Jane Gillooly's (Film & Video Fellow '07) film Today the Hawk Takes One Chick was a 2008 pick for the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, a documentary film festival hosted by the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Now it's your turn: the 2010 festival is currently accepting submissions. The Mead Fest considers a range of documentary films and videos, … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2010
Melinda Lopez: dramatic evolution
It takes a sure hand (and, quite possibly, a blown mind) to craft the stuff of science into engaging theatre. For a new play about Charles Darwin and evolution, the CatalystCollaborative@MIT, a partnership between MIT and Underground Railway Theater, looked to playwright Melinda Lopez (Playwriting Fellow '03). In recent years, Melinda's plays have been performed locally and … [Read more...]
Sue Murad: ancient stories come to life
This Monday, March 22, at 7:30 PM, Sue Murad (Choreography Fellow '08) and a group of artists will perform Buried in the Park Street Church overlooking the Granary Burial Ground. It's a work of performance art that culminates three years of research (or rather, begins to culminate, since Sue plans to continue creating new performances). Sue is one of those artists - and … [Read more...]
A world of Artist Opportunities at your fingertips
For writers who long to be heard: A new literary magazine, The Drum, has been launched by Henriette Lazaridis Power (a 2006 Artist Fellow in Fiction/Creative Nonfiction). The Drum publishes, in audio form, short fiction, essays, and the occasional author interview. The inaugural issue comes out in May. Says Henriette, “We're looking for work that pays close attention to … [Read more...]
Composing crusades for the extraordinary
Ralf Yusuf Gawlick (Music Composition Fellow '09) was born in Germany, of Turkish-Kurdish descent. He's lived and worked in the United States and Europe, and through his wife, has become particularly connected to Poland (his "adopted country"). With that breadth of personal experience, perhaps it should come as no surprise that his musical compositions seem to move with the … [Read more...]