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Activism and great art at Sydney Festival
From Upbeat, 1:00 pm on 8 November 2017
Sydney Festival director Wesley Enoch Photo: Darren Thomas
What makes great art? Just ask Sydney Festival Director Wesley Enoch. He thinks great art should have good craft, an aesthetic and a meaning. Those are the elements that make up each and every show, concert, workshop and performance at his second Sydney festival in January. He discusses art as activism, getting out of the comfort zone and the importance of connecting people to places.
Art. If one was to employ an Australian vernacular, we could ask what the 'bloody hell' is it for anyway? As Wesley Enoch revs up to a second round as Sydney Festival Director this January, he doesn't shy away from the harder and broader questions around art, seeing activism as central to its purpose.
"You really try and listen to what the world is telling you is going on, and in the last eighteen months there has been so much going on. First think about Brexit and Trump, and in this country [Australia] there's the same sex marriage debate and the political uncertainties here. And there's a real sense of, how do we activate ourselves more?" Though not explicit, Enoch identifies themes in activism in his festival line-up, particularly around the environment and consumption, feminism, the importance of indigenous storytelling, and the impact of science and technology. It's these issues that Enoch hopes he can shine a light on and engage his audiences into action.
Welcome to Country Uncle Max Sydney Festival 2017 Photo: Prudence Upton
But keeping an audience engaged while maintaining integrity is something Enoch remains vigilant about, especially in a climate not always conducive to making 'good art.' Art, he says, has to have good craft, an aesthetic, and meaning. However, the pressures to increase audience numbers and to make artistic decisions based on commercial interests has resulted in what Enoch sees as a growing conservatism in the Australian creative scene. "It's a fine line, you don't want to be so elitist that no one comes, but you also don't want to be treading safe territory. If you measure yourself just by numbers, you cut off your potential to change the world."
But this leaves us asking, how? How do we change the world through art? Isn't that noble cause a bit much? Enoch offers a perspective from Jonathan Holloway, who runs the Melbourne Festival. "He says this: look we [artists] don't change the world, but we bring people into our sphere of influence that change the world. People that save lives, who make decisions. And it's our job to make sure there are values, there are discussions going on that are pertinent to changing the society we're in."
These values and discussions are particularly pertinent to Enoch. A proud Noonuccal Nuugi man, Enoch expresses frustration at the Federal Government's treatment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. "Last week, after five to six years of consultation, with the Aboriginal people saying they want a representative body enshrined in the constitution, the Federal Government said no we won't do that. And you go, well why did you spend tens of millions of dollars consulting with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people when you're not going to listen to us?" At the Sydney Festival however audiences can listen to several Indigenous stories at least, and even participate in them. In Tribunal, 'the Truth and Reconciliation Tribunal Australia has never had', audience members are invited to be the judge, while lawyers, activists and elders put Australia's colonial past and refugee policies on trial in a piece of political theatre. "Over a cup of tea and a biscuit. It's like a town hall meeting."
Sydney Festival 2017 Photo: Jamie Williams
Other voices at the Sydney Festival are represented in a varied and exciting line up. From Russian activist group Pussy Riot and up-coming Kiwi singer Aldous Harding, to an all-male burlesque group Briefs: Close Encounters. 'Flirty, filthy and fabulous', Briefs is a celebration of diversity hosted by a 6'3 Samoan called Fez Fa'anana, an ex rugby league player. There's also a theatrical reimagining of the 1971 documentary Town Bloody Hall about the feminist debate between Norman Mailer and leading feminists at the time, including Germaine Greer – a performance to which Greer herself has been cordially invited. Foolhardy? "Why not! She has a right to critique! The festival is a platform for lots of different point of views to exist."
There are more than 600,000 people predicted to attend the festival in January. How will they relate to these diverse views and translate them into social action? For Enoch, January in Sydney is an opportunity for a New Year's cultural resolution through art. "The role of the artist is to push beyond the status quo, to pull us out of the habitual, and think about things differently. The artist always lives on the horizon, or has a view to the horizon of what's coming up, and what's going forward. We're there to prototype change, and to create a new vocabulary for change."
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NEW CZECH PLAYS
In the new issue of our Letters you will find information about new English
translations of the plays introduced in our earlier bulletins – including plays by Václav
Havel, the first anniversary of whose demise we are just commemorating.
The eighth issue of our e-mail Newsletter for 2012 brings also synopses of five
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NEW ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF PLAYS by Václav Havel and Petr
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NEW PLAYS by Karel Steigerwald, Milan Uhde, Petr Kolečko and Petr
THE WINNING ENTRIES OF ALFRED RADOK PLAYWRIGHTING COMPETITION
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NEW ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS
Václav Havel, Vladimír Morávek
THE PIG OR VACLAV HAVEL´S HUNT FOR A PIG
(Prase aneb Václav Havel´s Hunt for a Pig)
8 M, 4 F
Published for the first time as a fictitious interview in a small samizdat revue in 1981 it
was originally an amusing story based on apparently true events about how Havel,
then a disident, had tried to acquire a pig in a village far from Prague for a zabíjačka
(a hogkilling or pig-slaughtering in English). In this case, the zabíjačka is also an
excuse for a gathering of friends and fellow dissidents.
The entire village is astir. Havel´s involvement makes it both a political question, and
, clearly an oportunity to make a lot of money. And so an absurdist chain of events is
unleashed. How can they deliver the pig (or not), whom to delegate for the delicate
task of making the delivery, and most importantly how to make some profit.
All in all, the text is a combination of Hašek´s comic grotesques and Kafka´s
senseless, aimless wandering through a world of the unutterable, the unnameable,
and the ungraspable.
The adaptation by Vladimír Morávek uses excerpts from the most famous of Czech
operas, Smetana´s The Bartered Bride. The main character of that opera, the Czech
people, proclaim repeatedly in full choral voice: "Why not make a celabration/God
has given us our health." This is the same mood one finds in Miloš Forman´s film,
The Firemen´s Ball; there as well, the characters try clumsily to live in a state of bliss
but instead ride off into the sunset feeling only awkwardness and embarrassement.
The premiere of The Pig, directed by Vladimír Morávek, took place at the Goose on a
String Theatre in Brno in June 2010.
