Upcoming Shows

I'm in the midst of tech week craziness for the Odd Couple right now.  

This show is hysterical and awesome and great fun.

And a little stressful, I admit. I took on a bit more than I can chew. Stage manager, props mistress, scenic designer, lighting designer, electrician. Remind me not to do this again.

At the risk of drawing attention away from that awesomeness, I do want to point out for a moment my upcoming gig.  Which is also wonderful and delightful and beautiful in an entirely different way.

Eurydice. By Sarah Ruhl.

I'll wait for a moment while you go read about it.

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Done?

This wonderful, delightful, beautiful, heartbreaking show is wickedly expensive to do. So, like all artists in recent times, my producers have started a Kickstarter campaign to help fund it. We're hoping at least to raise enough money to cover the rights. At most to cover the rights and the sets, lights, props and costumes.

Here's the link to the Kickstarter if you want to donate.

Please donate.

Thank you. 

Knitting Like Crazy

So far, all of my community involvement efforts have been knitting related ones.

Today, I take part in this:

We're knitting hats to donate to a local food pantry. 

The Phoebe Conundrum

As poor Phoebe in Friends discovers, there is no such thing as a selfless good deed.

I call this the Phoebe Conundrum: You do good for someone else, thereby making yourself feel good.  I feel this will play a large part in the Wina Motto for the year (the Year of Community Involvement.) The things we do will help others, but we will get some kind of pleasure or satisfaction from it ourself.

I'm not saying this is a bad thing. Just that it is a thing that exists and I'm acknowledging it.

That said, my first small project for the YoCI is done. (YoCI, what a crappy acronym. I'll find something better.) 

My friend Nicci has a friend who is going through a rough time at present. Her three-year-old daughter is in the hospital undergoing treatment for brain cancer. She has begun chemo and radiation and has begun to lose her hair. Nicci has asked me to knit a hat to keep her little head warm in the hospital. 

So this hat:

and these little slippers:

are going off to little Miya to keep her little head and feet warm while she gets her treatment. 

One request of you, dear Readers. Please keep Miss Miya in your thoughts. The doctors seem hopeful that she will pull through this. 

Happy New Year!

One of my very close friends,Whitney, and I have a New Year's tradition: instead of making resolutions that we won't keep, we make mottos for the new year. It's a sort of catchy tag or label that we try to live by through the year. 

2012 was the Year of Choice Not Chance.

This year, to follow a year in which our faith in our government, general safety and common decency were shaken and stirred, we've made 2013 the Year of Community Involvement. We aim to make small or large efforts to do good close to home. 

As an effort to track these efforts, I'm going to create a label and I'm going to do my best to blog about them - whether they are small or large efforts. I hope you all will make notes in the comments (or send me an email or message on facebook, if you are friends with me personally) and let me know what changes you are making in your area. 

Let's make 2013 brighter and happier for everyone around us!