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Bumbershoot 2011: What I Enjoyed, Disliked and Missed
Oct 1st
I think there’s no better time to reflect on Seattle’s 2011 Bumbershoot®: Seattle’s Music & Arts Festival, which I had a three-day pass to, than exactly four weeks after the start of the festival. Instead of writing detailed reviews for everything I saw, I decided to break it into what I thoroughly enjoyed, what I didn’t love and what I wished I saw.
I thoroughly enjoyed:
- The Improvised Shakespeare Company
- MarchFourth Marching Band
- YACHT (music)
- The Trey McIntyre Project (dance)
- Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
- Dan Savage and Terry Miller: It Gets Better (words and ideas panel)
- Manos: The Hands of Felt by Puppet This
- 1 Reel Film Festival - Frankly Female films: Election Day, Worn, 0507
I didn’t love:
- Why Censorship? Why Revolution? Why Now? (words and ideas panel)
- Kristin Hersh: Paradoxical Undressing (music/monologue one-woman show)
- 1 Reel Film Festival – Frankly Female film: Connect To
- Visual art: The Magic Show, Skaters Gauntlet, Bumber by Number
I wish I saw:
- Spectrum Dance Theater
- Vendetta Red
- Lots of 1 Reel Film Festival: Best of SIFF 2011 Jury Award Winners, Best of SIFF Audience Award Winners, Around the World in 50 Minutes
To see what other Bumbershoot attendees’ opinions on what they saw? Check out the BumberDiaries Channel on YouTube.
I used Foursquare to check into not only into the Bumbershoot festival but individual venues I went to. I amazingly became the Bagley Wright Theatre mayor after just my second checkin of the festival and have kept this title with four checkins total and no checkins in the past month. This doesn’t seem like a very competitive mayorship.
Image taken without permission from official Bumbershoot site.
China Blog Posts as of Late
Aug 18th
I’ve been in Seattle and Maine for about a month and a half now and have been a little lazy about blogging. I have some post ideas that require actual work to put together, but in the meantime, I will share a short list of blog posts from others in China that I found particularly worth reading. I think this post is pretty ironic considering the second link down.
Beyond Law Enforcement. Integrating Migrants from Collective Responsibility
Sinica Podcast: The Death of the China Blog via Imagethief
Social Media: Chinese Love to Engage [with embedded presentation] via Thomas Crampton
Why Do Students Give? [specifically Chinese students] from Collective Responsiblity
African Boots – soft launch from Danwei
Also, I just learned from Thomas Crampton’s blog about Herdict, where you can see what sites are blocked in a country of your choice. Apparently we can add Foursquare to this (long) list (of highly popular-in-the-U.S.) sites in China. I’d appreciate any other good sites that monitor the GFW in the comments.
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