David Lynch is such an enigma he’s become an adjective. The Urban Dictionary defines ‘Lynchian’ as a “balance between the macabre and the mundane” and, more frankly, “You have no fucking clue what’s going on, but you know it’s genius.”
Equally brilliant and baffling, the director’s work feels like it contains the answers to life, the universe and everything, if only we could tune into the right frequency. Repeated motifs of duality and dreams versus reality permeate his imagery, stemming from (perhaps) a lifelong fascination with “The Wizard of Oz.” But although it might seem like David Lynch comes from somewhere over the rainbow, home is where his heart is, and what he wants to speak to The Big Issue about.
Lynch was raised in small-town America, moving from the likes of Missoula, Montana, to Sandpoint, Idaho, to Spokane, Washington, as his father was reassigned by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, an upbringing reflected and refracted in the likes of “Blue Velvet” and “Twin Peaks.” His time as an art student in Philadelphia brought extra menace to his experimental film “Eraserhead.” He has lived in the Hollywood Hills for decades and rarely leaves, but is always observing, interpreting.
Today is a strange day in Los Angles. “It’s a cloudy, dreary, gloomy day. Strange weather. Strange weather,” he says to The Big Issue over a video call. He wears the same type of shirt every day, his hair reliably skew-whiff. He speaks with conviction and clarity, even if some answers are an exercise in evasiveness. He has made time in his regimented routine to talk about the series of events he has curated at the Manchester International Festival, centered on the gallery aptly called HOME.
Steven MacKenzie: What did you benefit from or lose from not always having a settled home when you were younger?
David Lynch: Well, obviously it’s a bit of a shock to be told you’re moving to a new place, but as I remember, it wasn’t a depressing thing. Fortunately, I was able to make friends pretty easily so I have fond memories from each place, and these kinds of moves … something gets jolted and I think that could be good.
SV: Did you learn early on, that there are advantages to being an outsider?
DL: Human beings like to feel part of the group in some way. It’s comforting. So, to be a loner — an outsider — can be kind of depressing and upsetting. At the same time, I really believe that to get work done, many times you need to be by yourself. Have time to daydream, have time to think and work on your own.
SV: What is your earliest memory of home?
DL: In Spokane, Washington, I had a little bed and it was a little room. That’s my earliest bedroom memory.
SV: What posters did you have on the walls?
DL: I didn’t have any posters. That whole poster thing came later. I painted a mural on my bedroom ceiling. The ceiling was flat but then it tapered and came into the walls, so on the tapered part I painted a mural. It was many different things, music and painting all together.
SV: You grew up in small towns across America. Could you ever make your home in one today?
DL: Part of me would like that, but now I think that drugs have permeated. They started in the big cities, then they went to middle-sized cities, then they went into the countryside. So many, many, many, many problems come from drugs. A lot of small towns were super peaceful at one time and just idyllic, living close to nature, real serene and beautiful. When drugs came, a lot of crime and violence and fear comes creeping in, and sad stories. So I think a lot of these small towns have been perverted.
SV: People say the idyllic past we’re nostalgic for — all white picket fences and cherry pies — never actually existed.
DL: It did exist. When a war is over there’s a joy in the air. That carried over into the ’50s, so even though there were, I’m sure, all the same problems there was still an optimism for a bright future coming. That lasted until President Kennedy was shot in 1963. By the ’70s it was a total different feel in the world.
SV: When you were 17, you planned to make your home in Salzburg but left after a few days. Why couldn’t you feel at home in Europe?
DL: Salzburg was way too clean. It was beautiful but it was not the kind of mood I was looking for.
SV: Had you not seen “The Sound of Music?”
DL: That should have been a big tip-off.
SV: You ended up living in Philadelphia.
DL: Philadelphia. Corrupt, filthy, fear in the air — thick. Insanity in the air. This place was just what the doctor ordered. It was incredible. Now Philadelphia is pretty much a city like any other city. It’s got some places that look like Warsaw after the Second World War, bombed-out horrible places, but the city center is clean. They’ve cleaned all the soot from the buildings and it’s just kinda regular to me.
SV: This artwork [‘Philadelphia (2017)] shows where you stayed?
DL: Yes, I lived in that house. The biggest influence in my life is the city of Philadelphia and so that painting represents some feelings of that.
