Have You Seen the Show? Tell us what you think!

We’d love to hear from visitors who have seen the show in the first few days. Please feel free to add your comment to this post. Comments are moderated, so they won’t appear immediately. We will, however, post them as soon as we are able.  Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

A Word from Stan’s Cafe’s Artistic Director

I am pleased to share remarks from yesterday’s opening event from Stan’s Cafe’s Artistic Director James Yarker.
“Of All the People In All the World was first performed in 2003, since then it has been around the UK, across Europe and introduced Stan’s Cafe to North America and Australia. The show has become dear to us as [...]

Opening Day!

Stan’s Cafe’s Of All the People in All the World: The Americas is now open at Skirball! I am going to check out the exhibition now. We’ll have more reports and photos later!

News from Free Rice site: Double Donations!

I went back to the FreeRice site this morning (it has become a habit!) and learned this news. Here’s a quote from the site:
For its first seven weeks, FreeRice gave 10 grains of rice for each correct answer. On November 28, 2007, we were able to increase this to 20 grains. We hope to be [...]

An exciting week!

This is an exciting week at the Skirball Cultural Center as we prepare to open Stan’s Cafe’s Of All the People in All the World! The rice arrived last week–all 15 tons of it! See our Flickr photos at the right, more on the Flickr site.

The company arrived today, and the exhibition will open on [...]

And now, a word from our sponsor…

I was recently asked what prompted this donation.  It’s simple. It started with the biggest truck I ever saw in my life unloading more rice than I had ever seen. This at the Skirball?
I made some inquiries and was told it was Stan’s calf.  Who is Stan and why is he bringing a calf [...]

Volunteers Needed!

Want to get involved with a great project? We’re looking for several volunteers to assist with the load-in, perform with the company, and interact with visitors to the installation. Volunteers must be personable with good people skills; have some local knowledge and an interest in current affairs; willing to collaborate with the company and be involved [...]

Video of past installation

Check out this short video from an installation of Of All the People in All the World presented in the UK.

Fun For a Good Cause: Free Rice!

A colleague shared this cool site with me today where you can have fun testing your vocabulary while supporting a good cause. For each word you correctly define, 10 grains of rice will be donated to the hungry. http://freerice.com/

What is this all about?

Of All the People in All the World will feature more than fifteen tons of rice-900 million grains total, equaling the population of the Americas-organized to bring local, national, and global statistics to life. Artists from the innovative British theater company Stan’s Cafe will carefully weigh and pile the staple food to quantify a variety [...]