Below is a recap of the meeting we had on Monday with Grace Serra from Children's Hospital.

1. PuppetArt will work with Detroit Children's Hospital to establish a performance of PuppetArt after the holidays for one of the units in the hospital.

2. The first performance will be set up as a one time performance with the idea that we will work to establish a partnership to move forward with regular performances and work to gain grant or foundation funding.

3. Possible areas that PuppetArt may performance at, is the the activity rooms for the children and the Healing Gardens during the warmer months.

4. The performances could be taped, so that the children could be able to watch them later.

5. Children who are able to come to the activity room would and the children who are not able could watch the performance from their room with the interactive video program that Children's has available.

6. Have puppet kits available after the performance so that the children could make puppets and for the children who are unable to come to the performance have the kits taken to the rooms for them.

7. Have service learning students available to assist with the making of the puppets in the individual rooms and in the activity room.

8. Have some character puppets available to visit some the the children's rooms, so that the children can actually see the puppets.

Finally, we had our meeting. Kelly, Grace and I met today to discuss PuppetArt establishing a working relationship with Children's Hospital. We discussed:

What PuppetArt had to offer the hospital;

How we could establish a program with the hospital;

What other nonprofits have done at the hospital in the regards of art;

A possible long term working relationship with the hospital.

Going forward Kelly, Grace and I are going to look at setting up a performance after the holidays, where the performance would focus on a selected group of children. We discussed having it interactive, so that children who are unable to attend the performance, may watch it from their rooms. After the performance it may be possible for the puppets to visit the children in their rooms and deliver puppet kits to them. At this point it may be possible to have service learning students available to assist the children in the making of the puppets. The performance could also be taped, so that it could be watched at a later time by the children in the hospital.

Further we discussed that after one performance we could work to find grant funding and move to establish a regular program at the hospital on a regular basis.

So as you can see our meeting today was extremely productive and it appears that PuppetArt will be establishing a working relationship with the Children's Hospital.

Our meeting with Grace on Thursday was cancelled. Grace's son was ill and she had to pick him up from school. It seems like this project has been like this from the beginning. I am truly trying to keep a positive attitude, but have to admit that it is getting difficult. Especially, since I was suppose to have lunch with Anne Williamson on Friday regarding PuppetArt and she had to cancel again.

I did attend the opening performance of the Snow Queen last night, which was an original production and very well done by PuppetArt. The performance was based off of H.C. Anderson's fairy tale. I truly did enjoy the performance and see the potential for using puppets in medicine.

Further I was able to confirm a rescheduled meeting with Grace and Kelly by the end of the day on Friday, so hopefully our meeting set for Monday, December 5th at noon will not be cancelled and we can finally move this project forward.