Category — Announcements

Thanks Zoe for everything and for the fun times we spent together. I loved our IDC class, and I’ll miss it. Thanks to you, I was able to make my mind a little more artistic and learned different kinds of artworks (although some were very boring). Just being honest =).

Well, just wanted to say thanks for everything, and I’ll miss everyone!

p.s. we should keep this blog alive! In the beginning, I didn’t want to post cause I thought it was boring and I just did so because we had to, but towards the end of the semester, I found myself coming to this blog more than I did facebook (and I speak for Walter as well). Well… Thanks for all the fun!

Love you all!

We have doubled our storage space on the blog (our limit is now 200MB) so there should be no more trouble uploading video as long as we follow the procedures Lynn set up. As a final act please upload your final creative works, whether they are podcasts or videos, to the blog when you’re done. I look forward to seeing you all on Wednesday at 3:30.

I am sure you remember that we are not meeting this Wednesday afternoon. Don’t forget that you have a blurb due tomorrow (Wednesday). When you post please remember to check the ‘Blurb’ category. 

On Thursday we are attending Taking Over at the Public Theater (click here for location). The show begins at 8pm. Please arrive no later than 7:45pm; I will meet you in the theater lobby to give you your ticket. The show goes for 90 minutes. then we are staying afterwards for a post-show discussion. I think you can expect to be done by 10:30. 

If you’re looking for a free event close to home, on Saturday (Dec. 7) at 7pm in the Baruch Performing Arts Center the Acting Company will be holding a dress rehearsal of its latest production, James Fenimore Cooper’s The Spy. This dress rehearsal is free but you must RSVP either by stopping by the BPAC Box Office (25th St. lobby of the Vertical Campus) or by calling the box office at (646) 312-5073.

Sunday is the Snapshot NYC event at Macaulay; you are required to be there to participate in the planned events following the schedule you received recently. 

Your final review is due next Wednesday (12/10) in both written and podcast form. Please bring your computers and flip cameras to class on that day as we’ll be using them. 

Phew that’s enough!

Blurb #3 is due Wednesday. Please check the “Blurbs” category when posting your writing to the blog. And save your blurb on your own computer in the event of catastrophic blog meltdown (or, in Dr. Atomic terms, in case the atmosphere catches on fire).

Next item… bring your (charged) laptops and the podcast you created of review #3 to class on Wednesday. We will continue working with Lynn to fine-tune your podcasts and prepare them for posting to the blog.

At 4:10 we will be attending a performance and conversation with the Alexander String Quartet in the Engleman Recital Hall at the Baruch Performing Arts Center.

Finally, I trust you are all working on your next creative assignment, which is due Nov. 26. This time, your assignment is to create a text-based work (poetry or prose, fiction or non-fiction) that continues your development of the theme you’ve worked with in the past two phases of the project. I’m not looking for a text that describes your ideas – I’m looking for texts that embody, evoke, suggest, riff of, or otherwise creatively explore your theme. You can plan to read your text to the class if you’d like to. In any case bring seventeen copies of your text to class on Nov. 26 (that’s one copy for everyone including me). If you have questions feel free to post them as comments and/or bring them to class.

Hey guys! This is the email my theater professor sent me. Some free events for your reviews and blurbs.

This Friday and Saturday there is a festival of plays by first Native American/First Nations playwrights. All shows are free.

The Public Theatre
425 Lafayette St
New York, NY 10003
(212) 539-8500
www.publictheater.org

The Public Theater
Thursday, November 13 at 8pm – FREE
The Conversion of Ka’ahumanu
By Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl (Native Hawaiian /Samoan)
Set in Hawaii during the early 19th Century, this poignant piece
explores the complex relationships amongst Christian missionaries andindigenous women forty years after the islands’ first contact with the West. Honolulu-based writer Victoria Kneubuhl is a recipient of the prestigious Hawai`i Award for Literature.
(Post Show Discussion)

Friday, November 14 at 8pm – FREE
Chasing Honey
By Laura Shamas (Chickasaw)
Directed by Alanis King (Odawa Nation)
With her loving father serving in Afghanistan and her drug-addicted
mother coming back into her life, Sandy turns to Len, keeper of a
struggling bee colony and new member of her college’s Native AmericanStudies Club. Chasing Honey has received workshops at Native Earth in Toronto and Native Voices at The Autry in Los Angeles.
(Post Show Discussion: Contemporary Native Playwriting)

Saturday, November 15 at 8pm – FREE
Re-Creation Story
By Eric Gansworth (Onondaga)
Directed by Leigh Silverman
Novelist, poet, essayist and visual artist Eric Gansworth, winner of
the PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles National Literary Award for Fiction,brings us his personal exploration of the Haudenosaunee creationnarrative. He playfully alters the oral tradition’s fluid nature to reflect issues relevant to a contemporary Haudenosaunee life.
Post Show Discussion: Bringing Oral Tradition to the Stage
Special Guests: Eric Gansworth (playwright), Daniel David Moses
(playwright), Leigh Silverman (director), and Edward Wemytewa
(playwright/performer).