Progressive?
July 23, 2007
In this self proclaimed progressive area, how progressive are we really? If you pull over to marvel at the redwoods you find nothing but McDonald’s wrappers and toilet paper. When you walk down the streets you have to dodge speeding tourists and semi trucks, all the while suffocating on the toxic exhaust. Our schools are pathetic and the majority of our youth programs are a joke. I’m still waiting for the Boys and Girls Club they promised me over ten years ago. Millions possibly billions are made and wasted every year with nothing to show but more junk. So when people talk about how progressive the town is I can’t help being a little confused. Theirs one group that has some hope though, a group that put on a truly progressive event over the weekend.
I’m talking about The Willits Shakespeare Festival. An event for kids to come and be kids and for adults to marvel at the passion and talent of The Willits Shakespeare Company’s young actors and actresses. The kids actors and actresses in the play were brilliant, funny, and more entertaining than any reality TV show or sitcom. Even when the lights failed and the tent went black they didn’t lose a step, like true professionals they went on with the show. Besides the play their was also a balloon toss with people from the event as the main targets. Any kid that wanted could pick up a balloon and throw it at the targets, putting a huge smile on everyone’s faces.
The online dictionary describes being progressive as “Promoting or favoring progress toward better conditions or new policies, ideas, or methods” and I can’t think of anything more progressive than putting on an event for kids to have fun and feel good about themselves.
Below are some shots of the event.
I setup a flickr page for the event which you can get to by clicking here. I’ve also enabled the print function, so if your a family member and their are some photos you want copies of you can have them printed through flickr’s photo printing services.
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