Show 81: The People's Summit

TURNOUT: 17

MONEYS: $57

INJURIES: Kate hit me with the gun, fortunately, it was a gun she'd fashioned out of sticks and duct tape, cuz we can't take the real gun accross the border. So it wasn't really injurous.

STORIES: That was a really good show. Performance felt great. Audience was great (if a little small). Attended some wonderful workshops on Venezuela, Empowering Women within activist community and The Beehive Collective. Also some intense debates on diversity of tactics and transformative justice. We got to hang out with old pal Kelli and her wonderful friends we met last time we were up there, hospitality!

Things we coulda done better: tabled and promoted ourselves more. Not have to hurry home and prepare for our tour so as to stay and participate in some g20 actions. As flawed as summit protests and actions seem, an acute reminder and direct experience of my powerlessness against state and capital might have felt better than the constant low level nagging feeling of powerlessness that came with not going to the protests.

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Show 68: Hamilton, Sky Dragon Center

Turnout: 30

Monetary Votes of Support: 177 total ($33 merch, $144 Suggested PayWhatYouCan Donation) Canadian money is about the same as US, a tiense less.

Personal Injury Report: Unscathed Again! man... the Pittsburgh ear incident must have done it.

Show Description: Thor, who we knew from Bedlam Theatre in Minneapolis set up an outstanding show, falafels and all, at Sky Dragon Center, a cafe slash dance studio slash show space, slash bar slash community center-- it's a pretty nice set up.

45 seconds before the end of the show, two cop cars, with lights flashing pulled up directly in front of the picture windows and started shouting. Their timing was uncanny, made us freeze for a few seconds while someone went outside to do a copwatch and make sure they weren't shouting at us, then we finished the show. We had another great discussion, that's three in a row now.

I was asked afterwards if, because of doing the play, I'd given some thought to whether or not I'd be able to actually do something like this-- which I answered, but am still, right now, examining and expanding on my answer. Nice question.

Perfomance-wise, this was one of the stranger ones, at least on my part, I don't know why.

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Show 67: Toronto, Tranzac

Turnout: 13

Monetary Votes of Support: 58.16

Personal Injury Report: Unscathed! We're finally getting good at this.

Show Description: This time we used a stick for the prop gun to avoid border crossing troubles. It worked alright, fell out of the holster a couple times but was better than the rolled up piece of paper we'd used in Pittsburgh.

I liked Canada right off the bat and thanks to Kelly we were not left without an audience.

Also, this show was one of the ones where we got to hang out afterwards, talk, and have some food with the people who saw it. This always makes my night. It's so good to get to know people outside of the environment the play is in. Refreshing. So, thanks guys.

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