Scribbles - #365 - dated Saturday, May 12, 2007 - Hey, hey, Scribblers!
Come out to Urban Think tonight for a treat! Fay Hart, current Kerouac House writer-in-residence, will read at 7 pm. Do not miss it!
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Michael Whisenant writes:
LOCAL SCREENWRITER LOOKING FOR A WRITING PARTNER
If you have never met Mike Whisenant, you will be amazed at how energetic, intelligent and downright good-looking he is (ladies, think of Johnny Depp. Ok, that is enough.) If you have met him, you will realize that none of this is true.
I am working on several stories at the moment, and would like a writing partner to help me with the development of the characters. Most of it would be done via email, with an occasional live meeting.
This is not a paid position. However, the goal is to sell these as screenplays. You would be entitled to a percentage of what we make. If you are interested, contact me at 407-538-1111 or via email at Michael.whisenant@hdsupply.com
(The following was sent by Mary Elizabeth McIlvane; thanks, ME)
Women Take Stand for Better WorldGroup Urges Women to Rise in Global Silence at 1 p.m., May 13
Mother's Day is fast approaching and as we prepare to celebrate the mothers in our lives we often neglect to recognize the most important mother of all: Mother Earth. On Sunday, May 13 at 1 p.m., thousands of people around the globe will stand together in silence for five minutes in local parks, schools, churches and other gathering places to promote a better world for future generations. The result will be a 24-hour wave of standing to motivate and invigorate others to realize the dream of a better world for all.
The event was conceived by a group of women associated with The Ohio State University. Through their individual travels, they learned that many women have similar concerns about the direction the world is moving in. Inspired by a story written by Sharon Mehdi of Ashland, Oregon, The Great Silent Grandmother Gathering, collectively they decided that it was time to take a stand to make a difference. We will be standing for the world's children, grandchildren, and the seven generations beyond them, says Deb Ballam, one of the event's originators. We dream of a better future for all of the world's children.
Mehdi, who will be standing with her townsfolk in Ashland, said It was the women of Ashland who made sure the Grandmother Story got out to the world, and it is the women of Ohio who are bringing it to life. I am filled with gratitude, hope, and awe.
Jean Shinoda Bolen, a best-selling author shared the Grandmother Story with the Ohio women during a visit to Columbus last fall, and will be standing in the San Francisco Bay area. Standing in silence with others with the intention of making a difference, says Bolen, creates a feeling of peace inside that silently ripples out.
The event is not limited only to women, however, and many men have expressed excitement in participating. For the last three weeks, Julian Koss of Sarasota, Florida has actively promoted the event in his state. We are all obligated to leave for our children and the seven generations to follow a better world, says Koss.
By standing for a moment of silence, participants will recognize the importance for all of the children of the world of issues such as safe drinking water, clean air, food for all to eat, access to basic education, adequate health care and safety from violence.
While the event originated in Ohio, it has become international in scope. The event's website and promotional materials have been translated into 20 languages to attract participation in this global event. To further promote international participation, thousand of postcards promoting the event were recently distributed at the United Nations annual meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women.
Standing sites in all 50 U.S. states and around the globe are listed on the website and range from large-scale groups of a thousand or more to individual standings. Participants have the option of attending one of the gatherings listed or starting their own. More information on the event including standing sites, promotional materials and registration can be found at www.standingwomen.org.
What's Happening:
Wednesday, May 16:
Rick Yancey, author of the Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp and Alfred Kropp, The Seal of Solomon , will speak at 4:30 pm at the Orlando Public Library, 101 E. Central, Downtown Orlando.
Friday, May 18:
Come out to The Muse Book Shop from 6 to 9 for Fiesta de Mayo with Mexican fare, libations, a Mexican hat contest, and more. Darlyn Finch will be signing copies of Red Wax Rose, and Ward Larson will be signing copies of The Assassin. The Muse Book Shop is located at 112 South Woodland Boulevard in DeLand. For more information, call Janet at 386-734-0278.
Saturday, May 19:
Come out for Fay Hart's farewell reading at the Kerouac House at 8 pm. If you have not heard this lady read, you should! If you have heard her, you will want to come back and bring a friend. Light refreshments will be served. BYOB.
An Intensive One-Day Writers Conference, featuring Steve Berry, will be presented by the NE Florida Chapters of The Florida Writers Association (FWA) from 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM at the Ponte Vedra Branch Library. For more info and an online registration form, go to: http://www.floridawriters.net/
Tuesday, May 22nd:
The Thomas Burnett Swann Poetry Prize will be presented at an open reading of the poems included in Revelry 2007. 7:30 PM in the Multi-Purpose Room of the Student Center at Seminole Community College, Sanford/Lake Mary Campus. For more info, call 407-708-2058.
