#Talented tenth

[the-quote-unquote]

If we make money the object of man-training, we shall develop money-makers but not necessarily men; if we make technical skill the object of education, we may possess artisans but not, in nature, men. Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools—intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it—this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life. On this foundation we may build bread winning, skill of hand and quickness of brain, with never a fear lest the child and man mistake the means of living for the object of life.

W.E.B. Du Bois, "The Talented Tenth"

[boricuacherry-blog]

-excerpts from W.E.B. Dubois 'The Tenth Percent'

[writemarcus]

JCTC Produces Reading of New Play SIBLING RIVALRIES By Marcus Scott

The production is set for September 18.

By: Stephi Wild Sep. 06, 2023

Jersey City Theater Center will present a reading of Sibling Rivalries by Marcus Scott, a new play set at a fictional Ivy League school in the years following the Obama Administration. This political drama follows a diverse group of young black men, all members of a fraternity, who face shifting loyalties and eroded principles when they are forced to compete against one another for a prestigious fellowship. Sibling Rivalries will take place at Jersey City Theater Center (165 Newark Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07302 / Entrance from Barrow St., Jersey City, NJ, 07302) on Monday, September 18 at 7:30PM. Tickets start at just $5.00 and are available at www.JCTCenter.org.  "As we prepare to showcase the extraordinary talent of Marcus Scott, a remarkable representative of the black, queer community, whose work we have had the privilege of nurturing by providing a creative residency in 2023, our enthusiasm knows no bounds. At the very core of our mission lies our unwavering commitment to open doors for emerging playwrights, allowing their voices to resound both locally and on the globally," stated Olga Levina, the Executive Producer at JCTC. "JCTC is immensely thankful for our enduring partnership with I Love Greenville and the sponsorship from Healthier JC, our collaboration has given rise to a wide spectrum of programming, each piece thoughtfully designed to shed light on the experiences and obstacles faced by people of color while celebrating their rich cultural traditions."  We wish to express our gratitude to the Performers' Unions: ACTORS' EQUITY ASSOCIATION, AMERICAN GUILD OF MUSICAL ARTISTS, AMERICAN GUILD OF VARIETY ARTISTS and SAG-AFTRA through Theatre Authority, Inc. for their cooperation in permitting the Artists to appear in this program.

