And it was morning and it was evening the first day. And it was good.
After breakfast I found Yakov and got the Computer room opened up. The planning was that Emily Socolov would lead the Visual Arts folks in the big part of the room, with the computer tables pushed to the side, and I would do the newsletter in the office in the back. I set up my printer and laptop on a table and made myself comfortable. Still no internet access, but so it goes. It occurred to me that I might have to recreate the KlezKanada newsletter logo and layout. I was still installing Hebrew and English fonts onto the laptop from the CDs I brought from home. But, really, newsletter layout for 8.5x11 pages is not so complicated. I tend to use three columns, so that I can more easily keep things asymetrical and interesting. But, of course, it will be a four page newsletter, Roberta and I think, and can easily be manipulated as needed. Before lunch I lock up the computer room and leave.
The day passes in a blur of sociality and busyness. After dinner I find myself hanging out at the Retreat Center where the cabaret will be held. I am due to put out a first issue of the newsletter in the morning. I have one computer. I have left the files that I used to create the newsletter design back in Boston. There is no internet connectivity, but as I sit in the cabaret, Yakov comes by to let me know that they are getting close. The musicians have now started playing and they are great.
At my table in the cabaret, people come by to share their USB drives so I can copy articles. Sergio, a South American klezmer now living in Montreal pulls up his laptop and joins me at my table to type an article in Spanish. Jenny Levison brings a drive with draft resistor stories and pictures. It has something to do with a play that she and Josh Waletzky are putting on that is based on a monologue by Sholom Aleichem—something to do with a widow trying to keep her son out of the tzar's army.
I am not ready to do a newsletter tomorrow. I am tired. The company is good and the music is good. So, I shmooze and listen to the music until late. Then, drag the computer off to my room and go to sleep.
Photos on this page are from Bob Blacksberg's wonderful archive of KlezKanada photos. You can browse the entire archive starting from rblacksberg.com/page3.html.
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Posted by: Ploni Almoni | September 6, 2005 12:23 AM