#Joyce Harkin

[iphoneartgirl]

I’m coming up on 9 years making mobile art now and I get the SAME joy I’ve had from the beginning when something I’ve made inspires another mobile artist.

Today, Joyce Harkin, a UK mobile artist, wrote in an interview for The App Whisperer that “Native American Princesses: Abandoned, Raped or Sterilized. Let’s Don’t Make America Great Again” was the saddest mobile image she’d seen lately. 

I love that that image moved Joyce deeply! 

That’s what I’m aiming for... powerful, memorable emotional connection of my heart to the hearts of other mobile artists around the globe (and anyone else watching our exchange from the wings). 

I’ve been marked by 1000′s of  people through the global mobile art movement and I count myself a wildly fortunate woman for it. 

See Joyce’s whole interview here: http://theappwhisperer.com/2018/11/mobile-art-and-photography-that-has-influenced-me-interview-with-joyce-harkin-from-the-united-kingdom/?fbclid=IwAR3J1YsLsLapWIXwsxDIHDj-2cxl4ID36W5HGlaTPff-Pn0bBoqN1NVX-9M

[oberlincollegelibraries]

Weekend Edition: Essays, Part 2

We’re back today with more collections of essays. Remember to see our post Here for You to learn how you can access the following materials remotely. Even if you are not on campus, both printed materials and electronic resources are still available to you!

The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America edited by Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman

Presents essays by first- and second-generation immigrant writers on the realities of immigration, multiculturalism, and marginalization in an increasingly divided America. From Trump's proposed border wall and travel ban to the marching of White Supremacists in Charlottesville, America is consumed by tensions over immigration and the question of which bodies are welcome. In this much-anticipated follow-up to the bestselling UK edition, hailed by Zadie Smith as "lively and vital," editors Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman hand the microphone to an incredible range of writers whose humanity and right to be here is under attack. Chigozie Obioma unpacks an Igbo proverb that helped him navigate his journey to America from Nigeria. Jenny Zhang analyzes cultural appropriation in 90s fashion, recalling her own pain and confusion as a teenager trying to fit in. Fatimah Asghar describes the flood of memory and emotion triggered by an encounter with an Uber driver from Kashmir. Alexander Chee writes of a visit to Korea that changed his relationship to his heritage. These writers, and the many others in this singular collection, share powerful personal stories of living between cultures and languages while struggling to figure out who they are and where they belong. By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, troubling and uplifting, the essays in The Good Immigrant come together to create a provocative, conversation-sparking, multivocal portrait of America now.

Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy edited by Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll "With hundreds of thousands of copies sold, a Ron Howard movie in the works, and the rise of its author as a media personality, J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis has defined Appalachia for much of the nation. What about Hillbilly Elegy accounts for this explosion of interest during this period of political turmoil? Why have its ideas raised so much controversy? And how can debates about the book catalyze new, more inclusive political agendas for the region's future? Appalachian Reckoning is a retort, at turns rigorous, critical, angry, and hopeful, to the long shadow Hillbilly Elegy has cast over the region and its imagining. But it also moves beyond Hillbilly Elegy to allow Appalachians from varied backgrounds to tell their own diverse and complex stories through an imaginative blend of scholarship, prose, poetry, and photography. The essays and creative work collected in Appalachian Reckoning provide a deeply personal portrait of a place that is at once culturally rich and economically distressed, unique and typically American. Complicating simplistic visions that associate the region almost exclusively with death and decay, Appalachian Reckoning makes clear Appalachia's intellectual vitality, spiritual richness, and progressive possibilities."--Back cover

Victorian Comedy and Laughter: Conviviality, Jokes and Dissent edited by Louise Lee This innovative collection of essays is the first to situate comedy and laughter as central rather than peripheral to nineteenth century life. Victorian Comedy and Laughter: Conviviality, Jokes and Dissent offers new readings of the works of Charles Dickens, Edward Lear, George Eliot, George Gissing, Barry Pain and Oscar Wilde, alongside discussions of much-loved Victorian comics like Little Tich, Jenny Hill, Bessie Bellwood and Thomas Lawrence. Tracing three consecutive and interlocking moods in the period, all of the contributors engage with the crucial critical question of how laughter and comedy shaped Victorian subjectivity and aesthetic form. Malcolm Andrews, Jonathan Buckmaster and Peter Swaab explore the dream of print culture togetherness that is conviviality, while Bob Nicholson, Louise Lee, Ann Featherstone, Louise Wingrove and Oliver Double discuss the rise-on-rise of the Victorian joke -- both on the page and the stage -- while Peter Jones, Jonathan Wild and Matthew Kaiser consider the impassioned debates concerning old and new forms of laughter that took place at the end of the century.