About Marcus Scott

Marcus Scott is a playwright, musical theatre writer & journalist. Full-length works: Tumbleweed (finalist: 2017 BAPF & the 2017 Festival of New American Plays at Austin Playhouse; semifinalist: 2022 O'Neill NPC, 2022 Blue Ink Playwriting Award & 2017 New Dramatists Princess Grace Award in Playwriting Fellowship), Sibling Rivalries (finalist: Normal Ave's NAPseries, 2021 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference & 2021 ATHE-KCACTF Judith Royer Excellence In Playwriting Award; semi- finalist: 2022 Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival, 2021 Blue Ink Playwriting Award & 2021 New Dramatists Princess Grace Award in Playwriting Fellowship; long-listed: 2020 Theatre503 International Playwriting Award), There Goes The Neighborhood (finalist: 2023 New Dramatists Princess Grace Award in Playwriting Fellowship, 2023 Blue Ink Playwriting Award, the 2019 Bushwick Starr Reading Series; semifinalist: 2023 BAPF) & Cherry Bomb (recipient: 2017 Drama League First Stage Artist-In-Residence, 2017 New York Theatre Barn's New Works Series; 2017 finalist for the Yale Institute for Music Theatre). Heartbeat Opera commissioned Scott to adapt Beethoven's “Fidelio” (Co-writer; Met Live Arts at the MET Museum, Mondavi Center at UC Davis, Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, The Broad Stage, Rutgers Presbyterian Church, Baruch Performing Arts Center; NYTimes Critics' Pick! ★★★★). Scott is the recipient of the WTP Rosalind Ayres-Williams Memorial Scholarship (2022-2024). Scott is the recipient of the WTP Rosalind Ayres-Williams Memorial Scholarship (2022-2024). His one-act Sundown Town is published in Obsidian: Literature and Arts of the African Diaspora: Issue: 48.1.   His work has developed or presented at Concord Theatricals/Sam French OOB Short Play Festival, Queens Theatre (New American Voices series), The Fire This Time Festival, Zoetic Stage (Finstrom Festival Of New Work), Dixon Place, Feinstein's/54 Below, Abingdon Theatre Company, Downtown Urban Arts Festival, Classical Theatre of Harlem, Across A Crowded Room at Lincoln Center Performing Arts Library (NYPL), Musical Theater Factory's 4x15 Series, Space on Ryder Farm, Theatre West, New Circle Theatre Company, MicroTheater Miami, Columbia College Chicago, among others.   Residencies and retreats: The inaugural Personal Pizza Party Writers' Kitchen cohort (2023), The 2022 Valdez Theatre Conference, The Road Theatre Company's Under Construction 3 Playwrights Group (2022), Mojoaa Performing Arts Company's Southern Black Playwrights Lab (Cohort 2; 2022), Works & Process LaunchPAD “Process as Destination” Residency at the Guggenheim (2022), Prospect Musical Theater Lab (2021), María Irene Fornés Playwriting Workshop (2021), JACK Governor's Island Artist Residency (2021), Catwalk Artist Residency (2021), The Center at West Park Virtual Performance Residency (2020-2021), Gingold Theatre Group Speaker's Corner Writer (2020-2022), Liberation Theatre Company's Playwriting Residency Fellowship (2018), Athena Theatre Company's Athena Writes Playwriting Fellowship (2018-2019), the inaugural LIT Council at the Tank (2018-2019), Fresh Ground Pepper Artist-In-Residence BRB Retreat (2017), One Co. Writers' Residency at Little Farm (2017) and Goodspeed Opera House Retreat (2013). Scott is a 2021 NYSAF Founders' Award finalist, a 2021 Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award semi-finalist, a four-time National Black Theatre I AM SOUL Playwrights Residency finalist and a four-time top finalist for The Civilians R&D Group. His articles appeared in Architectural Digest, Time Out New York, American Theatre Magazine, Playbill, Elle, Out, Essence, The Brooklyn Rail, among others. BFA: State University College at Buffalo, MFA: NYU Tisch.

[catabasis]

“You don't get bored of stories. None of us, as human beings, we just—we never get bored of stories. And I get to tell stories. And each story is new and different, so it's a continuously renewing thing. And hopefully you are constantly getting better at your corner of the storytelling process, and you can—with each new challenge, you sort of have to find a new sort of corner of yourself. And it keeps being difficult, and it keeps being challenging, and it keeps being exciting. And fun as well, if I'm absolutely honest.” — DAVID TENNANT (born April 18, 1971)

[mizgnomer]

One of my favorite attributes/quirks of a David Tennant Doctor: The need to flip/toss-and-catch things

See also: My #tossing things tag

[scifrey]

ART THREAD

I have had the very great pleasure of commissioning some beautiful art to celebrate the release of my new novel Nine-Tenths. I'm going to share them all in this thread (and hopefully add to it if I'm lucky enough to be graced with more) so you can appreciate the talent of these incredible artists.

by Christopher Winkelaar

Nine-Tenths is set in a world where all the nobility in Europe are homo draconis - shape-shifting dragons who have the ability to take human form. Every culture in the world have dragons living among the humans, but the European and Asian nations are the only ones where dragons were historically elevated to the roles of monarchs, nobles, and emperors.

In a world where the American Colonies rejected British rule, this meant they were also rejecting draconic protection--and so while they won their Independence in 1793, they were soundly trounced in the War of 1812, losing all of New England, including New York State, to the British. They were absorbed into the Canadas, except for New York City, which was reclaimed by the Dutch and re-renamed New Amsterdam.

The Canadian colonies expanded west, as they historically did in our world, through a series of broken treaties with the Indigenous peoples of the continent, and the reprehensible colonialist practices which put the settlers in power today. It also means they were able to expand further south, without the Americans to bump up against.

This also meant that the Americans were unable to expand as far south and west as in our world, coming up against Indigenous dragon-protected lands, such as the Oniagara, or Aztec and Incan empires, which grew further north after Spanish contact, and flourished.

