First Update, Towers of Thought and CAGED

Dear URFies (URFites? URFians?)

Welcome to another year of Bard URF! This year we are the Union of
Ridiculous Freelancers (last year we were the Unlikely Realists'
Forum), so let's get to business!

Upcoming Events!

SURPRISE I won't list these because our calendar of events appears on
the front page of our blog now! This calendar will include our events,
as well as events and clubs we particularly like. This includes Poi
Joy, Tsuuuuupa Hoop, No Diner Cast, Mental Academy, Surrealist Circus
and others!

Of course emails will contain blurbs, but more complete information
will always be linked to: bardurf.blogspot.com

If you have suggestions for things to go on the calendar, email
bard.urf@gmail.com


More importantly, these emails will usually contain updates and
information on projects in motion, as opposed to those that are plan
and set:


Towers of Thought: Ten Years Later
Project Heads: Amii Legendre and Jono Naito

This Sunday we will be handing out notecards at the 9/11 screening and
panel. On these people will respond to the event or our questions. We
will compose these cards into long strands that are placed throughout
the Campus Center in pairs. They are offset in height slightly to
suggest the towers symbolically. We will hang these on Sunday, Monday,
Wednesday and Friday morning, then take them down the next Sunday (a
week later). These responsibilities can be distributed among several
people so we don't overwhelm one person.

We will offer people to write more responses on cards on 9/11, the
bonfires and at the info desk until Friday, occasionally hanging more
pieces.

We will also be running 9-11pm bonfires on the 11th, 13th and 15th as
"safe spaces" to discuss some poignant questions as posed by Amii.
Show up to help keep things rolling and to share your thoughts.


CAGED
Project Heads: Jono Naito, Izzy Filkins, Brian Mateo

On the weekend of the 24/25th this month there is a large scale event
called Global vs. Local, designed to look at how subjects we try to
deal with abroad (discrimination, for example) may not be as well
focused on in our own community. Ann Seaton, Brian and Amii have all
invited us to conduct the CAGED event in the Campus Center during
either or both days of this event.

To explain CAGED, it's is a performance art piece where a person
displays an honest and heavy confession abut themselves feeling
trapped in their community while they sit in the cage. Volunteers and
confessions are switched out every hour. Whether the cage is
decorated, if the volunteers can talk, etc. will be discussed at
volunteer meetings.

We need a cage. We need volunteers. We need to move fast. A meeting
slot will be selected ASAP to start the mediation between volunteers
to go in the cage. Speak to Izzy or Jono immediately to get involved
ASAP. For example, jn8828@bard.edu is a good place to start. Warning
to volunteers: You are expected to be very honest and to be brave in
making a personal statement. Do not take this lightly. If you know
anyone who would like to do this, tell them!

Contemporaneous is this weekend! Go to it. Hoop/Poi/Improv/Circus
should all be attended as well. Have fun! Get involved if you want to
help out, otherwise have a nice week.

<3 URF