Acclaimed Performance Artist to Perform at Columbia College
Renowned performance artist Terry Galloway will perform her award-winning one-woman show Out All Night and Lost My Shoes at Columbia College’s Launer Auditorium Thursday, September 11, 2008 at 7 p.m. Free to the public, this performance will also feature a discussion afterwards […]
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PERFORMANCE STUDIES & THEATRE INTEREST GROUP
Call for Submissions
2009 Central States Communication Association Conference
Millennium Hotel, St. Louis, MO
March 31-April 5, 2009
Conversations about Connections: Gateway to Communication at the “Heart of it All”
The Performance Studies and Theatre Interest Group of the Central States Communication Association invites submissions of paper and panel proposals for the 2009 convention. We […]
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Counterculture comic. Obscene. Genius. Fearless. Wise. Revolutionary.
Seven words to describe the man whose seven words defined an era and continue to impact those of us in the wake of his innovation. George Carlin should be the only one speaking about his own passing.
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?cl=8481659
Saying he’ll be missed seems so lacking…
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The following article from The New York Times is fascinating! It really does put into focus the benefits and infringements (?) of state medicine.
How do you measure up according to the Japanese standard?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/world/asia/13fat.html?ex=1371096000&en=710f33a2ec431b91&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
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Somewhere in Egypt I read that Sydney Pollack had died. Pollack was a favorite of mine– both as an actor (for which he never got enough credit) and as a director (Out of Africa is one of my all-time favorites). I will miss his creative work. His work on behalf of future artists will insure […]
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When I read the following article from The Atlantic, I recognized, all too familiarly, the pains experienced by the author. Similar to the college composition class, my public speaking classes have been taking an enormous toll on me. Each semester professors are given an opportunity to describe their classroom experience in a self-evaluation, […]
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The art world has lost a pop artist, collaborator, sculptor, choreographer– a person “curious. … learning something new every day. ” In actuality, we all have lost someone special.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080513/ap_on_re_us/obit_rauschenberg
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News comes from Virginia that Mildred Loving, civil rights pioneer, has died. In an era where all that want to marry cannot, her work (the simple work of wanting to be with your true love) still continues.
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Mildred Loving, matriarch of interracial marriage, dies
By DIONNE WALKER – 8 hours ago
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — […]
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As they ask on their website, “What are you going to do to end the silence?”
http://dayofsilence.org/content/truth.html
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FRANCE MAY OUTLAW INCITING EXTREME THINNESS
By DEVORAH LAUTER, Associated Press Writer1 hour, 40 minutes ago
The French parliament’s lower house adopted a groundbreaking bill Tuesday that would make it illegal for anyone — including fashion magazines, advertisers and Web sites — to publicly incite extreme thinness.
The National Assembly approved the […]
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