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magidShabbat afternoon I walked to Davis, later than I'd planned, for ArtBeat. It would be this weekend that the eruv was down... Ah, well.
There were a lot of booths with interesting things for sale, which I saw in passing, and I assume that the other end of the square had more community organization booths, as they did last year, but I didn't make it there.
I did run into a number of friends, LJ and non, including some I'd not seen in ages. I wished I'd made it to the square Friday and gotten a dog tag, so I could join the crowds at Snappy Dance and at some of the other performances, but I'd been rushed for time and disinclined to make another trip out during the thunderstorm. My bad. Next year...
This year's theme was places and spaces, and I was highly entertained to see that there were people giving rides using bikes that were pulling highly painted canoes. A bit hard to navigate, I'd imagine.
I saw Pheromone's labyrinth laid out practically in the middle of the square, with a lot of kids using it. Strangely (or perhaps not), most adults didn't seem to want to walk the labyrinth while the kids were there, so didn't walk it at all. I wonder why it becaome "kid space" rather than "people space" to ArtBeat attendees.
I spent most time hanging around the Art Cafe, watching the plates made by the artist chefs (including, but not limited to: Scholargipsy, Pheromone, Hawkegirl, and Gavin), admiring the panache with which Hauntmeister kept orders moving smoothly, while accepting the art made in payment. I was impressed with a lot of the art, both ordered and payment. The customers were pleased with their orders. There were some different kinds of art, collage and more 3-d things, but the more word-focused pieces weren't there this year. I ended up filling in as a greeter for a bit, feeling a bit useless with all I don't do on Shabbat (especially with the eruv down).
A much more mellow ArtBeat for me this year, followed by hanging out with Pheromone, Scholargipsy, Treacle_Well, and [not-yet-LJ-user], which included much bookish discussion. I think there are a lot of books I need to read... as if I didn't already know that!
There were a lot of booths with interesting things for sale, which I saw in passing, and I assume that the other end of the square had more community organization booths, as they did last year, but I didn't make it there.
I did run into a number of friends, LJ and non, including some I'd not seen in ages. I wished I'd made it to the square Friday and gotten a dog tag, so I could join the crowds at Snappy Dance and at some of the other performances, but I'd been rushed for time and disinclined to make another trip out during the thunderstorm. My bad. Next year...
This year's theme was places and spaces, and I was highly entertained to see that there were people giving rides using bikes that were pulling highly painted canoes. A bit hard to navigate, I'd imagine.
I saw Pheromone's labyrinth laid out practically in the middle of the square, with a lot of kids using it. Strangely (or perhaps not), most adults didn't seem to want to walk the labyrinth while the kids were there, so didn't walk it at all. I wonder why it becaome "kid space" rather than "people space" to ArtBeat attendees.
I spent most time hanging around the Art Cafe, watching the plates made by the artist chefs (including, but not limited to: Scholargipsy, Pheromone, Hawkegirl, and Gavin), admiring the panache with which Hauntmeister kept orders moving smoothly, while accepting the art made in payment. I was impressed with a lot of the art, both ordered and payment. The customers were pleased with their orders. There were some different kinds of art, collage and more 3-d things, but the more word-focused pieces weren't there this year. I ended up filling in as a greeter for a bit, feeling a bit useless with all I don't do on Shabbat (especially with the eruv down).
A much more mellow ArtBeat for me this year, followed by hanging out with Pheromone, Scholargipsy, Treacle_Well, and [not-yet-LJ-user], which included much bookish discussion. I think there are a lot of books I need to read... as if I didn't already know that!
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Re: Eruv
Date: 2003-07-23 09:09 pm (UTC)Essentially, yes.
It's a good question, where the line is between wearing and carrying. There are a variety of answers/solutions (in Jewish law, there are usually a variety of answers in the mainstream, all of which are likely followed by some group or another; Jewish law is not so monolithic as some may think.); I don't know this area of law as well as I probably should, actually. Frequently, in areas where there are a variety of practices, what is relevant is what one's own community deems normative.
FYI, the most usual way of wearing a key is a special belt, where the key becomes part of the belt buckle, making it a necessary part of the belt, and therefore, worn, not carried. Some people have special jewelry with their key incorporated into it (nice jewelry, so 'good enough' to wear on Shabbat), while other people see this as carrying. Some people have a key on a plastic coil key chain they wear around their wrist (pretty much the equivalent of a lanyard), which other people think is carrying (it's not decorative, nor is it integral). Some people get around the whole question by figuring out where to leave their key just outside the house :-).
I made myself a watch with a band that uses the key as part of it, which felt appropriate for me (those belts just don't work well with female-type clothing).
I know there are some areas of halacha that seem really focused on what a lot of people think of as minutiae; as a whole, however, it doesn't have that feel, at least to me. Perhaps that's because I've internalized a lot of things that seem strange to others; it's just automatic by now.