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A scene from “The Covid Decameron” (WCSU Theatre Dept. Facebook page photo)
DANBURY, CT - The Spring Virtual Production Series at Western Connecticut State University continues on Saturday when the stream for The Covid Decameron was shared. Armed with my season pass, I pushed the play button on my monitor to enjoy the projects prepared by a large group of university students.
Dramaturg Sydney Maher explains in her note in the virtual program that this project was inspired by a collection of novellas that was among the countless works of art that came out during the Renaissance, which took place despite The Black Death (or the Bubonic plague) that was gripping Europe and Asia. The Decameron was written by Giovanni Boccaccio and followed a group of ten people who fled to a villa outside of Florence to escape the plague. There the seven women and three men told 100 stories over the course of ten days; each day addressed a different topic and focused on morality, of the
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Robert Miller: It s perfect tick weather and there s a significant increase of them in parts of CT
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An illustration of the deer tick, at right, responsible for Lyme disease, provided by Milford Molecular Diagnostics in 2018Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut Media file photo
Because you can now go outside and mix it up in the greenery vaccinated, unmasked and hugging do not forget what lurks in the dry leaves and unmown grass nearby.
It is already tick season, as anyone with a romping dog or an unkempt field can attest.
“The weather is warm,” said Neeta Connally, as associate professor of biology at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury and director of its Tickborne Disease Prevention Laboratory. “People are out.”
Learn how to create a shadow puppet; and you could win a prize! Author: Allison Peters Updated: 12:00 AM EDT May 1, 2021
HARTFORD, Conn. This month s art lesson will teach you how to create a Shadow Puppet. Local Theater Artist Noah Todd walks you through how to create a simple shadow puppet and then a more complex version for anyone wanting to challenge themselves. To create your puppet you will need paper, something to draw with, something to cut with, tape and a control rod which can be a pencil, popsicle stick or sculpting wire.and of course your imagination.
Enjoy exploring your creativity and when you are done, take a picture of your puppet in action and you can enter it into this month s contest and possibly win a master class with Noah Todd and $100 gift card to Michael s Arts & Crafts.
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An illustration of the deer tick, at right, responsible for Lyme Disease at Milford Molecular Diagnostics, LLC at 2044 Bridgeport Avenue in Milford, Conn. on Tuesday, November 13, 2018.Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut Media
Because you can now go outside and mix it up in the greenery vaccinated, unmasked and hugging do not forget what lurks in the dry leaves and unmown grass nearby.
It is already tick season, as anyone with a romping dog or an unkempt field can testify to.
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