top of page
Search
Team Demo Hugo
Feb 29, 20162 min read
A Few Updates
Hey folks! It's been a while since our last update, but here are some developments as of the new year: We've been hard at work on...
9 views0 comments
Team Demo Hugo
Dec 20, 20151 min read
A Shout-Out to Our Backers
Team Demo Hugo is all about being “collective”—collective effort building a collective memory. That’s a big part of why we opted for...
18 views0 comments
Team Demo Hugo
Dec 19, 20156 min read
Why This Project? Team Demo Hugo Discusses
This project is brimming with genuine enthusiasm. Seriously. Until the Lucky 7 Foundation awarded us a grant last month, everyone but...
16 views0 comments
Suz Boretz and Charlie Jones
Dec 19, 20151 min read
Drawing to a Close
With ONE DAY LEFT in our Indiegogo campaign, project artists/designers Suz Boretz and Charlie Jones whipped some art based on the words...
13 views0 comments
Charlie Jones
Dec 18, 20154 min read
On Spacing Place
I’ve never truly drawn Richard Hugo. Admittedly, on the front of the Team Demo Hugo website, there’s a picture of Richard Hugo, sketched...
28 views0 comments
Tyler DeFriece; art by Mara Potter
Dec 17, 20153 min read
A Neurobiological Approach to the Power of Place
After graduating from my alma mater six months ago, I find myself once again writing in a familiar library on campus. It amazes me how...
9 views0 comments
Flora Tempel; art by Charlie Jones
Dec 15, 20153 min read
Hugo House, a History: The Future Is Now
New City Theater left their theater space, full of smoke and sweat, in 1997, at the exact moment that Hugo House needed to find a home....
23 views0 comments
Jack Chelgren; art credit: Charlie Jones
Dec 14, 20154 min read
Where the Poem Was
The poem “Where the House Was” is Hugo apocrypha: released posthumously in the collected poems, Making Certain It Goes On, it hasn’t...
9 views0 comments
Cali Kopczick
Dec 13, 20153 min read
On Projection: A Visit to the Triggering Town
The last time I piped up on the blog, I gave a little background on who Richard Hugo was and why he might be fitting (or ironic) as a...
36 views0 comments
Natalie Hillerson
Dec 12, 20154 min read
Capitol Hill and the "Gayborhood"
In the spring of 2015, I had the opportunity to take a class at the University of Washington titled “American Studies and the Politics of...
15 views0 comments
Flora Tempel
Dec 5, 20153 min read
Hugo House, a History: New City Visionaries
In our last history post, we talked about the use of 1634 11th Ave as a mortuary until about 1978. So what happened in the twenty years...
35 views0 comments
Team Demo Hugo
Nov 20, 20151 min read
An update on Saturday's party
Hopefully you saw our first post inviting y'all to a party at Sole Repair so we can all get to know the project and make postcards to...
8 views0 comments
Team Demo Hugo
Nov 15, 20151 min read
(Where the) House (Was) Party!
Our Indiegogo campaign is about a month in, and we're throwing a party to reach out to the Capitol Hill Community! The generous folks at...
5 views0 comments
Flora Tempel
Nov 13, 20154 min read
Hugo House, a History: Death Days
In 2013, Seattle City Landmarks nominated the Richard Hugo House building for historical preservation. Built in 1903, the building has...
136 views0 comments
Team Demo Hugo
Nov 13, 20151 min read
A Shout-Out to Our Backers
Team Demo Hugo is all about being “collective”—collective effort building a collective memory. That’s a big part of why we opted for...
7 views0 comments
Cali Kopczick
Oct 31, 20153 min read
Richard Hugo? Really?
Richard Hugo is not the sexiest or most intuitive of literary center mascots. First of all, there’s the name. I can’t tell you how many...
48 views0 comments
Flora Tempel
Oct 25, 20152 min read
Welcome to the Team Demo Hugo blog!
Team Demo Hugo is a group of lovely people who are dedicating time to make the documentary film, Where the House Was. The film will...
6 views0 comments
-
Sep 30, 20151 min read
Interview with Frances
Q: Are you freaked out by this sign? I mean it's right on the front of Hugo House. Frances: Yeah, I guess so. But it's nothing like the...
15 views0 comments
-
Sep 14, 20152 min read
Things Are Gathering Steam!
Things are gathering steam! Some evidence: 1) That cool logo and this brand-spaking new website, both made by Mara Potter. 2 ) A new...
4 views0 comments
bottom of page