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on March 28
Natalie Goodnow
Posted project update #5At Last!
Post CommentHey everyone!
ALL karaoke thank-you's are now live at http://www.youtube.com/karaokeisgoodnow!
At long last! Thank you for your patience!
I kinda put everything on hold while applying to grad school, and am just now catching up with the rest of life after that rather involved process (excuses, excuses!). But guess what?! I'm going to begin the MFA program in Performance as Public Practice at UT-Austin this fall, and part of what the admissions committee liked to see was that I've made work and gotten it out there on a national scale, which I could not have done without YOU! Thank you so much!
I am profoundly grateful for YOU!
I hope you enjoy some silly songs :)
With gratitude,
Natalie -
on March 12
Natalie Goodnow
backed a project
Help Middle School Filmmakers Reach for the Stars by Marcelo Teson
Del Valle Middle School is making a documentary about constructing a near-space balloon - we need your help to fund our project!
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133% funded $1,605 pledged
- 43 backers
- Funded May 06, 2012
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on February 6
Natalie Goodnow
backed a project
Love Through Deviant Ears: A Mixtape Vol. 2 by Joaquín Sánchez
A genre & gender stirring mix-tape show honoring the milestones marking the journeys of queer brown bodies as we travel through 2012.
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104% funded $2,610 pledged
- 99 backers
- Funded Feb 23, 2012
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on November 13, 2011
Natalie Goodnow
backed a project
Co-Lab's 2011 DVD/Catalog by Co-Lab
DVD/Catalog documenting 2011 exhibitions. Artist documentaries are compiled onto a DVD for which the catalog serves as a guide.
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111% funded $4,460 pledged
- 60 backers
- Funded Dec 04, 2011
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on October 15, 2011
Natalie Goodnow
backed a project
Migration Patterns During Wartime by Christina Sukhgian Houle
This film will show documentation of a duration performance during which 10 people wearing stuffed animal pelts take a road trip.
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103% funded $1,754 pledged
- 40 backers
- Funded Nov 04, 2011
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on September 15, 2011
Natalie Goodnow
backed a project
New Fire: To Put Things Right Again by Cherríe L. Moraga
Theater and ceremony, "New Fire" follows the sacred geography of Indigenous American ancestors to tell a story of rupture and return.
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102% funded $27,276 pledged
- 324 backers
- Funded Nov 03, 2011
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on August 9, 2011
Natalie Goodnow
Posted project update #4Thank you so much.
Post CommentHey everybody,
Thank you so much for supporting me and my work. Taking "Mud Offerings" to MALCS was a wonderful experience, and just as good, if not better, than I expected and hoped! I'd like to take a moment to tell you all about it.
I performed twice at MALCS: I performed the entirety of "Mud Offerings" on Friday morning, during one of the regular conference sessions, and then read an excerpt from the piece during the open mic at the end of the all-conference "Noche de Cultura."
I was really nervous that I might not get a good turnout for the piece on Friday morning. It would have been such a disappointment to have come all that way, to have asked so many friends, family members, and colleagues to help me out, to have carried a statue of the Virgen on my back across the country (in a little backpack - I didn't care "check" her!), and then have nobody there to watch the play! I think it was really good that I arrived at the conference on Wednesday night, though, so that I had all day Thursday to "promote" the performance. At every panel, roundtable, and presentation I attended that day, I mentioned the play, highlighted why I thought it would be meaningful to that particular audience, and even got a chance to mention and publicly thank all of you for your role in bringing me to the conference.
And it all seemed to work! I was really lucky that I got to perform in a black-box theater space, much much more pleasant and more suited to the piece than a regular classroom would have been. I was also really happy that I got to perform with Dr. Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs, one of three poets to represent the United States in India as one of the featured poets at the annual Kritya International Poetry Festival. What an honor! Between the two of us, we managed to pack that little theater to the brim!
It was really wonderful to get to perform the piece for exactly the audience most likely to connect with it - it warmed my heart to be in front of an audience that got all my jokes! I finally got some good footage of the entirety of the piece as well, thank goodness! In the Q&A section of our panel, I got lots of intelligent and interesting questions, which signaled to me that the audience was really intrigued by the piece. Lots of folks picked up a business card, signed up for my mailing list, and expressed their appreciation for the work; my favorite comment, from a super smart professor at Wellesley, "It was really fantastic!"
