Imagination: Glue for Facts

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For a recent family reunion (250 Forsters in San Juan Capistrano, CA!), I adapted the research on Ysidora Pico de Forster (1808-1873), which I collected during the creation of my performance “What’s on [My] Mind?“ and presented it to my family members in a straight-up presentation, complete with a Keynote  slide show. In …

1850s Twitter Chat — Invitation to Participate

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Let’s put an ancestor of ours from the year 1850 in conversation with one another in the present on Twitter. Why? To see what happens! In my current performance project — “What’s on [My] Mind?” — I use an intergenerational persona to transcend time, space, race, class and history in …