I have been asked to be "living art piece".  When you stop laughing I will explain.  One of the art teachers at school is involved in some way with GAM, Torino's modern art museum.  The exhibition at the moment is based on Andy Warhol's "15 minutes of fame" expression.  An "artist" named Giulio Poalini, (he's a well known Italian artist but does the type of modern art that he calls  poor art and I call crap like empty picture frames and a pile of toilet paper on the floor) has built a little arena in the museum's courtyard and invited people to come and "perform" for 15 minutes every day at noon.  Stefano, the art teacher, has asked me to do a read aloud to our Kindergartners as part of this exhibition.  He has a son in Kinder who loves to come to the library for story time and Stefano thinks people would like to watch us??  I'm dubious but I'll do it.  Everyone needs their 15 minutes!  My only worry is that working with Kindergartners is already like herding cats.  Add a bus ride, a new place, in public, surrounded by lots of people and it spells freaking CRAZY!  There is no way they'll calm down enough for me to read to them but we'll see.  If nothing else it will be good for a laugh and a half day away from school!  Wish me luck.  xxoo me