Monthly Archives: April 2009

EmcArts Innovation Lab-received $1.5 million grant, new program to address major challenges

      EmcArts Innovation Lab for the Performing Arts Round 2 Grantees Announced and Round 3 RFPs.  The applications deadline is May 7. EMcArts issued a new program supported by a $1.5 million grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation: Children’s … Continue reading

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Randy Ford Author-Theater in Wild Wild Manila

      Those were the days of Ted’s intense involvement in the theater.   He loved the theater…at Fort Santiago where so much history had taken place, with its thick old walls and dungeons underground…for the opportunities and the people it brought … Continue reading

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The Playwrights Foundation-April 21, 2009 News Flash: new play readings, playwriting classes, intern opportunities

April 21, 2009 Erin Bregman’s This Is Not a Torture or an Engine Next Monday & Tuesday This is Not a Torture or an Engine by Erin Bregman Directed by Molly Aaronson-Gelb Monday, Apr. 27, 7:30 p.m.: Stanford Tuesday, Apr. … Continue reading

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Kathy Henderson- LUGALBANDA, THE BOY WHO GOT CAUGHT UP IN A WAR, an award winning book for young readers

      LUGALBANDA, THE BOY WHO GOT CAUGHT UP IN A WAR by Kathy Henderson, illustrator Jane Ray (Candlewick Press, 2006).  This five thousand-year-old story from the land of ancient Sumer, now Iraq, focuses on the boy Luglbanda who is assumed … Continue reading

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Chris Smith, ONE CITY, TWO BROTHERS, prize winning book for youth

      ONE CITY, TWO BROTHERS, written by Chris Smith, illustrated by Aurelia Frontey (Barefoot Books, 2007).  Written by a former worker with UNICEF and Oxfam in Isreal and the Palestinian Territories, this re-telling of a traditional story from the time … Continue reading

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Finding Voice Project-Poetry and prose about the lives of refugee and immigrant students

      Finding Voice Project Reading & Digital Storytelling Presentation Tuesday, May 5, 6:30-8:30pm Catalina Magnet High School Auditorium, 3645 E. Pima Street (Between Country Club & Alvernon) Tucson.   Join the Finding Voice Project (www.findingvoiceproject.org) and listen to refugee and immigrant students … Continue reading

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Randy Ford Author-a christening of a godchild and the celebration afterwards

      Ted wasn’t sure how they found their maid.   Linda appeared shortly after they moved into their apartment.   She knew everything a maid was suppose to know.   She said one day to Ted, “So you do live here.”   She took … Continue reading

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