Translated into English and adapted by Edward Einhorn. The American version
premiered in New York´s Ice Factory (a stage of the off-Broadway Ohio Theatre) on
29th June 2011. The translation was published in The Havel Collection, a series of
new translations of five of Havel´s plays by Theater 61 Press, New York 2012. See
http://bodyliterature.com/2012/12/07/friday-pick-the-plays-of-vaclav-havel/
ELA, HELA AND THE HITCH
(Ela, Hela a stop)
A short one-act play
The young stage hand at the Theatre on the Balustrade contributed two sketches to
the Hitch-Hiking (Autostop) Revue (1961) of the ensemble's principal at the time, Ivan
Vyskočil. One of them seemed lost forever and was not found in the archives until
shortly before the author's death…
Into a conversation of two elderly ladies decided to hitch a ride for the first time in
their lives, Havel builds in the drift of a banal middle-class dialogue to a total
disintegration of the communication, foreshadowing his future plays.
This short one-act play was premiered independently first on December 4, 2009 at
the Theatre at the Dlouhá Street.
English translation by Edward Einhorn. The translation was published in The Havel
Collection, a series of new translations of five of Havel´s plays by Theater 61 Press,
New York 2012. See review:
DOZENS OF COUSINS
(Pět tet)
In his very last theatre script (2010), Havel returned after thirty five years to the
protagonists of his famous one act play Private View (or Vernissage). The writer
Vaněk comes again to visit his friends Michal and Věra. What shape is their world at
the beginning of the 21st century?
This one act play premiered as rehearsed reading on June 13, 2010 at the Goose on
a String Theatre in Brno.
English translation by Jan Novák. The translation was published in The Havel
Petr Zelenka
(Ohrožené druhy)
The play from contemporary Prague shows the world of advertisement and business
of pharmaceutical giant companies.
The world-wide renowned photographer and past exile, known as Jeremy (60),
is lately out of luck. Only the efforts to find better care for his father-in-law who suffers
from Alzheimer make him accept a lucrative offer to work with an advertisement
agency Pitch Productions on a campaign for Cogitamin, a medicine produced by
Delete Company. The man who decides about the campaign is Jeremy´s former
classmate, a homosexual Jan Šustr. Jeremy´s wife Jana shows specialist interest in
Cogitamin. According to her the drug is suspect for dangerous side-effects that could
lead to outbreak of some brain illnesses, but Jan keeps referring to successful tests.
Pitch productions finally loose the tender anyway and Jeremy, despite Jana's
protests (in the meantime, she got a position with Delete), starts fighting the
corporation on the level of a professional campaign. Jeremy beats the company by
bringing Jana's father in a wheelchair to his press conference to demonstrate
possible consequences of the medicine. This misuse of a member of her family
makes Jana decide to leave Jeremy.
Cogitamin is taken off free sale. Although Jana admits Jeremy was right, she refuses
to return to him and instead is taking care of Jan who is recovering from his personal
crash. Jeremy is offered a high position at another multinational pharmaceutical
company which he accepts.
The play by the most successful contemporary Czech playwright had its world
premiere on November 24, 2011 at the Nová Scéna stage of the Prague National
Petr Zelenka – the Most Successful Czech Playwright Abroad
Of all Zelenka's theatre plays, his first one, Tales of Common Insanity, written –
similarily to his latest one, Dubbing Street – in collaboration with Dejvice Theatre,
remains his biggest and unsurpassed success. Since 2001 when it premiered at
Dejvice (and was performed in repertory for the next 8 years), the play was staged at
6 other professional theatres in the Czech Republic and at least 11 in Poland (the
number of productions there keeps increasing) and was also produced by many
amateur companies in both countries. Reports from Germany quote 6 professional
productions; the Tales was also performed in German translation in Switzerland and
Austria. There were professional productions in the USA, France, Belgium, Hungary,
Rumania, Bulgaria, The Netherlands, Croatia, Slovenia, Moldavia, Latvia and
Slovakia. There also were rehearsed readings by professional companies in Spain,
England and Northern Ireland. The play was published in Russian translation.
Televised versions of the play were broadcast both in the Czech Republic and in
Poland, and the audiences will remember the film version directed by the play's
author Petr Zelenka.
Zelenka's second play, Theremin (written in 2005, also for Dejvice Theatre where it
still runs in repertory) was so far produced in Poland and Russia. The translation was
published in the US, France and in Bulgaria.
His third play, the comedy Departures of Trains based on Michael Frayn´s farce
Chinamen has already been staged in Poland and Germany.
Coming Clean (2008) premiered in Poland at the Teatr Stary in Cracow; it opened in
Czech at South Bohemia Theatre in České Budějovice. The play was also staged at
the Rumanian National Theatre in Bucharest, it was published in Bulgarian; there
also are translations available into Hungarian, English and Russian.
The latest play by Zelenka so far, Endangered Species, had its world premiere at the
New Stage of the National Theatre in Prague in 2011. There is a Polish, Bulgarian
and English translation available.
The extraordinary popularity of Petr Zelenka in Poland is further confirmed by the fact
that there was a successful stage adaptation of his screenplay for the movie Loners.
NEW PLAYS
Karel Steigerwald
MY REMOTE COUNTRY
(Má vzdálená vlast)
Dagmar Šimková spent fifteen years in a Communist jail. She described her
experience there very truthfully, in a suggestive way and with unexpected literary
beauty in her book, We were there, too. The extraordinarily strong description of what
the Communist regime was able to do was the inspiration for the play, set in our
times, called My remote country. The theme of the play is not the cruelty of the 1950s
regime but the way the Czech society is nowadays unable to deal with it. Our failure
to see the past openly and to have an opinion produces only one thing – hiding the
past and keeping silent about it. The protagonist tries, unsuccessfully, to get a legal
rehabilitation, and sees the vanity and comic side to her current efforts. She survived
the fifteen years in a jail fighting a clearly defined enemy. Nowadays the enemy is
blurred, without decisively defined borders or clarity.
The goal of our society nowadays is to create a past with which we could live easily
and without problems. The play is reflecting on this tragicomically, looking both at the
Czech efforts to deal with the past and at the impossibility and vanity to put a fat
black line behind it with irony; at the lamentable form of Czech way of farewell to
Communism.
The play opened in February 2012 at the National Theatre in Prague (Nová scéna),
directed by I. Rajmont.
Milan Uhde – Miloš Štědroň – Leoš Kuba
BÁRA THE WILD
(Divá Bára)
A musical
10 M, 5 F, choir
Bára, a young girl of slightly uncertain origin, is growing up during the 19th Century in
a small Czech village and becoming what we would call nowadays an independent
personality. Perhaps her grandmother was a witch, and her mother who died very
early used to heal the whole community with her herbs. Bára is the fruit of her
mother's forbidden love – and it seems her fate will not be the easiest one, either.
