To the streets of old city philadelphia and imagine what life was like under british rule. One of the big agendas of the event is to present the fall of 1777 in a complicated way to show that for many of the people that remained in the city that winter this was an occupation and maybe a liberation from many of their perspectives and they wrote about in the period being liberated from the ash trar congress which is maybe something we can all aspire to some day. So we do this with living history programming in part because people come to museums to learn in all different ways to encounter the real things of history to have a Human Experience to connect with it and one way we bring it to life is with living history programming with the new Theatrical Program where richard storms into the room with guns blazing and the spoilers at the end of his life, but he maybe doesnt know that yet. We also do the larger living history events and its a pleasure to introduce these set of speakers because
Some of you exposed your own British Occupation, or perhaps liberation in the perspective of many. Its our third year in a row doing sort of what we call flagship living history event. We place about 70 costumed interpreters out on to the streets of old city philadelphia and imagine what life was like under british rule. One of the big agendas of the event is to present the fall of 1777 in a complicated way to show that for many of the people that remained in the city that winter this was an occupation and maybe a liberation from many of their perspectives and they wrote about in the period being liberated from the tire ran cat you certain asians of a tyrannical congress, which is maybe something we can all aspire to some day. So we do this with living history programming in part because people come to museums to learn in all different ways to encounter the real things of history to have a Human Experience to connect with it and one way we bring it to life is with living history progra
Proclaims this has it all, love, death, and psychodrama. It goes on to describe the life story of richard st. George, the exhibitions starring figure, a wealthy irishman who finds himself on the wrong side of two revolutions in america and ireland, as part dickens with a spritz of yankee doodle. There is no doubt that richard st. Georges story is a cracking good tale, but the story reveals so much more than love my death, and psychodrama. In st. George, we see the complex entanglements of social, cultural, political identities of the time and the connectedness of the American Revolution. In st. George, we find a story of the age of revolution and a story of today, of who we are and how we got here, and what the past means to us as a people or as nations. But in st. George, we also find a detective story. A decades long mystery that started with two relatively obscure paintings, and a mystery that ended with this deal for and moving exhibition featuring 22 works of art depicting or comm
Support and promotion of new projects. At the International Book fair, the exhibition will announce the names of the winners of the literary competition today. Students and arts workers clash with police in argentina to protest against the president s policies. The four super finalists of the factor byy 60 show have been formed, who will fight for victory . The constitution of belarus has become a truly peoples stateforming document. The president announced this the day before at a meeting dedicated to the thirtieth anniversary of the countrys fundamental law. The document is the same age as sovereign belarus. Three decades ago , the fundamental foundations for the development of our state and society were laid. All constitutional transformations in our country came from life, were dictated by time, and not by the mouth of washington. Belarus has chosen the quality of life of its citizens as a development priority. From todays perspective, looking back, i want to ask where we were wron