[Forum] Is art safe? -- An attack on Mike Daisey

[Ed Sedarbaum]

Mike Daisey is an amazing monologist who appeared last year at MCLA. Read about and watch what happened to him -- and to art -- earlier this week.

>From Mike Daisey's e-mail:

Thursday night's performance of INVINCIBLE SUMMER was disrupted when eighty seven members of a Christian group walked out of the show en masse, and chose to physically attack my work by pouring water on and destroying the original of the show outline.

You can read about the incident, the aftermath and its consequences, as well as view YouTube footage of the whole thing going down, here:

http://www.mikedaisey.com/2007/04/night-to-remember.sht

Apologies to all for mailing again so soon, but it's a sobering reminder that speech is never free unless it is defended ardently, and that even simple civility isn't simple when intolerant extremism is involved. 
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