Anyone can become part of Dialogue's ongoing wisdom project. A table with blank books on it allow viewers to write their own insights for others to read. Selected quotations gleaned from the books -- and submitted at this Web site -- have been published in the third edition Dialogue book and also added to the statues as the project tours so viewers can read what people in previous cities wrote.

There is no attempt to make a particular view prevail in Dialogue. New understanding and appreciation emerge instead. People engage in meaningful conversation and personal reflection to advance the creative process of living. During a dialogue, defensiveness and division dissipate and transform into empathy, fellowship and friendship.

Dialogue intercepts and engages people during their regular routines in order to challenge and inspire viewers to reflect on social issues, gain new personal insights and enjoy public art. Dialogue is installed in busy metropolitan areas such as public squares, parks, tourist attractions and other highly trafficked areas. The screens have reached an audience of over 200,000 people in person and millions more via mass media.

An award winning documentary about creating the project and taking it around the country in 2006 has just been released on DVD and is having a limited theatrical release.

Dialogue has been created as a public service to:
• Generate personal inspiration and reflection
• Enliven our public spaces
• Promote literacy and education awareness
• Create new avenues and audiences for public art
• Provide the mass media with a positive, inspirational story
• Help advance communication between people of diverse backgrounds
• Spark meaningful, deep conversations among viewers

2/11/2008
Documentary screenings: premier is March 9th in San Francisco with additional screenings planned at the Festivus Film Festival in Denver, the Garden State Film Festival in Asbury Park (April 5th), the Seattle Independent Film Festival (June), Eureka (late March), Los Angeles (early July), Santa Barbara (early July), San Luis Obispo (early July) and more dates added weekly. We are continuing to plan our 2008 national tour for late August to October. Cities we will be visiting include: Fairfield (CT), Warren (OH), Boston, Longmont / Boulder (CO), Asheville (NC), Chicago, Tampa, Sandpoint (ID), Santa Fe, Seattle and more.

11/11/2007
The Dialogue documentary is finished! Submission kits are being mailed to film festivals around the country. We'll begin hearing back from festivals in December, so stay tuned for the 2008 festival schedule. We have already been pre-accepted into two festivals, but cannot release their names yet. Extensive extras -- such as additional city scenes; more interviews; photo gallery; discussions about public art, dialogue, and freedom of expression... and more -- are being created for the DVD. In preparation for the Dialogue movie release in 2008, we'll be launching a new Website with more interactive features and exciting new design. We are also putting together a trailer, which should be up on the site by late December.

9/17/2007
We've just finished principal editing of the Dialogue documentary! In some scenes we are now adding graphics where quotations will "float" off the installation panels to enhance the audience's experience of the project. Our composers are finishing their cues and we'll be sending the picture off to color correction and sound sweetening next month.

Over 30 communities have expressed interest in bringing the Dialogue installation, documentary and our crew (Blake, Sally and I) to their cities in 2008. We will begin finalizing our 2008 tour schedule as we begin hearing back from film festivals.

6/11/2007
Check out my new Huffington Post blog. I will be writing about the adventures we are having on this extended tour of America, public space issues (how our public spaces are managed and controlled), the power of dialogue, freedom of expression, public art, the arts community and the creative process.

We have begun our outreach for the 2008 tour by reconnecting with some of the incredible people we met in 2006 as well as making new connections. So far, we are getting a good response from city, arts and/or civic organizations in Spokane, Boise, DC, Warren, San Francisco, Chicago, Portland, Boston, etc. We plan on adding around 20 cities to the 2008 tour. And this time we will be bringing the documentary too... a full multi-media experience! If you are interested in bringing us to your community (the public art installation and/or the documentary), please see our sponsorship page.

8/22/2006
We (Blake, Sally, Bret and I) just finished the first Dialogue Project national tour. Driving from San Francisco to New York and back - while installing Dialogue in 13 cities along the way - was expensive, exhausting, intense, time consuming and ... worth it!

What an incredible experience meeting thousands of people across the country; juggling media, tour logistics, permitting and documentary film making; sightseeing; talking with community leaders and more!

There were times on the tour where I just wanted to go home and felt it was not worth it, other times when I could not believe the extraordinary things that were happening. Each city and micro-location has its own personality and stories to tell. And, it has all been captured for the documentary that I'll be working on with my post production crew during the rest of 2006 and into 2007.

Thank you to my kindred companions for all the support and fun on the road:
Sally, a life-long friend who has always supported my audacious projects 110%;
Bret, (Sally's son) a wonderful travel companion and confederate since my first public art project in 1990; and
Blake, my friend & partner.

Overall, everything went more smoothly then I thought... no major car breakdowns (Shell Truck made it fine over the Rocky Mountains even!), injuries or arrests. We had some minor bumps... like when Blake wanted to send Sally and Bret home in Chicago due to the way they were interacting with each other. Or, when I finally blew up in Denver from exhaustion and frustration and almost drove home from there. The tour was more tiring then I expected, but also more satisfying.

A highlight for me was talking with people around the country who were truly inspired by Dialogue... seeing how the project affected people was touching. The warm receptions we received by our hosts in Warren, OH and St. Louis was wonderful. And, meeting Mary Lou Cook in Santa Fe was a pleasure. She is one of the luminaries I have quoted on the screens.

For more details about the tour, please click on the city page links at: http://www.dialogueproject.net/tour.shtml