Sure, they’re lanterns rising into the nighttime sky. But for RiSE Festival participants, each lantern is a blank canvas that carries into the heavens messages, in the form of drawings or words, that express joy, pain, regret, gratitude, sorrow, hopeor any other emotion they need to feel, and share, in that moment.
A famous thespian’s live singing debut and some killer guitarists highlight Life is Beautiful’s second day.
Oscar Goodman asks, “How are you still alive?” Michael Franzese answers, “Because most of the people who want to see me dead are dead, or they’re in prison.” The show is on.
It probably has a technical name, but let’s just call it the Four-Person Multilevel Headstand Monolith, which, after a few unsuccessful attempts, finally comes together as an impromptu tribute to the four young women who form its infrastructure.
