Karen Christopher
@karenchristopher.bsky.social
Performance maker, organiser, teacher, mentor, audience member. Formerly of Goat Island performance group (Chicago).
Now in UK organising Haranczak/Navarre Performance Projects.
Now in UK organising Haranczak/Navarre Performance Projects.
i love Chicago
October 31, 2025 at 12:36 PM
i love Chicago
I miss Murray Mednick and now I always will. Thanks for your kind words and for being a mensch when it mattered.
October 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I miss Murray Mednick and now I always will. Thanks for your kind words and for being a mensch when it mattered.
something other (somethingother.blog/category/cha...)
contains a number of responses to the prompt "On Elasticity" including mine: Measures of responsiveness: still quite unformed somethingother.blog/2025/08/14/m...
contains a number of responses to the prompt "On Elasticity" including mine: Measures of responsiveness: still quite unformed somethingother.blog/2025/08/14/m...
August 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
something other (somethingother.blog/category/cha...)
contains a number of responses to the prompt "On Elasticity" including mine: Measures of responsiveness: still quite unformed somethingother.blog/2025/08/14/m...
contains a number of responses to the prompt "On Elasticity" including mine: Measures of responsiveness: still quite unformed somethingother.blog/2025/08/14/m...
Imagine this: www.ayunhalliday.com/panther-city
Ayun Halliday never sleeps. Reap the benefit!
Ayun Halliday never sleeps. Reap the benefit!
Panther City: tales of a Gen X grade 3 project run amok — Ayun Halliday
A biting elementary school comedy of manners for adults, and an unvarnished recollection of a bygone moment in the pre-Bicentennial American Midwest, as observed by Ayun Halliday, Chief Primatologist ...
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August 14, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Imagine this: www.ayunhalliday.com/panther-city
Ayun Halliday never sleeps. Reap the benefit!
Ayun Halliday never sleeps. Reap the benefit!
I'll be appearing here: www.thisisliveart.co.uk/events/somet... on Monday 14 July. I'll be reading something which might be called poetry. It's not very long. This event is in the east end of London, very near where I used to live. I think I'd be delighted to see you there.
Something Other Live: On Elasticity
Join us for a curated series of performances, screenings and sound pieces to launch and celebrate Something Other’s thirteenth chapter.
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July 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I'll be appearing here: www.thisisliveart.co.uk/events/somet... on Monday 14 July. I'll be reading something which might be called poetry. It's not very long. This event is in the east end of London, very near where I used to live. I think I'd be delighted to see you there.
Here's the New Pledge of Allegiance I Think We All Should Take
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Here's the New Pledge of Allegiance I Think We All Should Take
What if we all took a new pledge?
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June 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Here's the New Pledge of Allegiance I Think We All Should Take
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Happy #WomensHistoryMonth to all our heroes in green!
March 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Happy #WomensHistoryMonth to all our heroes in green!
Noor & Mahmoud: Young Hearts Be Free Tonight, Time is on Your Side
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Noor & Mahmoud: Young Hearts Be Free Tonight, Time is on Your Side
Noor Abdalla, the Pregnant Wife of Illegally-Arrested Columbia U Protest Leader, Mahmoud Khalil, is from Flint. Naturally.
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March 18, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Noor & Mahmoud: Young Hearts Be Free Tonight, Time is on Your Side
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1 of many
for those who have granted rivers legal rights to protection, including the right to flow
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for those who have granted rivers legal rights to protection, including the right to flow
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Rights of Rivers – Love Our Ouse
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February 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
1 of many
for those who have granted rivers legal rights to protection, including the right to flow
loveourouse.org/rights-of-ri...
for those who have granted rivers legal rights to protection, including the right to flow
loveourouse.org/rights-of-ri...