Why I Like This Story edited by Jackson R. Bryer

On the assumption that John Updike was correct when he asserted, in a 1978 letter to Joyce Carol Oates, that "Nobody can read like a writer," Why I Like This Story presents brief essays by forty-eight leading American writers on their favorite American short stories, explaining why they like them. The essays, which are personal, not scholarly, not only tell us much about the story selected, they also tell us a good deal about the author of the essay, about what elements of fiction he or she values. Among the writers whose stories are discussed are such American masters as James, Melville, Hemingway, O'Connor, Fitzgerald, Porter, Carver, Wright, Updike, Bellow, Salinger, Malamud, and Welty; but the book also includes pieces on stories by canonical but lesser-known practitioners such as Andre Dubus, Ellen Glasgow, Kay Boyle, Delmore Schwartz, George Garrett, Elizabeth Tallent, William Goyen, Jerome Weidman, Peter Matthiessen, Grace Paley, William H. Gass, and Jamaica Kincaid, and relative newcomers such as Lorrie Moore, Kirstin Valdez Quade, Phil Klay, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Edward P. Jones. Why I Like This Story will send readers to the library or bookstore to read or re-read the stories selected. Among the contributors to the book are Julia Alvarez, Andrea Barrett, Richard Bausch, Ann Beattie, Andre Dubus, George Garrett, William H. Gass, Julia Glass, Doris Grumbach, Jane Hamilton, Jill McCorkle, Alice McDermott, Clarence Major, Howard Norman, Annie Proulx, Joan Silber, Elizabeth Spencer, and Mako Yoshikawa. Editor Jackson R. Bryer is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Maryland.

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NEM Submissions #takingitslow - curator Jane Schultz.

" Thanks for being a part of the New Era Museum showcase of #stormyweather We Iove the mood, the intensity, the emotion that permeate your images, and you gave your best of those to us here in this NEM digital space. Your images captured the creative inspiration of the theme. Andrea and I continued to be overwhelmed by your talent and creativity. As so often the case, it was very difficult to select just 10 images to highlight, but I did manage to narrow it down to 10 extraordinary ones"  -- Jane Schultz

FEATURED WORKS BY: MaryJane Rosenfeld, Edith Meier, Vicki Cooper, Pati John, Joyce Harkin, Janis Brandenburg Lee, Alka Sing, Filiz Ak, Dieter Gaebel, and Deborah Klevan Morbeto.

[ask-joyce-byers]

That lego space digger sounds great! I can't tell you much about the future but there is a figure of Will and perhaps Jonathan as well. The reasoning for such is well, how can I put it? Let's just say events at Harkins a few years ago are more "public" in my time. Anymore info might cause a displacement of time and we don't want another one of those. Have a lovely day as well Joyce!

Here’s Will’s space digger thingy. I understand you not wanting to give away too much information and displace time again. 

Wait, again?

[mostlysignssomeportents]

#5yrsago Well-Sorted Version, an alphabetical Bible.

The Well-Sorted Version of the King James Bible takes all the letters in the Bible, preserves the order of upper- and lower-case letters, sorts the letters into alphabetical order, and "pours" the sorted letters back "into all the structure of books, chapters, verses, paragraphs, and words."  Peter Harkins, who created the Well-Sorted Version, is accepting pledges to order the book in a limited, $300 edition, with cleat-sewn, acid/lignen-free paper bound into hot-foil-stamped leather, produced by the Grimm Bindery in Madison, WI, which will go into production if there's sufficient interest. There are also plans for cheaper hardcover/paperback editions and a $20 PDF version.

I once handled and enjoyed a similarly prepared edition of Joyce's Ulysses. It was a surprisingly great read.

https://boingboing.net/2014/02/20/well-sorted-version-an-alphab.html

[zeldaspeaksmindfulness]

COURT THEATRE ANNOUNCES PREMIERE OF SPOTLIGHT PODCAST HIGHLIGHTING BLACK WRITERS

Chicago, IL - Court Theatre, under the continuing leadership of Charles Newell, Marilyn F. Vitale Artistic Director, and Executive Director Angel Ysaguirre, announces the online premiere of its Spotlight Podcast. A key component of Court’s community engagement work, the Spotlight Series—which has in the past brought staged readings from BIPOC playwrights to local communities on Chicago’s South and West sides—has been reimagined for 2021 as a series of four audio podcast episodes directed and performed by local theatre artists. The first season of the podcast focuses on Black literary figures from history not typically explored by theatres, and features readings from works by novelist and editor Pauline Hopkins; activist and journalist Ida B. Wells; poet Phillis Wheatley, and diarist Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson. Literary excerpts are read by Chicago actors Sheldon Brown, Kierra Bunch, Diana Coates, LaQuis Harkins, and Aneisa Hicks.

“With our Spotlight Reading Series, we wanted to revamp our hallmark community engagement program into a podcast,” says Aaron Mays, Court’s Community Programs Manager and host and creator of the podcast. “In it, we will expand our original scope to not only read plays but to feature classic literary texts, such as memoirs, speeches, poetry, and novels, by Black, indigenous and other writers of color.”

“We’re thrilled by the opportunity to explore new mediums of expression and reach new audiences with our first foray into podcasting,” shares Angel Ysaguirre, Executive Director of Court Theatre. “Each of the literary figures explored in the Spotlight Podcast offers illuminating insights into the world we live in from a singular perspective that is thrillingly brought to life by some of Chicago’s best actors.”

Court commissioned artist Isaac Maysonet to create distinct episode portraits for the Spotlight Podcast. The artwork updates archival portraits of each writer in Maysonet’s distinct, graphic style.

Episodes of the pilot season will be released on February 18, February 25, March 4, and March 11, 2021. The Spotlight Podcast will be available for streaming on Court’s website at CourtTheatre.org, as well as on listening apps like Spotify, Google Podcasts, and Apple Podcast.

The Spotlight Reading Series is made possible, in part, by a grant from The Joyce Foundation.

