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I got a page about my dad going on MySpace.
Henry Boston on Myspace
I’m looking for pictures of Dad in his BC Anti-Prohibition role. He was always at the legislature peace rallies in Victoria with a table, and I’d love to have some pics of him in this activity.
Also copies of his newsletter, […]

November 9
Jazz Jam Session (socios de AMJM y Societat de Blues), Sala Monasterio, Barcelona. Keep the Music Alive improv with Andre Sumelius (drums) , Raynald Colum and Auden (trumpet), Alexis Leaden (percussion) , Alexi Tuomarila (piano), Marko Lohikari (bass).
November 8
Wolly VonHaus Birthday Fiesta, Crossroads, Terrassa. Fever, Vocal Improv, When the Music’s Over, Let the […]

I have to spend some time on this website. I’ve been so busy just living my life and building networks on FaceBook and Myspace that I’ve neglected alisonboston.com - and it desperately needs a face lift!
The one page where I have been diligently entering new data over the past two years has somehow […]

September 29
…with Llibert Fortuny at WTF

WTF, Jamboree Jazz Club, Barcelona - Too Crazy to Dance and Fever vocal improvisation with Adriano Galiante (vocals), Aurelio Santos (Beat Box), Llibert Fortuny (saxophone), Raul del Moral (guitar), Matias Miguez (bass), Dani (drums), and Antonio Torres and others as the improvisation advanced…who was the woman playing keyboards? I […]

October 6

WTF, Jamboree Jazz Club, Barcelona - Tell Me that you Love Me - vocal improv and with Menorca (vocals), Aurelio Santos (Beat Box), Pablo Schvarzman (Argentina, synthesizer), Michel Morales (guitar), Matias Miguez (bass), ??? (drums).
This was a vocal improv following Sandra Ortega and Paula Domingues who introduced the theme: “Tell me one more thing, […]

October 13

Photo by Davidarnoldiblogspot.com
WTF, Jamboree Jazz Club, Barcelona - Musical Universe, vocal improv and with Aurelio Santos (Beat Box), Pablo Schvarzman (Argentina, synthesizer), Raul del Moral and Michel Morales (BCN, guitars), Martin (Argentina, bass), Mariana (Argentina, piano) Antonio Torres (Huelva, drums)

…90% of the singing page with a chronological record of jam sessions and open mics , listing all the musicians I played with and what I sang…has vanished!
The moral of this story is, I should be blogging the information rather than making a single page…..and from this day forward that is what I shall […]

An excerpt from a post I wrote in an interesting thread we have going over at Rebecca Fine’s forum:

Tonight I manifested one of the targets set during the course. I sang on stage at the WTF jam at Jamboree. This is famous Barcelona jam session and I have been going there for […]

Another post from Rebecca Fine’s forum :
Aha!
A long post, perhaps will help you receive…
LL 20 - Prepare to Receive
Disbelief blocks the doorway…
Self-rejection trips those who cross the threshold..
“Be consistent in your training, receive all things. Remember as you become more consistent in your ability to receive, the opportunities for you to receive more and […]

Today is my birthday and I had an email from an old friend, someone I seldom hear from and see even less, but every year he sends me birthday greetings. He asked what I am up, said not much news on the website these days, and he’s right. I write for the monthly […]

New page with digital images and photographs.

Dad, Original Digital Art Image, copyright 2006 Alison Boston
See more here: Images of Dad

Spannabis Magazine held its annual fair this weekend in the Fira de Cornella - with 118 exhibitors offering various hemp and cannabis products - everything from seeds to classic-styled clothing, including hemp bread mix, hemp facial masque, and De Verdamper BV a smoke-less vaporiser smoking apparatus.
Each day of the 3-day event, forums were […]

After moving ten times in five months, and finally landing in a place I thought was relatively quiet, you can well imagine my frustration when I discovered a family with a seemingly endless supply of energetic, jumping, bouncing, running children living above me!
After enduring the rough-housing sound effects for two weeks less a day, […]

Updated: October 31,scroll down past the pics
Barcelona lights up its waterfront at night…

While on the walking street Las Ramblas, the living statues create a unique theatre…

More pics to come…
…I have just completed the first two legs of the Barcelona triathlon: Accomodation, Work, Residency
The Accomodation and Work were done in reverse order: work then accomodation. […]

Notre Dame Cathedral (the back)
I stopped in Paris for two days and one night on my way to Barcelona. It really is a beautiful city. I think it’s the footpaths along the river and canals that make it so special. You can walk along the river and not hear the traffic above, […]

Barcelona’s biggest festival of the year la Mercé is on this weekend. It started with a parade of dragons in the street, interspersed with marching percussion bands, raising the energy in a way I’ve only imagined!
Each district is represented. I caught photos of 7 dragons before I was swept up by […]

Never-ending blue skies, that fade to lavender sunsets at Clover Point, Victoria.

Drumming in Beacon Hill Park with men whose sweaters match the flowers…

The drummers meet every Wednesday evening, opposite the Petting Zoo. I’ll miss this group who have accepted my beginner percussion skills!

We are always joined by the fire dancers…

David spins fire and […]

It’s time for me.

