In a matter of four hours, a small band of everyday people created an entire city, populated it with stories, “shot” a documentary film and then sang Ur Town’s national anthem moments before it was spectacularly destroyed by the government’s failure to shoot the spy satellite out of the sky.
No, it wasn’t a virtual Web platform, or a video game, it was a real-life experiment on how to teach, experience and create art of all disciplines in a compact period of time with people who don’t consider themselves artists, aren’t trained to be artists and may not ever want to pursue art as a career. It was an invigorating exercise in seeing what was possible if people come together to play. And, best of all, it was fun.
Over the next week or so, I’ll be posting reactions from other participants, snatches of stories that were created and pictures.
If you want to be part of the experience, join us for our next Savage Crash Course on March 8.
Here’s a tour of the town, just before it was ecstatically destroyed:
