HEARTWORKS

Naked Seattle (working title) - Proposal for installation of photographs

HeartWorks
Seattle-Saginaw: The Reach of Theodore Roethke
Defiance Street
CIRQUE @ AWP
CIRQUE - Book Fair Signing - AWP
Blue Moon for Poets Reading
Poetry Parley
Poets in Winter - The Series
Alaska Poets in Winter ~ 2013
Alaska Poets in Winter ~ 2013 - Morgan
Alaska Poets in Winter ~ 2013 - Emily Wall
Live & Moving, 2012
Amazing M-P
Spenard Jazz Festival
Kleven as poet
Creative Process
Fremont Show
Dance!
"Like This" -- in production
HeartWorks Press
HeartWorks Press Catalog
Gallery
Vita
Mike's Vita
Aniak dances
Poems on the Fly 2010
Poem at Christmas - 2009
"To the Moon" - Roethke
Roethke Score
Roethke - Running commentary
Roethke Poetry
Roethke film - Raw footage
"To the Moon! Credits
Poster - The Making of Roethke tribute
T-Shirts and more for Roethke
Production Stills
"Plotting" Midnight Sun Cafe
Naked Seattle - Fremont Solstice
BHS Class of '63

Fremont District Solstice Parade 2006 - 2008
Photos on this webpage, all by Michael Kleven, are part of a collection of more than 300 parade photographs.  To date (1/2/09) they have not been shown publically. 

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Why is this parade important? 
Neighborhood participants prepare throughout the year, in workshops sponsored by the Fremont Arts Council.  They build skills in costuming, paper mache creations, and other presentations.  The artistic elements reach toward the highest level of playful imagination, and vivid execution of ideas.

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The "naked but for paint" element seems to have started with the bicyclists some years back.  The increased number of bodies covered mainly with paint, seems to be a spontaneous development, ignored by authorities so far.  It is curious that a coating of paint seems to give the same security as clothing both to the participant and to viewers. 
 

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The major significance lies in the non-commercial elements of the parade.  It is a people's parade, an artist's parade and --notice the expressions -- people appear engaged, energized, and somehow more fully alive.
 

 

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Add to this the fact that this exciting event does not seem to rest on drunken revelry, common in some urban celebrations, but carries with it a sense of wholesomeness, and family friendly fun. 

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HeartWorks

3978 Defiance Street

Anchorage, Alaska 99504

Link to CIRQUE @ AWP