirl Vancouver event!
We’re very excited to be hosting the first Papergirl event in Vancouver, a non-profit and volunteer-organized art event.
Below and attached find our press release with all the details on what this event is about.
In a nutshell: it’s all about art, philanthropy and bikes!
This clip from Berlin is a good introduction to what a Papergirl event looks like and what we are bringing to Vancouver this year for the first time.
For this event to be a rousing success, we need to collect as many art submissions as possible!
So, check your storage, sketchbooks, hard-drives for hidden treasures and donate your artwork as prints, copies, originals, photos – anything which can be rolled. Perhaps new creations are lurking in your pencils, paints, camera or software for us!
We would love to see your art as part of our exhibit to be gifted to unsuspecting art lovers!
Important Dates:
Deadline for artwork entries: August 15, 2011
Opening Party: evening of August 23, 2011
Papergirl Exhibition at the Roundhouse: August 22 to 26, 2011
Submission Form
http://www.roundhouse.ca/schedules/papergirl.pdf
www.papergirl-vancouver.blogspot.com facebook: PapergirlVancouver www.flickr.com/photos/papergirl-vancouver/