About Court’s Spotlight Reading Series

Since 2016, Court’s Spotlight Reading Series has helped to redefine—and ultimately expand—the canon of classic theatre by presenting readings of rarely produced plays by authors of color. Each season, Resident Artist Ron OJ Parson curates several plays to be presented as readings. Audiences come together in neighborhoods around Chicago to watch actors perform the plays with scripts in hand, and often have a chance to speak with the artists afterward at a post-show Q&A.

The series, which is currently on hiatus due to the pandemic, aims to introduce more Chicagoans to the authors and their work, which are rarely produced. Court builds community connections beyond our mainstage productions with neighborhood-based cultural institutions, nonprofits, and civic groups who often host our readings. All performances are free and open to the public.

Court Theatre is the professional theatre of the University of Chicago, dedicated to innovation, inquiry, intellectual engagement, and community service. Court endeavors to make a lasting contribution to classic American theatre by expanding the canon of translations, adaptations, and classic texts. The theatre revives lost masterpieces; illuminates familiar texts; explores the African American theatrical canon; and discovers fresh, modern classics. Court engages and inspires its audience by providing artistically distinguished productions, audience enrichment activities, and student educational experiences. In all of this work, we are committed to recognizing, addressing, and eradicating racism, as we strive to better serve our South Side community.

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So I made a list of all the books I have on me, more for my own sake (since I’m moving) than anything else, but if you wanna know what I’m about I guess, here it is.

Fiction:

I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader by Samuel Beckett

The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling by Lawrence Block

The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian by Lawrence Block

The Master & Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

The Insides by Jeremy P. Bushnell

The Plague by Albert Camus

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Dr. Bloodmoney by Philip K. Dick

The Philip K. Dick Reader by Philip K. Dick

Bachelor Boys: The Young Ones Book by Ben Elton, Rik Mayall, and Lise Mayer (I actually have two copies of this one)

Amphigorey by Edward Gorey

Amphigorey Too by Edward Gorey

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett 

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Amerika by Franz Kafka

The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka

Flywheel, Shyster, & Flywheel: The Marx Brothers’ Lost Radio Show edited by Michael Barson

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Death and Dementia by Edgar Allen Poe

Going Postal by Terry Pratchett

All the Wrong Questions 1: “Who Could That Be at This Hour?” by Lemony Snicket

All the Wrong Questions 2: “When Did You See Her Last?” by Lemony Snicket

All the Wrong Questions 3: “Shouldn’t You Be in School?” by Lemony Snicket

All the Wrong Questions 4: “Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights?” by Lemony Snicket

The Beatrice Letters by Lemony Snicket

Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography (out of alphabetical order cuz it’s unauthorized of course)

The Story of My Assassins by Tarun J. Tejpal

Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

Filth by Irvine Welsh

Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse

Nonfiction/Theory/Biography:

Alfred Hitchcock: A Brief Life by Peter Ackroyd

Tiki Cocktails: 200 Super Summery Drinks by David Adams

The Encyclopedia of Orson Welles by Chuck Berg and Tom Erskine 

The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus

Martin Gardner's Table Magic by Martin Gardner

Prototyping and Modelmaking for Product Design by Bjarki Hallgrimsson

Magic: Stage Illusions, Special Effects, and Trick Photography by Albert A. Hopkins (this book’s content was originally published in 1896 and I think that’s cool as hell)

Three Stooges FAQ by David J. Hogan

The Satanic Bible by Anton Szandor LaVey (this was a joke gift from a friend in high school, I’m not a LaVeyan Satanist)

Savage Cinema: Sam Peckinpah and the Rise of Ultraviolent Movies by Stephen Prince

UFOs? Yes!: Where the Condon Committee Went Wrong by David R. Saunders and R. Roger Harkins

VideoHound’s Complete Guide to Cult Flicks and Trash Pics by Carol Schwartz

Bogart by A.M. Sperber and Eric Lax

Maus I: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman

Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman

The Ego and His Own by Max Stirner

Mark Wilson’s Complete Course in Magic by Mark Wilson and Walter Gibson (I’ve had this book since I was in elementary school and I still love it tbh)

Insects: A Guide to Familiar American Insects by Herbert S. Zim, Ph.D. and Clarence Cottam, Ph.D. (this was originally my dad’s that I kinda usurped as a kid. It’s a 1956 edition and definitely looks its age)

The 2015 Little League Official Regulations and Playing Rules (from when I was an umpire, idk why I still have it)

[nightmare-afton-cosplay]

Missouri’s Castle House Is the Most Haunted Place in the Midwest—Buy It If You Dare!

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The owners of the historic Castle House in Brumley, MO, have taken what is usually considered a negative for any home—its reputation for being haunted—and turned it into a positive. Billed as the Haunted Castle House, it’s currently operating as a ghost-themed B&B, offering both ghost tours and overnight stays.

The property has even earned the title of “most haunted house in the Midwest.” If you’re going to live in a haunted house, why not have it be the most haunted?

The four-bedroom, two-bath house, built in 1850 by Dr. Walter Dixon, is called the Castle House, thanks to its unusual building style. It was inspired by a home Dr. Dixon saw in London, and its walls are made of thick, poured concrete (now clad in siding). It includes a 30-foot turret and a staircase that the good doctor had shipped from the United Kingdom.