Although her real father, the village mayor, together with a rather reasonable parish
priest, try to protect her from a distance, there are limits to what they can do to help
her when her non-conformist character clashes with the prejudice, superstitions and
animosities of a village community – the community convinced a poor girl like her has
no right to independent thinking and behaviour. Neither does she have many friends
among those of the same age as hers; and there is Pavel, the boyfriend Bára
rejected, who's inciting the others against her. She also has some faithful friends,
such as the future seminarist Ondřej who is in love with her, and the parish priest's
ward Eliška whose fate is quite similar to Bára's own. The local manorial caretaker
wants to marry the girl, even without the dowry; he is a widower who wants to buy
Eliška's favours by his contributions to the communal cash box. The parish priest and
the whole village are over the moon about this, but nobody thinks to ask unhappy
Eliška's opinion. In the meantime, Eliška recalls her meeting with a certain Prague-
based young man. Bára, her fiery defender thinks up what we would call a happening
nowadays – and she goes on to implement it: during the night, she crosses the
caretaker's way at the local graveyard disguised as a devil; and gets the frightened
man to promise he would give up Eliška. It does not take long for the village to
understand who actually played the joke on the caretaker. All the animosity the
villagers had to suppress until then is given free rein and ends almost in the lynching
of the young girl – the mayor and the parish priest are only able to prevent it by
proposing a "stylish" punishment for Bára – to lock her overnight in the local
graveyard mortuary. Then everybody in the village is patrolling outside the mortuary
to prevent anybody to get the young girl out of the inhuman and stupid situation. The
only one able to achieve that – albeit under threat of armed violence – is the
gamekeeper from "outside the village" whose getting together with Bára is a leitmotif
from the very beginning of the storyline. Instantly, the gamekeeper is fired by the
caretaker and both he and Bára are leaving the village as free people.
The musical based on the classical short story by the Czech 19th Century female
writer, Božena Němcová was written by the playwright Milan Uhde and the composer
Leoš Štědroň, the tandem that wrote perhaps the best known and the most valued
Czech musical of all time, A Ballad for a Bandit. Brno-based composer and musical
arranger Leoš Kuba also participated at the creation of the music. The premiere took
place at the Městské divadlo (City Theatre) in Brno on March 24, 2012; it was
directed by Juraj Nvota and the show has been playing to extraordinarily uniform
critical acclaim.
"The result is almost a musical lyrical and epical poem offering a dramatic story but
also wanting and having to remain a pure theatrical entertainment.
Lubomír Mareček, www.lidovky.cz, 5.4.2012
http://www.lidovky.cz/diva-bara-mestske-divadlo-brno-dk9/ln_kultura.asp?c=A120404_174548_ln_kultura_wok
The production of Bára the Wild at the Musical Stage feels like a successful attempt
to return to the theatre the genre of romantic musical with folkloric stylisation that has
a very long tradition, especially on Brno stage, a tradition that goes back to the
legendary A Ballad for a Bandit. The duo of authors Uhde and Štědroň is still a safe
bet.
David Kroča, Mozaika, ČRo3 – Vltava
http://www.rozhlas.cz/mozaika/divadlo/_zprava/recenze-inscenace-diva-bara-1042865
Bára the Wild has become a musical. No Hollywood scriptwriter would be ashamed
of the script.(…)
The story of Bára the Wild is almost made for a musical. For a practical joke intended
to get a friend rid of an unwanted suitor, a courageous girl whose origin is clouded in
mystery almost becomes a victim of lynching. There is a double love story, including
a romantic happy end with a mesmerizing gamekeeper!
Marie Reslová, www.art.ihned.cz, 1.4.2012
http://art.ihned.cz/c1-55252170-zpivajici-bara
Petr Kolečko
A tragicomedy about losing illusions about the Velvet Revolution, about losing
illusions about today's world, and about the fact that many people nowadays put all
their eggs in one basket.
The story is set in two alternating timelines. The first one takes place just before the
revolution (1988) and immediately afterwards, at the time of the general euphoria
caused by the democratic changes; the second one is set before the 2011 Christmas
during the time of general moral crisis and right after the death of Václav Havel
symbolizing the end of post-November 1989 illusions of the Truth and Love.
In the pre-revolution timeline we follow, in short flashback scenes, the fate of Franta,
both bitter and comical: he is critically ill with cancer, plays the Czech national card
game of Mariáš (Matrimony) and works at the oil wells somewhere in Africa – just
moments before his death he would rebuke his daughter Jana for not being able to
play his favourite card game which has far reaching consequences for her future life.
A year passes. During the Revolution days, Jana had slept with one or the other of
the dissidents in a pub during a power shortage and now she has no idea with whom
she's expecting her baby, her future daughter Pavlína. Jana becomes a solitary,
ironic and bitter poker player, and, as a consequence, a millionaire. Twenty two years
later, the ironic and sarcastic poker master player returns home from a poker
tournament. She surprises her daughter Pavlína with a lover, Viktor, an idealist who
believes in the revival of the society through the means of establishing a new political
party, with a programme of mandatory support for the employment of young people.
But he lacks money and so the sharp and practical Jana is only laughing at his ideals
as well as Viktor himself. On the other hand, she offers Viktor two million Euros, but
Viktor, disgusted by her cynicism, declines her money.
Nevertheless, next day Viktor returns. He would like to sleep with Jana who
fascinates him – but this time the couple is surprised by Pavlína. At first, Viktor tries
to claim it all was just a test of Jana's affection for her daughter (after all, Jana did
feel ashamed in front of Pavlína). But a moment later, Viktor surprisingly pulls out a
revolver and demands from Jana an enormous sum of money from her winnings that
– as he knows – she keeps in her house in gold. Is he really an idealist, or is he
bluffing as much as Jana and is in fact just an ordinary, common thief? And is Jana
really as devoid of feelings and as cold as she displays in her behaviour to him and
to her own daughter, conceived accidentally all these years ago – and maybe even
by the future President? It transpires Jana is mainly a better player and from the
game of the posturing she emerges as a victor.
Devastated and depressed, Pavlína in the end reconciles herself with her mother and
starts to learn how to play poker from her.
The play opened in September 2012 at the Gunagu Theatre in Bratislava in Slovak
translation. The play originated in the framework of the international project by the
Centre for Contemporary Drama Theatre Letí Generation Icons, as a part of the EU
Culture 2007 – 2013 Programme.
