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We've been doing this with Arthur every Friday After Thanksgiving for 
the past six years and it has become a staple program - it has a 
regular following.  Over the years we grew to 1400 people attending!
Beryl

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>Arthur Ganson has organized what are my favorite performance events.   
>One was called March Machine Madness but the name is less important 
>than what the event was.  It's a call to the community for anyone 
>and everyone to make a machine that is started by a string being 
>pulled and ends pulling a string strong enough to lift a golf ball 
>six inches.   
>On the event day everyone brings their machines and ties them all 
>together and the first string is pulled and all watch the continuous 
>chain of events.   It's the best- six year old kids doing stuff with 
>legos connected to college engineering students projects, connected 
>to who knows what.   The only other rules are no fire and no harmful 
>chemicals.
>
>Clifford Wagner
>
>
>On Jan 17, 2005, at 4:30 PM, Blair Clarkson wrote:
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>>Hi all,
>>We are looking at putting together a Robot Fun-Performance Event 
>>with a local Art College.
>>
>>Our joint goal is create a wacky-creative-arts-robo event to open 
>>folks minds to the creative use of all this technology.
>>
>>For the event we would invite a couple hundred past robot event 
>>participants to attend with a few students and use their Robots in 
>>a brief "Robot performance art piece" in our Aud.
>>
>>-They could easily "dress-decorate-modify-program" their robots & 
>>have them preform !
>>
>>-We are trying to finalize 0-12 categories ...Comedy, Drama, 
>>Satire, Impersonation, Dancer, Painter  etc......
>>
>>-They'll all probably be 1 min long to take place in a 4x8' area 
>>centre stage of our Aud to a pre-recorded 1? minute music&or 
>>voiceover piece.
>>
>>I would appreciate if anyone else has any ideas on categories or 
>>tips on getting something like this off the ground ?
>>
>>Best Regards,
>>
>>Blair Clarkson
>>Coordinator Special Events & Attractions
>>Visitor Experience Branch, Ontario Science Centre
>>Ph:(416) 696-3195,  Fx:(416) 696-3199,  Cel:(416) 676-9427
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>>"Imagination  is  more  important  than  knowledge."  Albert  Einstein.
>>"The  man  who  has  no  imagination  has  no  wings."  Muhammad  Ali.
>>"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of 
>>focus." Mark Twain
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