Wednesday, May 30th:
Speak Your Mind Poetry, an open mic, is held the last Wednesday of each month from 7-9 PM at Cranes Roost at Uptown Altamonte. For more info, go to: http://www.uptownaltamonte.com/
Saturday, June 2nd:
From New York to Orlando and back to New York, a 50th Anniversary celebration of New York City's Jazz poetry readings with Jack Kerouac and David Amram will be held at 8 PM at The Theatre of the New City, 155 2nd Avenue at 10th St., New York City. The evening features David Amram, John Ventimiglia, Jeffrey Cole and Trisha O'Brien. A group of folks from Orlando will be attending; for further info, contact Marty Cummins at 407-497-3653 or chaptersbooks@yahoo.com
Atlantic Center for the Arts - CALENDAR OF EVENTS
May 14 though June 3/Residency #124
Artists-in-Residence Program
Artists participating in Atlantic Center's Artists-in-Residence program are poet Michael Burkard, composer Stephen Jaffe, visual artist Thomas Struth, and 24 Associate Artists
Atlantic Center for the Arts
Information: 386.427.6975.
http://www.atlanticcenterforthearts.org/
Outreach is an important component of Atlantic Center's internationally acclaimed program, providing the public with the opportunity to interact with the artists. The following programs are open to the public:
Stephen Jaffe at Atlantic Center for the Arts, Joan James Harris Theater
Monday, May 21, 7 PM
Lecture/Demo and Q&A
Free; Public Invited
Thomas Struth at Daytona Beach Community College Theatre Center, Bldg 220
1200 International Speedway Boulevard
Wednesday, May 23, 11:30 AM
Illustrated talk and Q&A
Free; Public Invited
Information: contact Jason Burrell, Photography Co-Coordinator, Daytona Beach Community College, 386.506.3944
http://go.dbcc.edu/cultural_arts/technical.html
Michael Burkard at New Smyrna Beach Regional Library
In partnership with The Friends of the New Smyrna Beach Library
Saturday, May 26, 2 PM
Reading and Q&A
Free; Public Invited
Information: contact New Smyrna Beach Library, 386.424.2910
Residency Reception at Atlantic Center for the Arts, Pabst Visitor Center & Gallery
Work by Thomas Struth in the Master Artist Gallery
Meet all of the artists-in-residence
Friday, May 18, 6-8 PM
Reading and Q&A
Free; Public Invited
INsideOUT
Meet the artists participating in the 124th residency session in an open studio setting
Friday, June 1, 7 PM
Joan James Harris Theater, Atlantic Center for the Arts
1414 Art Center Avenue, New Smyrna Beach
Free to ACA members/$10 non-members
Information and reservations: 386.427.6975
Atlantic Center for the Arts Hosts Artists-in-Residence Program
Atlantic Center for the Arts 124th artists-in-residence program, May 14 through June 3, features internationally recognized poet Michael Burkard, whose twelve books of poetry are a resonant reminder of what it is like to esteem poetry over all other human speech; composer Stephen Jaffe, named the Classical Recording Foundation's Composer of the Year for 2005 and recipient of the Rome Prize; and visual artist Thomas Struth, one of Germany's most noted photographers and a leading contemporary artist whose rapturous and magisterial work is of truly global reach.
The essence of Atlantic Center's Artists-in-Residence program is to provide talented artists the opportunity to work and collaborate with contemporary masters. Selected through a competitive application process by the master artists with whom they wish to work, these associate artists come from around the world, and are university professors, post-graduate students, professionals, or full-time writers, dancers, painters or composers. During their stay, the artists spend a portion of the day working with the master artist and their group in meetings, workshops, casual conversations and other activities. They are free to spend the remainder of their time pursuing their own projects. The residencies culminate with a public presentation of works-in-progress accomplished during the residency.
Poet Michael Burkard is Associate Professor in Syracuse University's graduate creative writing program, where he has taught since 1997. His twelve poetry collections include Ruby for Grief (University of Pittsburgh, 1981), My Secret Boat: a notebook of prose and poems (W.W. Norton, 1990), Entire Dilemma (Sarabande Books, 1998) and Unsleeping (Sarabande Books, 2001). His New and Selected Poems will be published by Nightboat Books in 2007. Burkard's poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry and many other magazines. His honors include fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, two NEA grants, two New York Foundation for the Arts grants, a Whiting Writers Award, and a 2006-07 Chancellor's Citation from Syracuse University which recognized Burkard for his work in the Community Writers Project in which he teaches, bringing creating writing classes to numerous area schools and community centers, including the Onondaga Nation. Burkard also serves as a board member and poetry editor for Stone Canoe, a new journal of literature and the arts. Of Burkard's work, Denis Johnson said, Only a handful of poets live on the earth at any given time, and I believe Michael Burkard to be one of them. What a joy, and how humbling, to be confronted by an artist who has utterly abandoned himself to beauty and truth.
*For more information on Michael Burkard, please visit http://english.syr.edu/cwp/burkard.htm
Associate Artists selected to work with Burkard include Elizabeth Doud, Miami Beach, FL; Ann B. Knox, Hancock, MD; Cara Levine, Ann Arbor, MI; Linda Melick, New Paltz, NY; Joan Michelson, London, UK; Melanie Peter, Gainesville, FL; Christopher Ward, Olympia, WA; and Debra Wilk, Sanford, FL.
