It is difficult to romanticize the work that goes into learning a craft in the hope that, one day, one might have enough command of one's chosen medium to create art. Still, I have always longed for the kind of fermentation and cross-pollinization that went on 'across the pond' between the wars. We have built a context that is primarily, though far from exclusively, musical. It is fun. It is non-threatening.
Young artists can try their talents without being exposed to drugs and drunkenness.
Inclusion of the spoken word and visual art into the SI2001 concerts sets up conditions to create the kind of melting-pot that Paris was. Some of the younger talent shows awesome potential. We also live in a mystical, magical place that is, relatively, unspoiled in a world that is running out of unspoiled places. The question is ours to answer. Frank,' Willa's mentor, in their 'literary' ancestry.