Invitation to The Lightbulb Company’s production of “In Transit” (in Toronto) February 5, 2010
Posted by David Hiran Watson in Artistic/Creative Ventures.Tags: "In Transit", production, The Lightbulb Company, theatre, Toronto, Walmer Centre
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Time: Tue Mar 2 at 8:00 pm until Sat Mar 6 at 10:00 pm
Venue: Walmer Centre Theatre, 188 Lowther Avenue, Toronto
The Lightbulb Company is SO thrilled to be mounting its first ever production! And what better way to start than with something that promises laughter?We are a company started last year by a group of dedicated emerging artists with a passion for ensemble creation. Together we workshopped, played, explored and refined a new play. And now, we are proud to be mounting the workshop production of “In Transit”, written by founding member Tyler Graham. A duo enters a bus. They meet individuals who use the bus as more than a simple transit system – the bus becomes a destination in and of itself. As they journey, they come to recognise the bus as a place of predictability, an aspect posited as a human need.”In Transit” explores the bus as a place of mediated civilised freedom, regulated and predictable but chaotic in its own. The people who enter the bus are random elements who break the overarching predictability. PS. If you DON’T laugh, we’ll eat our hats! We guarantee laughter at our performance!
Artistic Director: Miroki Tong
Playwright: Tyler Graham
Stage Manager: Mat Grochal
Literary Manager: Tyler Emoff
Cast:
One – Carlos Finch
Other – Chattrisse Dolabaille
Abigail/Rhinecleft – Naomi Vondell
Helen Murphy – Laurie Hutchison
Bus Driver – Fer D’Yalvarez
Performance Dates:
Tuesday, March 2nd – 8pm
Wednesday, March 3rd – 8pm
Thursday, March 4th – 8pm
Friday, March 5 – 8pm
Saturday, March 6 – 2pm
Saturday, March 6 – 8pm
Performances should not be longer than 90 minutes maximum. There will be a short Q & A session after every performance.
$10 – Regular
$8 – Students, Seniors, Groups 10+
To order tickets, message us or contact us at thelightbulbcompany@gmail.com
Visit our website at http://www.thelightbulbcompany.net We hope to see you there!
Invitation to The Lightbulb Company’s Party Night (in Toronto) February 5, 2010
Posted by David Hiran Watson in Artistic/Creative Ventures.Tags: Croc Rock, fundraiser, party, promotion, The Lightbulb Company, theatre, Toronto
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MUSIC! GAMES! PRIZES! DRINKS! FOOD! PEOPLE! ARTISTS! PARTY!
- artist networking
- artist/show promotion (bring your flyers! we will have a table for them!)
- EVERYONE to party!
- 1/2 PRICE APPETIZERS!!!
- Drinks starting at $3!!!
- MARTINI MADNESS, $4!!!
- Our own private party area with own entrance, with access to the other 2 floors of the Croc Rock
- Mock Olympic games to win Olympic merch downstairs
- Our own games to win great prizes!
- 50/50 raffles and other possible raffles!
- music and dancing
- an outdoor heated patio (smoker friendly)
- our own little dance floor and access to dance floors downstairs
Some of the events that will occur include:
- General socializing earlier in the evening. This is a great time to order some food, sit down and chill after a long day and chat with others. Artists, this is the best time to network and promote your stuff so bring flyers and business cards!
- A variety of games throughout the evening, which may or may not include dance offs, statues, and other wild things that will win you prizes!
- A 50/50 raffle and other possible raffles
- Music and dancing later in the evening
Alright, so we don’t have state of the art ticket systems…but we have other ways!
First post February 4, 2010
Posted by David Hiran Watson in About Me.add a comment
Trying out posterous for the first time; pretty excited. I think it’s neat how they’ve made it simplified, and seemingly with no reliance on advertising. It’s also great how it links into pretty much any social media/networking site you can think of. I am curious to see what will happen with this post as my Posterous (dehin.posterous.com) is linked to my WordPress blog (dehin.wordpress.com) and my Twitter (@dehin), and my WordPress blog is linked into my Twitter. Well, we’ll see soon enough! Ciao
DH
A little update on my life January 29, 2010
Posted by David Hiran Watson in About Me.Tags: audio production, consulting, freelance, IT, mobile phone, moving
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So it’s been quite a few months since my last post! I just became fairly busy and then stopped being as connected to the online world (state-of-mind-wise, not in actuality). Anyway, the big news for me is that I’m moving again! For those of you who remember, I moved in with my sister last year at the end of May. Living with my sister had its good moments, and was definitely a positive, growing experience. Unfortunately toward the last few months issues arose out of (what I believe to be) aspects of each of our personalities that the other couldn’t really stand or deal with. It became like a volcano, in that every so often said issues would boil over onto the surface. So we finally decided to part ways in terms of being roommates.