Unlike in the current version of Canada, the land was legislatively divided into much smaller provinces than currently exist, each overseen by a hereditary draconic Lieutenant Governor, who report to the draconic Governor of the Canadas, who in turn reports to the House of Lords in England (also dragons). Each province is divided into Duchies, Earldoms, and Marquessates, presided over by a noble dragon family.

As dragons are long-lived, the current Queen of England is Elizabeth (the first one). As she has not yet passed, the Kingdom of Scotland as yet remains separate from England. Ireland too is independent, the Irish dragons having beaten back the English ones. However, Wales remains a satellite colony of England, as the betrayal which brought about it's subjugation and the trickery around the hereditary title "Prince of Wales" still occurred. (This an important plot point).

by @seancefemme

This is the first piece of art I commissioned for the novel, and you'll note it's now become the cover art!

Meet the heroes of our tale: barista and disaster bi Colin Levesque, stuck in the middle of his quarter-life crisis and crushing on his cafe regular, Welsh dragon Dav, the Marquis of Niagara (though of course, Colin doesn't know he's the Marquis, and thinks Dav is just some minor noble with nothing better to do all day than hang out and read).

by @ibrithir-was-here

Colin works at Beanevolence, an indie cafe in downtown St. Catharine's, in the province of Upper Canada (Southern Ontario in our world). It's owned by his bestie Hadi, and he was only supposed to be a barista until he'd graduated. But now he has his Sustainable Tourism degree, and no clue what to do next. He feels completely stuck. Luckily he has Dav to distract him.

Except that one day Dav distracts him too well, which results in a kitchen fire. As an apology for the inferno, and to help the cafe get back on it's feet while the repairs are under way, Dav volunteers as the new bean roaster, creating incredible and (and ultimately social-media viral) coffee roasts with his fire-breath.

by @ibrithir-was-here

Colin and Dav start a flirtation at work.

Which leads to...

by @teejaystumbles

Luxurious dates and late-night smoochies.

by @pinkpiggy93

Which also goes a little bit viral. See, it turns out that the Marquis of Niagara usually keeps a low profile, and his sudden romance with a human has the gossip rags and tabloids all in a tizzy.

But more than that, it puts Dav under the scrutiny of Francis Simcoe. He's the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, a dragon with a hate-on for Dav, and the perfect ammunition to ruin his happiness.

Because, you see, it's against dragonic rules for dragons to be seen to be laboring in service of humans... and Dav's new gig at Beanevolence is about to--forgive the pun--land him in hot water.

➡️ Read Nine-Tenths Here ⬅️

[blueiight]

id ask ppl to enquire why the arun/maître wordplay of e11 and 12 is conspicuously absent here beyond daniel lampshading it when armand refuses to turn madeleine

[sicc-nasti]

idk how to edit but i had a very vivid image in my head of a fancam absolutely loaded with heart and sparkle effects, except its the Courier and it just flips really fast through the same one image of him doing a shit eating grin, and the background music is a low quality and slightly muffled version of Hotline Bling

ALSO i saw ur reply and i am LOSING IT I CANT REPLY WITH IMAGES IN COMMENTS SO HERES WHAT I WANTED TO REPLY W

OK SO I NEEDED TO MAKE A FANCAM OF HIM SO FAST I’ve spent most of my shift doing this I’m so sorry it’s not the same idea you did but I needed to make something this is my first one I hope you like it it’s so awful and silly and short but oh my god I need to make more ALSO 💖💖💖💖

[andillwearmypearls]

sometimes i just sit around and think about david tennant. like yeah… the universe took its time with that one

[ominouspositivity-or-else]

bout to trauma dump in a close reading and cry during a poetry recitation for the same professor. oops.

[electric-plants]

after all that bad luck i decided to do a bunch of grinding as one last ditch effort to get kuki’s last two constellations and this banner FINALLY decided to have mercy on me please bask in my c6 kuki godbless

[mellicose]

I mean...

He does have a wand.

dr who doesn’t know what gravity is but he CAN read auras so watch out

[vivaciousoceans]

Idk anyone who calls themselves a “roc nation brunch black” is obviously not gonna care too much about social issues 🥴

[writemarcus]

Loyalty comes to a head in reading of ‘Sibling Rivalries’ at JCTC

Updated: Sep. 12, 2023, 5:41 p.m.|

Published: Sep. 12, 2023, 5:23 p.m.