German translation by Rhea Krcmarova is available. Translations into other
languages are getting ready.
(Zakázané uvolnění)
"Do you think now that I'm married I don't have a sense of humour anymore?" – that's
what Klára the fresh bride asks after being kidnapped in compliance with the ages
old tradition during the wedding reception by the groom's wedding witness into the
unexpected milieu of a pub where normally ice-hockey players and their fans gather.
The situation does require sense of humour, anyway: a storm is raging outside; the
pub is empty as the Ice Hockey World Cup semi-finals are on; but the plasma TV is
not working. The bridegroom's witness is a young woman, suspiciously close to
Himself. The cynical landlady, abandoned by her ice-hockey player husband, is not
keen on men too much. And the groom is not coming…
A comedy seeing three young women meet in one space at the same time to dissect
their lives, relationships and – most of all – men. Three experiences, three stories,
three perspectives on the world and the unique dramatic resolution that puts the lives
of the protagonists upside down and then returns them with a bitter irony back to the
old ways.
The play premiered at the A Studio Rubín in September 2012, directed by D. Špinar.
…in our times of seriously meant gloomy testimonies about horrors of life, a lighthearted play is pleasantly refreshing. Moreover, although the play has a comedy
framework, it labels very well the bitterness of living together, loneliness, existential
and existence problems and fatal chance events that influence our destiny. And, in
this idiosyncratic report on the state of our society, it doesn't spare either women or
(absent) men.
Jana Soprová, Mozaika, ČRo 3 – Vltava, 29/10/2012
http://www.rozhlas.cz/mozaika/divadlo/_zprava/koleckovo-zakazane-uvolnenirecenze--1129913
DUBBING STREET
(Dabing Street)
After many years, the best-known contemporary Czech playwright returned to
collaborate with Dejvické Theatre, where years ago his first play and – so far – his
biggest theatre hit, the comedy Tales of Common Insanity was first produced.
Dubbing Street returns to the turn of the millennium years (2000/2001) when the wild
and optimistic 1990s began to run out of steam. Pavel and Eva are the owners of one
of the first small dubbing studios, but the orders are down, the loans up and their
marriage is falling apart. All of these facts complicate their relationship with their parttime employees, siblings Karel (who also works as a bodyguard) and Lada (who is
also a rock singer). In this situation a well-known journalist Michal Kros storms into
their small world. Enchanted by their burning passion for the dubbing industry and
slightly amused by their problems he makes them an offer. First, he rents out their
studio and more or less moves into it, then he buys the studio from Eva with whom
he sleeps, to help her overcome financial problems. Nevertheless, it transpires
gradually that his casual alcoholism is not as harmless as it seems. His partner Jana,
a former director of an alcohol treatment clinic where they first met each other,
appears on the scene to rectify Michal's excesses. Although we soon find out that,
during his alcoholic "binge trip", Michal managed to sell the studio with profit to
developers and thus destroyed it; yet the charming alcoholic finds another young
nurse in Lada, and it becomes clear then that despite this Jana will, once more, play
the role of the angel of the last salvation. The fate of Karel the outsider finishes in a
tragic way: his small world of dubbing falls apart, he fails, at the key moment when he
finally could get Eva all for himself, during Michal's final drinking binge he discovers a
homosexual attraction for Pavel and, at the end, wounds Michal when shooting at
him with his gun. His suicide passes unnoticed for a long time – all that's left after he
dies is his father's large yet worthless archive of porn tapes.
Dubbing industry that has seen, especially in the Czech Republic, a spectacular
quantity growth and quality decline with the arrival of private TV channels is in the
play both a source of endless humour (there are scenes of actual dubbing –
especially of vulgar sitcoms and animated series) and a parable of generally dumbing
and dulling influence of the media on today's world.
What was before presented as tragedies, Zelenka tries to tell in a comedy based on
situations. I try to think what from the things on offer could be generalized, but I would
not apply to this drawing-room comedy – although it also contains murder –standards
of a social model and/or criticism and would just be satisfied with pleasant
entertainment and brilliant acting. (…) If, of course, we refuse to see the topical and
sharply critical attitude to our times precisely in the portrayal of vulgarity and
superficiality in relationships, in a description of meaningless work in which one can
hardly discern any skills, let alone art or mission.
Nina Tiliu, aktuálně.cz, 7/12/2012
http://aktualne.centrum.cz/kultura/umeni/clanek.phtml?id=765561
Petr Zelenka is a kind of Czech Fellini: he collects freak show phenomena and
bizarre elements and then arranges them nicely. (…) He's one of the few Czech
authors able to write a tragicomedy that also tells us something. (…) His play can fool
you a bit. It appears, especially in the first half, as a pure comedy, but it contains
Jana Machalická, Czech Television - ČT 24, 6/12/2012
http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/ct24/kultura/206336-90-leta-na-ceske-dabing-streetkonec-legrace/
Jan Kratochvíl
VLADIMIR'S SLUT
(Vladimírova děvka)
The play is extraordinarily built on the ground plan of an absurd drama. The repeated
motives and situations (the pub landlord who serves in a remote Scandinavian village
Olaf, the regular, bottles of alcohol, an unnecessary killing of a mare, etc.),
flashbacks when in framework of Olaf's repeated story many more village people
appear and shape the cruel story: a slut had arrived into the village with her bastard
son and was accepted into a house (that of Vladimir) and died soon afterwards. The
bastard son (eventually we find out it's Olaf himself, the main teller of the story)
obviously slept with Vladimir's wife and is killed by him as a consequence. At the end,
the text hints at Olaf killing the landlord. The other characters become the ghosts of
the past, coming to the pub as regulars and then leaving Olaf with the Landlord
The storyline is constantly questioned ("people keep saying that") and make even
Olaf insecure: he wants to put the story together again (he's probably already dead)
but the landlord is only doing his job not helping Olaf with his story – on the contrary,
he lets Olaf bring in the characters from the past and construct an insecure storyline
that can only be one of the possible interpretations of what really happened.
The winning entry in Alfréd Radok Drama Competition for 2011.
The premiere of the play will take place at Švandovo divadlo, Prague in Spring 2013.
