The Dining Room

02/05/2015

Hey hey Folks!! Don't forget to send in your submissions to Untitled Magazine!!! Find their page and all the info you need in the link!! Xo
https://www.facebook.com/pages/SAIC-Untitled-Magazine/242905955902634?fref=ts

Untitled Magazine is a space for those who wish to have their creative writing published. It is open to all students- graduate and undergraduate.

01/24/2015

Hey hey folks!! Happy New Year!!

So we haven't been too active over the break but now the semester is starting and things are happening!

FIRSTLY! The Dining Room has received the World Less Traveled grant. WHICH MEANS that this summer we will be traveling to Detroit for the annual Allied Media Conference! AMC is a really wonderful event, y'all should definitely check it out. AND if you are interested in traveling to the conference with us to help facilitate workshops and host a spacial event, let us know! We have housing available and might be able to hook you up with transportation.

https://amc.alliedmedia.org

11/22/2014

Happy Saturday morning! Be sure to come out to New Blood today to see The Dining Room in action! And by action, we mean performing. And writing. Of course.

Also, I just wanted to share with all of you this really great, inspiring quote from a contract that the school required me and Andie to sign, in order to perform our arm wrestling prompt. Enjoy and be merry.

11/20/2014

TDR's at it again.

11/18/2014

Attention Diners!!! We desperately need a portable printer which is able to print on 11X17" paper. If any of you own such a device please let us know! Xoxox. Also, be sure not to miss New Blood this weekend where we will be printing Zines on said 11X17" paper.

11/11/2014

Some beautiful things are happening this week. Get Ready for Friday's Dining Room event in Sullivan Gallery, 4:30-7.

please excuse Andie's scary tired face and please notice Jenny's scary secret, hiding bun.

11/10/2014

This week's Dining Room will feature a truly epic Arm Wrestling/Writing Tournament in which we will crown a champion, and a serious business workshop where we will explore the principles of New Survivalism.

Prepare yourselves.
(Also, tell everyone you know.)

(+ 1 more person.)

11/01/2014

Some very beautiful articles about speech and language in this journal, such as

LITERARY DIALECT AND THE LINGUISTIC RECONSTRUCTION OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY LOUSIANA

and

PINNING DOWN ENREGISTERMENT: USING PINTEREST TO TEACH STUDENTS ABOUT DIALECT AWARENESS

11/01/2014

We just filled out mad grant proposals to get you guys some nice things. $$$$ Xoxoxo (Did someone say Prompt Zines?)

10/28/2014

The Dining Room is doing a surprise pop-up writing workshop at the MacLean Ballroom this morning 9AM-Noon! (That's right now!) If you're around, swing by! If you're in class, excuse yourself "to use the restroom" and come perform a prompt with us! Hooray for mid-week spontaneous writing!

10/20/2014

This is world rocking. We're dealing with language and this is worth your time. http://www.ted.com/talks/deb_roy_the_birth_of_a_word

MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language -- so he wired up his house with videocameras to catch every moment (with exceptions) of his son's life, then parsed 90,000 hours of home video to watch "gaaaa" slowly turn into "water." Astonishing, data-rich research w…

10/18/2014

We did it again! Our second venture into Sullivan Galleries with Deepak was amazing. He lead us on a charmingly and absurdly winding narrative journey. Here is what happened.