open the envelope and ready your speech, try not to gloat if you win and look gracious if you lost

as we go into our last few days before the show, and as it is, after all the season of giving thanks, that's what I'd like to do

thanks to our coaches for helping us find ways through ideas and possibilities:
Peter Ryan, Lisa Twardowska, Naomi Sparrow

thanks to the technical help of many:
Tasha Waldron, Shainna LaViolette, SAW, Artengine, Arts Court, Zan Chandler - oh, and the insurance lady and our accountant!

thanks to our funders:
the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Ottawa, the Community Foundation of Ottawa (extra big thanks to Peter and the Council for the Arts in Ottawa for helping us secure the CFO money), James Missen's liberation 30 fund

thanks to our board for signing on and seeing us through

thanks to our friends and families for putting up with this year's obsession... at least we haven't made you do nearly as much work this year as in previous ones!!

thanks especially to our artistic collaborators Uta Riccius and Katherine Gillieson for making helping us make art out of a bunch of ideas

and, because i'm writing this, I get to say thanks to Elizabeth for, well, everything

(cue the music and bring the blond model out to escort me off the stage...)