The 8 ft tall light brite.

Preparing the tent for the 2006 Heterotopic New Years Conference. Winters at Elsewhere are cold and the Conference was no exception. Thanks to this tent there was a warm haven in the middle of the space that enabled a fantastic three day slumber party. Now that the padded foam floor has been removed, the tent is the backdrop living room and stage set for many theater and jazz performances. If you noticed we employed Barbie and friends to drive their Jeeps and present heat lamps to warm our stitching fingers. Not unlike the contributions of Haliburton, Barbie wielded a costly contract. Look for updates on this breaking scandal in the next issue of the Red.Skim.

A performance of Eugene Ionesco's The Bald Soprano.

Speaking of Eugene's, Eugene Chadbourne, known throughout Europe for his conceptual styled downhome guitar playing antics and sound improvisations dropped into the Aqwherium while taking pause from tour in Greensboro where he is from. With him is Japanese percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani.

A Chicago theater troupe work-shopped Tennessee William's "The Two Character Play" at Elsewhere before taking it for a month run on the Chicago stage. The play, a lesser known work over shadowed by "Glass Menagerie" is brilliant, and one of the most terrifying exhibits of what it can be like living and working at Elsewhere. "Loooooonnney!"

THE SPECTACULAR. Wow. It’s fantastic, stupendous, and home to the carnivalesque.

The Spectacular offers SUPER PIANO BOUNCY BALL (a musical treatise to surrealist cacophony), THE NOISE PONTOON (a mobile radio DJ station doubling as noise ship), THE YEARBOOK (featuring doppelgangers of past residents stolen from the look-alikes of 1950s personages), a GIANT LIGHT-BRITE (with modifiable messages that glow in the dark), BIKES FOR RIDING, and of course THE THEATRE (a stage set featuring transformable curtains and a triple-decker bunk beds for balcony seats). The bunk beds double as THE MOTEL for passers-through, over-nighters.