Midnight Inaugaration

Dear Patrons,

You enter a desecrated space.

Room 7 is a laboratory, a black-box theater in U.C. Berkeley where most of the authors of this weblog, during our formative years as theater artists, explored our work. Now, your host, celebrates the irreverent artistic exploration once housed in that room, by transmogrifying its physical reality into a podium where we can now speak of our vocation in all its glorious and gory aspects. Through the lens of this medium, we hope that you not only watch but participate in the ongoing discussion as we speak about our processes, ideas, opinions, inspiration, and of course, our lives and dreams. For nothing better defines the work of an artist than the reality of his existence and his hope for a better self.

Help me out--was it Yeats who said: I have nothing better than my dreams and so I spread them at your feet. Tread softly for you are stepping on my dreams...

Well then, tread softly...but learn to carry a big stick. Truthful irreverent reverence. Speak to me, ever so softly in brutal honesty.


Your host,

Rocelyn Halili