By David Mosca | The Jersey Journal

Jersey City Theater Center will have its next live play reading, “Sibling Rivalries” by Marcus Scott, on Monday, Sept. 18, at 7:30 p.m. The new play is set at a fictional Ivy League school in the years following the Obama Administration.

This political drama follows a group of young black men, all members of a fraternity, who face shifting loyalties and eroded principles when they are forced to compete against one another for a prestigious fellowship.

“As we prepare to showcase the extraordinary talent of Marcus Scott, a remarkable representative of the black, queer community, whose work we have had the privilege of nurturing by providing a creative residency in 2023, our enthusiasm knows no bounds,” said Olga Levina, the executive producer at JCTC. “At the very core of our mission lies our unwavering commitment to open doors for emerging playwrights, allowing their voices to resound both locally and globally. JCTC is immensely thankful for our enduring partnership with I Love Greenville and the sponsorship from Healthier JC. Our collaboration has given rise to a wide spectrum of programming, each piece thoughtfully designed to shed light on the experiences and obstacles faced by people of color while celebrating their rich cultural traditions.”

Scott is a playwright, musical theatre writer, and journalist. Some of his full-length work includes “Tumbleweed” (finalist: 2017 BAPF & the 2017 Festival of New American Plays at Austin Playhouse; semifinalist: 2022 O’Neill NPC, 2022 Blue Ink Playwriting Award & 2017 New Dramatists Princess Grace Award in Playwriting Fellowship), “There Goes The Neighborhood” (finalist: 2023 New Dramatists Princess Grace Award in Playwriting Fellowship, 2023 Blue Ink Playwriting Award, the 2019 Bushwick Starr Reading Series; semifinalist: 2023 BAPF), and “Cherry Bomb” (recipient: 2017 Drama League First Stage Artist-In-Residence, 2017 New York Theatre Barn’s New Works Series; 2017 finalist for the Yale Institute for Music Theatre).

He was commissioned by Heartbeat Opera to adapt Beethoven’s “Fidelio” and his one-act “Sundown Town” was published in Obsidian: Literature and Arts of the African Diaspora: Issue: 48.1.

Sibling Rivalries will take place at Jersey City Theater Center, 165 Newark Ave, Jersey City, entrance from Barrow St. Tickets start at $5 and are available at www.JCTCenter.org.

[aliciaofchitaqua]

been recently getting a lot of activity and even some new followers on this lil blog that is still mostly just reblogs and so now that there is more of an audience I am contractually obligated to be annoying about this: if you enjoy insane gay relationships like destiel, try no. 6 my best friend no. 6. it is absolutely nothing like spn but the main characters still have a strange amount of destiel energy and parallels (dramatic fateful first meeting, turning your back on everything you've ever known and loved for one (1) cute guy, he teaches you doubt and you teach him faith, etc.)

I think there is especially crossover appeal for agincourties because my special little guys could absolutely pull off a "merciless fucking god" scene and do in fact have something kinda similar (Shion confronting Rashi and the fallout, IYKYK.)

it's unambiguously canon and unlike spn the writer doesn't actively hate the fans which is a nice change of pace. one half of the ship canonically gets turned on when the other half tells him that he'll give him a kiss before slitting his throat. this is directly after they both climbed up a mountain of corpses btw. they are both incorrigible freaks and they're always flirting at the worst possible times. please join me in hell.

[yowlthinks]

How is he not seen as the sexiest man alive?

Obviously, I don't know him personally (we all know he is a decent human being and an amazing actor, but the rest is and should be private), and I am generally someone who falls in love with fictional characters.

So can we just talk about how both the 10th Dr Who and Crowley are first and foremost KIND, SMART and FUNNY? Like these are the three main attractiveness triggers, right? And then you pair that with beautiful eyes, amazing hair, charming smile (his look of joy is irresistible, it is cintageous), and that neck, and I mean... I mean, look at him!!

I have also had the privilege of seeing him on stage twice now, and that energy is palpable, when you watch him play even a very morally flawed character, you still feel that joy in him.

some things never change, do they?