My name:
Seth Brigham
My age: 41
My family: Parents deceased, lived in Boulder in the late '50s, father/Artist(all mediums) went to CU Grad School in Art Educational philosophy, Doctorate in Art philosophy B.U., administrator in public schools (Attleboro, Mass.), who introduced experiential art education as a primary subject, curriculum in public schools. Mother; artist/Clay, and Masters in Social work. Father passed away in 2005. Mother in 1994 of Mad Cows Disease/Jacob Cruetzzfeld disease (no cure)...2 brothers;
Evan, who teaches Phys Ed in Tunisia in International School, brother
Jon, who works for a NGO in Indonesia building health care facilities in Tsunami areas. Two sisters;
Jayce, who works as a teachers aide in special education... sister
Loren, mentally ill on SSI with bipolar/manic-depression.
Education: University of Colorado; BA in writing, English literature, post grad worl in Elementary education (1983-1990)
What I do: Receive SSI for Bipolar/Manic depression, volunteer, artist and activist.
My favorite place in town to hang out: Trident café, Boulder
What I like most about living here: The Open space, being so cose to the Mountains and "my" downtown, which "they" have over developed.
My interests and hobbies: Writing; poetry and fiction, editorial... politics, photography, video production
My favorite thing to cook: Salmon and vegetables stir fry and pasta with veggies and sausages.
People who inspire me (and how):
Bob Dylan; what a writer and a show man!
Martin Luther King; self explanatory,
JFK; but that has faded away...
Franklin and
Eleanor Roosevelt and
Abe Lincoln; Frank was crippled and helped the disabled, ER was the greatest! And Abe was a manic depressive who tried to make peace between the two sides of America and helped free the slaves. Let's not forget
Vincent Van Gogh, another manic depressive who saw things so intensely like so many of us do.
Why I am running: The biggest issues facing Boulder now: CORRUPTION involving Boulder City Council and City Government and over development, building too fast, without architectural design/aesthetic and no open parks. 29th street mall was a shame, mismanaged... The proposed Convention Center downtown. This idea will make downtown "unlivable." How about expanding central park? And, maybe having a Convention center in conjunction with the millennium or after the Transit village is near completion???
How I have contributed to the community: I worked for the Rocky Mountain Peace Center in the mid 80's to protect Nicaragua... I was on my Council in a public housing unit, I volunteered for moveon.org during the elections of 2004, broke two scandals; one involving a painting company illegally being run out a Boulder Housing Partners in 2001-2003, Broke scandal involving BTV, BCM, involving abuse of public access station 54/22 and fraud and embezzlement by Tony Perri (
www.tonyperri.com/www.serotoninrising.com). Was a volunteer/producer for CatV/54 public access from 1990's until 2006, when Perri, Council/McGrath, Satlow and City took over our station to control content and produce movies, productions and community programming and barred many access producers with lies and banishments, in my opinion.