This is my tribute to the holidaze — proof that #WeAreAmerica — and that diversity if fun!
In this first video we had Unitarian Universalist bookends on our day of festivities in Mt. Airy which began with an alternative xmas play (with my partner Barbara Drumming) at the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Restoration on Stenton Avenue where I attend services and am a lay minister. Afterwards we went to the Mt. Airy Art Garage’s holiday sale in the neighborhood where our friend Gloria regaled us with some really beautiful singing. And that evening we went to the Solstice celebration at the Unitarian Society of Germantown which is close to our house.
On December 24th (the first night of Hanukkah and Xmas Eve) we went to the Gershman Y event in Chinatown. Barbara who has always wanted to go was looking at a photo of the stand up comics in a mailing — and when she saw Julie Goldman she exclaimed — “Who is that guy? I know him.” It turned out that the “guy” was Julie Goldman (who we first saw on The Big Gay Sketch Show on Logo — impersonating Liza drunk) and boy is she hilarious!
We saw Paint the Revolution, Mexican Modernism, 1910-1950, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It is a truly awe-inspiring exhibition and is showing through January 8th.
When you get blue, remember that #WeAreAmerica and get busy making art and embracing your life!
Happy New Year!
Janet Mason, author 