Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Get Open, Get Closure.

Last Call is an ongoing, community and campus-wide art experiment to bring a spotlight to alcoholism and under-age drinking. You may be here because you've lost a friend, loved one, or even an acquaintance to a tragedy including and influenced by alcohol; you may still live with these people battling the disease, or you may battle it yourself. Regardless: the key to discovering new paths to recovery is communication, and remembrance.

Last Call will be installing public mosaics, working off of the notion that every bottle, full or consumed, has a message, behind its use and perceptions. The project hopes to give light to those stories by you providing them - your experiences with alcoholism, memorials for the people in your lives affected by it, anything you feel is relevant to share with a community of others like you - many who feel isolated by alcoholism and its stigma. In the early stages of this project, email in your thoughts to lastcallsf@gmail.com. At a later date a physical address will be provided to collect messages. By contributing to the project, you agree to let Last Call print these messages and install them in the mosaic, as they will line broken bottles that once housed alcoholic spirits in the mosaic.

Currently, Last Call is looking to install the first mosaic on the campus of San Francisco State University's Student Center - home of a well-known campus pub, and surrounding the doorway and hallways leading to the pub to bring awareness of the long-term effects of alcoholism to under-age drinkers and newly legal drinkers. Regardless of your age or experience, they are all relevant and worth airing - please feel free to send in your message, welcome to the project, and keep your eyes open for updates as the project progresses.

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