Nenad Djapić
VIENNA SIN
(Vídeňský hřích)
In the subtitle, the author of the play taking place in Vienna's police card index
department, says it is a "scenic historical-criminological, almost musicological time
slice image of the 1801." In fact, it is post-pseudo-baroque, almost post-pseudo-neobaroque dialogue mesh with unsure ending: it also deals with the issue of coffee
grains prophecy (the coffee finely ground) and cooked goat's head, and also the
phenomenon of Czech surnames in Vienna's phonebook". The main duo of
protagonists, the Czech servant Růžena Čížková and a young police inspector
Hautschrubber, is complemented by a mute role of police officer sent sometimes by
the inspector to get things.
The main storyline, interrogation of Růžena in connection of her husband's death (did
he drink the potash lye himself while drunk, or did she have a hand in it?) and in
connection of her illegal profession as a midwife reminds of Cimrman-like
mystification humour in many ways, but it is only a bare skeleton on which Růžena's
lines, full of black humour, resembling both Švejk and Hrabal, sometimes almost
surreal, spiced with dialect, religious superstitions and human interest stories about
the forced abortions of Czech maids in Vienna after "the landlord mistook their rooms
for toilet", about local criminal underworld or absurd visions of future through the
means of prophecy from coffee grains and cooked goat's head. On the other hand,
the inspector wants Růžena to tell him whether he will become famous for solving
Mozart's murder – did Salieri kill him, or not? But the street-wise Růžena only sees
anything in the future (for instance Oscar for Amadeus by Miloš Forman and the
eponymous play by P. Shaffer): the play is open-ended and, as in its beginning, the
inspector uses remote control to make the two barrel organs play music by Mozart
and Salieri…
The play won the second place in Alfréd Radok Drama Competition for 2011.
(Brutto)
A dramatic collage
The author calls her play "a dramatic collage with a fixed axis for the story and
mosaic structure of the storyline. The production presumes the division of the set into
parallel 'islands' of life that can repeatedly shift from the periphery of attention into its
centre; everything is latently present, it can be activated at any time but the island
can also suddenly, unexpectedly go under and disappear from our section of
perception." Great stress is being put onto the imagery (projection, unexpected
images) and sound/music components of the text.
From the fragments of individual characters' fates, an extraordinary story of a gay
man in the contemporary post-Communist Czech society emerges.
The play won the third place in Alfréd Radok Drama Competition for 2011.
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More than 2,500 reports of hate-motivated crimes based on sexual orientation were reported in 1996, a 6 percent increase from 1995, according to the Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, which collected data from 14 urban areas.
The coalition, which is made up of about 14 gay and lesbian antiviolence projects across the country, reported that 25 percent of these crimes occurred in May and June, when many cities have gay pride events.
Moreover, there were 21 murders related to antigay hatred and reports of an additional 10 murders of gay men and lesbians that the police did not list as official hate crimes.
Typically, such crimes are underreported, said Jeffrey Akman, M.D., president of the National Lesbian and Gay Health Association, at APA's Institute on Psychiatric Services in October in Washington, D.C.
The coalition identified several reasons for the increase in antigay hate crimes, including greater visibility of gay men and lesbians, especially at the time of gay pride events, campaign periods related to antigay referenda on state ballots, gay and lesbian youth announcing their sexual identity, an inflammatory election year in which candidates discuss sexual-orientation issues, antigay rhetoric by religious fundamentalists, and AIDS-related violence.
"Most researchers knew that the AIDS epidemic and the stigmatization of those diagnosed or suspected of having HIV would contribute to increased antigay violence," said Akman, who is also assistant dean for student educational policies and an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C.
Several gender-related factors seem to affect the level of antigay violence. For example, gay men generally experience more verbal harassment from nonfamily members, increased victimization at school and by the police, and more physical violence and intimidation including weapon assaults, being spat upon, and followed or chased.
Lesbians, in contrast, generally experience more verbal harassment by family members and a greater fear of violence directed toward them because of their sexual orientation.
An attacker of gays is typically a male who is in his early teens or 20's and acts in the company of other young males, all of whom are strangers to the victim.
Although most perpetrators of hate crimes against gay men and lesbians do not appear linked to organized hate groups, offenders may be encouraged by these groups' rhetoric, observed Akman.
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The consequences of being victimized range from short-term and relatively minor behavioral and psychological reactions such as headaches, increased agitation, and sleep disturbances to long-term and more severe reactions such as depression, increased drug use, and PTSD, said Akman.
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Researchers have also found that crimes involving physical harm, threat of harm, verbal abuse, male sexual assault, and multiple victimizations were most highly associated with the onset of clinical depression in the victim, Akman observed.
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by Jessica Pena, March 26, 2019
Charmed is making some major changes. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the CW TV show will have new showrunners and a new creative direction for season two.
A reboot series, the supernatural drama centers on three sisters who discover they have special abilities in the wake of their mother's murder. The cast includes Melonie Diaz, Sarah Jeffery, Madeleine Mantock, Ser'Darius Blai, Ellen Tamaki, and Rupert Evans.
Per THR, Charmed has hired two new showrunners, Liz Kruger and Craig Shapiro, for season two. Additionally, the upcoming season of the The CW series will "expected to lean harder into its supernatural storylines and less into the family dynamic."
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Just want to know why I cant find the New Charmed. How can I watch season 1?
Molly Mortensen
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It will be coming to Netflix next month. (After the finale airs.) I've been watching it on the CW app but they only have the latest 5 episodes.
It's on Netflix
You know what? This really has me thinking. I was at the ratings page before coming here and those number were low. It appeared to get a second season by the skin of its teeth. I have also been reading the reviews and they have been nasty. More specifically the reviews have been focusing on all of the forced feminism and the whole hating ma themes that this stupid show has been presenting. So seeing this new show runner and creative director appear to be not by chance but a reflection on the two I just mentioned. I personally believe… Read more »
What i think is why mess with a good thing I love the first season and how the writers took time to introduce each character on the show. My sentiment is if it ain't broke don't fix it.


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Vocal Leadership
Merel Martens
After two bachelor's degrees in Music Teaching and Choir Leading Pop & Jazz, Merel received a Master's degree in 'Vocal Leadership' from RAMA in May 2015. Merel's name is connected to the award winning vocal groups Pitch Control, MAZE, The Junction, Dutch Organic Choir and VOÏSZ Vocal Projects, all located in the Netherlands.
Rohan Poldervaart
Rohan Poldervaart has finished his master degrees at the Conservatory of Aalborg (DK) as a choir conductor. At the moment he is the conductor of Vocalgroup the BasZment and he combines this with an artistic director role from Vocal Statements. The arts and culture education in general, becomes more and more a focus on how to implement Vocal Leadership inside a schoolcontext. Goal is to emphasize the relevance of music and singing in education.
