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Monthly Archives: May 2008

Transforming Children into Powerful and Confident Artists

May has been a full month for the Neighborhood Arts Programs. Over 250 youth, 24 teachers, 10 teaching artists, and a dozen community members were busily making Spectacle with Redmoon. Both the Dramagirls and Redmoon School Partnership presented an end of the year Spectacle Event devised, designed, built, and performed by the youth.
Watching […]

Redmoon Family Travels!

Tell your friends and loved ones in NYC and LA - a Redmoon-affiliated production is coming their way!

FIRST: An acclaimed miniature spectacle created by Frank Maugeri, Redmoon’s associate artistic director, is heading to New York to be a part of The Great Small Works Eighth Annual Toy Theater Festival, taking place May 30 […]

On Dirt and Puppets

As Boneyard Prayer draws to a close and I take time to reflect on the process, there is one thing that is abundantly clear to me: I will not miss the dirt. Though this romp through the soil has in fact allowed me to reenact childhood pastimes of digging holes […]

A Better Set of Questions

As we prepare to close down Boneyard Prayer, a few days away, reflection is only expected. And necessary. We, as artists, hardly know what our work will become or how it will affect audiences, or ourselves. We have loose ideas, random images, impulse towards certain materials… but rarely do we understand […]

Finding Redmooners

I am not involved in the casting process. It is a mystery to me. A fascinating mystery.

I wandered out to use the bathroom across from the performance space, and found interns sitting at a desk handing out clipboards with questionnaires attached. Head shots fluttered about the space, actors (who look impossibly […]

Panic!

We were dead.

No…Network.

We have risen.

The…Network…is…back.

People are worried. They say, “Help!”

“Where are my files?”

“What happened to my database?”

“Why can’t I print?”

“Why can HE print?”

“Where are the scissors?”

There are answers to these questions.

“Safe.”

“Unclear. We may have to do two months worth of data entry in two days.”

“You are no longer connected.”

“I have no idea. That is […]

Pride and Faith and Spreadsheets

It’s no secret around here that I love spreadsheets. Love building them, love editing them, especially love analyzing data in them and using that data to make informed decisions. Even I, though, have to admit that sometimes a spreadsheet is not enough.

I sat there with Chris Schram, Redmoon’s Executive Director, and Rebecca […]