Category Archives: general

Message from Katt – March 14, 2007

Hello all, Writing you from Jenny’s little office in her house at our old stomping ground, The Trading Post… Has been strange to be here without you guys and the rest of the crew, but lovely none the less. Weather here is extreme — there’s a severe drought effecting much of Southern Africa right now… [...]

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So Many Things to Say….

We’ve all been really quiet, and it’s too bad, because there is so much to tell each other and we really do want to stay connected. Right? I’ll copy and paste a couple of emails from Katt so you can get her story from the horse’s (so to speak) mouth, and some teasers from Nigel [...]

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What’s Happening Where – Update

Lots of post-WSI “stuff” has been happening and I just wanted to bring the blog up to date on what I’ve heard about recently: In Lesotho, there have been several performances of a re-worked and re-staged version of the play we all created, Dance Me to the End of Love. This news comes to us [...]

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Hearing AIDS

This is very moving and quite inspiring. A young South African woman who is HIV positive keeps a radio journal. click for article

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A Connect-the-Dots History of WSI

Hi Everyone, Eric asked me if I’d be willing to write the history of the Winter/Summer Institute as a way of helping get this blog rolling. We were already planning to post a description of WSI on the website – a sort of “What Is the Winter/Summer Institute” thing, but I thought it might be [...]

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Time Warp

I expect that all of us are having more or less trouble shaking ourselves loose from the time warp that we exited when we left Malealea. Those of us who came back to NYC had to absorb the additional shock of 37 degree celsius days and 30 degree nights. We were/are living, in more ways [...]

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