Displacingreality fest- Connecticut

[martin ewen]

Performance Careers are like smelly multi-layered muttering old men who live under bridges.
Sometimes its best to ignore them.
I will be offering a 4 day workshop jan 21-24.
The maximum number of participants will be 6.
The cost will be $450 and accomidation and food will be offered.
It is suggested that participants bring more alcohol and drugs than they think they are capable of injesting over this period. Also ski equipment and clothing.
The workshops themselves will cover topics such as.

Surviving brutal honesty-- Critiques with blunt objects.
Promo kits- how to improvise with forged childrens paintings.
Marketing your lifestyle disaster.
How to make creative redundancy work for YOU.
"I am an artist" hypnotism sessions
Why get up before lunchtime?

I will also be conducting intensive one on one sessions with participants where I just stare at them (or slightly above and behind them) for extended periods and make them feel uncomfortable.

Each evening will be spent with me going on and on and on about myself in an effort to induce people to drink more and take more drugs so as to discover themselves quicker.

This exclusive, intensive, revolutionary new introduction to my patented (and soon to be franchised) approach to accepting your limitless insecurity by actively trying to sabotage success while enjoying yourself and waiting for dumb luck or death, is available for a limited time only.

The first 3 confirmed participants will recieve a pair of boxer underpants with a nun printed on it.

[Stephon]

Martin,

I'd love to attend, but only if you tell the OD'ing in a Japanese restaurant story again.

[Cybele]

Suggestions for other courses:

+Advanced skulking
+Offensive busker hat lines
+Looking stupid as a theatrical art form
+Being mean to audience members

So, where do I send a check? What are the accommodations like? If I pay extra, do I get to room with you, Martin?

Hey, Steph, maybe we should make our travel arrangements together.

[Lynneski]

Suggestions for other courses:

-employing small mammals and malodorous substances to comic effect
-how to find accommodations anywhere
-drink your own body mass without gaining an ounce

[Pyromancer]

[quote]Originally posted by martin ewen:
<strong>The cost will be $450 and accomidation and food will be offered.
It is suggested that participants bring more alcohol and drugs than they think they are capable of injesting over this period.
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I'd love to join, but unfortunately I can't afford the overweight charges...

[Mr.Taxi Trix]

Jesus I didn't even call and the time came and went. How the hell was it, who came, did you make a buck and is there any way I can squeeze a useless faraway guilty bystander commission on it? I suppose that last one's out of the question.

Did you cover my suggested lectures?

"Whiteface: its more than the new black."
"3 foot stilts: making heels so last year."
"Sobriety and shiny-happy-thinking your way to a long-term relationship: the guru's guide to overcoming love in the streets."

Hope it rocked, next year's gonna be even better. (I'll be further away.)

[scot]

Despite Martin's attempts to undercut my prices and offer a more... a program where something actually happens (though you may not remember), I believe in the ability for street performers to make horrible choices. I believe in the future of Dark Room Discoveries (tm).