Memorial Service Floral and Photo Display
Dad passed away Monday morning at 7:15 AM.
This is the obituary we ran in the newspaper:
BOSTON, Henry On June 12, 2006 at Mt. St. Mary Hospital, Henry, dearly loved husband of June, father of Stephen, Tom (Ellen) and Alison, and grandfather to Nicholas, Christopher, Katharine and Sonja. Henry is […]

Why did I call my painting (see previous post) Spray Noszel? Well…
My father - who believed profoundly in the individual’s right to choose what substance went into their mouth - chose to swallow a plastic spray nozzle as his last meal.
It’s a funny story and when I told one friend, she said: “OMG […]

There’s an update on Dad’s page with a recent photograph.
I’ve also been editing and linking the posts about the workshops at Open Space, so now most of the artists I refer to are linked to related biographical pages.

Today was my birthday. I got a digital camera. I hope this means this website will start to have more images.
This is crazy. I just noticed the time stamp on this post is all screwed up.

I took my Dad to hear retired police chief Norm Stamper speak at Victoria City Hall today about ending the war on drugs.
That was my father’s issue and still is, it seems, because in spite of his dementia he was able to follow along and clapped at the appropriate times. After the […]

Yup, it’s true. I’m back in Canada.
In keeping with this site’s focus on my daily cultural activities, I feel some sort of comment is in order.
Yesterday I took my 88-year-old father for a stroll in his wheelchair through downtown Victoria. A few observations I made (besides how very odd it feels to […]

Well I did it. I went running today through the slums of the 8th district and along the litter ridden Duna to the decadent Palace of Arts…and back. I plugged my nose, and closed my eyes and turned away from the lusty stares as I bounced along.
On the plus side, I ran through, […]

Raday Street Performance Delivers Hope and Forgiveness
HOPE: A collaborative effort
We wanted to perform the piece we have been working on Georgi, Andras and I, before I leave so, we gave a performance last night in a cafe on Raday utca. I was lucky to get a room at the last minute, several places we […]

Perhaps the most important thing I got from the workshop and the festival is the complexity of creating a meaningful work of art using modern technology. While the workshopping artists were able to realise partially satisfactory technical results, it was the invited artists presenting at the festival who managed to say something with the medium (Max/Msp/Jitter).

The most successful of these isKo Kon nashi, presented on the first evening of the festival (written about in my first post about the festival) and realised by an international collective. Also, last night’s Bridges - presented by quintet.net

…built from sandbags.
Every now and then a good idea gets through and gets realised.
I love this…
Housing for a Sustainable World
Honey House

The shoes I wore when I placed first in the Panorama Classic Triathlon

…and which I do NOT wear when cycling in the winter in Budapest!!!
but they have a story, which I will tell another time!
Meanwhile, here’s the winter cycling tale…
Something else I enjoy about Budapest is cycling in the winter. Even though […]

Mike Austin Stirs the Fire
Since coming to Budapest, Hungary I have developed strong bonds with the poetry group Labyrinth, the Association of English Language Poets in Vienna. On my many - yet not frequent enough - visits to Vienna, I have always enjoyed the conversation of Mike Austin.
Mike’s funeral is on […]

This was a photograph of a squirrel sitting next to a piece of chocolate layer cake. I manipulated it using ACDSee FotoCanvas 2.0. I have never read the instructions.

Squirrel Flower digital artwork, copyright Alison Boston
Merriam Webster’s Online Dictionary - which I encourage my English students to use because it includes a handy dandy audio component […]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Notes for digital artwork 05, copyright Alison Boston
I am pleased! When I started this slog, my intention was to create a website that would function as a type of archives for my work as an artist, and I quickly realised I also had a a great publishing […]

Make a conscious effort to express thanks each and every day of 2006 and witness the power of gratitude.

I first heard these guys last spring downstairs at the Pesti Est Cafe.
When I heard them at Pesti Est, they were just plain too loud and I couldn’t really appreciate them. When I heard them last night, I was impressed with what a tight, polished sound they have developed in the past 9 […]

I was talking to my mother earlier this week via Skype and at the end of the conversation she read me a monologue she had written about her feelings about my father’s illness.
You know, my father - the Reverend Henry Boston - who spent the last 30 productive years of […]

As usual, this week’s Stuart Maconie’s Freak Zone opens my ears to unbelieveably unique music, but even more so, he brings me another mind-expanding story about a musician. This week he introduces me to Vashti Bunyan - a true blue 60’s hippie singer songwriter - she was even a friend of Donovan […]

I am rapping on Anima Sound System’s soon-to-be-released new CD and I need a more visually exciting website.

People are always asking me why I chose Hungary.
Today, as I was searching my files for the poems I’ve written since I came here, I stumbled on one titled Canadiana. It was hidden in a folder called poems that need work. I opened the file and […]

…regardless of age and circumstances.
I opened a new category today, and simply called it Being.
I pondered what to call this category, inspired by 101 year old artist Tamás Lossonczy.
After I wrote about him, I thought about my Mother, another amazing artist - who in her forties joined an […]

I just read the post I wrote about Tamás Lossonczy and I have to say, his exhibition makes me feel wonderful. Life is indeed wonderful when a 101 year old artist can sit at an exhibition that spans 70 years of his work and be able to converse and sign autographs. […]

I can compare his style to Jackson Pollack, or Jean Paul Riopelle and there are paintings in the exhibition that look like conversations with Dali.

A couple of week’s ago, I heard Pop Ivan play for the first time. Laszi played his parts from his wheel chair. The band sounded great even though they hadn’t rehearsed since the paralysis.