Daily Digest for January 22nd

Liked 2 videos.

What’s New With Jordan

Taken from jordanhall.ca:

A quick update for the New Year: Red is fresh off the presses at Signature Editions, in the anthology Out on a Limb (and just look at our gorgeous cover art!); Short and Sweet: Small Plays for Big Ideas, the Vancouver Fringe production that included The Possible Lives of Dolores Garcia Rodriguez) had an article in the December Issue of New Internationalist magazine (page 61); and Kayak is a “May Read” in the Samuel French 2012 Calendar! Meanwhile, I’m hard at work on Travelling Light after an amazing trip to Toronto to participate in Nightwood Theatre’s Groundswell Marketplace. I can’t say enough about what Nightwood is doing to support young women in the theatre industry, by the way. Those ladies rock my socks.

If you missed Travelling Light at the PTC AGM, don’t worry, I’ll be reading selections from the work-in-progress for the February installment of the Locution Reading Series.

Meanwhile, the screening of Love Sucks in Toronto went over well, playing to a packed house at the TIFF Lightbox, and Run Dry will be screening at VWIFF 2012 this March.

Finally, Christine has sent the final manuscript for The Enpipe Line in to Creekstone Press, so keep your eyes peeled for the launch party, and for the latest news on the opposition to the Northern Gateway Pipelines.

Daily Digest for January 14th

Liked Rifle fight.

Daily Digest for January 4th

Liked 2 videos.

Daily Digest for December 9th

Published Just in Time for a Bartitsu Workshop… Careful with the Face..

Daily Digest for December 2nd

Published Get Out!.

Daily Digest for November 27th

Published Ladies and Safety.

Ladies and Safety

Another combination of my favourite subjects: stage combat and Edwardian self-defense. To add “…and ladies” would have been very sexist, why would you think I’d say something so rude? Oh yeah, the title of this article.

Let me just say at the outset that women tend to be more concerned with personal safety than men because of the long history (and continued) violence against women perpetuated by men. Let’s face it, there’s very few reports of attacks on women by other women in all of history. To be prepared for an assault from a larger and more muscular foe full of testosterone and backed by a patriarchal society is something every woman worries about.

So to me it’s no surprise that Bartitsu was espoused by the suffragette movement, and women embraced jiu jitsu especially.

To wit, here’s an interview

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Guarding the Mark

Here’s a lively discussion from the Bartitsu society, addressing a question that I get a lot… actually the question comes from quizzical looks when I talk about guarding the mark during the Introduction to Bartitsu. It can be phrased as this forum user did:

Peter Thomas:
I have been reading The Art of Boxing (William Edwards) and Boxing (R.G Allanson-Win) and a lot of emphasise (sic) is placed on guarding the Mark with your rear arm.

I was wondering what everyone’s views are on this
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