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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...
Team Demo Hugo
Feb 29, 20162 min read
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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...
Team Demo Hugo
Dec 20, 20151 min read
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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...
Team Demo Hugo
Dec 19, 20156 min read
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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...
Suz Boretz and Charlie Jones
Dec 19, 20151 min read
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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...
Charlie Jones
Dec 18, 20154 min read
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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...
Tyler DeFriece; art by Mara Potter
Dec 17, 20153 min read
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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....
Flora Tempel; art by Charlie Jones
Dec 15, 20153 min read
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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...
Jack Chelgren; art credit: Charlie Jones
Dec 14, 20154 min read
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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...
Cali Kopczick
Dec 13, 20153 min read
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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...
Natalie Hillerson
Dec 12, 20154 min read
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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...
Flora Tempel
Dec 5, 20153 min read
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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...
Team Demo Hugo
Nov 20, 20151 min read
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(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...
Team Demo Hugo
Nov 15, 20151 min read
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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...
Flora Tempel
Nov 13, 20154 min read
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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...
Team Demo Hugo
Nov 13, 20151 min read
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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...
Cali Kopczick
Oct 31, 20153 min read
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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...
Flora Tempel
Oct 25, 20152 min read
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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...
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Sep 30, 20151 min read
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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...
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Sep 14, 20152 min read
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