1 of many
for the tree outside my window making noise in the night when a mighty wind moves through its leaves and for the picture it draws in my mind
for the tree outside my window making noise in the night when a mighty wind moves through its leaves and for the picture it draws in my mind
February 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
1 of many
for the tree outside my window making noise in the night when a mighty wind moves through its leaves and for the picture it draws in my mind
for the tree outside my window making noise in the night when a mighty wind moves through its leaves and for the picture it draws in my mind
1 of many
for the people woken in the night by police officers pounding on their doors telling them a hole had opened in the pavement outside their homes and for the way it burrows into their consciousness teaching them something about metaphor
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for the people woken in the night by police officers pounding on their doors telling them a hole had opened in the pavement outside their homes and for the way it burrows into their consciousness teaching them something about metaphor
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Fears giant sinkhole could happen again due to maze of mines
A cave enthusiast has said the sinkhole may have been caused by a collapsed mine
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February 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
1 of many
for the people woken in the night by police officers pounding on their doors telling them a hole had opened in the pavement outside their homes and for the way it burrows into their consciousness teaching them something about metaphor
www.mylondon.news/news/local-n...
for the people woken in the night by police officers pounding on their doors telling them a hole had opened in the pavement outside their homes and for the way it burrows into their consciousness teaching them something about metaphor
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I hope you’ll read this piece I wrote about the insanity of Elon Musk & Utah Sen. Mike Lee attacking federal judges, yet another attack on democracy joycevance.substack.com/p/when-they-...
February 27, 2025 at 10:33 AM
I hope you’ll read this piece I wrote about the insanity of Elon Musk & Utah Sen. Mike Lee attacking federal judges, yet another attack on democracy joycevance.substack.com/p/when-they-...
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"The 21 activists who were arrested formed a circle on the marble floor and staged a sit-in to protest the Trump-Vance administration’s cuts to USAID and the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and Congress’s failure to protect foreign aid programs."
February 27, 2025 at 12:08 PM
"The 21 activists who were arrested formed a circle on the marble floor and staged a sit-in to protest the Trump-Vance administration’s cuts to USAID and the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and Congress’s failure to protect foreign aid programs."
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Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚
Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
January 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚
Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
This message from Eric Sevareid (from 1977) blew my socks off.
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Eric Sevareid Retires from CBS News after 38 Years - CBS Evening News - November 30, 1977
YouTube video by Shatner Method
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January 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
This message from Eric Sevareid (from 1977) blew my socks off.
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youtu.be/l-1b9V1dI44?...
This found on X a lovely exchange by two men on opposite sides of the "aisle" posted by Hague after the recent death of Prescott twitter.com/WilliamJHagu... I think it is totally worth the watch . . . also jolly
December 2, 2024 at 5:35 PM
This found on X a lovely exchange by two men on opposite sides of the "aisle" posted by Hague after the recent death of Prescott twitter.com/WilliamJHagu... I think it is totally worth the watch . . . also jolly
excerpts from our new performance: vimeo.com/1025713180?s...
Skywater, Facewater, Underwater Waltz - performance excerpts (2:39)
excerpts from Skywater, Facewater, Underwater Waltz — a performance work by Karen Christopher, Tara Fatehi and Jemima Yong video: Dan Canham
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November 13, 2024 at 1:33 PM
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Reposted by Karen Christopher
Another book that wrecks me on every page. It’s so brilliant.
February 20, 2024 at 5:50 PM
Another book that wrecks me on every page. It’s so brilliant.
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This looks good. I love Daisy Hildyard's writing and the event looks interesting about time and duration. And who doesn't love Longplayer?
This looks good. I love Daisy Hildyard's writing and the event looks interesting about time and duration. And who doesn't love Longplayer?
The Longplayer Conversation 2024: Kate Briggs and Daisy Hildyard
Booking is now open for the Longplayer Conversation 2024 at Swedenborg House, 12th December, 7pm.
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November 13, 2024 at 12:40 PM
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This looks good. I love Daisy Hildyard's writing and the event looks interesting about time and duration. And who doesn't love Longplayer?
This looks good. I love Daisy Hildyard's writing and the event looks interesting about time and duration. And who doesn't love Longplayer?