The home served as his office, and the legend is that he made even his sickest patients haul themselves up his fancy staircase to be seen.

The turret

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So why is it so haunted?

OK, this is where creepy things start happening. Aside from the usual deaths you’d expect from a country doctor’s office, the Castle House has been the site of several major tragedies.

Mrs. Martha Dixon, wife of Walter, was a socialite who hosted elaborate parties in the Castle House for local notables and politicians. Legend has it that one Saturday, near the turn of the century, she was preparing to host her biggest party yet, but died suddenly before her guests arrived. Dr. Dixon found her body at the head of the stairs.

According to Dave Harkins, Director of the Ozarks Paranormal Society, over the last 100 years there have been multiple reports of “a woman in an antique party dress” lingering at the top of the stairs or haunting the second floor. She’s also known as the “crying woman” or “screaming woman”, and there have been reports of disembodied screams on the second floor as well.

But wait, that’s not all! In 1862, Union troops bivouacked in the pasture around the house. After a guerrilla attack by Confederate troops, a truce was called, and injured soldiers from both sides were brought to the Castle House for treatment. Dr. Dixon had a field hospital set up on the south side of the house.

Several Civil War-era artifacts have been found in the area, and in the 1960s, local kids allegedly found a Confederate uniform in a bundle under the porch, lending credence to this report.

The staircase Dr. Dixon imported from London

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“There are at least 20 known graves on the property,” says Harkins, and some of those are thought to be casualties from this skirmish. Which means there’s a creepy unmarked graveyard on the property. “They had some cadaver dogs come out and found some caskets,” explains listing agent Joyce Wheeler.

In 1912, the house was sold to another medic, Dr. Myron D. Jones. Dr. Jones also practiced out of the house, and in 1918, when the flu pandemic tore through Brumley, tents had to be set up in the yard again to house the hundreds of sick patients that he treated. The rest of the graves are believed to be flu victims.

After Dr. Jones retired, the house fell into disrepair for 50 years until it was purchased by the current owners in 2013.

As you can see, you’ve got more than enough restless spirits, between the unmarked graves and the soldiers, and the doctors’ patients, and the flu outbreak, and Mrs. Dixon. But what are the ghosts actually up to?

The paranormal investigation of the Castle House

“I was contacted by the owners of the Castle House to come and help them understand some of the strange occurrences they had been experiencing,” explains Harkins. He and his team of paranormal investigators headed to Brumley to see what was going on.

People actually pay to sleep in this haunted place.

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“During that preliminary investigation of the property, we experienced several strange occurrences,” he says. “The two most notable were disembodied whistling that seemed to follow us around the property. The second is what sounded like footsteps following us in certain upstairs areas of the house.”

And that was during the day. That’s how haunted this place is. A few weeks later, they braved the spirits and came back at night.

“During our investigation, we had many personal experiences, including whistling, cold spots, seeing furniture moving on its own, and hearing crying or weeping,” he explains. As far as solid evidence is concerned, he adds, “We captured several Class A EVPs or ‘Electronic Voice Phenomena.’ This occurs when we ask a question aloud and receive an answer not heard by a living person, and only captured on the recording medium, such as a digital recorder or video camera, or heard through a speaker or headphones.” (You can listen to the recording here).

Yep, that looks creepy all right.

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Oh, but there’s more. Harkins explains:

“There is also a video shot in the upstairs bedroom that was used as the exam room. In the video, we set up a motion detector, and asked whatever may be in the room with us to manipulate it. We would ask the spirit to turn it on and off, and it seemed to react on command for several hours. There were three investigators present during this session, and all three of us were well outside of the motion detector’s range.”

Dine with the ghosts.

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Got goosebumps yet? They attribute the weeping to Mrs. Dixon, since that seems to be her historical MO. The EVP, they think, may be from yet another tragedy:

“We also think that the EVP we captured of the little girl saying ‘Please help me,’ could be the spirit of a young girl that was taken to the Castle House after being burnt over most of her body, after a large kettle of boiling water spilled on her while her mother was washing clothes. It is said that she died on the property eight days later.”

So, yeah … pretty thoroughly haunted.

Now’s your chance to own all of this creepy, creepy stuff

After buying the Castle House in 2013, the current owners restored it to its former glory. “They’ve done a lot of rehab work, but kept the haunted look,” says Wheeler. And because they’re looking for a change of scenery, this horror-movie-in-the-making can be yours for the low price of $119,900. That’s an almost unbeatable ghost-per-dollar value.

So if you’re the kind of person who hears about a haunted mansion with a backyard full of unmarked graves and thinks, “That’s the place for me,” well, jump on this deal. After all, it’s your funeral (cue maniacal laugher and organ music).

Sitting room.

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[b-ja]

The 22nd Element Workshop - ELEMENT 01 - UNITY

"The 22th Element. A visual workshop by Andrea Bigiarini. (Stop making images and start create powerful visual messages) All the methods used in this workshop are © by Andrea Bigiarini We perceive images using 21 visual archetypes. Start using these 21 archetypes (Elements) for creating powerful Visual Messages (photos). - This workshop is composed of 21 weekly sessions - Each session will be focused on 1 Element and contains a “mission” you have to accomplish."  -- ANDREA BIGIARINI

ELEMENT 01 - UNITY

What unites EMOTIONALLY or LOGICALLY one subject with another. An obvious logical or emotional link between two subjects on the scene.