Mathieu Vulto
Mathieu Vulto is specialist in music education at primary schools, choir conductor, jazz singer (scat) and freelance jazz flugelhorn player. He graduated in the separate bachelors Wind and Brass Band Conducting (HaFaBra), Classical Flugelhorn and Music Education at the academy of music in Alkmaar and Amsterdam.
Recently he graduated for his master's degree (MMus) in Innovative Choir Conducting at the Royal Academy of Music in Aalborg, Denmark. He gives lectures as a guest teacher in music education around the country and beyond and is lecturer at Stenden University. Mathieu developed his own philosophy in music education, called Co-Creative Classrooms.
Glenn Liebaut
As an all round percussionist, Glenn always combined world percussion with his Bachelor and Master studies off classical percussion at the Conservatory of Amsterdam. Since his study he has been active as a freelance percussionist in a diversity of classical orchestra's, ensembles and percussion bands. In his master research he specialized in inner and outer rhythm, how to lead and follow puls and rhythm. On the educational field he developed the project 'Doe je ritmix', rhythm and movement as a base for music education.
Marlou Vriens
Marlou's methodology is about Vocal Integration, awareness, skill and musicality. She also runs girls choir Out of the Blue (Gouda). Marlou also composes for choir, theatre and dance performance. Her last piece was nominated for the Årets Reumert awards (Denmark). With her band Marlou she released her debut album Long way home, which was well reviewed in OOR magazine.
Jasper van Oerle
During his studies in Music Teaching (BA) and Music Theory (MA), Jasper has developed a great passion for vocal jazz and pop. He is the conductor of the Dutch Jazz Choir, bass vocalist of Touché and bass/beatboxer of The Junction. Furthermore, Jasper teaches music theory and ear training at the Music Teacher's Academy of the Conservatory of Amsterdam.
Freek Koopmans
After bachelor's degrees in both elementary education and music education, Freek started working as a drummer for Percossa and Lieve Bertha. With these two bands he's currently touring in- and outside the Netherlands. Additionally, Freek is still a music teacher in elementary school and one of the writers/editor of the music method 'Metropole op school' for the Metropole Orchestra.
Line Groth Riis
Line Groth is known for her great arrangements for the world famous Danish choir, Vocal Line. She's a Singer, arranger and composer in the vocal group Postyr (DK). Line holds a Master's degree in Singing and Choir Conducting from The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus. She has been teaching choirs, singers and conductors all over Europe, in the US, Israel, Greenland and Taiwan for over a decade.
Erik Bosio – Guest Teacher
Erik Bosio is an Italian award-winning composer, arranger, conductor, producer, singer and teacher. Born in Genoa, Italy, of an Italian father and Swedish mother, he studied piano, classical composition, jazz arranging and jazz singing at the N.Paganini Conservatory of Genoa. He is a founding member of the vocal group Cluster, considered one of Italy's best, as well as The Ghost Files, a studio project dedicated to original vocal music recording.
Jesper Holm – Guest Teacher
Jesper Holm is the conductor and arranger for the outstanding vocal jazz group Touché. He is an experienced and passionate vocal jazz enthusiast. Jesper also teaches conducting and Vocal Leadership at RAMA Vocal Center.
Peder Karlsson – Guest Teacher
As a founding member of the Swedish a cappella group The Real Group 1984-2010, Peder performed over 2000 concerts all over the world and recorded 16 albums. Between 2011 and 2014, Peder was musical director of the vocal group Perpetuum Jazzile, Slovenia. Since January 2015, Peder also teaches Vocal Leadership at RAMA. In January 2016, he became 'Honorary Professor'.
Signe Sørensen – Guest Teacher
Signe Sørensen is the former artistic leader of Europe's perhaps most innovative contemporary youth choir: The Girls Choir of Mariagerfjord. Signe has received two Danish prices for the choir's extraordinary work, and she is recognized around the world for her innovative teaching methods and way of communicating with the young singers. With a big "No!" to discipline, and a warm "Welcome!" to responsibility, she has made young singers shine!
Panda van Proosdijk – Guest Teacher
Panda van Proosdij studied at the Rotterdam Dance Academy in the Netherlands. She has been a teacher at Codarts, Music Theatre in Rotterdam and worked with The Netherlands Children Choir, The Netherlands Female Youth Choir and Wilma ten Wolde as a movement coach and director. Panda also directs musicals, light opera and music theatre performances.


Each year as it goes by, it is amazing considering all the advancements and new features that we come across in terms of technological and uplifting in mobile application developments. Considering the previous years and as months go on, it is fascinating to recognize the possibilities in the upcoming mobile app development trends and even those to be premiered ahead. Due to e-commerce, it has been able to attract even more marketers towards shopping due to trends of purchase over online stores. The integration of wearable app devices when introduced in the recent year of 2018. The demands were going all over the place with a much higher search through feasible online businesses that advantaged through it. With such high market demand, new features are still getting introduced in the integrated wearable app devices according to the preferences.
Purchase of these integrated wearable app devices was more widely available and advertised through the medium of apps with paid advertisements. Being a highly popular trend, used by businesses to attract their buyers and customers opted to go through mobile app marketing. The software is developed to improvise the performance and increase the better experience of the application with time, making it market competitive, improving elements that would produce a better review and up the gain in the ranking of each search engines result of the app's stores. iPhone app development company in Canada and all over the globe operate in a manner, keeping a thought process to have their apps featured in such a manner that would create trend sets.
Even though AI has started to implant many perspectives of project development in quite a few organizations. Due to the evolution of tech at each level estimations have been calculated stating that the market of Artificial Intelligence will be at $40 Billion by the year 2020. AI services would integrate towards even more unique app pitched functional to impact on a greater scale by blending in with Blockchain, IOT, and cloud. The key aspects that app developers are considering in regards to the application and artificial intelligence is to feature to move from Cost Restrains towards Cost Efficiency to achieve as much as business worth through the technology. 2019 has a task in hand where mobile application developers are fixated to develop AI Apps which would assist and be implemented to secure cyber-crimes.
These apps are based on your need to fulfill the requirement as soon as possible. Invading into every industry may it be a requirement of a chauffeur driven vehicle, food delivery, health or any other sort of facility. The reasons impacting to its growth over the years and even to date is due to the low risk, highly convenient facility provided and growth in economic which presented a very positive overall impact like as an example Uber effected. On Demand apps being one of the most revolutionizing business apps in empowering the 21 century. Unsurprisingly the trend of growth of On-Demand applications is yet to this extent that any considerable service that could possibly be provided through a few taps on a mobile phone will provide services on it.
