RE: RAT CONFERENCE 99 INFO

["Sylvain, John" <jsylvain@station.sony.com>]

Past and future friends. 

Sacred Fools have a number of beds and guestrooms available for Ratty
visitors. Email me (jsylvain@station.sony.com) asap if you're looking for a
temporary home and we'll see what we can do.



> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Btmsdream@aol.com [SMTP:Btmsdream@aol.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, June 23, 1999 11:15 AM
> To:	rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com
> Subject:	RAT CONFERENCE 99 INFO
> 
> Hail Fellow Rats,
> LOS ANGELES  RAT CONFERENCE 99 - BEACH BLANKET BINGO
> July 22-25 (Thurs-Sunday)
> LA RATS are scurrying around putting the event together. Here is some
> info.
> Here are locations and tentative plan: events and discussions are able to
> be 
> changed and added to.
> 
> THURSDAY JULY 22
> VENUE:  THE IVY SUBSTATION  (Home to Bottom's Dream)
> 9070 Venice Blvd.  events inlcude meet and greet, "RAT- who we are and
> what 
> do we want"  playwright workshop with Caridad Svich, playwright in
> residence 
> at the Mark Taper Forum. Playwright Suzanne Maynard, a RAT FEAST at The
> Ivy 
> Sub(pot luck brought to you by the Los Angeles Theatre Community) a
> reading 
> or performance of some kind around the feast, and ratsass beer and Sloppy 
> Joes( bar across the street where Bottom's Dream brings all their visiting
> 
> playwrights)until whenever.(The Ivy Substation is a historical building. 
> Built in 1907, renovated 5 years ago, it is a lovely 5,500 square foot
> space 
> with 75 foot ceiliings. adjacent to Media Park, easy free parking and
> Sloppy 
> Joes. ) more ideas welcome. the day will be filled with topics,
> discussion, 
> greetings, food and plays.
> FRIDAY AND SATURDAY  JULY 23 AND 24.
> VENUE: THE LOS ANGELES THEATRE CENTER  Downtown Los Angeles
> 514 Spring St. One of LA's theatre landmarks. 4 Theatres, rehearsal rooms,
> 
> big lobby, and all for RATS.  Panel discussions include: Self Publishing- 
> what have we here. led by Douglas Messerli, Editor Sun and Moon Press, LA,
> 
> and others including Jason Neulander(Salvage Vanguard Press, Austin) Karl 
> Gadjusek(Big Sun),Encyclopedia of High Cheeze(Cunning cheap solutions to 
> theatrical notions)
> "Got Milk"- Language in American Theatre today led by Los Angeles based 
> playwright Kelly Stuart (who is working with our brothers at Sledgehammer 
> Theatre in SD) and James Martin(Artistic Director, Bottom's Dream) 
> "Alternative doesn't have to mean disorganized" led by Lee Wochner, Moving
> 
> Arts, LA, 
> PERFORMANCE: PECULIAR WORKS PROJECT , NEW YORK, "Privileged and
> Confidential" 
> Internet simulcast live performance between LA and NY.
> THE NIGHT OF 1,000 PLAYWRIGHTS, Bring lots of work to read in snippets we 
> want to cover the ground with playwrights' words,thousand of em. and then 
> ratsass. ratsass. ratsass.
> SATURDAY: (LATC)  Meet and greets, panel discussion: "alternative Non 
> Traditional Organization" (or something like that) led by Erik 
> Ehn(Playwright, ethicist) Ben Cameron( head of TCG), Lars Hansen(CEO,
> Theatre 
> LA) and Nick Fracaro, (Thieves Theatre, Brooklyn), Electronic RAT, the web
> 
> questions, National co productions,playwright Chris Jeffries, operetta 
> trends, Failures discussion, 
> Saturday Night we wnat to get you to LA Theatres and see our work. 
> PERFORMANCE: MOVING ARTS, Los Angeles@Los Angeles Theatre Center. staged 
> reading of "Lawyers" directed by Julie Briggs. ratsass. ratsass. ratsass.
> SUNDAY JULY 25
> SANTA MONICA:  BEACH FEST WEST 
> Site specific conference.  PERFORMANCE; THIEVES THEATRE (from Coney Island
> to 
> Santa Monica. about as far as you can go without drowning. site TBD.
> Beach 
> Blanket Bingo. Late afternoon  CHILI COOKOFF. Arkansas vs. Circle X.
> Conference Participants include)besides the above) YOU, CIRCLE X THEATRE, 
> ALISON NARVER, OASIS THEATRE COMAPANY(LA)THE ACTORS GANG, ZOO DISTRICT, 
> GABRIELE SCHAFER, SLEDGEHAMMER, ANNEX,GHOST ROAD,EST WEST,SACRED
> FOOLS,WERNER 
> T., JEFF JONES, ANNIE WEISSMAN,ASK THEATRE PROJECTS,PLAYWRIGHTS ARENA,
> THERE 
> ARE OVER 150 THEATRES IN LA,BRAD ROTHBART,RUTH MARGRAFF,UNDERMAIN, AND
> MANY 
> OTHERS WHO I FORGOT.OH, SUBTERRANEAN THEATRE CO. OLIVER MAYER,... and so
> many 
> others that are just now getting on board.
> conference will conclude at a cool house in Santa Monica for the chili
> cookoff
> and sunset.
> housing is free. please get us your requests. you'll have a lot more
> freedom 
> with a car. But we will arrange car pooling and mass transit info.
> SEE YA THE BEACH! 
> Your LA RAT HOST TEAM.
> we'll be providing information as things keep moving forward. let us know 
> your thoughts. Remember, This is LA. hype and cell phones live here in 
> corners.
> phone calls to Mitchell Gossett/ Bottom's Dream 310 231 0446
> Lee Wochner  Moving Arts 818 566 8818
> Matthew Bretz Circle X  e mail    mabretz@cbomedia.com
> John Sylvain  Sacred Fools  just look to the sky