Want to go for a walk?
If you were a dog that would be a great opening line.
Want to go for an interdisciplinary audio walking tour of Mile End? If so, head over to the Casa del Popolo this weekend to partake in In-situ Cité, an ensemble audio piece created by five Montreal-based artists.
My contribution to In-situ Cité is called Sniffing for Stories. It’s a prose poem. It’s one block long. It’s a long block. It’s a walk we walk every day. Here’s an excerpt:
We take other walks besides this one, but lets say we don’t.
Let’s say our dog walks us up and down this alleyway three times a day.
That’s eight-and-a-half years of up and eight-and-a-half years of down.
Nine thousand three hundred laps of toenails clicking on cracked concrete.
Trail zigzagging, long tail wagging, long tongue lolling, dog tags clacking.
Ears open, eyes darting, nose to the ground.
READ THE REST OF SNIFFING FOR STORIES >>>
To hear Sniffing for Stories in-situ head over to the Casa del Popolo between 12 & 5PM on Saturday September 30 or Sunday October 1, 2006. I will be at the Casa from 4PM on the Saturday for a talk-back session with the director, Stephen Lawson.
The tour is free. It lasts about an hour. You’ll be equipped with a map of the route and a CD player. For further such logistical information visit: http://luckysoap.com/statements/sniffingforstories.html
Sniffing for Stories in In-situ Cité
Casa del Popolo, 4873 boul. St-Laurent.
September 30 & October 1, 2006
Between 12 & 5pm
INFO & RESERVATIONS: 514.843.3685
In-situ Cité is presented by Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal in collaboration with Les Journées de la Culture, OBORO & CKUT.
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