PHOTOS BY: Philomena Brady‎, Rob Pearson-Wright‎, Virginie Blanc-Brude‎, Lou O'Leary‎, Lene Basma Horsnell‎, Grant Basma Horsnell‎, Basia Łucka‎, Katie Saxby‎, Andrea Koerner‎, Susan R Thompson‎, Fenton Lawless‎, L Steven Hall‎, Meg Greene Malvasi‎, Frédéric Deschênes‎, Piroska Boros‎, Ross Mannion‎, Meri Walker‎, Robin Sacknoff‎, Fiona Christian‎, Adelino Marques‎, Michelle Robinson‎, Eitan Shavit‎, Patricia Leeds‎, Clint Cline‎, Nancy McClure‎, Mota Isfil‎, Mark Daniels‎, Lisa Mitchell‎, Andrea Bigiarini‎, John Pratt‎, Karen Axelrad‎, René Valencia‎, Tuba Korhan‎, Antonieta Monteiro‎, Cecily Batey Caceu‎, Mark Schnidman‎, Leon Williams‎, Jaime Glasser‎, Manuela Matos Monteiro‎, Cynthia Westover‎, Jane Schultz‎, Eleni Gemeni‎, Massimo Bortolini‎, Ile Mont‎, Mike Bowers‎, Gillian Brodie‎, Beka Schiller‎, Alon Goldsmith‎, Japi Honoo‎, Sukru Mehmet Omur‎, Bob Cornett‎, Vicki Cooper‎, Janis Brandenburg Lee‎, Joyce Harkin‎, Giuseppe Iannicelli‎, Gianluca Ricoveri‎, Kaaren Malcolm‎, Linda Hollier‎, Aldo Pacheco‎, Lee Kuan Meng‎, Amanda Parker‎, James Clarke‎, Isabel Afonso‎, Judy Lurie Wahlberg‎, Annie Helmsworth‎, Sandra Belyea‎, Hilary Packard‎, Jo Sullivan‎, Lorenka Campos‎, Patricia Clewell‎, Lulú Espinoza-Elenes De Panbehchi‎, Catherine Masson‎, Lisa Peters‎, Patricia Januszkiewicz‎, Kate Zari Roberts‎, M. Cecilia São Thiago‎, Elaine Taylor‎, Marian Seid Rubin‎, Marc Devriese‎, Connie Gardner Rosenthal‎, Violet Martins‎, Kim Martino-Diaz‎, Armineh Hovanesian‎, Gail Dohrmann‎, Cadu Lemos‎, Deborah Saul‎, Roger Guetta‎, Eric L Raddatz‎, Michel Walther Crine, Erik Lieber‎‎ and Dilshad Corleone.‎

[londontheatre]

ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. Philip Bosworth (Hatter) and Josephine Rattigan (Alice). Photo by Jason Joyce

Les Petits Theatre Company and ebp in association with Creature of London are delighted to announce the cast of “ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND”. The critically acclaimed immersive theatre experience created and directed specifically for children aged 5 to 10 returns from 13 May 2017 to 3 September 2017, with press morning on Saturday 20 May 2017.

The cast consists of Benedict Chambers (Twelfth Night, Mr Popper’s Penguins, Adventures in Wonderland), Adam Collier (The Railway Children, Henry V, Adventures in Wonderland), Liam Harkins (Captured, Love of the Nightingale), Susanna Jennings (The Marvellous Imaginary Menagerie, The Gruffalo), Hannah Miller (Blackbird, Peter Pan), Chandni Mistry (A Colder Water Than Here, Wonderful Wizard of Oz), Angelina Reilly-Szostak (Goosebumps Alive, Adventures in Wonderland) and Noah Young (Mary Rose, What Lovely Weather).

Pushing the boundaries of children’s theatre “ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND” allows families to explore Wonderland up close, in an immense multi-room set in the Vaults under Waterloo station. In this hour long show, children will play a part in controlling their own experience, as they search for Alice, who is missing in Wonderland. On entering Wonderland you will either ‘Eat me’ or ‘Drink Me’, which determines your unique path. Tumble with the Tweedle twins; follow the White Rabbit and take Tea with the Hatter at the Maddest Tea Party of all!

“ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND” was originally conceived as a celebration of the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll’s classic novel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and is adapted for the stage by Oliver Lansley and Anthony Spargo and directed by Emma Earle.

Oliver Lansley is the founder of Les Enfants Terribles and co-founder of Les Petits and is an actor, TV show creator and scriptwriter. He has developed work for the BBC, Channel 4 and HBO Drama and co-created the BBC 2 series Whites and the Rose d’Or nominated ITV2 series FM. As an actor, he’s best known for playing Kenny Everett in the BAFTA-winning The Best Possible Taste for which he was nominated for Best Actor at the RTS Awards. His other credits include: The Wrong Mans, Sherlock and Misfits. As a playwright, his work includes The Infant, The Terrible Infants, The Trench, Ernest and The Pale Moon and The Vaudevillains.

Anthony Spargo trained as an actor at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. He has co-written various theatre productions including Anyone for Tea, The Marvellous Imaginary Menagerie, The Time Portal and The Fantastical Flying Exploratory Laboratory.

