Jim Fouratt: CulturalInstigator: Some of What I saw at SPRINGTIME in NICKYLAND 2015 David Cale, Joseph Keckler, Heather Mitteer, Ronald Peet and NICKY PARAISO

Sunday, April 12, 2015

Some of What I saw at SPRINGTIME in NICKYLAND 2015 David Cale, Joseph Keckler, Heather Mitteer, Ronald Peet and NICKY PARAISO

SPRING TIME in NICKYLAND at La MaMa

A couple of times a year La MaMa's guiding hand Nicky Paraiso steps up and reminds all of his friends and downtown people in the know that in fact he is an actor and a crooner too. He gently reminds all of us performers, presenters and audiences that we are family ,, the downtown ARTS family . Nickyland is an intimate family celebration and no one in town that is part of the La MaMa family will miss it ,, So I went Saturday night. The La MaMa theaters is is chock full of performers you have see and are here to honor Nicky and have a little family fun. Across the island sat MarthaWilson and mate and in front of me was Michael Burke, Jackie Rudin and James Gavin..it was that kind of a night

Here is a taste (just a taste0 of what I was lucky enough to Have witnessed Saturday night ...

The multi-gifted Joseph Keckler singing Tim Buckley's classic Song to the Siren

Master story teller and monologist, actor David Cale

The wake up cal lof new talent in town was Ronald Peet .. playwrite, actor ( hearing him sing Sam Cooke made me think he was Sm Cooke!) sooo talented

Downtown's Susan Hayworth , Penny Arcade inspired Heather Litteer shares a section of her one woman show to premier later titled Lemonade. Be prepared : Heather delivers it straight up, no chaser!

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Praxis, my dear, is the only real way to succeed in the culture war.

Praxis, my dear, is the only real way to succeed in the culture war.
Yes indeed there is a culture war going .. but you know that if you have arrived here. We suggest that you put theory into practice by taking virtual you and virtual ideas into the reality of real live physical and cognitive action.

MEANING: get up and out of your chair and do something physical in real time. OCCUPY YOUR BODY. Be physical.

The fuel is love, compassion and curiosity. Anger is a result of the repression of fear and distances one from compassionate change ... do the Che Che cha cha cha .. or if you prefer the Stiegler tango! or the Shulamith Firestone death metal raga!

PRAXIS is the action of putting into practice the thoughts, theories and desires running through your bio-magnetic, nerve sensitive self. Reality propelled by the friction of input/output.

Damn it, it should be fun !

I will share with you my interaction in the real world and the theoretical world and invite you to do the same.

Politics is an everyday affair. Politics is how we live our lives Every action or non-action we do is a political act. Culture is the expression of desire in public interactive way.

So jump in please.

Join me in participating in life. Making change starts with self and ripples out. Pop culture is where I live ..not in some isolated, white tower, postmodern, distancing intellectual thought or theory. Theory in practice is praxis . It used to be called dialectics .. still a good word even if dressed up in new theory drag.

Serious fun has it consequences including changing the status quo.

We are all at the same life party. Find the door you can come through to make PRAXIS a full time act of creativity .

jim fouratt