The Happy Factory

Laura Zorch and Laura Odegaard will spend their residency week manufacturing moments of happiness for the public through pop-up happenings (happy-nings) Monday through Thursday. The evening of FRIDAY, AUGUST 24 at 7 PM, the public will be invited to work with Laura and Laura to create happiness in the form of gifts to be exchanged at the culminating Happy Factory event on Saturday night; there will also be a screening of the film Happy on Friday night. SATURDAY, AUGUST 25 from 7-10 PM will be the culminating HAPPY FACTORY EVENT. Attendees will participate in: a happiness gift exchange, coloring book collaboration (wall paper sized coloring sheets for public participation!!!), wish making and wish granting, happy idea exchange, and general good times with DANCING and FRIVOLITY! The goal of the Happy Factory project is to instigate the general feelings of happiness, intended to spark a chain of pay-it-forward happiness interactions. It will be a participatory art happening, more than performance. Performance elements will play a part in the project, but public interaction and creativity will be encouraged.