Mostly being associated with video gaming, well virtual reality impacted explosively well with each other. The uniqueness and the thrill that VR influences when spoken of gaming especially in terms of horror and spooky games. Considering the integration of both some of the most amazing VR apps are created that are highly popular in 2019: Allumette, Google Earth VR, Kingspray Graffiti VR, etc. Some of these applications are free and a few charged for. The most revolutionizing gaming virtual reality experience was provided on the launch of "Pokémon Go". After experiencing the demand and fame it gained it was easy to state that AR and VR will last for a long time. Even now mobile app developers intend to create on every aspect which could place an effect and need of Virtual Reality and mobile Applications other than just on the basis of gaming. To achieve an optimum result and the complete valuable essence of both features colliding with one another. It is expected that mobile developers by the year 2020 would present mind bobbling and amazing mobile application experiences in both Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality. With compatible hardware being introduced in the market there is no say to which extent to expect the rise that would play out.


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Home Defense & Security Australian's spending on defence cooperation in the Pacific region cut
Australian's spending on defence cooperation in the Pacific region cut
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Australia's spending on defence cooperation in the Pacific region is being cut at the same time concerns grow over China's rising influence over neighbouring countries such as Solomon Islands.
This week's budget confirmed overall funding for the "Defence Cooperation Programme", which provides assistance such as language training to mainly Pacific nations, will fall from $236 million (US$177 million) forecast this year, to $227 million (US$170 million) next year.
Support for countries such as Papua New Guinea and Timor Leste is being slashed while Solomon Islands, which recently experienced days of political unrest, will receive just $24,000 (US$18,000) more next year.
"Given recent developments in Solomon Islands, it is most concerning the Morrison government has cut millions on defence cooperation programs in the region," says Shadow Defence Minister Brendan O'Connor.
The reduction in spending on regional cooperation is one stark example of defence budget priorities raising eyebrows in the military community, which has also been surprised by the lack of any announcements on new capabilities, except for cyber.
According to the budget, overall defence spending is set to be maintained at a fraction over two per cent of GDP for the next four years and is forecast to dip slightly below the government's benchmark this financial year.
"There is no more important time to strengthen our national security and Defence, and this budget does exactly that," Treasurer Josh Frydenberg declared during his post-budget speech to the National Press Club.
"Australia, whether we like it or not, faces a less stable region in the years ahead. And we face a more uncertain world," he warned.
When a country goes to the polls for a vote heavily influenced or impacted by war, it is often dubbed a "khaki election".
However, defence industry insiders say the budget fails to recognise the need to acquire new military capabilities much faster as the security environment in Australia's region continues to deteriorate.
"While the budget does increase funding in the defence landscape [more money to the Australian Signals Directorate for example] it doesn't address the fundamental problem, which is that defence does not procure things fast enough to meet emerging trends," one defence industry figure notes.
Another former defence official describes the budget as "feeling a bit thin" given the worsening strategic outlook across the globe.
"It was a very light for defence and they have done nothing to address the issue of getting capability quicker," the long-serving departmental figure told the ABC.
"Frigates are obviously the poster child for this but with an increasing Chinese presence in the Pacific it means we need more ships at sea sooner."
A new $9.9 billion (US$7.4 billion) package for cyber security, first revealed by the ABC on Tuesday, has been largely welcomed, although industry insiders note the REDSPICE initiative contains just $500 million (US$375 million) of new money over the forward estimates.
Under the curiously named programme, the country's electronic spy agency, the Australian Signals Directorate, will double in size and ramp up its ability to launch its own offensive cyber operations.
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"Martin John" by Anakana Schofield
Martin John is the man you don't want to be sitting next to on the subway. He's trying his best to keep his impulses under control. But when you have the urges that Martin John has, can you really stop?
Martin John is not a good person. His mind does not work the same way as other people. This leads him to do things to other people. He touches them. His mother has tried to stop him but the only thing she could do was to send him far from home. He's sought help, he has his coping methods, but can it actually help?
Martin John, by Anakana Schofield, is a bold, brave, and disturbing novel that takes you inside the mind of a man every woman tries to avoid. It is a footnote to Schofield's first novel, Malarky, with Martin John a character in that book, but it is not necessary to have read that book first.
One of the best words to describe this book is uncomfortable. How can this subject matter not be? Schofield takes you inside the mind of a man who is an abuser, whose urges compel him toward unwanted touching. It can be a brush up against a woman on crowded transit or it can be lunging at a woman in an alley. It is all disturbing. And yet, it's a book that you will call a good read, something that also makes the reader feel uncomfortable.
This book is so well-written, which is needed for this subject matter. It is not written as a typical novel, it happens in pieces, jumping around through time and events, a novel that is broken the same way its character is. What I appreciate the most about the writing is that the book actually isn't judgmental. Nothing in the book screams "look at how horrible this man is, look at the horrible things he does, you must agree with how horrible he is." And yet, it doesn't try to make excuses for him and it doesn't try to make you feel sorry for him either. It's just an honest look inside the mind of a man who struggles with mental health issues, a man who is a sexual deviant.
Everything about this book is unique. Honestly, I probably wouldn't have picked it up given the subject matter had it not been long listed (now shortlisted) for the Giller Prize. And it's a hard book to recommend because you feel strange saying "it's a fantastic book." The subject may be difficult for some. But it is so well-written that it is a must read and it is very deserving of its nomination this awards season.
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Tom Brady and the New England Patriots are on to Kansas City and an AFC Championship Game title with the Chiefs, but we would be remiss if we didn't take a minute to note all of the postseason records the 41-year-old quarterback now holds.
Following the Patriots' 41-28 win over the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday at Gillette Stadium, Brady now has won 28 of the 38 playoff games he's started, ranking first in both categories. To put that in context, Peyton Manning started 27 playoff games in his career, which ranks second all time.
Here's the impressive list of Brady's playoff records, via Pro Football Talk's Michael David Smith.
Why is there still a debate about who the GOAT is?


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Second truck driver in two days tests positive for COVID-19 after being in South Australia
By Eugene Boisvert
Posted Fri 1 Oct 2021 at 6:59am Friday 1 Oct 2021 at 6:59am Fri 1 Oct 2021 at 6:59am , updated Fri 1 Oct 2021 at 2:26pm Friday 1 Oct 2021 at 2:26pm Fri 1 Oct 2021 at 2:26pm
A truck passes on the other side of the Princes Highway from a COVID testing station in Tailem Bend. (ABC News)
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A second truck driver in two days has tested positive for COVID-19 after being in South Australia.
