Just gotten back from running 'Advent Conspiracy' in Long Gully, Bendigo. Mehrin, Marcus, Naomi and I packed everything into the van, drove it up there, and then Dave, Kylie and Ali helped us set up.
Here's pics and video:
So we'll be setting it up again in Footscray for Christmas Eve (Wednesday night). 7pm at Footscray Baptist Church, 60 Paisley Street.
Today I have been out in Footscray with Marcus, Naomi and Anthony, working on an Advent Conspiracy art installation. It will be open on Saturday, at Footscray Baptist Church (60 Paisley Street). On Sunday we will be taking it up to Bendigo, and will be using it for a Christmas service, starting 7:30pm, at St Matt's in Long Gully (on Eaglehawk Road). After Sunday, Advent Conspiracy will be open in Footscray again, and there will be a church service at 7:00pm on Christmas Eve (Wednesday).
This is a preview of my contribution, an animation which I also used at Prayers for Melbourne at Collins Street Baptist Church on Wednesday night:
Here's some pics Dave Fagg took at the Bendigo version of 'Dead Man Rising', which I missed:
'Dead Man Rising' is currently on in Bendigo, but I'm actually back in Melbourne. I've been throwing up for most of the day, haven't even been able to keep water down, so this afternoon I caught the train back home. Trav says that Bendigo tends to have that effect on people.
I'm feeling a fair bit better now, and had some juice, and that doesn't seem to have made me worse, but I don't know if I want to risk eating anything.
And it looks like I can have a day off tomorrow.
Spent yesterday afternoon setting up 'Dead Man Rising' at the Dancing Dog with Marcus, Talitha, Minh and Long.
We were up till about one o'clock this morning working out how to explain all the different stations and stuff, and printing and folding and cutting the little station take-away explanations and stuff.
We were back at the Dancing Dog at about 7:30 this morning to finish everything off. I reckon at least 60 people showed up to interact with the installation. John Jensen had already blogged a reponse before we started packing up. Read it here. I can't really be bothered writing about it right now, having hardly had any sleep the last four nights. I just wanted to put some pictures up:
At about 10:30 we started packing everything back into the Urban Seed van, to take it up to Bendigo (where we are now).
We'll be doing the same thing at St Matt's in Long Gully at 7:30 tomorrow night.
