In celebration of The Year of Alabama Arts by the Alabama State Council on the Arts, a few months back when Southern Living had written an article about my work, I was thrilled. Shortly after that I received an email from the Alabama Bureau of Tourism saying that they had sent out a notice in their e-news about the Southern Living article as I had registered on their site as an artist. Now, I find that my page is still there!! (I thought they would take it down at the end of 2007)
I love to garden. Today when I checked my small vegetable garden, my beans were up. I can't wait to taste that part of summer.
Showing posts with label Alabama Arts. Show all posts
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Friday, May 30, 2008
Thursday, February 21, 2008
"The Laramie Project"
This writing ties into what I was writing about in my previous blog about the many talented people in Alabama. I wanted to write tonight about the University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB) Theatre's presentation of "The Laramie Project" written by Moises Kaufman , members of the Tectonic Theater Project, and directed by UAB student Luke Harlan. The show will run February 20-23 at 7:30pm and at 2pm on February 24, in the Alys Stephens Center's Sirote Theatre.
You can find all of the details here: http://main.uab.edu/show.asp?durki=116374 which is the site of the press release from the University. The Laramie Project was written in reaction to the 1998 murder of University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming. The play is based on hundreds of interviews with the town's citizens. Please use the link to read about the awards that this young director has won.
I had planned to go with my friend Julian, who paints these wonderful tiles, see the tiles at www.home.earthlink.net/~julianhazlett/maxie to see "The Laramie Project" tonight, but have taken a cold and sore throat. I'm very disappointed that I will not be able to go because after the play, the cast will hold a discussion about the making of the production. Cliff Simon, who is also a friend of mine, is the set designer and hopefully he will be a guest blogger one evening. It would be great to hear about his process of creating the set for this play, what he was thinking, and how he arrived at his designs. His site can be found here http://www.cliffcakes.com/sets/ Cliff is very talented guy and we are very fortunate to have him teaching at the University. Visit the Sets Website at:http://home.earthlink.net/~set-designer/sets/
Perhaps this blog will be a place where there can be a dialog about the issues explored by the play. If anyone sees the blog, please feel welcome to post a comment. I hope there will be a post by someone who attended the play and the discussion afterwards.
You can find all of the details here: http://main.uab.edu/show.asp?durki=116374 which is the site of the press release from the University. The Laramie Project was written in reaction to the 1998 murder of University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming. The play is based on hundreds of interviews with the town's citizens. Please use the link to read about the awards that this young director has won.
I had planned to go with my friend Julian, who paints these wonderful tiles, see the tiles at www.home.earthlink.net/~julianhazlett/maxie to see "The Laramie Project" tonight, but have taken a cold and sore throat. I'm very disappointed that I will not be able to go because after the play, the cast will hold a discussion about the making of the production. Cliff Simon, who is also a friend of mine, is the set designer and hopefully he will be a guest blogger one evening. It would be great to hear about his process of creating the set for this play, what he was thinking, and how he arrived at his designs. His site can be found here http://www.cliffcakes.com/sets/ Cliff is very talented guy and we are very fortunate to have him teaching at the University. Visit the Sets Website at:http://home.earthlink.net/~set-designer/sets/
Perhaps this blog will be a place where there can be a dialog about the issues explored by the play. If anyone sees the blog, please feel welcome to post a comment. I hope there will be a post by someone who attended the play and the discussion afterwards.
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