Open Call for Historic Plexus Materials and Memoirs

Before the history fades from memory, please help us document your participation in the Plexus Art Co-Opera productions. Together we were a movement that remains largely unacknowledged in the annals of art and performance. It is time to change that.

Sandro Dernini, with the help of Mitch Ross and myself, are creating an illustrated e-book that will be available online for downloading from SCRIBD http://www.scribd.com/doc/16183278/Plexus-International-Art-Slavery-Introduction- Please help us make this as complete and comprehensive as possible.

To this end, we need your photos in a digitized format, and your permission to use them. Also, please search your memory and flex your writing skills by writing a reasonable-length personal essay / memoir of your experience as part of the Plexus Purgatorio shows. Be lively and personable. (1,000 – 3,000 words in length w9ould be good.) If you have any videos, please let Sandro know so he can coordinate the effort to link these with the e-book page he is assembling.

Also, if you are in touch with any of the Plexus participants, please let them know about this very important effort and ask them to contact Sandro with their contributions to the e-book. Sandro Dernini can be found on FaceBook and he can be reached by email s.dernini@tiscali.it

We are interested in all graphic and written materials, including the Art Co-Operas and the various pre- and post-performance events and gatherings. You will get your own chapter in the book, and downloads will be free.

Thank you so much for your attention! I’m excited at the prospect of seeing and reading your contributions.

Yours in creativity, Uke Jackson (formerly known as Stephen DiLauro) Dramaturg and impresario, Plexus July, 2009 Delaware Water Gap, PA