Kyrgyzstan 2015, Day 2: The City Park
Sdrastvuyte, and welcome to day two of our Osh workshop. By the way, there will be a Russian language test at the end of the week so stay up on your studies. Spasseeba for reading. Day two began as...
Kyrgyzstan 2015: Getting Ready
You may have noticed, from the now famous Group Picture with Donkey, that Mike is getting scruffy. Seriously, his patchy (and recently peppery) beard is getting out of control. What you may not have known is that Thursday was...
Tajikistan 2015, Day 4: Graduation
If you’re reading this in our email, click here to see photos from today’s post. The day started as usual, with a critique of the students work before we headed off to photograph on location. Today’s assignment was to...
Tajikistan 2015, Day 3: Just A Teahouse
In 2009, construction began on a teahouse across the boulevard from the newly opened Ismaili Centre. According to a tour guide from the teahouse, over the course of the 5 years of construction, more than 4,000 traditional Tajik craftsmen,...
Tajikistan 2015, Day 2: Rudaki Park
This morning began, as did our last ADV workshop, with a warm reunion. Our students from the October seminar in Khorog had arrived in Dushanbe in the evening yesterday and this morning we were all smiles. At 9 o’clock...
Graduation Day: Bhutan Beginner’s Workshop
This morning we had our graduation ceremony, and it went tremendously! First off, the four advanced students ran the technical aspects of the show completely on their own… I was there to supervise (a role I took quite a...
The Importance of Sensitivity: Bhutan Beginner’s Class, Day 5
This morning we started nice and early. At 8:30, we met in the classroom and got into things right away! We had a local doctor come in during our morning class and talk about both traditional medicine and modern...
A Visit to Two Nunneries: Bhutan Beginner’s Workshop, Day 4
This morning, Wendy gave a presentation on her photo essay on eye surgeons in Nepal, and then we had a guest speaker come in to tell us about the programs put on by the Bhutan Nun’s Foundation. She and...
Movement and Gesture: Advanced Workshop, Day 3
We woke this morning to a very bright and very crisp morning. After a gray day yesterday, the sun coming up the valley sparkled from every corner, puddle and blade of frosty golden grass. And our morning session began...
A Tale of Two Monasteries: Advanced Workshop, Day 2
Today broke cold and overcast with a chill that lingered heavy all day…the morning also came pretty early after our really long day yesterday! As soon as we got to our critique, though, every heart started beating fast. MAN,...