Emma Earle is a director and producer, and associate director Les Enfant Terribles, she is also the co-Artistic director of Pins and Needles. For Pins and Needles, Emma is developing a new adaptation of The Little Mermaid with writer Bea Roberts. The show premieres this Christmas at the egg theatre in Bath.

Her adaptations of Mr Popper’s Penguins (New York/West End) and Raymond Briggs’ books The Bear and Father Christmas are being remounted in 2017.

Emma’s credits for Les Enfants Terribles include: Dinner At The Twits’, The Fantastical Flying Exploratory Laboratory, The Marvellous Imaginary Menagerie, Captain Flinn And The Pirate Dinosaurs, and Ernest And The Pale Moon.

For more information please visit: Website: http://ift.tt/11UG9b4

Twitter: @AliceUnderLDN Facebook: http://ift.tt/2qyhBSf

LISTINGS ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND Saturday 13 May – Sunday 3 September 2017.

http://ift.tt/2pw4sL4 LondonTheatre1.com

[agosnesrerose]

Splash 19 Winners Announced

Congratulations to the 126 artists selected for North Light Books’ 2017 watercolor competition Splash 19: Illusion of Light! If you see your name below, please check your email for instructions on next steps. You will receive an email from us with the subject line “Splash 19 Winner Notification” no later than Friday, May 19th.

SPLASH 19 WINNERS LIST

Alexander, Kathleen – Mangos and Japanese White-Eye

Amsellem, David – Bliss

Angelos, Mina – The Dining Room

Barnum, Joanna – Escape Velocity

Becker, Marnie – Maggie

Brabec-King, Cindy – Nets Cast on the Other Side; Perk Up

Bratton, Robert – “Hello, is Someone There?”

Brown, Cara – Hallelujah

Case, Lana – Anointed

Chandler, Marsha – Blueberries and Lemons

Chang, Chaio-i – Windmill

Chen, Jia Ling – In Rain, Sandiaoling

Chew, Marvin – Red Floor, Bedok South Wet Market

Chien, Chung Wei – The Last Sunshine is Still Warm

Collins, Kathy – River Bend

Cox, David – Summer Nastrurtiums

Creel, Carol – Marbles in Crystal Bowl

Cretney, Brenda – Eye On the Ball

Cyrex Ducote, Denice –Party of Three

Dentinger, Ric – Comfort Tractor

Dorsey, Jackie – Georgia Theatre

Eldridge, L.S. – Tooled Up

Espinoza, Juan José – Windows to the Soul

Fenton, Sandra – Griffin, Iggy and Chloe

Ferris, Lynn – Slow

Flatt, Graham – The Vista

Fogel, Susan Hope – 68th Street

Fox, Ryan – Old Town Philly

Fry, Cheri –Lionell and Old Blue

Gauthier, Carla – What We Worship

George, Kathie – If This is Wrong, I don’t Wanna Be Right

Goldman, Ken – Life Class

Granger, Michael – Duveneck House at Hidden Villa, CA

Habets, Peggi – Dawn

Haley, David – Bee No. 6

Harkins, Nancy – The Porch of the Ash Mill Farm

Haverty, Grace – The Soloist

Haywood, Kerry – “Tosh”

