Friday. After gathering together for a pizza dinner, the 14 participants from across the country set out for the Red Door Playhouse in the Fiesta Van (the cargo van decorated with a little party flair). After laying out the plan for the weekend, we opened that package from our missing member Dan Stowell that had mysteriously arrived that morning, and as directed, gathered around for the first clue — this youtube video. The scavenger hunt was the key to our "generation" process, and we set off into the town of Roswell for an adventure that helped us generate the opposing forces we'd use for the rest of the weekend.

The scavenger hunt was, in a word, amazing. We scrambled for clues: found one in a flowerpot, earned one by enacting a slow motion choreographed fight scene set to West Side Story orchestration at a crowded local restaurant, and correctly answered a trivia question for another. In between, we stopped for brief brainstorming sessions that were inspired by the work in our "fight scene," and by the words of the local poet Sidney Lanier in "The Song of the Chattahoochee." We returned to the Red Door Playhouse for the No One Way Hat Draw, and randomly assigned each person to work with four groups and four constraints. We capped off the night by a round or two of Apples to Apples at the Decker's house.

Saturday. After a big breakfast, we spent the day at the playhouse practicing and refining our pieces for the exhibition on Sunday night during the "specification" phase. The Red Door Playhouse is filled with toys and art supplies from all kinds of mediums, from a sound system to paint to musical instruments. As we explored our themes in the space, this project allowed the participants an opportunity to craft creative responses to the prompts using song, papier-mâché and digital media. At the end of a full work day, we returned home to an amazing dinner of southern barbeque from Leah's dad, and a late-night jam session on the porch.

Sunday. It's the day of the show, y'all! After work in the morning on the "maturation" of our projects, the day moved quickly into group decisions on the order of the pieces for the exhibit (13 in all) and a tech run-through. The show was a blast — a brilliant celebration of the work we'd done together, and for many of us, the first time we saw each other's pieces during the busy weekend. After a reception of brownies and ice cream, Zeke and the gang returned home to a big fiesta dinner, capped off with a tornado warning and a surprise blue dog piñata.