Thursday again. Tomorrow I’m to emcee an event at the Van Der Plas Gallery on Orchard Street. The contemporary artist Shalom Neuman is producing. It will be multi-media and both live streamed globally and later broadcast on Czech TV. When I get the details for the live stream, I will post them.
I only found out I’m the emcee two days ago and while I’m a bit nervous, I know I’ll do fine. Shalom wants me to wear something outrageous but I don’t think I will. It’s enough that I’ll be dealing with art projected onto my face and torso, and juggling a dozen poets and story tellers with fragile egos. I’m suppose to introduce them, making up whatever I want to say. The event is supposed to be political, so I’ve got a nugget of an idea that I can use to springboard into my ad libbed commentary. I will have fun.
Ron Kolm is coordinating and Keith Patchel is the sound arts man. Today we ran into a minor hitch. The America talking heads need batteries and Shalom bought rechargeables but there aren’t enough chargers or time. I looked at the battery case for one of the heads and noted to Keith that they looked like AAA but Keith said no, it’s AA. I commented that the older I get the smaller things look.
So we trekked over to a discount store on Ludlow St. near Delancy and bought 150 AA batteries. Of course it turned out that what was needed are AAA. I gotta laugh. At least the problem happened today and not tomorrow.
The photos are of Ron, Shalom, Keith, Adriaan van der Plas’ three assistants and a person who came in to look at the art on the walls of the gallery.
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