connecting stories: 12/24/08

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

DEC 28th performance in Fitchburg

Let your imagination travel to Italy as you listen to acclaimed storyteller and children’s book author Norah Dooley tell Italian folk tales.

http://www.thecommunityjournal.com/news/2008/1226/Arts_Entertainment/
Storyteller and author Norah Dooley will tell Italian folk tales from 2:30 to 3:15 p.m. Dec. 28 at the Fitchburg Art Museum, 185 Elm St. Admittance is free for members and children 12 and younger; $7 for nonmember adults; and $5 for seniors and teens. For information, call (978) 345-4207 or http://www.fitchburgartmuseum.org/.

"Art ...enables us to emerge from darkness into a blaze of light."

"Why do we sacrifice so much energy to our art? Not in order to teach others but to learn with them what our existence, our organism, our personal and unrepeatable experience have to give us; to learn to break down the barriers which surround us and to free ourselves from the breaks which hold us back, from the lies about ourselves which we manufacture daily for ourselves and for others; to destroy the limitations caused by our ignorance and lack of courage; in short, to fill the emptiness in us: to fulfill ourselves. Art is neither a state of the soul (in the sense of some extraordinary, unpredictable moment of inspiration) nor a state of man (in the sense of a profession or social function). Art is a ripening, an evolution, an uplifting which enables us to emerge from darkness into a blaze of light." --Jerzy Grotowski