The Beckoning of Lovely

project film · in 13 videos (2008–2020)

The Beckoning of Lovely is Amy Krouse Rosenthal's community project, begun with a film made with John, Hank and many Nerdfighters at the Bean in Chicago on 8/8/08. Gatherings followed in Chicago on 10/10/10 and a final event at the Bean on 11/11/11, with crowds coming together to welcome lovely things into the world.

By: Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Videos by year: 2008: 2 · 2009: 1 · 2010: 4 · 2011: 3 · 2012: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2020: 1

Also known as: Beckoning Lovely

Threads

• John asks Nerdfighters to make lovely things and send them to Amy Krouse Rosenthal (2008) — asked in 2008; no response reported, 2008
• The Beckoning of Lovely: Amy Krouse Rosenthal's 10/10/10 gathering at the Bean, Chicago (2010) — project history, completed, 2010
• John invites Nerdfighters to a gathering in Chicago before the Beckoning of Lovely (2010) — ask, invitation (not a request), 2010
• John invites viewers to make their own Beckoning of Lovely greeting for Amy Krouse Rosenthal's feature film (2011) — ask, the project it belongs to reported its result, 2011
• The Beckoning of Lovely 2011 edition — project history, completed, 2011

Also named in the threads: John's 8/8/08 event in Chicago: library talk, Grant Park and The Bean (2008) · Amy Krouse Rosenthal turns 'We're here because we're here' into hope for a depressed John at her reading (2005)

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

Chicago (city) (7) · DFTBA (2) · Indianapolis (2) · doobly-doo (2) · The Fault in Our Stars (2)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2008

• 2008-09-11 · A Video about Videos — announcement: John says Rosenthal made a film, The Beckoning of Lovely, starring many Nerdfighters including him; it is only the first part of her project. — 00:01:55
  • John invites everyone to make and do lovely things and send them to Amy for her next step, calling the project right up his alley. — 00:01:55
• 2008-12-26 · Skoodilypooping — John recalls that on 8/8/08 he, Hank and many Nerdfighters made a movie, The Beckoning of Lovely, with his friend and mentor Amy Krouse Rosenthal. — 00:00:00
  • John says the movie turned out to be the first part of an ambitious project by Amy, also called The Beckoning of Lovely; more information is linked. — 00:00:00

2009

• 2009-10-06 · Victoria Beckham In Your Pants — recommendation: John recommends The Beckoning of Lovely, a profoundly moving community-based project his friend Amy Krouse Rosenthal is doing with many people, including many Nerdfighters. — 00:01:59

2010

• 2010-10-04 · The Terrible Burden of Destiny: Chicago and Waupaca — announcement: John: At the festival party John meets 'noted positive pranker' Amy Krouse Rosenthal, who is organizing an event at the Bean in Chicago, 'a kind of sequel to 8-8-08'; John will play a very minor role. — 00:01:56
  • Amy Krouse Rosenthal gives the date and time of her event: 10-10-10 at 10:10 p.m. — 00:02:03
• 2010-10-08 · GEEKING OUT Over Dying Declarations — announcement: John says today's video was going to be about a Nerdfighter gathering on Sunday at 5 p.m. in Chicago before the Beckoning of Lovely, with more info on screen. — 00:00:00
• 2010-10-13 · On Hope and Chile — John says the Beckoning of Lovely was crazy beautiful, with about a thousand people coming together with Amy Krouse Rosenthal to welcome everything lovely into the world. — 00:00:58
• 2010-12-13 · 8 Things I Love — recommendation: John recommends his friend Amy Krouse Rosenthal's Beckoning of Lovely project and a link to what happened on 10/10/10 in Chicago, which might make you cry. — 00:00:59

2011

• 2011-10-05 · SIGNING MADNESS — ask: John says viewers can be part of a feature film by his longtime collaborator Amy Krouse Rosenthal for the Beckoning of Lovely: she wants people worldwide to design their own greeting based on a Beckoning of Lovely anagram (wording unclear). — 00:02:27
  • John shows examples by Amy and by him and his friend Stan, points to a how-to video, and calls the Beckoning of Lovely an amazing project going on for three years. — 00:02:58
• 2011-10-24 · Signing Psychosis Takes Over — announcement: John notes there will be no signing or reading at the Beckoning of Lovely event: it is not about him, and he will be just one of many people trying to beckon lovely into the world. — video description
  • John will also be at the final Beckoning of Lovely event at the Bean in Chicago on November 11 (description: 11:11 AM on 11/11/11). — 00:02:55
• …and 1 statement more in 2011 — all statements of 2011

2012

• 2012-08-14 · To Be Anything At All: Thoughts from Places, Chicago and LeakyCon 2012 — John recalls that the Bean was where the first huge Nerdfighter gathering happened on 8/8/08 at 8:08 p.m., when Amy Krouse Rosenthal began The Beckoning of Lovely. — 00:02:25

2016

• 2016-08-02 · Beckoning Lovely — John: That evening Amy hosted The Beckoning of Lovely at the Bean in Millennium Park; what stuck with John most was singing an old soldiers' song to Auld Lang Syne with hundreds of people. — 00:01:40

2020

• 2020-04-28 · get your game on — John says Amy Krouse Rosenthal beckoned so much lovely into the world and helped him and many others sing and hope that we're here because we're here. — 00:03:24