These article types of writing are about me voicing a summary for a book, film, entertainment or matters of public interest. They let the audience know what I got out of it along with what I experienced in the face of a situation.
They include body appreciation and comedy in theatre burlesque, the importance of our watersheds, our salmon, our humanity and a decision made by bureaucrats that can affect us negatively. The film reviews were written for a newsletter audience of activitsts who couldn’t make the event.
Book Review
Journey to the Future – Guy Dauncey
Some people still don’t understand how imagining a future based on clean sustainable energy and unimpeded imagination is so outrageously difficut for so many. I am one of those people.
Burlesque Reviews
Presented by Sweet Tooth Burlesque
Betty Fundraiser
If you have never been to a fundraiser where the feel good smile gets planted on your face as soon as you walk through the door and stays there for the duration, then you’ve not been fully engaged in the event.
Clue Mystery Play
The hardest question to answer after a show like Clue Burlesque is, “What part did I like best?” After much pondering I have only one answer:
“The part where I enjoyed myself that started with the anticipation when I received my little magnifying glass souvenir before the show and lasted right into the next morning when I woke up with the diamonds still stuck to me from the dance party afterward.”
Spotlight Review
This perfomance’s featured guest was Vancouver’s Shirley Gnome and it welome Betty back, plus focused on body appreciation.
I was jealously impressed in how she wove the true and taboo about intimate goings on into songs that would liberate the forbidden thoughts of even the most priggish. She is one sassy spitfire!
Film Reports
Occupy Love by Velcrow Ripper
When Velcrow Ripper asked the question, “How can a crisis on the planet become a love story?”, he was amazed at the answer and you will be, too.
After a prior project led him to study the aftermath of the ground zeros of the world, he worried the economies and ecologies were collapsing to a point of the earth itself becoming a ground zero. Then, once he looked more closely he started to see a pattern in the connection between crisis and love. It seemed there was first a yearning and separation followed by a coming together in the process of a relationship and this time it was between humanity and nature.
Salmon Confidential by Alex Morton
BC’s salmon is known as a keystone species; one that is essential to the functioning of the ecosystem as a whole; the foundation that supports an entire network of life. British Columbia’s salmon have defined a culture and provided a natural food resource since time eternal.
Troubled Water by Paul Manly
Troubled Water is a good example of when the ‘out of sight, out of mind’ mentality can be a dangerous way to think about our most valuable resources. We know our bodies need water to survive and we take for granted that need will always be provided for. But, how many people know where our drinking water comes from, how much there is, how pure it is and who controls it?
To believe there is an endless supply of drinking water because we have many lakes and rivers is to believe in a myth.
Social Issue Report
No HEARTH On My Street Ever Again by Diane Babcock
For those unfamiliar with the HEARTH, it’s a program that provides housing and services for homeless and at risk people. This is all fine and dandy, and long overdue, but when they bring it right to your front doorstep it’s a whole different story that is more like a nightmare. I’m talking less than 100 feet away and in your face every day.
I am writing this to not only create public awareness around the badly chosen location at 1030 Old Victoria Road in Nanaimo, but to warn others of how disruptive this will be to their otherwise peaceful home environment. Also, to tell them the time to stop it is from the very first letter from BC Housing addressed Dear Neighbour or Owner/Occupant where they mention the proposed location.
