Crowd Shots
The crowd at Conrad Duquette's 50th birthday bash 4/5/8 at the Yankee Pedlar in Holyoke MA are in the middle of the ice breaker opening game of The Party Game Show: "Who's the Leader?", in which the birthday boy is up front trying to figure out which one of his friends and relatives everyone is imitating!
This was a newspaper photo, hence the graininess. But I just love this picture. It's taken at the Bahai Street Fair in Northampton MA August 1995. The kids were sitting on the curb watching me perform in the parking lot of this very poor housing development.
This was a very sweet event: Sarah "Sally" Montgomery and Priscilla "Chips" Wahlen's wedding in South Hadley MA. It was a gorgeous location with an awesome view. They had the tent set up where everyone could all see the vista. (You can see the tent stakes behind the faceless man in the suit on the right.) I was here for a couple of hours at least. We got to do everything. I arrived on stilts, did a show, took off the stilts and showed them to the group, played parachute games, and then we all made ribbon dancers to help celebrate the wedding! Yay!
7/30/00 UMass campus, Amherst MA. It was my privilege to lead a Cooperative Play Staff Development Training for the CIEE Japanese Teacher Exchange Program five times from 1995-2000. Most of these people couldn't speak English, so I had to do a lot of visual explaining, plus they translated for each other. But they sure enjoyed the games! They especially liked the games I do that have a Western theme as well as the acting games.
And I'm delighted that New Games & Cooperative Play have gone to Japan not once but five times because of my work!
These three photos are all from the Bristol Public Library summer reading program kick-off event in Bristol CT 7/6/7. It was a very active, participatory crowd. Although you can't see it in the two smaller photos, even most of the parents participated in all the games! I love it when that happens. Everyone has so much more FUN when the adults participate all the way through.
And these three are all from the Byram Shubert Library in Greenwich CT on 2/19/8. I just love the boy in the photo above who's all the way to the right pointing up. The Byram Shubert Library is adding a huge wing to their very gorgeous library, so while the construction is going on, they have a temporary library room set-up in the church across the street and a temporary activity location behind that across another street. They are all strung out. But nonetheless, it's still a bustling place, and library events are still very well attended... as you can see in the photo below. You can only see about half the crowd in the photo. This was my fifth visit to the Byram Shubert Library since my first in 2004. I'm looking forward to seeing their new facility when it's finished. I'm sure they are, too!
