Mo Money, fingers crossed

So, on Thursday the ball started rolling and my Sunday it became a huge fireball. In my conversation with Bob Bowen he mentioned the Arts Competition grant from the City of Davis. The folks at the Pence told me about it weeks ago, but I really didn't think I needed it. However, now that we are taking over downtown Davis, I realized both the potential and all of the costs involved.

I got together with one of my fellow acting MFAs, Amy Cole, on Sunday for brunch at Little Prague. I had done a bit of work on the application on Saturday, but we talked through the budget and scope of the project. Amy has quite a bit of experience with grant writing and I have to say that I never would have been able to do it without her. What I have been learning at grad school most of all, is how to articulate what I do and why it is important. After a few more hours of reworking and fleshing out of ideas on Sunday, I sent it to Tim Orr, yet another classmate in my program to do a little proofreading. He caught all of my colloquial shit and forced me to take out anything that would set a red flag for the panel. Tim has a bunch of administrative experience in both theatre and dance and his comments were specific and professional. I do have to say that I am a good editor and proofreader, but it's just like cleaning and organizing -- I'm always better with someone else's stuff.

What I realized on Friday however, was that I needed resumes from all of the lead artists and quite a few letters of recommendation. I am not going to lie - that was the scramble part of the process. Due to the short time to get the proposal in, I had to do quite a bit of legwork, but it's done and in and I did in fact kiss the packet of application copies as I put in in the box on the front desk of the Pence Gallery.

I cannot wait to really start digging in and get all Dada artistic. That will certainly inspire all of this organization and administration.

Dadaists Untie!