Hedderich, Tom – Old Plymouth

Heidler, Karen – Silent Light

Henry, Mike – Morning Ride with Mr. Hastings

Hicks, Joyce – Sunday is a Day of Rest

Hillsbery, Carole – Morning Paper

Holscher, Pat – The Lunch Bunch

Holter, Michael – Putting Up Her Hair

Hopf, Mary – Night Heron

Huang, Jasmine – Yellow Roses

Hunkel, Cary – Stripes…and More Stripes

Hunter, Lance – Ephemeral

Jablokow, Peter – Scissor Bridge

Jefferson, Lisa – Willow Reflections

Josloff, Marc – Boy on a Scooter

Jurick, Kristina – Midday Heat, Morocco

Keith, Susan  – Catching the Morning Rays

Kho, Choon Lee – Pull and Push

Kim, Youngran – My Daughter Ayoul

Kingdon, Ona – A Penny for your Thoughts

Krupinski, Chris  – Illumination

Lamothe, Marie – Passionate Penoy

Lang, Karen – September Roses

Larkins, Kathryn Keller – Mirage

Larsen, Valerie – Paddock Walk

Lawruk, David  – Fleurieu Gums

Lee, Hyoung Jun – People on the Street

Liang, Wendy – Winter

Mack, David Neil – St. Bernadette; Lost Horizons

Maimon, Yael – Feral

Matsick, Anni  – Sweet Dreams; Girl in White Hat

McCracken, Laurin – Silver Cherries, Pears and Magnolia

McDermott, Mark – The Art Lover

McEwan, Angus – Tea Break

Meuse, Kimberly – Cream Peonies

Mimura, Muriel Elliott – Alma with Monarchs

Misencik-Bunn, Christine – Emmerson

Morgan, Diane – I Coulda Had a V-8

nichols, r mike – Urban Study 4

Nishino, Akihiro – #01

Nunno, Judy – Lemon Cello

Ohara, Setsuko – First Museum Visit

Oliver, Roberta – 5th Avenue Carousel

Oliver, Tim – Out on N. County Road 2000

O’Neill, Catherine – Just As we Left It

Ong, Kim Seng – Temple Street, Singapore

Paratore, Gay – The Duesenberg

Pate, Monika – Grapes and Glass

Perez, Luis F. – Heading East

Plucker, Anita – Snowbound

Qualey, Erica – Melting Into Spring

Reynolds, Colleen – Old School

Rider, Judy – Made in China Town IV

Ridge, Michael – Ascending

Rifkin, Dorrie – BBKings

Rimpo, April – Lunch with Champagne

Rogone, Anthony – Batik Blossoms

Rotach, Marlin – Shared Hearts

Roush, Kimberly – Gracie

Rowland, Charles – In the Port of Marseille

Saltzman, Judy – Back in Time

Schaller, Thomas W. – Memorial Day

Smith, David R.  – Autumn Light

Spann, Susanna – Jewels of Coquina Beach

Spino, Frank  – Citrus Squared

Stephens, Richard – Stone Creek Ranch

Stetz, Ken  – Heading Home

Stickel, Sean – NYC Drive-By Color

Stickel, David – “Room with a View – Duomo of Milan”

Stocke, Ron – Morning Light Prague

Strohschein, Sandra – “Afternoon on Lake Michigan”

Suz Chiang, Tan – Song of the City #3

Swenson, Brenda – Joshua

Thomer, Susannah – Blue Rain

Tianya, Zhou – Ritual

Tough, Brittney – Between Shadow and Light

Towle, Sharon – Tulip Shadows

Tse, Rainbow – After Work 2

Tunseth, Dee – Escalera a La Villita

Turner Beletic, Anne – Seattle Girl

Vessellii, Al – Wet

Waller, Carrie – 5 o’clock Shadow

Wang, Wen-Cong – Old Man in the Sun

Ward-Wolford, Lois – Checking Out the Show

Warren, Soon – Southern Magnola and Teapot

Werneck, Daniela – The Girl With the Popcorn Dress

Witte, Bob  – Sun Kissed

Wood, Anita – Red Rider

Yasuoka, Keiko – A Special Night

Splash 18: Celebrating Light and Dark will be available for pre-order soon!

Cover image: The Moscow Nocturne No. 3  |  Chien Chung-Wei |Transparent watercolor on 140-lb. (300gsm) rough Arches, 11″ x 15″ (28cm x 38cm)

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Splash 19 Winners Announced

Congratulations to the 126 artists selected for North Light Books’ 2017 watercolor competition Splash 19: Illusion of Light! If you see your name below, please check your email for instructions on next steps. You will receive an email from us with the subject line “Splash 19 Winner Notification” no later than Friday, May 19th.

SPLASH 19 WINNERS LIST

Alexander, Kathleen – Mangos and Japanese White-Eye

Amsellem, David – Bliss

Angelos, Mina – The Dining Room

Barnum, Joanna – Escape Velocity

Becker, Marnie – Maggie

Brabec-King, Cindy – Nets Cast on the Other Side; Perk Up

Bratton, Robert – “Hello, is Someone There?”

Brown, Cara – Hallelujah

Case, Lana – Anointed

Chandler, Marsha – Blueberries and Lemons

Chang, Chaio-i – Windmill

Chen, Jia Ling – In Rain, Sandiaoling

Chew, Marvin – Red Floor, Bedok South Wet Market

Chien, Chung Wei – The Last Sunshine is Still Warm

Collins, Kathy – River Bend

Cox, David – Summer Nastrurtiums

Creel, Carol – Marbles in Crystal Bowl

Cretney, Brenda – Eye On the Ball

Cyrex Ducote, Denice –Party of Three

Dentinger, Ric – Comfort Tractor

Dorsey, Jackie – Georgia Theatre

Eldridge, L.S. – Tooled Up

Espinoza, Juan José – Windows to the Soul

Fenton, Sandra – Griffin, Iggy and Chloe

Ferris, Lynn – Slow

Flatt, Graham – The Vista

Fogel, Susan Hope – 68th Street

Fox, Ryan – Old Town Philly

Fry, Cheri –Lionell and Old Blue

Gauthier, Carla – What We Worship

George, Kathie – If This is Wrong, I don’t Wanna Be Right

Goldman, Ken – Life Class

Granger, Michael – Duveneck House at Hidden Villa, CA

Habets, Peggi – Dawn

Haley, David – Bee No. 6

Harkins, Nancy – The Porch of the Ash Mill Farm

Haverty, Grace – The Soloist

Haywood, Kerry – “Tosh”

