Art meets Social Geography

GLOBAL CLOTHESLINE PROJECT LAUNCHED at REGINA'S CATHEDRAL VILLAGE ARTS FESTIVAL May 22-27, 2006

Donna Caruso, performer, writer, and filmmaker launches THE CLOTHESLINE PROJECT at the Cathedral Village Arts Festival in Regina (May 22 through 27, 2006), the first of Clothesline Projects planned by Donna for various centres around the world. All Cathedral neighbourhood residents are invited to string up their clotheslines from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday, May 26th in order to create a vibrant visual image of the residents of the Cathedral neighbourhood.

All day on Friday, May 26th, Donna will be filming the clotheslines in the Cathedral neighbourhood, and will also be available by appointment throughout the entire festival week to videotape clotheslines which have delicate, archival, or very precious items on them so that the safety of those items can be assured.

Donna invites absolutely everyone - individuals and families, businesses, churches, schools, libraries, organizations, art galleries, seniors centres, everyone-to use their clothesline to show the spirit, culture, and history of the neighbourhood.

"Clothes, sheets, socks, sandwiches, photos, art, anything that describes YOU, things that tell your story-who you are, where your ancestors were from, anything to create a picture of the residents of the Cathedral neighbourhood".

A videotape copy of The Cathedral Neighbourhood Arts Festival Clothesline Project will be donated for posterity to the Connaught Library as a record of this event.

In addition, poets in the Cathedral Area will be asked to write poems about clotheslines for an anthology to commemorate the Clothesline Project.

Caruso proclaims, "It's Art meets social geography, an outlet for creative expression. An opportunity for everyone to be poetic, historic, artistic. your laundry is your life!"

The Cathedral Neighbourhood Clothesline Project is the first of Clothesline Projects planned by Donna Caruso for various centres around the world.