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Courtney Brkic's "The Stone Fields" To Be Adapted For Stage
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ERRATICA
, a London-based performing arts company, is staging a production titled "Remnants" based on Courtney' Angela Brkic's heartbreaking 2004 memoir, "The Stone Fields." The production will premiere in 2017.
The performance engages with personal trauma, moving on, and the history and legacy of violence in the Balkans.
Selected elements from the ninety-minute musical and visual adaptation include traditional Balkan vocal music, deep bass electronics, recorded interviews, and archival video.
A short teaser trailer for "Remnants" is available
on Vimeo.
Congratulations on this incredible achievement, Courtney!
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Salman Rushdie Lecture at PEN/Faulker
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This Thursday, October 20th at 7:30 pm is
PEN/Faulkner's Inaugural Eudora Welty Lecture with Salman Rushdie, who will be introduced by Natasha Trethewey, at the Washington National Cathedral.
Salman Rushie will be discussing his creative origins through Eudora Welty’s traditional lecture on One Writer’s Beginnings. Salman Rushdie and Natasha Tretheweys’ strong social justice focuses and creative backgrounds will make this reading a great fit for students and faculty alike. Tickets are $24, $19 for students/seniors/military, and can be bought at the following link:
http://cathedral.org/event/the-inaugural-eudora-welty-lecture-with-salman-rushdie.
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Art Taylor Story available in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
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Art Taylor continues a string of achievements this fall with his latest publication, "The Great Detective Reflects," in
the newest issue of
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine.
The issue is devoted to writers who are also critics and scholars, and in keeping with that aesthetic, Art's story has reading at its core.
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GMU's Visiting Filmmakers Series: City of Trees
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George Mason University's Visiting Filmmakers Series is bringing City of Trees with Lance Kramer and Brandon Kramer to campus on Wednesday November 9, 2016 at 4:30pm.
City of Trees is a deeply personal story about the struggle for good jobs and environmental justice in our cities. During the recession, the documentary follows three trainees and the director of a stimulus-funded green job-training program designed to put unemployed people back to work by caring for parks in DC. As they navigate the community’s distrust of outsiders and a fast-approaching deadline before the grant money runs out, City of Trees thrusts viewers into the inspiring but messy world of job training and the paradoxes changemakers face in urban communities every day.
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Student Writing Opportunity
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The Artifice, an online magazine that covers a wide spectrum of art forms, including Film, Anime, Comics, Literature, Games, and Arts, is seeking additional writers. The site is collaboratively built and maintained by the writers, and has an established audience of millions.
Current writers range from undergraduates, to graduates, to professors, and a bit of everyone in between.
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Join GMU Folklorists & Friends at the annual Spooky Stories open mic event. Tell your favorite ghost story, read a piece of short fiction, or come to hear the legend of the Mason Pond Ghost.
Free and open to the public
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