The second biggest news for me is that my cell phone is active again! Yay! It had been suspended in November and was suspended until about yesterday. I finally cleared it with my provider (Rogers Wireless Inc.), and it’s great to be connected again. I was realizing today – as I was going through setting everything back on my phone – that it feels good to be connected but I didn’t really miss it per se. I should explain for those who don’t know that I have a Blackberry phone. So when I say connected, I’m talking ‘crackberry’ type of connectiong: email, social networking, Internet all accessible on the phone. I’m not a heavy Internet user on my phone, but I am a heavy email and social networking user (which includes various IM services, Twitter, and blog stuff).
Segueing back to the whole feeling connected topic, when my phone was suspended, I found that I enjoyed the lack of connection. I felt a freedom to be able to go places and essentially be DISconnected from the rest of the world. Toward the end of the suspension (that is, over the past few weeks), I started missing having a phone only as a means of communication. I still didn’t miss being connected, but I did miss not being able to call and chat with friends or hang out at some event on the spur of the moment. But once my phone was active again, I immediately felt plugged in, and that feeling fit like a snug glove! It was like finding something I’d lost, but didn’t know I had lost it.
One last little bit: I’ve decided to embrace the vocational desires ruminating in my head for the past few months, which are to be self-employed and free-lance, and to be involved in both IT work and audio production. I’m going to do this by working at building up my two (self-employed) businesses – dEhiN Productions, and dEhiN IT Consulting. I’ll try and elaborate on these ventures in another post (hopefully once I move), but if you can’t figure out which company does what, dEhiN Productions is my audio production company, and dEhiN IT Consulting is my IT consulting company. Both are fancy ways of saying I’m a freelancer who specializes in IT work and producing music/audio.
DH
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Feelin’ low September 15, 2009
Posted by David Hiran Watson in Everyday Life.Tags: 24, Switchfoot, twitter
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Listening to “24″ by Switchfoot right now. I think I’m in a “feeling emotionally low and spiritually at a loss” state right now. I also think either my computer is slowing down or the internet connection is slow right now. It took me three-quarters of the song to go to my blog, sign in, and start this post! Actually I restarted the song – I didn’t want to change my frame of mind by changing the song.
Anyway, that’s it for this post; if you follow me on Twitter (@dEhiN), you’ll see that my last tweet was about how I’m feeling low but also tired and was deciding on whether to work out my emotional state or sleep. Well it looks like I’m entertaining the emotional side of my being right now.
DH
Random Thoughts III August 21, 2009
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Is hope deferred always a good thing? To put it another way, is it possible that sometimes when hope is deferred, it would have been better to have had the hope realized right away? I know that, for myself at least, there are times where the deferred hope (be it in the form of a dream, expectation, desire, want, etc.) turns or threatens to turn into a hope lost or a hope crushed. What about when we bring God into the picture, and when the Holy Spirit is the O/one asking us to wait and trust? Perhaps when God initiates a putting off of realizing hope, and a perseverance and patience in the meanwhile, it is not possible for that hope to turn into a crushed or lost hope? If so, perhaps this is because when God is involved, and more so when He is the initiator, His purity and goodness is brought into the situation? Following the same logic, then the times when my deferred hope threatens to turn into crushed hope, it isn’t God who has asked me put off realizing that hope, but other factors. The greatest factor, apart from God, I can think of is the daily struggle of good vs. evil in life. There is a song by a Christian band, called “Delirious”, with the lyrics in the chorus as follows: Gravity is pulling me, but heaven is calling me. So, perhaps the times when my hope deferred threatens to turn into lost hope, it is the battle of heaven vs. gravity that is the initiator?