Hedderich, Tom – Old Plymouth

Heidler, Karen – Silent Light

Henry, Mike – Morning Ride with Mr. Hastings

Hicks, Joyce – Sunday is a Day of Rest

Hillsbery, Carole – Morning Paper

Holscher, Pat – The Lunch Bunch

Holter, Michael – Putting Up Her Hair

Hopf, Mary – Night Heron

Huang, Jasmine – Yellow Roses

Hunkel, Cary – Stripes…and More Stripes

Hunter, Lance – Ephemeral

Jablokow, Peter – Scissor Bridge

Jefferson, Lisa – Willow Reflections

Josloff, Marc – Boy on a Scooter

Jurick, Kristina – Midday Heat, Morocco

Keith, Susan  – Catching the Morning Rays

Kho, Choon Lee – Pull and Push

Kim, Youngran – My Daughter Ayoul

Kingdon, Ona – A Penny for your Thoughts

Krupinski, Chris  – Illumination

Lamothe, Marie – Passionate Penoy

Lang, Karen – September Roses

Larkins, Kathryn Keller – Mirage

Larsen, Valerie – Paddock Walk

Lawruk, David  – Fleurieu Gums

Lee, Hyoung Jun – People on the Street

Liang, Wendy – Winter

Mack, David Neil – St. Bernadette; Lost Horizons

Maimon, Yael – Feral

Matsick, Anni  – Sweet Dreams; Girl in White Hat

McCracken, Laurin – Silver Cherries, Pears and Magnolia

McDermott, Mark – The Art Lover

McEwan, Angus – Tea Break

Meuse, Kimberly – Cream Peonies

Mimura, Muriel Elliott – Alma with Monarchs

Misencik-Bunn, Christine – Emmerson

Morgan, Diane – I Coulda Had a V-8

nichols, r mike – Urban Study 4

Nishino, Akihiro – #01

Nunno, Judy – Lemon Cello

Ohara, Setsuko – First Museum Visit

Oliver, Roberta – 5th Avenue Carousel

Oliver, Tim – Out on N. County Road 2000

O’Neill, Catherine – Just As we Left It

Ong, Kim Seng – Temple Street, Singapore

Paratore, Gay – The Duesenberg

Pate, Monika – Grapes and Glass

Perez, Luis F. – Heading East

Plucker, Anita – Snowbound

Qualey, Erica – Melting Into Spring

Reynolds, Colleen – Old School

Rider, Judy – Made in China Town IV

Ridge, Michael – Ascending

Rifkin, Dorrie – BBKings

Rimpo, April – Lunch with Champagne

Rogone, Anthony – Batik Blossoms

Rotach, Marlin – Shared Hearts

Roush, Kimberly – Gracie

Rowland, Charles – In the Port of Marseille

Saltzman, Judy – Back in Time

Schaller, Thomas W. – Memorial Day

Smith, David R.  – Autumn Light

Spann, Susanna – Jewels of Coquina Beach

Spino, Frank  – Citrus Squared

Stephens, Richard – Stone Creek Ranch

Stetz, Ken  – Heading Home

Stickel, Sean – NYC Drive-By Color

Stickel, David – “Room with a View – Duomo of Milan”

Stocke, Ron – Morning Light Prague

Strohschein, Sandra – “Afternoon on Lake Michigan”

Suz Chiang, Tan – Song of the City #3

Swenson, Brenda – Joshua

Thomer, Susannah – Blue Rain

Tianya, Zhou – Ritual

Tough, Brittney – Between Shadow and Light

Towle, Sharon – Tulip Shadows

Tse, Rainbow – After Work 2

Tunseth, Dee – Escalera a La Villita

Turner Beletic, Anne – Seattle Girl

Vessellii, Al – Wet

Waller, Carrie – 5 o’clock Shadow

Wang, Wen-Cong – Old Man in the Sun

Ward-Wolford, Lois – Checking Out the Show

Warren, Soon – Southern Magnola and Teapot

Werneck, Daniela – The Girl With the Popcorn Dress

Witte, Bob  – Sun Kissed

Wood, Anita – Red Rider

Yasuoka, Keiko – A Special Night

Splash 18: Celebrating Light and Dark will be available for pre-order soon!

Cover image: The Moscow Nocturne No. 3  |  Chien Chung-Wei |Transparent watercolor on 140-lb. (300gsm) rough Arches, 11″ x 15″ (28cm x 38cm)

Visit the North Light Shop to collect other books from the Splash series!

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NEM Jukebox 01 - Curator Ile Mont

"NEM Jukebox is the place where we expect to collect creative, talented and beautiful images inspired by some of the most iconic popular music of our time. "  -- Ile Mont

SONG: “Imagine” by John Lennon

FEATURED WORKS BY: Christine O Sobczak, Jorge Daniel Segura, Dieter Gaebel, Lorenka Campos, Elaine Taylor, Stef LP, Joyce Harkin and Jale Yuce.

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NEM Your Life 04 curated by Frédéric Deschênes‎.

FEATURED WORKS BY: with Clint Cline, Joyce Harkin, Mim Keo, Sandi Mills, Catherine Schell Caddigan, Dieter Gaebel, Kate Zari Roberts and Jill Lian.

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NEM PAINTERLY 27 - Curator Julia Badakhshan

FEATURED WORKS BY: to Peter Scott Bartsch, Eleni Gemeni, Jack Schim, Fiona Christian, Nükhet Poda Göfer, Rita Colantonio, Don Davis and Joyce Harkin.

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The Seven Deadly Sins Illustrated curated by Peter Wilkin: 06 - "Wrath"

"Greetings again Sinners! Firstly, sincere thanks to everyone who contributed to the sixth of our 7even Deadly Sins challenge #WRATH. As always, the quality of your images was top notch & choosing just eight really was very difficult. Hopefully, I’ve managed to fill this month’s showcase with images that have you all horripilating; images that positively bristle with wrath. "  -- PETER WILKIN

FEATURED WORKS BY: Diane Neubauer, Becky Menzies, Sarah Bichachi, Lou Ann Sanford Donahue, Joyce Harkin, Leslie Blumstein, Ray Legans and Roger Guetta.