In his fine book
The Spell of the Sensuous, David Abram discusses how being a sleight-of-hand magician gave him an entrée into the world of traditional healers and shamans: I traveled to Indonesia on a research grant to study magic; more precisely, to study the relation between magic and medicine, first among the traditional sorcerers, or
dukuns, of the Indonesian archipelago, and later among the
djankris, the traditional shamans of Nepal. The grant had one unique aspect: I was to journey into rural Asia not outwardly as an anthropologist or academic researcher, but as an itinerant magician in my own right, in hopes of gaining a more direct access to the local sorcerers.
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On Thursday night, writer and activist Terry Tempest Williams spoke on Zoom about her current work on climate change, wildfires and social concerns among the COVID-19 pandemic.
Williamsâ work focuses mainly on environmental concerns and social issues as she thinks through living life as ethically as possible.
Her numerous books, such as âRefuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Placeâ and âErosion: Essays of Undoing,â have won multiple awards, such as the Sierra Club John Muir Award and have been featured in The New Yorker and various literary magazines.
Williams is also the Provostial Scholar at Dartmouth College and the Writer-in-Residence at the Harvard Divinity School.
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Liz Soares: Ken Burns documentaries are a feast of storytelling complexity
Burns latest, Hemingway, is both biography and literary analysis, illustrating once again everything that is enthralling about the landmark documentary filmmaker, Liz Soares writes.
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Ken Burns, director of the new PBS documentary series “Hemingway,” takes part in a panel discussion during the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour on July 29, 2019, in Beverly Hills, California.
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The filmmaker Ken Burns came to Bates College in the mid 1980s to show his documentary “The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God.” My husband, Paul, and I were living in Lewiston at the time and went to the program. This was Burns’ second production and we didn’t know anything about him. I think we attended because of the topic.
Ucross And The Blank Theatre Announce Winners Of Future Of Playwriting Prize
The two winners are Kori Alston and Dave Osmundsen.by BWW News Desk
Ucross, a prestigious artist residency program and creative laboratory for the arts in Wyoming, and The Blank Theatre, a Los Angeles institution celebrating 31 years of imaginative theatre, today announced the winners of the newly created Ucross + The Blank Theatre Future of Playwriting Prize, a one-of-a-kind award for young playwrights nationwide. Ucross and The Blank are partnering to showcase the importance of emerging artists across the country and to celebrate the innovative work that is asking questions and evolving theatre as we know it.