Turtle slow moments
Oh, hi friends!
Things are moving in ways you can’t see right now.
Trust that forward momentum sometimes disguises itself by staying still.
In slow moments. In pockets of quiet. In times of hibernation.
Trust that movement is happening all the while.
Theatre—real theatre, not the business of putting on plays—can only happen when hearts are open, when faith is awakened, when joy is present. Happiness can come and go but joy is imperative. … I know that the world doesn’t need more mediocre, compromised art.
I know that we can reduce harm all we want, but the gods won’t show their faces until we rediscover joy.
I know that, whilst we stand demanding change, we are already and always changing. And the process is painful, frustratingly unspectacular, and full of shadows. It’s never the brilliant metamorphosis we want it to be, and it has no grand finale.
I know that the only way through the shadows is to care for each other. To stay interested, delighted, amused. To be fond and to trust. To protect our little trembling flames.
Sara Holdren was my favorite theater critic before she left New York magazine. After reading her new piece of writing on the state of theater, making art during (and after) a pandemic, and the frustratingly slow pace of institutional change, I remembered why.
Note: What she knows can be applied to most circumstances, not just making art.
Violinists Across the World Play for Ukraine
Violinist Kerenza Peacock: "I befriended some young violinists in Ukraine via Instagram and discovered some were in basement shelters but had their violins. So I asked colleagues across the world to accompany them in harmony. And I got sent videos from 94 violinists in 29 countries in 48 hours!! An astonishing collaboration forming an international violin choir of support for Ukraine. Illia Bondarenko had to film this between explosions, because he could not hear himself play."
Very moved by this video of Ukrainian violinists joined in harmony by top violinists across the world. The power of art lies in its ability to sometimes say what words cannot.
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Love, Kara