Composer Stephen Jaffe's Concerto for Cello and Orchestra recently premiered by the National Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin conducting, with David Hardy, cello soloist (at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.). Stephen Jaffe's music has been a feature of major concerts and festivals including the Nottingham, Tanglewood, and Oregon Bach Festivals; and heard throughout the U.S., Europe, and China. Jaffe has been the recipient of numerous awards for composition, including the Rome Prize, the Kennedy Center Friedheim Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Prize, Brandeis Creative Arts Citation, and fellowships from Tanglewood, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He was the Classical Recording Foundation's Composer of the Year in 2005. Jaffe's recent premieres have also included Cut Time (2005), conducted by Leonard Slatkin and the National Symphony; Designs for flute, guitar and percussion, introduced at the National Arts Center of Taiwan, 2002, and Homage to the Breath: Instrumental and Vocal Meditations for Mezzo-soprano and Ten Instruments, with a text by Thich Nhat Hanh, introduced at the Hirschorn Museum, Washington. The composer's most recently completed works are String Quartet No. 2 ("Aeolian and Sylvan Figures") commissioned by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society for the Miami Quartet, and Poetry of The Piedmont, for Orchestra, written for the North Carolina Symphony, for its 75th anniversary season. A native of Washington, D.C., he is Mary D.B.T. and James H. Semans Professor of Music at Duke University, where he has taught since 1981.
*For more information on Stephen Jaffe please visit http://music.duke.edu/jaffe.htm
Associate Artists selected to work with Jaffe include Jacob Cooper, New Haven, CT; Chia-Yu Hsu, Durham, NC; Takuma Itoh, Ann Arbor, MI; Seunghee Lee, Cambridge, MA; Paul Lombardi, Albuquerque, NM; Michelle McQuade, Chicago, IL; and Justin Rust, Miami, FL.
Visual artist Thomas Struth was born in 1954 in Geldern in the German state of Nordrhein-Westfalen, near Dusseldorf. He trained under Gerhard Richter and Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf from 1973 to 1980. Richter's early blurred "photopaintings" as well as the Bechers' direct, methodically composed black-and-white photographs of Germany's industrial landscape left a lasting impression on the young artist. Initially interested in painting, Struth turned his attention to photography in 1976. Thomas Struth held his first solo exhibition of black-and-white cityscapes at P.S. 1 in New York in 1978. He went on to produce similar series in Paris (1979), Rome (1984), Edinburgh (1985), Tokyo (1986), and elsewhere. In the mid-1980s, Struth began a series of color and black-and-white portraits of individuals and family groups. He has also been making one-hour video portraits since 1996. In the past decade, Struth has expanded his photographic vocabulary to include natural landscapes (jungles, deserts, forests), intimate nature studies, celebrated architectural monuments (Notre Dame, Milan's cathedral), and cityscapes.
As a result of his portrait work, Struth developed an interest in Renaissance painting, which precipitated his best-known series, the Museum Photographs. In lush, large-format color prints, Struth captured anonymous individuals and crowds looking at iconic works of Western art in the world's most popular museums. A recent New York Times review described these photographs as rapturous and magisterial, a culmination of one of the most memorable art projects of the last 20 years. From 1993 to 1996, Struth taught photography at the Staatlichen Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Karlsruhe, Germany. Comprehensive retrospective exhibitions of Struth's work have been organized by the Kunsthalle Bern (1987), Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston (1994), Carre d'Art, Musee d'Art Contemporain in Nimes (1998), and Dallas Museum of Art (2002). Struth lives and works in Dusseldorf.
Struth's work is on exhibition in Atlantic Center for the Arts Pabst Visitor Center & Gallery from April 14 through June 23. The exhibition includes two cityscapes: Rua Venceslau Bras, Sao Paolo, 2001 and Hilo Street, Jiyu Gaoka, Tokyo, 2003, as well as two large (6' x 7') prints from Struth's Museum Photographs: Audience 14 (Galleria dell'Accademia) Florence, 2004 and Audience 2 (Galleria dell'Accademia) Florence, 2004. Credit: Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.
*For more information on Thomas Struth, please visit http://mariangoodman.com/mg/nyc.html
Associate Artists selected to work with Struth include Rona Chang, Pond Eddy, NY; Joseph Maida, New York, NY; Dominga Milella, Bari, Italy; Steven Schkolne, Los Angeles, CA; Meera Margaret Singh, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Rylan Steele, Athens, GA; Liu Tzu-Cheng, Syracuse, NY; and Jiankun Xie, Syracuse, NY.
This residency program is sponsored, in part, through the generous support of the Joan Mitchell Foundation; the National Endowment for the Arts; the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs; the County of Volusia: the Mark Pabst Memorial Fund; and Advance an Artist sponsors: Eleanor & Sam Meiner, Richard Spangler, Solomon Schick, and Joseph & Sue Warren in honor of Esther Hodge.
For more information, visit the website at http://www.atlanticcenterforthearts.org/ or phone 386.427.6975.
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