clever boy, and an artistic dilemma...
Mar. 30th, 2008 05:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chelidonI just got back from skiing all day with my Beamish Boy -- it was the last open day for this season at our local ski area just down the road, and we got every last drop of fun out of it, and threw ourselves down the mountain at great speed, repeatedly until they finally shut down the lifts. Besides the skiing, they had a slush-pit set up (10' x 30' long pit of cold slushy water at the bottom of the mountain for daring skiers to try to skate across without falling in), a cardboard-box sled contest (winner was a life-sized living room complete with usable cardboard sofa, lamp, and a cardboard TV, sliding down the mountain carrying several couch potatoes), snow-shovel-riding contest, live bands, and similar fun. I may post some pics later, it was a perfect day -- sunny, warm (low 40s), blue sky, some hardy/crazy people were skiing in shorts and T-shirts (we're sturdy folk up here ;>)
Anyway, for tonight my son has posted announcements all over the house for a show he's going to put on tonight, some kind of Star Wars drama, enacted with his Lego toys. He's built a cardboard stage, and has been going around the house with tickets...that he's selling for $1 each. Clever boy.
So here's my dilemma -- I figure that as the co-Producer for this household and owner of the venue, and the ongoing sponsor/underwriter for the Artistic Director of the production (i.e., the one who feeds, clothes, and hands him his allowance every week), I am probably owed at least one comp ticket to the production. On the other hand, theatre is a very hard path to tread, and am I not being supportive enough of the Arts? I may have to assuage my guilt by endowing a small Foundation to sponsor an series of evening productions by up-and-coming household playwrights.
Speaking of the Arts, on Friday I was asked if I was interested in being on the Board for the theatre company I've been performing with for the last several years. I'm seriously thinking about it, having already decided to be very careful with time and commitments this coming year, and having already turned down a series of teaching options and other big projects. But it was so nice to be asked, because it really feels like I've started to put down roots here, that other folks in this area, and in the local arts community, see me as being stable and solid and connected enough to do something like that. And I really, really like having roots, especially in an area as wonderful as we are in, it feels really good and right and...homey.
Here's to home, and a warm hearth, well fed with art, and love.
Anyway, for tonight my son has posted announcements all over the house for a show he's going to put on tonight, some kind of Star Wars drama, enacted with his Lego toys. He's built a cardboard stage, and has been going around the house with tickets...that he's selling for $1 each. Clever boy.
So here's my dilemma -- I figure that as the co-Producer for this household and owner of the venue, and the ongoing sponsor/underwriter for the Artistic Director of the production (i.e., the one who feeds, clothes, and hands him his allowance every week), I am probably owed at least one comp ticket to the production. On the other hand, theatre is a very hard path to tread, and am I not being supportive enough of the Arts? I may have to assuage my guilt by endowing a small Foundation to sponsor an series of evening productions by up-and-coming household playwrights.
Speaking of the Arts, on Friday I was asked if I was interested in being on the Board for the theatre company I've been performing with for the last several years. I'm seriously thinking about it, having already decided to be very careful with time and commitments this coming year, and having already turned down a series of teaching options and other big projects. But it was so nice to be asked, because it really feels like I've started to put down roots here, that other folks in this area, and in the local arts community, see me as being stable and solid and connected enough to do something like that. And I really, really like having roots, especially in an area as wonderful as we are in, it feels really good and right and...homey.
Here's to home, and a warm hearth, well fed with art, and love.
