Last night was the annual auction at Works - the gallery in San Jose that i go to a lot and that Sheila is president of the board. The auction is a lot of fun - 110 items of art went in a live auction - many for really cheap prices. There was also a silent auction of another 50-100 pieces. They raised a ton of money to help run the gallery and I came away with three pieces of art.

The photos are from throughout the evening. And if you stick around and click through all of them you can see the sculpture I bought.

last saturday evening, I attended a really terrific performance at works gallery. It was a performance piece by Sara Kraft and Ed Purver - Woods for Trees. They had recently performed this piece at the SF Fringe festival and had been voted best of the festival. The piece is loosely based on Hansel and Gretel but weaves in pointed thoughts about media and story telling. The piece is story, song, video, media. It is haunting, funny, disturbing and beautiful all at the same time. I have attached some shots - they don't begin to capture the piece, but here they are anyway.

For those in the bay area, they will be performing the piece again in January at Venue 9.