SV: Does it help to go outside your comfort zone to find inspiration?
DL: You never know when ideas are going to hit you. You can get ideas just from sitting in a room daydreaming, just feeling the air. I think people are like radios. They pick up signals. But sometimes you go to a new place and that will give you ideas. Sometimes you go to a new place — no ideas. You never know what’s going to trigger the ideas you fall in love with.
SV: “Mulholland Drive” is not just the name of a film but practically your address. What does the road mean to you?
DL: Mulholland Drive is a famous long, long, long winding road that goes on the crest of the Santa Monica mountains. It’s a two-lane road. There’s long stretches where you’re just rolling but it’s very winding. After you’ve lived in L.A. for a while you hear stories, things happening on Mulholland Drive.
SV: Do you still suffer from agoraphobia?
DL: I don’t like to go out. I do go out, but I don’t like it. But many times I don’t want to go out and then I’m forced to go out and I enjoy myself when I’m out. Getting enough strength to walk out the door sometimes is tricky.
SV: When was the last time you went out?
DL: The last time I went out, I did a talk at a theater with Russell Brand. I had signed up, I said I would do that, so I had to do it. But, it was a pretty enjoyable night.
SV: Do you still follow a strict routine?
DL: It’s always the same. When you have a certain regimen, certain things you wear, you don’t have to worry, you just do it then it leaves more time to daydream and think. It’s to help the work.
SV: At what point in your day do you have your first coffee?
DL: First thing. I still smoke cigarettes, so I have coffee and cigarettes and then I meditate and then I go out or go to where I’m going to work.
SV: Do you drink your own brand of coffee?
DL: Yes, I drink David Lynch Signature Cup coffee. I now have an Americano so it’s espresso with hot water and a little bit of milk.
SV: Have you ever tried Kyle MacLachlan’s wine?
DL: I have had it and it’s a nice wine. He’s very serious about that wine and I think it’s slowly but surely doing well.
SV: I was wondering how much a home is tied to a sense of identity, and the significance of the final scene of “Twin Peaks: The Return” being set at what may or may not be Laura Palmer’s home?
DL: That’s how it ends. So … I’m not really able to discuss that, but the word home, it’s a beautiful word. In “The Wizard of Oz,” that line, “There’s no place like home.” This is something that everybody feels but there’s still many unhappy homes. It would be great to have a world where everyone had a home that they loved and where they felt secure and happy.
SV: What makes a house a home?
DL: It’s not just something to keep the elements out. It’s somewhere you feel very good; a place you like to return to if you go out. And if there’s other people in the home, a family, and you like them, it’s great.
SV: If someone doesn’t have the security of a home, what are the consequences?
DL: It makes a big trauma for a person and it’s not right. Everyone should have a home, a place where they’re safe, where they can sleep and get rest, keep their stuff. We, human beings, owe it to each other to find a way that everyone has a place and no one goes to bed hungry at night. It’s something we’ve got to work together to get for all the people.
SV: The David Lynch Foundation helps lots of vulnerable groups, such as prisoners, troubled kids and people who have experienced homelessness. What do these groups share?
DL: These days the world is filled with a lot of stress and people suffer from this stress and negativity. The practice of transcendental meditation starts rapidly folding the full potential of the human being — enlightenment. Doesn’t matter if you’re rich, poor, homeless, when you walk towards the light each step things get brighter. It’s so beautiful to see what happens to a person when they walk away from suffering. Even if they’re homeless they start feeling happy inside, regardless of the outside circumstance.
SV: Do you think the word homeless is a label used by people to distance the problems of others from themselves?
DL: Yeah, I think that’s true. People say, why are they homeless, there must be something wrong with them. But these days everyone gets the feeling: “that can be me on the street.” Homelessness is rising and rising. These labels do separate us but we’ve got to see it as our fellow human beings and do something to help out.
SV: In “Twin Peaks” and “Mulholland Drive,” there are characters who are dirty, who might live at the back of a diner or in the woods, or ask for cigarettes. When you’re using those stereotypical tropes, what does it represent?
DL: A homeless person doesn’t have a home. Because they don’t have a home they don’t have a shelter. Because they don’t have a shelter they’re a victim of the elements. Homeless people don’t get to bathe too often and they’re sunburnt a lot of times, they’re dirty because they don’t have a place to get cleaned up and they might start getting an odor. These are general, stereotypical things that you notice but all those things could be taken care of pretty quickly if they had some help.
