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Sunday, October 20, 2002 More Arts Stuff Hey, this is my life. :-) I volunteered (leaving Ann Arbor at 8am!) at the last day of the annual meeting for the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA), which was in Detroit; my friend Mike Steelman, a former UMS intern who now works for Arts at Michigan, a department of U-M, got a total of four students to work at the conference (though only me today; basically, it means you "volunteer"--I didn't do much of anything that way, though--and then get to hang out at the conference for free). Pretty good stuff, though not everything was incredibly interesting. The mainstay of today was a business meeting, after all. But we had a great keynote speaker talk about architecture/design/art and the possibilies for new, virtual art forms and digital environment design--his company, Asymptote, is definitely something for architecture majors and artists to check out. He does really cutting-edge work. I also made some cool connections--a former VP of GM who worked for George Bush Sr. when he was prez, among other arts leaders--and experienced Motown in a way I never have before: live music from people who were progenitors of the entire Motown scene in the 60's. I saw adults dance like I've never seen--wow. They were really getting into it, and it was awesome. Heck, the few younger people in the crowd were even more excited than the middle-aged folk. We danced for around 4 hours before deciding to leave (since we'd been exhausted all day). Mike wants to bring the groups to Ann Arbor now for something similar to tonight's dance party... hopefully it works out, because people definitely need to experience this. ^ Top | 12:46 AM | | | 
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