The Hockaday art exhibits were all up on schedule! Congratulations to our director and everybody on the staff. (Reception January 19th) Hockaday Museum of Art

Updates are coming: Theater X-Net

Featuring: Ida Rubinstein Belle Epoch Russian/Parisian beauty.
Read more about Ida in Sisters of Salome by Toni Bentley

Visit: Michael's Montana Web Archive
Theater, Art, Flash Gordon, Funky Music and MORE!

Weather: The rain/sun/snow/rain/freeze/thaw cycle continues --
a little more warm sun in the mix would be welcome.

Wildlife: Some numbnuts parked their rowboat next to the aereation pond, so they can fish inside the 12 foot circle in the ice. It seems to scare the Bald Eagles away. Like most evenings when I drive home in the twilight, there was a small family of Whitetail Deer along Lakeshore Drive.

Charity Alert: Keep that resolution! Click on The Hunger Site once a day.

Theater/Theatre: Katie in Amsterdam will be traveling in February:
Katie Duck two weekends of Improvisation workshops
Bordeaux, France Sunday. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday February 5, 6 7, 8
Bookings & enquiries les Ateliers de la Manutention, 13 rue de la manutention. 33000 Bordeaux - France
(33) (0) 5 56 93 84 27 /la-manu@wanadoo.fr/www.ateliersdelamanutention.com

Edinburgh, Scotland Saturday and Sunday February 18 and 19
Bookings & enquiries: Dance Base National Centre for Dance 14-16 Grassmarket Edinburgh EH1 2JU
Phone +44 (0) 131 225 5525, fax +44 (0) 131 225 5234 email dance@dancebase.co.uk


From Dance Base's site in Edinburgh --
Katie will have something to show 'em!
P.S: Those photos are from B&W videos shot in 1975.

Here's a related event from her studio:
DECAMARONE festival - 3 Days - 10 Artists - 30 Stories - 3 Days - 10 Artists
12 - 13 - 14 January 2006 / Overtoom 301 - Amsterdam
www.decamarone.com
http://squat.net/overtoom301/pages/events.html
As they enter the building, audiences are welcomed as guests into the Oekolos: the living space of a community of artists who fled the Bird Flu virus. With installations forming its functional interior, the Oekolos resembles an ecosystem that actively relates the whole space, the performers and the audience to each other. The audience witnesses the performances from within this alternate reality.
Boccaccio’s original Decamarone (1351), a frame story about the plague in medieval Florence, heralded a new era in Western Europe through it’s collection of critical and satirical stories told by the independent voices of ten young people, who paint a lively and transparent picture of their world. This festival version of the Decamarone, besides giving a powerful context for a diverse collection of short performances, sets a stage for contemporary voices to speak.


A proto-Renaissance mural inspired by Boccaccio circa 1400 A.D.
(Note Katie and Matt in the lower center panel.)
It couldn't have been THAT long ago! Could it?