SV: Apparently the actor who played the ‘bum’ in “Mulholland Drive” asked you what the character represented and you said “everything.”
DL: People say I say something — I don’t recall ever saying that. If there’s 500 people in the theater, there are going to be 500 different interpretations of things. It’s just the way it is. On the surface we’re all different, at the base we’re all the same. So I’m for getting a world where that unity is enlivened.
SV: You have said that a mantra is the key to open the door. Does that mean home is within us?
DL: This is the biggest, the most beautiful home. We have a treasury within. It’s unbounded, infinite, eternal, immutable, immortal treasury, but we’ve lost contact. You’ve got the gold in the vault but if you don’t have the key to open up the door you’re not going to get that gold out. That vault can be seen as a home, a beautiful home, the self. The feeling of the home, money can’t buy that. It’s bliss. There’s a line: know thyself. This is the self they’re talking about.
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So, I’m having a difficult time with the whole «re-entry» thing. It is difficult to explain mostly because it is difficult to understand myself and therefore difficult to process internally and there you have it….difficult. I am so happy to be home but the weird thing is that it is like I never left. But, I did. What I saw affected me deeply, but I don’t know how to mesh the two worlds that I have now experienced because like I said, in so many ways it is like India never happened. The temptation to view my trip like a «dream» is very real. To just walk back into life here in America and say, «thank God I live here in this wonderful country with Starbucks and Chickfila and Publix grocery stores» is a very real temptation. It would be somewhat easier to do that than to wrestle with God about what to do with «India», but I don’t really want to forget. How could I forget? So I will wrestle with God and wait on Him to tell me what to do. In the meantime, when I can’t sleep I will pray for the people I met, the school I was privileged to experience and its financial needs, my sweet Mercy girl, and my teammates who are probably going through the same struggles as me. Learning to embrace all that God puts in my life is a challenge I will willingly take if He will continue to allow me to minister His love to the world. Not just that world, but this one as well. In the meantime I have been thinking of the top ten things I do not miss about India….and the top 10 I do.
TOP 10 Things I Do Not Miss About India:
10. men urinating on the side of the road
9. the traffic…be still my poor heart
8. the horns honking
7. hot water coming out of the cold tap
6. unreliable internet service
5. the street vendors and the shopping
4 the unfriendly stares
3. the dust that coats everything
2. the HEAT
and the number one thing I do not miss about India…THE FOOD 
and since I’m not very good with top ten lists, I have to add that I will not miss the never ending poverty
Things I Really Miss About India:
the children on the way to school and at the school, Ananthi and her sweet leadership, Mercy my sponsor child, the 6th grade girls:Shootsie, Ulma, Ushi, Napur, and Joyce, laying in our bunks and talking with the gals on the team, laughing at Tyler, skyping with the fam at home as they all crowded around the computer to talk with me, Laura Marie and Frances, karaoke on the bus, dinners at the Continental Curry restaurant(not the food, the fellowship), Sanjay and the chai tea he fixed every day for us, the precious children at the MK school, the kiddos in the slums that loved to have their pictures taken, the bus rides where we talked about real stuff, cute little naked babies toddling around…the people…that is what I miss about India…the people.
The Strangest Things I Saw In India:
cows eating garbage, a naked man walking down the road, endless piles of garbage with cows eating it(said that already didn’t I?), naked babies out in public, people sleeping on any surface any time of day, work camps with temporary homes, children sleeping on the cement ground under overpasses, very skinny dogs(I only saw one healthy looking dog the entire 12 days), a vet clinic in a posh shopping area, a water slide park, craziest driving experiences ever(now I know why there are so many Indian taxi drivers)
Well, that is all I can think of right now. Thanks for reading my India blogs and praying for me. Say a prayer for the school of the Good Samaritan today.
With love,
Jackie Sue
A few weeks ago a bunch of us from hemma served up breakfast to more than 300 people at Our Place. A few days later I went with my family to see a play about home and homelessness called “home is a beautiful word” based on interviews from over 500 people living in Victoria. What struck me about both experiences was how they served to connect me with my broader circles of community.
