n art installations and an extensive foreign film festival.The three-week festival has some great surprises within it. The Mobile Sewing Company moves their exhibition about the CBD...on the bicycles that power old PFAFF sewing machines. The artists ask passers-by for articles of their clothing and then sew on theatrical embellishments. A very fit female pedals the now-raised bike at the desired speed and the seamstress presses her pedal to engage the tire to the needle gears. Lots of fun to watch.
A French company has a unique and very edgy exhibit called
Revolt of the Mannequins. Put into store windows and altered daily, everyone does a double take at the decidedly more animated dummies in vignettes unexpected. Madness at a "going out of business sale." Roller derby at the jewelry store.
Today I attended the first of three days in the Writer's Festival section. A fabulous multi-venue matrix of author presentations. Some of the expected: characterization, short form writing, researching facts, etc. Anatomy of a Thriller had a young Aussie novelist James Phelan and former Director of MI5 turned author Stella Rimington. Alan Weisman, author of "The World Without Us" (if humans all disappeared at once, how would the earth change?) paired with 'fish' author Mark Kurlansky with a message "You don't have to be right, just not wrong." The Censorship in Young Adult Writing unit didn't excite me but as it was free --as are 86 of the 116 modules-- I hardly felt it was a waste. Two more days of different topics, different perspectives, different lessons.
What's not to like about this premier event?
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