DO NOT START
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In case April wasn’t busy enough …
Ethan would like you to move your bodies on the lawn. Come get mildly active.
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April is HERE
And what do we have? What do we have? We have an Open House on the 11th from 3pm to 9pm. But you already know that and have diligently marked it in your personal calendar, and are committed to attend. You have called your friends and assured them it will be a good time. Wine,…
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CLUSTER B VICTIM SUPPORT GROUP: Every other Monday starting April 20th
“Key Characteristics The Four Types of Cluster B Personality Disorders Treatment and OutlookWhile these disorders can be challenging, they are manageable with treatment, which typically includes psychotherapy (such as Dialectical Behavior Therapy, particularly for BPD) and sometimes medications for co-occurring conditions like depression or anxiety. Those with Cluster B disorders may not recognize their behaviors…
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April 11th
It is time for another OPEN HOUSE, in which we entertain you for six hours with a wide variety of community-created nonsense. There will be wine and food and fun, and also REAL PEOPLE, out in the REAL HUMAN WORLD. What a magical and old-timey notion! Come pretend it’s 1997. See a magic show. Dance…
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Sunday, March 29th
We were approached by a trio of people who made a very compelling case for a spiritual crisis in the modern world whose needs are not being met by the modern church, so they devised something else. Looking around, it’s hard to argue that what’s on the table is not doing enough, and we are…
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FEBRUARY is a state of mind.
Large (extremely large) chunks of falling ice, the size of a man who plays professional football, are falling from a great height. Small heaters keep the pipes from seizing. Art studios continue to be rented by painters and fashion people. Members appear from nowhere, wandering in off the frozen streets. An indoor lawn appears as…
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The Art of Being People
Coming soon to a DO NOT START near you. Is it a club? A class? A philosophy exercise? An activity meetup? A weird experiment? An attempt at group healing? A book club? A secular church? An antidote to THEM? A nude mudwrestling competition? A community outreach program? A trick of the light and too much…
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COMING IN FEBRUARY
“A bi-weekly Thursday gathering for Grand Rapids performance artists & theatre kids. A group designed for us to discuss our ideas, find collaborators, host classes or workshops, do scene studies and exercises, and ideally, devise original work to perform in a not-for-profit artistic home. Whatever we want it to be, can be. With 14,000 square…
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JANUARY! Where have you gone?
Michigan winter is both an atrocious burden full of psychotic driving choices and indoor huddling (mostly to avoid others’ psychotic driving choices) and also an eyeblink of malleable time that shoots right past us. Last week was December 1st, according to all internal clocks, and yet the calendar refuses to agree. Apparently it is the…
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It took two people to make a headline+blurb this stupid
Social satire is literally impossible when reality itself has jumped the shark. And somewhere out there right now someone is complaining about the insane stress that attempting to navigate the modern world causes while their AI girlfriend makes comforting, adaptive cooing noises and provides words of affirmation. Gerassi had a lecture where he was briefly…