For most of us, our circles, our home and community, are primarily small — our immediate family and loved ones, our home, our workplace and neighbourhood. When you stop and take a closer look at your circles of community you can see that they expand much further, even though we may not always feel the connection. Our neighbourhood is apart of Victoria, which is part of the CRD, which is part of Vancouver Island, expanding ever outward. But more than geographical attachments there lies an attachment with each and every person within our community.
We really only become aware of these deeper and broader attachments to people outside our smaller communities when we consciously connect in some real way through activity, ritual, or ceremony. These precious opportunities — like serving breakfast to strangers — broadens the sense of connection with everyone in our community and ultimately feeds the soul.
When Aase and I created hemma, back in 2007, one of our primary desires was to create a place where people from all walks of life could come together and experience the spirit of caring, love, and community. We wanted a place where everyone could experience a sense of home, in order to connect with self and others. In this way healing self and community simultaneously. Thanks to all of you who have participated in this experiment I would say that we have been able to achieve that goal!
Take the time this winter to reach out and broaden your connections with community.
Home is everywhere.
Michael
Date posted: December 30, 2013
UPDATE
Home Is A Beautiful Word is sold out but we do have 50 pay-what-you-can tickets available for each performance. We release them 1 hour prior to the performance. Please line up early.
News Release
Friday, December 13, 2013
Home Is A Beautiful Word
Part play, part documentary, Belfry Theatre premieres new piece about homelessness as told by the people of Greater Victoria
Victoria, British Columbia…From January 7 – 19, 2014 the Belfry Theatre will premiere Home Is A Beautiful Word, a new piece of verbatim theatre about homelessness in Victoria. Verbatim theatre uses transcripts of interviews to create a play. Playwright / journalist Joel Bernbaum interviewed over 500 people from all walks of life for Home Is A Beautiful Word. Using the transcripts from those interviews, Joel has crafted a play that looks at homelessness from dozens of angles, creating a piece that is, by turns, moving, enlightening, funny and surprising.
A graduate of Carleton University’s School of Journalism, Joel wrote his Master’s thesis on Verbatim Theatre’s Relationship to Journalism. In creating Home Is A Beautiful Word he had conversations in grade four classrooms, senior citizens homes, businesses, and homeless shelters. Eventually he went door-to-door in neighbourhoods throughout the region.
Verbatim theatre was created in the 1960’s and it has been used to create plays like Frost/Nixon (subsequently made into the multi-award-winning film by Ron Howard), The Laramie Project (a play and film about the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming) and Veda Hille and Bill Richardson’s musical, Do You Want What I Have Got: A Craigslist Cantata (workshopped at the Belfry’s 2010 SPARK Festival and currently touring Canada). You can read Joel’s article on verbatim theatre and creating Home Is A Beautiful Word on our website (https://www.belfry.bc.ca/news/said/)
Directed by the Belfry’s Michael Shamata, Home Is A Beautiful Word stars Yoshié Bancroft, Kelt Eccleston, Kayvon Kelly, actor / playwright Kevin Loring (who wrote Where The Blood Mixes, a huge hit during the Belfry’s 2009 – 10 season) and Tracey Moore.
The creative team for Home Is A Beautiful Word includes April Viczko (Set Designer), Mara Gottler (Costume Designer), Rebekah Johnson (Lighting Designer), Laura Krewski (Choreographer) and Erin Gruber (Associate Set Designer). Jennifer Swan is the Stage Manager and Sandra Drag is the show’s Apprentice Stage Manager.
Engaging Audiences
Prior to and throughout the run of Home Is A Beautiful Word, the Belfry is producing a number of audience engagement events designed to extend the conversations the play will start.
B4Play – Saturday, January 4 at 11 am
CBC Radio’s Gregor Craigie will host a live talk show featuring artists from Home Is A Beautiful Word and some very special community guests. This free event is at the Belfry Theatre.
Afterplay
Following every performance of Home Is A Beautiful Word, we’ll host Afterplay where patrons can stick around and chat with fellow audience members. It’s a chance to “debrief” after a show and hear how other audience members interpreted the play.
Library Events
In collaboration with the Greater Victoria Public Library we’ll be hosting Belfry at the Library where we delve into the themes of the show and give people a behind the scenes look at the making of Home Is A Beautiful Word.
