Whole Me's Mystery Theater and Spaghetti Dinner

"Whole Me Inc. is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization providing educational and social services designed to promote the success of Deaf and hard of hearing individuals, their families, and their communities." It works particularly with deaf and hard-of-hearing children to ensure their successful transition to adult life; this is done by establishing strong partnerships among key individuals in the child's life. Read more.

This coming Saturday, September 10, Whole Me will be hosting a spaghetti dinner and mystery theater. I can't wait to go! Check this out: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=108494662579738 

Applied Theater Trend in Singapore

Drama is also (cf with US) being explored for use in education, therapy and community-building in S'pore. :) Read more.

The Singapore Drama Educators Association (SDEA) kicked off the four-day SDEA Theatre Arts Conference 2011 with a networking dinner on Thursday night (June 2).

Theater and Twitter

(Image source: http://to.pbs.org/dPjzea)

I had a taste tonight of what it was like to watch theater on TV and tweet. Verdict: I couldn't do it -- very well, that is. I had my laptop  and Downton Abbey in full view before me on HDTV. I tweeted, maybe only twice during the show. The action was unfolding much too furiously on TV for moi to tweet and watch the episode together. No, multitasking was not possible and an undeserved injustice to a fine program like Downton Abbey, a Masterpiece (literally!) where the witty dialogue has to be savored. I tried to read and see what I could learn from the #DowntonPBS tweets; checking on people's comments via Visible Tweets (pretty tweet viewer at visibletweets.com) and Tweet Grid (tweetgrid.com). Nope, I couldn't follow them AND enjoy Downton. Sorry, Twitter technology and theater is simply not quite such a match for period dramas where I have to hang on to every word to derive pleasure. Maybe a less cerebral pairing might work -- reality TV and Twitter?

It's nice to go back and read the Twitter conversation now that the show is over. There's a sense of this shared experience knowing that people appreciate the show as much as I do. They relish  the wit and catch the nuances of the repartee. Learning occurred asynchronously for me through others who created the conversation synchronously and asynchronously (after the show was over). Thanks PBS and tweeps of #DowntonPBS.