by Shannon Turner | Mar 23, 2009 | Blog
[Retroactive text being added here years later…] This is the performance I did for the 1-year anniversary of the April 16, 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech. I had curated and directed the show, which was a multidisciplinary reflection from a variety of artists...
by Shannon Turner | Oct 5, 2008 | Blog
So, for like weeks I had been hearing about this awesome fundraiser for this organization that is affiliated with Alternate ROOTS (an organization that I’ve been a member of for a long time now). This other organization is called Project South, and they’ve...
by Shannon Turner | Sep 19, 2008 | Blog
In order to fully appreciate this post, it would be very helpful to listen to the following episode of This American Life.Dear This American Life,It is rare that I have the impulse to write in to one of the shows that I listen to regularly on NPR, and I have never...
by Shannon Turner | Aug 19, 2008 | Blog
Dear Friends,You may remember that I’ve been promising you for a long time that I would write something about the performance in Blacksburg at the anniversary of the shootings. I never seemed to be able to do that in this forum, but eventually I was asked to...
by Shannon Turner | Jul 13, 2008 | Blog
by rilke”And if only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must always hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful. How should we be able to...