We’ll be at the Bruce Hutchinson Branch (4636 Elk Lake Drive, Saanich Commonwealth Place) on Friday, January 10 from 10:30 am to 11:15 amand at the Central Branch (735 Broughton Street) Friday, January 17 from 10:30 am to 11:15 am.
Home Is A Beautiful Word: Kids and Teen Art Contest
Throughout November the Greater Victoria Public Library hosted a Kids and Teen Art Contest asking children between 6 and 18 the questions “What does home mean to you? What would it be like to live without a home?”
All of the drawings and paintings from the contest will be displayed in the Belfry’s lobby before and during the run of Home Is A Beautiful Word.
Performances
Tuesday – Saturdays at 8 pm
Wednesday Matinee (January 15) at 1 pm
Saturday Matinees at 4 pm
Sunday Matinees at 2 pm
ASL Performance – January 12 at 2pm
An American Sign Language (ASL) interpreted performance for people who are deaf or hard of hearing. Certified interpreters, standing to the left side of the stage, interpret the script and language used by the actors at the same time it is being performed.
VocalEye Performance – January 19 at 2 pm
Audio describers provide descriptions of the visual elements of the show, allowing people with low vision to enjoy the theatrical experience without missing any of the details. Following the performance there is a touch tour of the set.
Ticket Information
To ensure that this production is accessible to all members of our community, regardless of income, the Belfry is offering:
20 complimentary tickets for each performance throughout the run. We will be distributing these tickets.
50 ‘Pay-What-You-Can’ tickets for each performance. These will be available at the door.
Agencies and organizations that deal directly with homelessness can get a 20% discount on single tickets. Groups of six or more from these organizations can get an additional discount, with each ticket being $15.
Single tickets for the show are $25 and can be booked by calling 250-385-6815, or online at www.belfry.bc.ca
Special Thanks
Home Is A Beautiful Word has been made possible by the financial contributions of The Victoria Foundation, The Vancouver Foundation and The Leon and Thea Koerner Foundation.
The Belfry’s Season Sponsors are Thrifty Foods, the Times Colonist, and Cook’s Day Off Fine Foods and Catering. The Canada Council for the Arts, the Province of British Columbia, the BC Arts Council, CRD Arts and the City of Victoria are government funders.
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For interviews, photos and HD video for the show please contact:
Mark Dusseault / Publicist
250-385-6835 / pr@belfry.bc.ca
Home is a Beautiful Word, currently at the Belfry Theatre (January 7-19th), is proof positive that contemporary theatre is relevant.
By turns stark, hard-hitting, sad, brave, uncomfortable and funny, this well-researched verbatim-theatre play challenges assumptions about homelessness by reflecting the points of view of a wide range of Victorians.
Playwright and journalist Joel Bernbaum was commissioned by the Belfry Theatre, and has spent the last two years interviewing over 500 people, then transcribing, writing, editing and work shopping the play (SPARK Festival 2012) in order to produce two hours of thought-provoking dialogue. Every word, including pauses, hesitations and interruptions, was spoken by an actual individual—nothing has been changed.
From homeowners to the homeless, children, teens, residents and business owners of the downtown core, people working in the “homeless industry”, police officers and local politicians, Bernbaum has carefully selected the vignettes to reflect the broadest spectrum possible.
One of his innovations was to do follow up interviews asking the interviewees (his sources) to pose questions. These questions were then themselves posed back to the community. In so doing, Bernbaum says he wanted to “create a dialogue between people that may not ever otherwise meet, except for their exchanges onstage.
Some of the work was funded through a Victoria Foundation grant. According to the foundation’s Victoria’s Vital Signs® 2013 report, homelessness ranks in the top five issues of local citizens.
Five actors (Yoshié Bancroft, Kelt Eccleston, Kayvon Kelly, Kevin Loring, Tracey Moore) portray the various roles. Costumes (Mara Gottler) reflect a middle class sensibility and a monochromatic and subdued colour scale. (During the talk back after the show, one of the audience members reflected that this choice allowed equal weight to all of the voices). Set design (April Viczko) is austere, featuring a back wall comprised of black-and-white prints of Victoria-area landmarks and cut-outs of faces. Lighting (Rebekkah Johnson) is subdued; the actors are often in shadow. Director Michael Shamata employs an extremely light touch, with deft subtleties and transitions between the multiple characters—nothing is forced.
