Doing something in person and a different topic but im thrilled to be kicking off the festival. Its my honor to introduce three people to you. First is roger whose work has been published in 14 languages. The author of five New York Times notable books of the year and three times bestsellers including the memoirs the boy detective and making toast which was originally an essay in the new yorker. The story im, a collection on the writing life came out in april on life, love and responsibility will be out in october. Rogers also written seven offbroadway plays notably in the oneperson free speech in america but he performed at the american place theatre and which was named one of the times ten best plays of 91. Last spring he performed and played piano which will go to the center for the arts at stony brook in new york next year. He also wrote the screenplay for his bestselling novel that will star doctor channing and currently is in production. Roger is distinguished professor of englis
Opportunity. You may or may not know that tulsa is one of six chapters throughout the country to host a pen america chapter, we have pen america tulsa, im really proud to say im the leader of that group and its been a relationship that just gets better and better. We had the opportunity to do several events with pen, probably even prior to our affiliation as an actual chapter. It really started laying the groundwork for this relationship moving forward. Its something that if you dont know the work that penn does, its a very inextricably linked to what we are talking about tonight in many ways. Pen is an organization that advocates for authors, for freedom of the press, for all kinds of important things that are tied to the mission we have through magic city books and the tulsa literary coalition. If you dont know their work i would invite you to go to pen. Org and see every thing they are doing. There is so much going on with limitations to press freedoms, every day something is happen
Six chapters that the country to host a pin america chapter, we opinion america tulsa and im really proud to say im the leader of the group and its been a relationship that gets better and better. Weve had the opportunity to do several event with pin and prior to affiliation as an actual chapter and started laying the groundwork for this relationship moving forward and its something if you dont know the work that they do, its been veranamazing organization advocs for authors and freedom of the press and all kinds of important things in the mission that we have with the Tulsa Literary Coalition and it is a membership driven program and organization and i would invite you to go to pen. Org and see everything that they are doing especially right now. There is so much going on with limitations to press freedoms, everyday something is happening that we didnt probably know about in the work that is happening. We have a special membership promo and if you go to the website you can use the cod
Its japan. Europe africa a mixture of. Lagos nigeria population more than 20000000 a small group of dancers has arrived from germany they aim to create a new kind of ballet that will include the best of western and african influences. This creative adventure is led by choreographer Richard Segal. The dance studio is located behind a gas station in the middle of an Industrial Area the dancers know each other some of them met while the project. I was in the Development Stage others have danced on stage with siegel he is. The beginning was incredible when he came on the music loud on all the n. F. C. If they felt. Their energy is contagious i think theyre amazing. The. Choreography is done. And done and weve done that its a volatile art form and at times its useful. To see release some kind of Latent Energy which may still exist within the world. We have this down so thats choreographed we can teach parts of we can modify parts of that but it shouldnt if its not just in one direction that
In language while seeming to try to help yates whenever he could. The senator promised to dig into the political corruption of the intelligence agencies and their efforts to subvert and to overthrow President Trump. Yates answers were predictable as she tried to deflect any responsibility for her role in obamagate. Yates blamed the fbi entirely for obamagate. Heres what she had to say about former fbi director james comey sending agents peter doc and joe pientka to question former National Security adviser general Michael Flynn in january of 2017. When you heard about the interview, you got upset, didnt you . I was upset that that wasnt coordinated. They acted unilaterally, yes, i was. Okay. Did comey go rogue . You could use that term, yes. Lou yates also confirmed that the logan act was brought up in a nowinfamous Oval Office Meeting on january 5th of 2017. But she said she remembers only comey talking about it and not former Vice President joe biden. It just so happens others say th