DH
Random Thoughts II August 15, 2009
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Is there still a place in this world for the generosity of spirit Jesus lived and exhibited? I was going to post on this about a week ago, but decided not to at the time. But it seems to me that whether you’re among Christians, or non-Christians, it’s all the same: the person who seeks to live genuinely unselfishly gets shot down and worn out, and the worst part is, by both his fellow brothers and sisters in Christ, as well as those of this world. Even worse is that sometimes it’s actually others who are not siblings in Christ who recognize the generosity of spirit within such an individual and seeks to respond in kind. Are we as God’s children so blind? Why is it so hard to live with the following priority list: God first, others second, myself last? Isn’t that what Jesus exemplified? I’m not even expecting any human being to live that priority list perfectly while on Earth, since Jesus was the only perfect human (was referring to when He walked this Earth). But can we not even try to live that way? Perhaps there are those that do try and live such a way.
I understand now why Isaiah thought he was the only one left in all of Israel serving God (see 1 Kings 18-19). It makes me so upset, sad, angry and frustrated all at once, when I think of how those of us who are the body Christ should be the first, en masse, to be generous of spirit and loving to the infinite degree, and yet we many times fall so short. I’m not upset and angry because I, and my fellow siblings, are not perfect. I am upset and angry because it seems to me that many times we are not even trying! Why was it that Isaiah was coming from a people who were supposed to be God’s people, and yet there was only him and seven thousand in all Israel who hadn’t turned away from following God (1 Kings 19:18)?
All I know is that I praise God He is faithful and keeps me; else I would have let my soul and spirit grow selfish and hard to fit in with the rest of the world, and what many times seems like those of Christendom! But perhaps I am being too harsh and sarcastic; perhaps many of my siblings are like me, where they are trying to exemplify the love Jesus showed, but they fall just like I do. I just wish we (myself included) had the grace of God within us to be able to recognize and admit to one another when we fall. I should stop now because I’m losing my cohesive train of thought.
DH
Revelations at 4:30 in the morning! August 9, 2009
Posted by David Hiran Watson in Faith, Gifts / Talents.Tags: gifts, God, intercession, morning, spirituality
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I’ve been thinking and reflecting on intercession lately, especially tonight. My biggest (spiritual) gift is that of an intercessor’s heart. We, the children of God, are all called to intercede. But in the same way we are all called to evangelize, and there are some given the gift of evangelism, so it is with intercession. As far as I can tell, having it given to you as a gift generally means you have more of a heart tuned to that need, that frequency, even more so than others do. Or perhaps it’s not so much even more so, but even more consistently than those who don’t have the gift.
Well, as I mentioned already, I’ve been reflecting on intercession and spiritual sensitivity to the deep needs of others – the very things they don’t share – and the spiritual atmosphere of any environment. Tonight I think God just gave me a new revelation about intercession: interceding, or standing in the gap, for someone can involve just being and not doing.
I have two good friends of mine, a brother in Christ and a sister in Christ, who have been heavy on my heart tonight. If you’ve read any of my previous posts you can probably guess who they are, as they are engaged and they are the leaders of PalmSway.
Yesterday – August 9 – PalmSway had an opportunity to play at a concert at Asaiah Ministries Church, in the Cataraqui area in Scarborough. After the concert, these two friends of mine and I, as we headed back to our church to set up the equipment we had used for the concert, had an opportunity to chat about spiritual things. The bible talks about “as iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another”, and that was the type of fellowship and conversation that occurred.
Since that time – actually beginning partway through that time of fellowship – these two were laid on my heart in an intercessory manner. In fact, much of the reason I’m still up at 4:30 in the morning is because I’ve been wrestling with what exactly has been laid on my heart, and what I am to do with it. Praise God there have been times of prayer and intercession even tonight for these two friends. But the sense I get regarding what has been laid upon me is that this is not a one-time prayer regarding something specific in a person’s life. Coming back to my point, as I was wrestling with what to do, and attempting some actions to prepare the atmosphere (to enter into prayer and worship), God struck me with the revelation I mentioned. Needless to say the actions I attempted were not fully working as I kept hitting a certain ‘wall’, which I believe was God stopping me from proceeding in a manner I wasn’t supposed to (at least not tonight).
So Father God I ask for Your guidance Holy Spirit in learning to just be and sit pregnant as it were with an intercessory burden. I pray to know when to move and act and when to sit. I pray for the discernment and understanding to see the intercession occurring in both states – the action and the non-action. Thank You. Amen.
DH
