The Fort Wayne Public Art Trail SoundWalk will be dedicated Wednesday with music specially written for sculptures and murals at 10 stops. Accompanied by narration about the pieces, the music
Mary Encabo
Purdue University Fort Wayne’s Teaching English as a New Language Program prepares students for teaching English to speakers of other languages. With how much has happened in Myanmar this past year, we’ll hear from students, professors, and community members who bring a variety of perspectives to language learning, international affairs, and citizen diplomacy
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The Purdue University Fort Wayne Department of Theatre
On this week’s episode of WBOI Presents, we are featuring a radio play performance of Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad.
The Penelopiad retells The Odyssey from the points of view of Odysseus’s wife, Penelope, and her handmaidens. Residing in Hades for eternity, the thirteen female spirits reminisce on their lives in Ithaca before and after the Trojan War’s end.
In this radio play performance, the Greek chorus of handmaidens continually interrupts Penelope’s narrative to express their views on events. Using a different genre for each chorus, the maids’ interludes make for a lively aural experience that include a jump-rope rhyme, a lament, an idyll, a ballad, a lecture, a court trial, and several types of songs.
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On this episode of WBOI Presents: In Session, we are joined by David Schuster, Associate Professor of History at Purdue University Fort Wayne. Our conversation focused on social anxiety and where we see historical parallels with issues we face in 2020. How was anxiety diagnosed one hundred years ago? What were some of the contributing factors? We’ll look past the who, when, and what, to focus on how people were feeling on this episode of WBOI Presents: In Session.
Our theme music is by Noah Campodonico. Sound effects are by John Dawkins. Our web producer is Loyal Vandenburg. Our production assistants are Monica Blankenshi, Steve Mullaney, and Sydney Wagner. You can find other episodes of WBOI Presents: In Session here.