December 2024... and here we are

Hi loves!

We did it! We did November... and it was a lot. And heartbreaking. And all of the worry and grief. And, folks are moving to What Next mode.. and there's a lot of instructions on how to do that. It's rough. And we have to. 

It feels weird to talk about art and career stuff in these moments. And we still get to do these things. AND SHOULD.

Bring Your Kids! is at the Bryant Lake Bowl! We sold out! It was VERY SILLY. Thank you to everyone who came and we can't wait to do it again!

I got to perform for Alison and Marlowe's Retirement Show from Strike Theater!

And then it was a lot of planting seeds. Brainstorming and reaching out and chatting and that part is so so good.

December has a bit more to it, as December usually does.

Bring Your Kids has an action packed month!

- Saturday November 30th at 825 Arts!

- Saturday December 7th at Cadenza Music!

- Saturday December 14th at the Bryant Lake Bowl!

- Saturday December 21st at 825 Arts!  

That's a lot! YOU BETTER LIKE SILLY.

I've been teaching a 7 week Teen Improv workshop, and we're nearing the end. So grateful to Sandra for organizing it all, to Normandale Hyland Methodist Church for the space, and these brilliant teens for making me laugh. Our showcase is on Dec. 16th, and they're going to rock it.

I'm working with the wonderful Anna Solfest, creating Wellbeing for Everyone programming for the St. Croix Falls public library through June 2025. So many thanks to Danette McCarthy, Su with the SCFPL, and Center for Creativity & Public Health. More info to come!

I'm helping put together COMPAS's Emerging Young Artist's juried art show! More info to come!

Through COMPAS, I'm back at Anoka Middle School for the Arts, and also starting a memoir class for residents of Walker Methodist - Kensie. 

I'll be back at Children's Theatre Company, teaching middle schoolers, if you have a middle schooler! I'll be removing every box and extraneous object from the classroom before class*! 

I'm offering a Flash memoir class starting Tuesdays in January! Please join us! 

I started a substack! No one asked for this! 

In stupid news, I turned my phone into a Tap to Pay thingie! It only took this long! #CAPITALISM!

I hope you are well, and finding some Joy and Direction? Support? Community? Clarity? Softness? Time? in this season. It's hard, for me, to forget that January is around the corner, with whatever that may bring. Get small, get spite-ful, get full of love. LET'S FUCKING GO, indeed, loves. 

Sending so much love out to you. <3 

Just a seventh grader from ValleyView. 

*The number of middle schoolers that want to hide in boxes! IF THEY SORT OF FITS, THEY SITS. 

Wild Times oh November

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Hoping it was charming; Minnesota piled big wet galumphing clumps of wet cold, which melted by trick or treat time. A couple of full size candy bars were procured. Good stuff. 

October has been a thing! 

 - Finishing up classes at HUGE. :( 

 - Finished a class at STRIKE! And what a class it was!

 - Will finish my session with JFCS (postponed for plague reasons) through COMPAS. 

 - Sang two songs at Tablesalt Production's fundraiser, Songs of Power, Protest, and Joy! A beautiful night! (LOOK AT THIS PICTURE. IGNORE ME. THESE ARE THREE OF THE FUNNIEST AND MOST TALENTED HUMANS AROUND. SEE THEM EVERY CHANCE YOU GET, SILLIES!)

 - TRICK! Ran a "Creating a Play" MEA workshop for 4th and 5th graders at Children's Theatre, which was honestly lovely. EXCEPT FOR SOME CHILD GIVING ME THE COVID PLAGUE.  

 - TREAT! Got to play music for Melancholics Anonymous fundraiser at Art House North, and 'am so incredibly grateful. What a show, what an incredibly generous audience, what a beautiful sounding venue... here's my whole heart!

 - Adorable rides again!!  Butch totally Adorable'd at Minne-melange. I was sick, and I'm still jealous. 

 - Put together an anthology for the folks at Tasks Unlimited through COMPAS. When it's printed, I'll tell you all about it, promise.  

 - Started Teen Improv classes down in Bloomington. So many thanks to Sandra for the plotting and planning. Here we go!

 - I turned 49! Whatta thing! I got to see my parasocial best friend, Mike Birbiglia, at the State Theater. He's doing well. (And absolutely found myself missing the cozy conversation of his podcast. How dare he perform and do his job, and DO IT WELL? Weird times.) 

 - Oh! That commercial I shot in Sioux Falls last December is up! Behold! And hire SDN Communications, who are amazing folk and took such care of us!

Updates!

Bring Your Kids! is now at the Bryant Lake Bowl AND 825 Arts in St Paul! INDEED! We will now only play venues who's address starts with an 8! So incredibly excited for all of the silliness. Info and tickets at Bring Your Kids!

And that's about all, currently, for performance. Realizing that November might be a bit of a OrganizePlotAndPlan month, which will honestly speed by, and then drop off into December. The plotting and planning ain't gonna scheme itself. 

Take care of yourself, loves. See you in December.