I got lots of great feedback after the shorter performance at the Noche de Cultura open mic as well, and was then able to connect with a professor and a grad student who expressed interest in bringing me out to their campus and/or teaching the piece in their classes, which is fantastic as that is exactly what I was hoping might happen.
Throughout the course of the conference, I was also able to make some amazing connections and re-connections with other theatre artists and activists. I met some members of the Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble at the ATHE (Association for Theatre in Higher Education) conference a year ago, and it was wonderful to get to reconnect with them; they do amazing work in Orange County, California, and I really hope I'll get to be a part of it someday! It was also such a joy to get to see and hug my friends and colegas Rita Urquijo-Ruiz (profesora chingona who was part of the workshop where I first developed portions of "Mud Offerings" with Adelina Anthony!), Vicki Grise (chicana playwright and cultural worker extraordinaire - winner of multiple awards and all-around badass), Susana Ramirez (making it happen in academia at Texas Women's University and UT-San Antonio!), and Berenice Dimas (scholar, activist, healer, and soon-to-be filmmaker!).
A particularly special highlight for me was getting to speak with the members of Teatro Chicana. These mujeres were active in the very beginnings of the chicana feminist movement 40 years ago, and, without any formal training, began using teatro as a way to speak out against the injustices they saw not only out in the world but also in the chicano movement itself. I attended their panel at the NACCS (National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies) Tejas conference earlier this spring, and was really stunned by their stories about some of the violent and hateful reactions they received because of that work. There are still spaces out there where I would receive that kind of response to my play as well, but there are also lots of spaces now where the challenges I pose to our religious and cultural institutions are not only tolerated but even celebrated. It's very real to me that the only reason such spaces exist, and why I've been able to do so much of what I do, is because these mujeres, and others like them, were so brave and so strong, and because they never, ever gave up. I got to chat with las mujeres del Teatro Chicana about their theatre adventures while we were all waiting for the black box performance space to open up, and to thank them publicly for all their amazingly hard work after their performance, "Madres por Justicia." And can you believe it, that some of them came to see me perform!? That now they know who I am, little old me!? That they have my business card and everything!?!! What an amazing honor.
I feel confident that all this networking is really strengthening my capacity to continue of the legacy of Teatro Chicana, to make brave, smart, important work that asks uncomfortable but utterly necessary questions, and to really get the work out there in the world where it can reach people.
And of course, none of this would have happened without your support. I was very aware, throughout the conference, of the responsibility I bore, not just to myself this time, but especially to you, as a community of supporters, to really take advantage of this amazing opportunity, and make the most of it in every way I could. Thank you so much. I just can't thank you enough!
I can't wait to serenade you.
Abrazos,
Natalie -
on August 5, 2011Funded!
"Mud Offerings" goes to MALCS! by Natalie Goodnow
Natalie Goodnow takes her solo play "Mud Offerings" to the MALCS (Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social) Summer Institute.
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148% funded $740 pledged
- 20 backers
- Funded Aug 05, 2011
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on August 4, 2011
Natalie Goodnow
Posted project update #3I'm here, thanks to YOU!
I'm here, I'm here! I just landed in LA and wanted to let you know! Because of course it's all thanks to you! Can't wait to update everyone on how the conference and the performance go! With so many thanks, NataliePost Comment -
on July 24, 2011
Natalie Goodnow
backed a project
PIECRUST MAGAZINE : sugar&salt Issue by Piecrust
PIECRUST is an art and literary magazine dedicated to works on paper with a "pie" related theme. Our Fall/Winter issue is: sugar&salt.
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127% funded $1,914 pledged
- 41 backers
- Funded Aug 16, 2011
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Natalie Goodnow
Austin, TX
Natalie Goodnow is a nationally recognized teatrista, teaching artist, and cultural activist from Austin, Texas. She writes, performs, and directs; she's been practicing some combination of these forms for seventeen years, and began teaching about... view more
