Reflection

Well, it’s been over a year since I started this blog, and over a year since I started neglecting it. The Occupy Movement is a 2011 touchstone, but now a thing of the passed. The passed over, as it will be unremembered. Living in Oakland at the time of Occupy was tumultuously challenging and interesting. I am now back in less-occupied Cincinnati, OH. Rereading these pieces I am struck with how unedited they are. For better or for worse, these are first draft pieces that I mostly wrote by hand while riding on a bus through the Easy Bay. While sitting in the Occupy Oakland camp. While riding Bart to and from San Francisco. They are expressions of a moment. I think often upon the ramifications of our actions, as individuals and as a country. Where do we go from here?

Eileen Tull
Occupy Theatre

Theatre at Sproul Plaza

Occupying Theatre in California –

PRESS RELEASE

Tuesday, November 22

4 pm, discussion at 4:30.

Sproul steps, UC Berkeley

The Water Underground invites you to attend our wild one-act comedy The Gold Fish, or, Straight Flushes for the Manifestly Destined at the Open University at UC Berkeley.

The Gold Fish is a one-act salmon slapstick opera in which a poor wayfaring Salmon has to pawn her eggs to gamble for river passage, a Nymph casino dealer confronts its water-wars PTSD, the Army Chorus of Engineers gets lost, the Water Tycoon’s dirty dealing ends in cataclysmic wash-out, and the Dispossessed Riparian Choir arises.

A discussion on the history, politics, and ramifications of California’s waterworks and how people’s movements are reimagining water supply will follow the performance.

*Occupying theatre elsewhere? Send your show info and we’ll post it up!*