The Invisible City Project is officially underway now that the website is up and running. The site is intended to be a virtual commons for the dance community, for those who want to access that dance community, and for those who may be surprised to learn there is a community at all. The information on the site is already plentiful, given its short life thus far, but it is intended to whet our collective appetites so we can refine and expand the site together.
For a guided tour of sorts, the following links will take you to two specific pages that:
- invite you to fully participate in The Invisible City Project and the site itself
- offer some background to explain how and why the site exists in in the first place.
So go for a stroll in The Invisible City, but don’t let it remain invisible for long. Share the site and its contents, submit something of your own, comment on what been submitted by someone else, and visit often.
And now that the site is public, it’s time to plan some project events. Last September, I invited Hartford’s dance community to The Garden Center to share ideas, connections, and the potluck bounty. I was reassured by how many of you gathered, and how willing you each were to participate in that evening as a gesture of hope and goodwill. Together we agreed that experiences like that should not be so few and far between. So, here it is, a year later, and I’d like to invite each of you to gather again. It’s a Town Hall Gathering of sorts; the date is Friday, September 27th; and the place is The Garden Center. We look forward to catching up with each of you next month.
In upcoming months we have other events in the pipeline that will build on last year’s successes, and new events to deepen our collective impact. On November 16th & 17th, we’ll host several artists in our Performance Salon Fest as part of Open Studio Hartford. And next spring we are inviting Hilary Clark, an area native, to share her artistic process with us in a special project. (more on that to come)
So as Scapegoat Garden looks inward to prepare for our own upcoming performance events, we are making it a point to also zoom out wide enough to root ourselves ever more deeply to place, the grounding power of community, and the breadth of connections beyond our borders.
Until next we meet face to face …
~Deborah Goffe
