{"id":205,"date":"2003-10-22T18:39:12","date_gmt":"2003-10-22T23:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=205"},"modified":"2005-02-04T10:43:49","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T08:43:49","slug":"tired-oh-so-tired-of-strugglin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/22\/tired-oh-so-tired-of-strugglin\/","title":{"rendered":"tired, oh so tired of strugglin"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m tired of living in renovations. I’m typing this at 11:36AM, Joburg time, but
\nI can’t get online because they are in the process of sanding the floors in the
\nstudy – how am I supposed to teach online without being able to get there? How
\nam I supposed to get work done with all this noise and saw dust? It would all
\nbe OK if they were actually doing a good job….
\nBut in all of this, yesterday still had an amazing highlight. The FATC<\/a>
\nhas started a fully-funded, subsidiary group called ART (Anti-Retroviral Theatre),
\nwhich offers, for free, courses and workshops about making art in and around the
\ndiscourse of HIV, here in South Africa (also reimburses travel money, and gives
\nfree lunch). I gave a workshop to about 20 students yesterday (ranging from early
\nteens to early twenties, and a couple a bit older), all from the townships, more
\nthan half of whom were HIV-positive, all of whom were AMAZING. I, and they, actually
\nleft feeling healthier, and full of life. The workshop was on performance and
\ngroup poetry, where I shared some of my own work, and modified a workshop on "group
\nslams" that I took when in Minneapolis for the nationals in ’02. You should
\nhave seen<\/em> the performances these groups came up with! I’m going back
\nnext week… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m tired of living in renovations. I’m typing this at 11:36AM, Joburg time, but I can’t get online because they are in the process of sanding the floors in the study – how am I supposed to teach online without being able to get there? How am I supposed to get work done with all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,4,2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-news-and-politics","category-south-african-art","category-uncategorical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-3j","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/17\/fatc-collaboration\/","url_meta":{"origin":205,"position":0},"title":"FATC collaboration","author":"nathaniel","date":"17 July 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"PJ has put up a page to preview There's no Room in This Bed on the Forgotten Angle Theatre Collaborative site. 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