A truck driver tested positive for COVID-19 while in SA on Wednesday
Another driver with the virus was in the state today
A vaccination clinic in Tailem Bend for truck drivers is now open to the public
The truck driver in his 30s visited Adelaide from Victoria to buy a truck with a colleague and tested positive for coronavirus on Friday.
The pair visited two service stations while in South Australia — the Liberty at Glenunga and the Coles Express at Tailem Bend.
They visited the locations very early in the morning.
Another truck driver who had been in South Australia tested positive for COVID-19 while in Victoria on Wednesday.
A total of 56 close contacts have been connected with the man, including 23 through QR code check-ins.
The Coles Express service station in Tailem Bend which is an exposure site. (ABC News)
Chief Public Health Officer Nicola Spurrier said no other members of the public appeared to be close contacts with the latest truck driver according to QR check-ins.
"At the moment it does not look as though we have particular concerns for ongoing exposures in our state, but we don't usually stop with our initial investigation — we continue to collect information and if we find anything of concern, we will let South Australians know," she said.
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The second driver tested negative for COVID-19.
He had received one dose of AstraZeneca, while the other driver had not been vaccinated.
From October 7, truck drivers coming into South Australia from Victoria, NSW or the ACT must have had at least one vaccine dose.
Nicola Spurrier called for people in Tailem Bend to get vaccinated.
Tailem Bend is on National Highway One and has repeatedly been the location of exposure sites.
Professor Spurrier urged everyone in the Murray River town to get vaccinated.
"You are at quite high risk given that is a truck route," she said.
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Health Minister Stephen Wade said the second truck driver case in two days showed the "threat is real" from the Delta variant of the virus.
"We're doing everything we can to make it as easy as possible for South Australians to be vaccinated no matter where they live," he said.
From today, a vaccination clinic for truck drivers in Tailem Bend is open to the public.
"Walk-ins are welcome," Mr Wade said.
From Wednesday, people arriving into the state from Queensland have to get tested on their first, fifth and 13th day in South Australia.
Four people who are in South Australia are quarantining after being at an exposure site in Queensland following the latest spate of cases there.
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The following is an excerpt from Seven Practices of a Mindful Leader: Lessons from Google and a Zen Monastery Kitchen, by Marc Lesser.
Whenever I lead trainings or give talks on using these seven mindfulness practices, I can often feel the room's energy shift as I describe the seventh practice, "Keep making it simpler." People experience a sense of relief, as though a weight has been lifted. Their shoulders drop and they relax. Though we yearn for and need practices to support our leadership, mindfulness, and growth, we also have a basic and primal yearning to let go, to let it all go — all our concerns and judgments about our health, well-being, improvement, effort, and struggles over everything, including these practices. What a relief to stop struggling!
Imagine, for just a short amount of time each day, letting go of your to-do lists, your self-help plans, and your projects. Imagine letting go of your improvement plans for others. This is often really difficult. Each day, just appreciate this moment, your life right now as it is.
In meditation practice we train our minds to be aware, to be with whatever sensations, feelings, and thoughts arise. A somewhat radical-sounding practice is to let go of everything with each exhale, to not assume or expect that your exhale will be followed by another inhale. With each breath, let go even of the expectation of being alive. Then, when there is another inhale, be surprised: Oh, here I am!
Acceptance — embracing the fact of impermanence and the certainty of change — is a powerful tool for cultivating simplicity. Much of our doing is extra and moves us in the direction of complexity. The key is to integrate doing and nondoing, effort and effortlessness. This isn't some magic trick or ancient, mysterious spiritual practice. When you are speaking or writing, just speak or write, without doing anything extra. This same attitude of just doing what you are doing (without comparing or judging or trying to get to the next activity) can be cultivated in leading, in listening, in driving, in working alone or with others, in relationships, as well as in your daily activities.
The intention of the seventh practice is to see or recognize the most important thing in any given moment, even in the midst of our busy lives. We can't avoid challenges, or problems, or grief, or death, but when we feel confused and overwhelmed, we can remember: Keep making it simpler, and simpler still; each moment and each day, keep making life less complicated, so we are more focused, spacious, and present. So we prioritize the most important action to take.
When I'm leading meditations, after guiding people to find that relaxed and alert state, I then suggest letting it all go: Let go of trying, of unnecessary effort, and just notice what comes to you. This is an important part of all the seven practices: Noticing and letting go of extra effort, of resisting your problems, of resisting change, of trying to change, and instead embrace your life as it is.
Imagine: What would your life be like if you had a different relationship with your problems, if you could completely accept and be at peace with your problems? The meditation that follows explores understanding and working with the eighty-fourth problem, that of wanting not to have problems.
To begin, notice that you are breathing. Simply bring your attention to your breath, sometimes inhaling and sometimes exhaling. As you exhale, notice that you are exhaling, and see if you can let go of all your problems, everything.
Simply bring your attention to your breath. Breathing in and breathing out.
Let go of your to-do lists, unfinished projects, and anything that is lacking or needs to be improved or fixed.
Let go of all your self-help plans, and even more difficult for many, let go of your self-help plans for others.
Let go of doing or thinking that is extra or unnecessary right now.
Imagine: What might it feel like to appreciate your problems and let go of resisting them?
Then, as you inhale, let all your problems, lists, and issues resurface. Then, with the next exhale, let them go.
Continue for as long as feels comfortable, and when you are ready, bring your attention back to your surroundings and gently reenter your day.
Marc Lesser is a CEO, Zen teacher, author, and leads trainings and talks worldwide. He has led mindfulness and emotional intelligence programs at many of the world's leading businesses and organizations including Google, SAP, Genentech, and Kaiser. He is currently CEO of ZBA Associates, a company providing mindfulness-based leadership trainings and creating community by supporting ongoing groups. Previously, he served as CEO and co-founder of the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, whose core programs he helped develop within Google. Marc was a resident of the San Francisco Zen Center for 10 years and former director of Tassajara, Zen Mountain Center. He currently leads Mill Valley Zen, a weekly meditation group. Marc has an MBA degree from New York University and is the author of Less: Accomplishing More By Doing Less and Know Yourself, Forget Yourself. More information at MarcLesser.net.