6 things to do this week: Tom Grant Band reunion, Valentine’s drive-in, and poet Ross Gay
Updated Feb 12, 2021;
It’s Valentine’s Day weekend and love is in the air, or on the air, due to coronavirus restrictions. For the days ahead, we’ve gathered both love-themed, and non-holiday events, including a poetry reading, sappy movies, and the reunion of an 1980s-90s iconic Portland jazz band.
Cast photo of My Funny Valentine - left to right: Alan Anderson, Debbie Hunter, Tim Smith, Joan Freed, and Norman Wilson.Photo courtesy of Lakewood Theatre
“My Funny Valentine”
Lakewood Theatre Company’s offers a look back at a one-night, sold-out fundraising performance filled with comic love songs from stage musicals. The musical revue was recorded on the Lakewood mainstage in 2014 and stars Lakewood performers in an evening of songs filled with clever lyrics, theatrical mishap stories, and audience participation games.
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Hey, you all! It’s 2021 finally!! And HPPR’s Radio Readers is back with a spring read for all of us! What with all the lessons offered by 2020 (may it rest in peace), we’ve opted for a series of books to help us explore
Cultures in a Common Land, as a way to talk about how to live alongside others whose beliefs and ways of being seem not to align with our own. Know what I mean?
To frame our conversations, we’ve chosen a trio of titles – classic titles from the 1990’s culled from archived book lists from Radio Readers throughout our region and…our choices are could I have a drum roll, please? Barbara Kingsolver’s 1999 controversial novel
The Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies announces online symposium
R. Sikoryak, Cover illustration for Constitution Illustrated published by Drawn % Quarterly, 2020.
STOCKBRIDGE, MASS
.-The Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies, the scholarly arm of Norman Rockwell Museum, announced a slate of speakers and topics for its annual symposium, Picturing Freedom: A Century of Illustration. For the second year in a row this event will happen virtually on Zoom over two days Friday, January 15 and Saturday, January 16. This timely symposium will explore historical and contemporary notions of freedom as well as the role of illustration as a force in shaping public perception. How has published imagery affected decision-making, public policy, and cultural understanding? Prominent authors, illustrators, and scholars will offer perspectives. The symposium is organized by The Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies, and co-presented with the D.B. Dowd Modern Graphic Histo
BARRY, CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? You and I have been friends for almost forty years now.
We’ve donned hip waders and walked together in the whitewater of your beloved McKenzie River. We’ve walked the woods and hills of the Goldstream Valley. One snowy afternoon, in the crepuscular winter light, as we hiked up the mountain above Cynthia’s and my house, you told me at length about your idea for a sprawling book that would somehow encompass the whole earth with the same intensity and specificity as
Arctic Dreams. A few years later, while you were working on that book,
2021-01-07 05:05:42 GMT2021-01-07 13:05:42(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
by Yosley Carrero
HAVANA, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) Rogelio Rodriguez, 74, has won Cuba s 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award for a book that examines Chinese influence on Cuban literature.
Published under the title The Chinese Trace in the Cuban Literature, Rodriguez s award-winning work provides readers with an in-depth analysis on how novels portray China s intangible cultural heritage like My Uncle, the Employee by Ramon Meza, and Paradiso by Jose Lezama Lima.
The author, also president of the Cuban Academy of the Spanish Language and senior professor at the University of Havana, said Chinese descendants have substantially contributed to enhancing historical links that unite the two countries.