Protected: Inside the Process ~ Day 27 ~ The Pressure Cooker Is On
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This Is the Chef ~ The Land, Our Home, and First Forage
This place is magical. I’m not trying to get too “woo” too quickly here, but the moment you step onto the property, you quickly realize how unreal it is that this place is so beautiful. When I wake up in the morning and walk outside my room to a domesticated wilderness overlooking the Italian countryside, […]
Vigilia della Vita: Artmonks to Perform in Medieval Festival
First gig of the summer! As part of the breathtaking medieval festival Giornate Medioevali in Poggio di Otricoli, the Art Monastery Project presents an evening of sacred music, blending Gregorian chant, instrumental, and polyphony, all on the theme of life and death. Date: July 15, 2012 Time: 21:00 Location: the church at Poggio di Otricoli […]
This Is the Chef ~ Welcome to the Kitchen
This is the chef, and here are the rules. So, I feel that I’m finally in a space where I can start writing about what is happening here. The first thing I have to say is that I am not a writer; I am a cook, or cuoca, as Italians would say. I ended up […]
Protected: Inside the Process ~ Day 25 ~ Dreams Coming True and Putting Our Bet on Artists
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A Day in the Life of an Artmonk: Raphael Sacks on Day 8 of the 90-Day Retreat
Artmonk-in-Residence Raphael Sacks speaks about his first week of the 90-day art-monastic retreat in Italy in this 90-second video blog. The Art Monastery is honored to count Raphael amongst us this summer. His resume boasts everything from improvising vocal solos for audiences of up to 8,000 in Sweden with Teater Slava and premiering with the […]
Video Blog ~ Liz’s Welcome Speech
At the first dinner with all the Artmonks-in-Residence, Art Monastery Artistic Director Liz Maxwell speaks to the group about her dream, the work, and her gratitude. It all bodes well for the experiment of this summer’s 90-day intensive art-monastic collaboration!
Ad Mortem on Pinterest
As a way of building our visual vocabulary for this summer’s show, Ad Mortem, we’ve created a Pinterest board where all the creators of the show (3 stage performers, 2 musicians, 2 managers, 2 visual directors, 1 director director) can “pin” images from the internet or images that we upload ourselves. The result is a […]
Protected: Inside the Process ~ Day 9 ~ Mother Lover and the Dead Moth
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Beer Fast ~ Beyond the Beer
We are now a week and a half past the end of the Beer Fast. I had thought on Day 14 that the big gift of the fast was about discipline, about practice, and about emptiness. Those were certainly gifts and this quote from Father Tom Ryan certainly still resonates: “The primary reason for self-denial […]
