connecting stories: 03/09/10

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Surabhi Shah at Harvard U

I really am glad that I went to hear Surabhi Shah. Wicked sick but the stories were so good I was totally lost in a world not my own. I hope I did not infect anyone. I was infected by the magic of the stories that has stayed with me.

Because people actually LIKE to do good things...

What is this phenom all about? Is it mysterious? Is it a good thing or bad? Neither. Perhaps it is simply a neutral fact that humans like to do energetic things together. There, is that neutral enough to be true? And this is why these screens that connect us do not and will never completely replace the wonder of live music, story and theater.

Filmed on MARCH 6th in Times Square, NYC. Thanks Laura P for pointing me to this.

Hey Jude Times Square Subway Station from 39forks on Vimeo.

"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