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Nina Louise Morrison: The Greenhouse Playlab

April 19, 2018 Leave a Comment

Nina Louise Morrison is one of the four playwrights commissioned to write new plays for The Greenhouse Playlab: A Climate Change Theater Incubator. An excerpt of her new play THE VAULT will be read at the Museum of Science (5/4, 70-10 PM), and there will be a workshop performance at the Democracy Center in Cambridge (5/6, 7 PM). We asked the 2017 Mass Cultural Council … [Read more...]

Lou Cove: Man of the Year

November 1, 2017 Leave a Comment

Amherst writer Lou Cove recent published the memoir Man of the Year, his debut book (though technically, it's his second - more on that, below). The author will discuss the book at the JCC of the North Shore in Marblehead (11/9, 7 PM). Here, he discusses the memoir, the Massachusetts locales that have impacted him as a writer and person, and more from his career creating and … [Read more...]

Kathy Crowley: The Belmont Books Story

July 31, 2017 Leave a Comment

The Belmont Books story goes like this: Belmont, Mass. needed a bookstore, and Chris Abouzeid and Kathy Crowley opened one. That alone - the happy tale of the new independent bookstore - gives us reason to read on. But the plot thickens: the owners are both past Mass Cultural Council Fellows. Chris won in 2004 and Kathy won fellowships in 2006 and 2012. We asked Kathy, who … [Read more...]

Myrna Balk: 50 Year Retrospective at Piano Craft Gallery

April 19, 2017 Leave a Comment

Mixed media artist Myrna Balk is exhibiting at Boston's Piano Craft Gallery (5/5-5/28, opening reception 5/7, 3-6 PM, artist discussion 5/21, 3 PM) in Connecting the Dots, encompassing 50 years of her artistic output. Here, she discusses the exhibition, how a life of social work affected her art, and highlights and surprises from 50 years of working in clay, steel, wood, … [Read more...]

Dance Artist James Morrow: Sweaty Epiphany

September 2, 2015 Leave a Comment

Dance artist James Morrow (Choreography Fellow '14) has launched a crowdfunding campaign for his upcoming event Sweaty Epiphany, October 23-24, 2015 at the Dance Complex in Cambridge. The event, Morrow's Boston-area introduction, explores performance and ability, patriarchal culture, and the convergence of public and private reality, and will include work by Morrow as well as … [Read more...]

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