I thought with such a nice photo of David in front of this year's Canadian Christmas Revels set that I should tell something of the story of how we met.
For the past 21 December's this local Oakland organization has been producing the Christmas Revels- a winter solstice celebration of song, dance and stories of a particular culture and geography of the world. For many years it has taken place at the Scottish Rite Temple in Oakland. In this photo he's on part of this year's set wearing part of his costume which we used for our photo shoot. We were trying to get a good one of me doing his makeup for use on the label of the Jones Soda wedding favors we are producing for the day.
I participated in the show in 2002 and in 2003, I was a volunteer doing makeup when I found myself making up David. A cast party and an email later, he was scoping out apartments in Oakland where he ended up moving a few months later. Thus started us out as dating neighbors.
Oh yeah, right the Revels. Chad Jones at ANG Newspapers likes the show this year- it's about the songs, dances, fairytales and folklore of early 19th century French Canada. Most fun thing is every year, the audience comes out into the audience to dance around the theater as they sing Lord of the Dance. Photo of that above.
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