Lessons Learned…
Collaboration 3
Writing
a musical about the story of our city starts with reading; a gargantuan amount
of reading. Articles, books, online
sources, photo journals, and archival museum diaries highlight the readings, all
of which are interspersed with formal interviews, casual conversations, and
visits to local historic sites. Meaningful, significant, informational treasure
is all around town waiting to be recognized and given voice. Countless events
and characters emerge and are set upon a timeline as the readings bring shape
to the story of our hometown. The tone of the events and the feelings of the
characters determine the color of the songs to be written, for the waves of
human emotion become the musicality of the story. The story called home. Although
hours and hours and hours and hours of time are invested in this creative
retelling, this still remains just one small artist’s simple rendition of a
grand and important story that will ultimately need many voices in many
different ways retelling, reminding, and refreshing so that this critical
story, our shared story, our common ground can be remembered, celebrated, and
passed forward to bring its strength to those who will be the hope. This piece
of the collaborative project will be rehearsed until perfected, while other exciting,
creative pieces are being imagined and enacted all over town, all preparing to
come together for a beautiful event that will hug our city. With all creative
pieces bubbling in a full boil, all other collaborative pieces continue meeting
and gathering numbers as further details of the hug are tended. To be continued…
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