So this is an idea I had perculating in my brain during the meeting, but I'm rather bad at putting things into words so I had to let it evolve enough to share.

The basic idea is to do an Invisible Theatre piece where a small group of tourists are interested in something totally mundane but uniquely Albuquerque.

The idea comes from the fact that while I was abroad, my "foreign" friends and I would get super excited over things that natives would never glance at twice (things like fancy or weird toilets, sidewalks, etc.). It sounds weird but it's true. Also, I feel that there's a lot of negative feelings towards the city by a lot of the natives (myself included) and if we could point out cool things that people never acknowledge that would at least encourage a few people to open their eyes a bit more.

So here's a few things I'd like to toss out:

• Who speaks any sort of foreign language? (In my mind I see this mission happening in a foreign language with an "inturpretor" since that's how it always happened when I was abroad..though of course this isn't necessary - we could use some Queen's English or just no accents at all...what do you guys think?)
• What things do you think are cool around the city but people don't acknowledge?
• Does this mission even make sense? Feedback? Any ideas to make it better

To answer my own questions a bit, I speak Japanese and could possibly stumble through some simple Spanish (with a convincing accent though my grammar is bad).

The one thing that's popping to mind about cool things in the city is those wire statues by a bus stop on San Mateo and Zuni. However, I need a lot of help thinking of other things.

Sorry this was so long. Much love to anyone who stumbled through this with me. (^_^) <3

Awesome Ewen! I love the arrow! That's totally the kind of thing I was thinking of. When I first moved to Albuquerque I thought it was the craziest and coolest thing ever and now I never think about it.

So do we want real facts for this, or made-up facts?