I know it's been a long week of waiting, but we finally have some photos ready! No word of a lie, thousands of photos were taken at our 7th Annual Potluck Festival and GENesis Conference. After looking through ALL of them, I can say without hesitation that it was a great week for Asian Canadians.
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25.5.10
7.4.10
I Can't Believe It's Already April
Lots of things happening at the office this week. I was fortunate enough to sneak away for the weekend and visit my family back in Edmonton for the holiday, but I could tell fu-GEN staffers were busy due to the frequent e-mails and the quick response rate to whatever e-mails I managed to send. I have decided that due to my absence from the office over the last few days, I have every right to let my imagination cut loose with regards to the goings-on of my fellow fu-GEN staffers. So this, dear readers, is a somewhat fictitious (though probably not entirely ridiculous) and probably not-entirely-accurate rendering of last week’s happenings.
THE WAR WALL (April 7, 2010)
Festival producers Matt and Byron continued to spend much of their time on the phone in an attempt to cast actors in all of the Potluck plays. Their next challenge will be to cast K7, the challenge being that they have to do it with all non-equity actors. Byron sits amidst an ever-growing stack of contracts as he waits for Nina and Carin to swing by and sign them out of his hands and into the actors.
Nina carries around her agenda in a briefcase—okay, it’s in her MacBook, but still, her schedule is insane. This woman is back and forth between here and Cahoots, doing interviews for college students, signing our paycheques, dramaturging like 50 plays and directing another 50 (I’m pretty sure my numbers are accurate), oh and raising a 3 year old to boot!
Carin (and our aforementioned producer Matt) is busy with a toddler of her own, the lively Miss Berkeley, yet somehow Carin still manages to make it in the office to sign away some of Byron’s ever-growing contract pile (pictured below), while simultaneously asserting her presence over the ladies at the bank to finally get us our company credit card(!!!). Lately, she’s been spending her time spending our money—almost finished with flight bookings, she’s now moved on to paying our actors!
And what of incoming Artistic Director David? I haven’t seen him in weeks, making me think that his schedule is comparable to Nina’s. However, a picture of him as a child has appeared on our War Wall (filling me with the desire to caption it “Our Fearless Leader”). I can only imagine David stumbling in tired one night, grumbling, plastering his photo on the wall and taking a swig of vodka before heading home for the evening.
Our Fearless Leader
I can’t take full credit for the “Fearless Leader” slogan, Andrea, our lovely Director of Marketing and Development came up with that one. She sits quietly in her corner, typing furiously away and fortuitously putting together our program (a seemingly never-ending process). She’s been working on a listserv, taking photos, sending out e-blasts to our followers and designing all of the materials that will eventually be handed out at the conference. No big deal, right?
As for me, I spent my weekend eating waaaay too much food. While running back and forth between my laptop and the table I managed to catch up with friends and family, never really being fully able to answer the question, “what exactly are you doing out in Toronto, anyway?”. Since when does the response “interning for a theatre company” not satisfy all of a curious parent’s questions?
To look forward to in the upcoming weeks: Mind-map from K7 Playwrights and blog entries from each of the Potluck Playwrights including: David Yee, Catherine Hernandez, Donald Woo, Camellia Koo, Romeo Candido, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee and our office’s very own Byron Abalos.
24.3.10
The Weekly Update- 24/3/3010: T Minus 6 Weeks!
"Six weeks away people! Only six weeks away!"
The havoc that is wreaked when I shout this aloud in the office is insane. Heads are clasped in despair, forehead veins pop, knuckles turn white, and keyboards click away with the fury of 100 pecking chickens? I don’t know... maybe I took it a little far, but this phrase certainly brings some distress into the office.
The last week we have kept ourselves busy by welcoming the lovely Nina Lee Aquino into the office almost every day. Here she sits, head to head with Byron churning out schedule after schedule. The reason the wall looks so tidy is because Byron and Nina have put up so many schedules they practically had to tear the whole thing down and re-post everything so it looked pretty again. Now the two of them are on to casting, and the feeling is that once the actors are in the schedule it becomes concrete. Exciting!
Andrea has been designing fabulous advertisements for our 7th Annual Potluck Festival featuring: GENesis Asian-Canadian Theatre Conference, submitting them for publication in Canadian Theatre Review, as well as creating ads and inserts for Native Earth and Carlos Bulosan Theatre respectively. She’s making sure flyers get distributed and managing the behemoth task of putting the (delayed) program together. With deadlines set towards the end of this week, Andrea’s life is only getting busier.
Carin is dedicating her life to masterminding our budget and drilling it in to us that we must protect her bottom line. Somehow, between her many jobs, Carin has got us a company credit card, which we will use to buy flights as soon as it arrives at the office. Sometimes Carin senses that we are desperate for coffee.
When we run out of coffee filters, we use Bounty!
Sunday saw the core team sitting together in one room (finally!) to make sure that we are all on the same page moving forward. Coffee was drank, snacks were had, and details were mulled over. We sorted out some ticketing snafus, talked about the budget, and in the end I know that I felt really satisfied that we had all met. There’s something nice about having everyone in the same room... it brings the whole picture together. While you can see the long road we still have in front of us, we know that we will travel it quickly, with the support of each other, and hopefully with great success. I definitely left the meeting feeling that I am so lucky—I am a young professional working in my field, in the arts! Woo hoo!
Oh yeah, now that everything is sorted, the Festival and Conference passes are now on sale through Factory Theatre. See all that info here, and we’ll see you there!
The havoc that is wreaked when I shout this aloud in the office is insane. Heads are clasped in despair, forehead veins pop, knuckles turn white, and keyboards click away with the fury of 100 pecking chickens? I don’t know... maybe I took it a little far, but this phrase certainly brings some distress into the office.
The Wall!
The last week we have kept ourselves busy by welcoming the lovely Nina Lee Aquino into the office almost every day. Here she sits, head to head with Byron churning out schedule after schedule. The reason the wall looks so tidy is because Byron and Nina have put up so many schedules they practically had to tear the whole thing down and re-post everything so it looked pretty again. Now the two of them are on to casting, and the feeling is that once the actors are in the schedule it becomes concrete. Exciting!
Andrea has been designing fabulous advertisements for our 7th Annual Potluck Festival featuring: GENesis Asian-Canadian Theatre Conference, submitting them for publication in Canadian Theatre Review, as well as creating ads and inserts for Native Earth and Carlos Bulosan Theatre respectively. She’s making sure flyers get distributed and managing the behemoth task of putting the (delayed) program together. With deadlines set towards the end of this week, Andrea’s life is only getting busier.
Carin is dedicating her life to masterminding our budget and drilling it in to us that we must protect her bottom line. Somehow, between her many jobs, Carin has got us a company credit card, which we will use to buy flights as soon as it arrives at the office. Sometimes Carin senses that we are desperate for coffee.
When we run out of coffee filters, we use Bounty!
Sunday saw the core team sitting together in one room (finally!) to make sure that we are all on the same page moving forward. Coffee was drank, snacks were had, and details were mulled over. We sorted out some ticketing snafus, talked about the budget, and in the end I know that I felt really satisfied that we had all met. There’s something nice about having everyone in the same room... it brings the whole picture together. While you can see the long road we still have in front of us, we know that we will travel it quickly, with the support of each other, and hopefully with great success. I definitely left the meeting feeling that I am so lucky—I am a young professional working in my field, in the arts! Woo hoo!
Oh yeah, now that everything is sorted, the Festival and Conference passes are now on sale through Factory Theatre. See all that info here, and we’ll see you there!
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