Kayvon Kelly, Yoshié Bancroft, Kelt Eccleston, Tracey Moore, and Kevin Loring / Photos by David Bukach
Overall, Home is a Beautiful Word is weighty, ponderous—there’s a feeling that what is being said matters a great deal—and, surprisingly, humourous. The humour transforms the piece. Rather than a sledge-hammer, playwright Bernbaum employs a small flashlight, shining his beacon to surprise us with stories of mothers with children on the street, business owners who find themselves homeless, church-goers who only want to help, politicians overwhelmed by the enormity of the problem, people who search for the moment when their life began to slide. You’ll meet the individuals behind the generic title of “homeless” and what they have to say will challenge and conflict.
Tracey Moore, Kevin Loring, Kelt Eccleston, Kayvon Kelly (foreground), and Yoshié Bancroft / Photos by David Bukach
In true documentary fashion, there are no tidy answers, no neat endings—it’s up to us now as a community to take the next steps. Thank you to all involved in this remarkable project—it’s a turning point, a defining moment in the cultural and civic life of our city.
Please go—the Belfry has made the production accessible to all, regardless of income.
Home Is A Beautiful Word
Collected and edited by Joel Bernbaum
January 7-19, 2014
Belfry Theatre, 1291 Gladstone Avenue, Victoria, BC
Tickets $25 at 250-385-6815, or online at www.belfry.bc.ca
Starring Yoshié Bancroft, Kelt Eccleston, Kayvon Kelly, Kevin Loring, and Tracey Moore
Director Michael Shamata
Set Designer April Viczko
Costume Designer Mara Gottler
Lighting Designer Rebekah Johnson
Associate Set Designer Erin Gruber
Choreographer Laura Krewski
Stage Manager Jennifer Swan
Apprentice Stage Manager Sandra Drag
Ticket Information
To ensure that this production is accessible to all members of our community, regardless of income, the Belfry is offering:
20 complimentary tickets for each performance throughout the run. We will be distributing these tickets.
50 ‘Pay-What-You-Can’ tickets for each performance. These will be available at the door.
Agencies and organizations that deal directly with homelessness can get a 20% discount on single tickets. Groups of six or more from these organizations can get an additional discount, with each ticket being $15.
Engaging Audiences
Prior to and throughout the run of Home Is A Beautiful Word, the Belfry is producing a number of audience engagement events designed to extend the conversations the play will start.
B4Play – Saturday, January 4 at 11 am
CBC Radio’s Gregor Craigie will host a live talk show featuring artists from Home Is A Beautiful Word and some very special community guests. This free event is at the Belfry Theatre.
Afterplay
Following every performance of Home Is A Beautiful Word, we’ll host Afterplay where patrons can stick around and chat with fellow audience members. It’s a chance to “debrief” after a show and hear how other audience members interpreted the play.
Library Events
In collaboration with the Greater Victoria Public Library we’ll be hosting Belfry at the Library where we delve into the themes of the show and give people a behind the scenes look at the making of Home Is A Beautiful Word.
We’ll be at the Bruce Hutchinson Branch (4636 Elk Lake Drive, Saanich Commonwealth Place) on Friday, January 10 from 10:30 am to 11:15 am and at the Central Branch (735 Broughton Street) Friday, January 17 from 10:30 am to 11:15 am.
Home Is A Beautiful Word: Kids and Teen Art Contest
Throughout November the Greater Victoria Public Library hosted a Kids and Teen Art Contest asking children between 6 and 18 the questions “What does home mean to you? What would it be like to live without a home?”
All of the drawings and paintings from the contest will be displayed in the Belfry’s lobby before and during the run of Home Is A Beautiful Word.
ASL Performance – January 12 at 2pm
An American Sign Language (ASL) interpreted performance for people who are deaf or hard of hearing. Certified interpreters, standing to the left side of the stage, interpret the script and language used by the actors at the same time it is being performed.
VocalEye Performance – January 19 at 2 pm
Audio describers provide descriptions of the visual elements of the show, allowing people with low vision to enjoy the theatrical experience without missing any of the details. Following the performance there is a touch tour of the set.
Special Thanks
Home Is A Beautiful Word has been made possible by the financial contributions of The Victoria Foundation, The Vancouver Foundation and The Leon and Thea Koerner Foundation.
Disclaimer: I was offered complimentary tickets to attend Home is a Beautiful Word.