#c: katrina crawford

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Casting Goals: Ragtime

This took me MONTHS!!!! I had literally scheduled this post and then decided I was going to post it early, but upon re-looking at the cast list I said “You can do better Paul” so I reverted it to a draft and removed about 10 people which then led to shuffling some people around and then casting new people. Throughout the entire process the only definite people that were in this entire process where Stephanie J. Block, Terrence Mann, Michael Luwoye, Brittney Johnson and Katrina Lenk. Everybody else was changing constantly!!

I also divided the ensemble into three sections: Citizens of New Rochelle, Harlem Citizens and Immigrants.

Stephanie J. Block as Mother

Will Swenson as Father

Zachary Levi as Mother's Younger Brother

Terrence Mann as Grandfather

Josh Groban as Tateh

Michael Luwoye as Coalhouse Walker, Jr.

Brittney Johnson as Sarah

Carla R. Stewart as Sarah’s Friend/Harlem Citizen

Ashley Blair Fitzgerald as Evelyn Nesbit/Citizen of New Rochelle

Katrina Lenk as Emma Goldman/Immigrant

Pomme Koch as Harry Houdini/Immigrant (Tateh u/s)

Jacob Tischler as Willie Conklin/Citizen of New Rochelle (Mother’s Younger Brother u/s)

Aaron C. Finley as J.P. Morgan/Citizen of New Rochelle (Father u/s)

Alan H. Green as Booker T. Washington/Harlem Citizen

Casey Garvin as Henry Ford/Citizen of New Rochelle (Mother’s Younger Brother u/s)

Nick Spangler as Stanford White/Citizen of New Rochelle

Amar Atkins as Harlem Citizen (Booker u/s)

Brittany Campbell as Harlem Citizen (Sarah u/s)

Grasan Kingsberry as Harlem Citizen

Monté J. Howell as Harlem Citizen (Coalhouse u/s)

Nikisha Williams as Harlem Citizen (Sarah’s Friend u/s)

Sumayya Ali as Harlem Citizen

Coleen Sexton as Citizen of New Rochelle (Mother u/s)

Devin Archer as Citizen of New Rochelle (Willie Conklin u/s, Ford u/s, White u/s)

Jeremy Stolle as Citizen of New Rochelle (Father u/s, Grandfather u/s)

Katie Ladner as Citizen of New Rochelle (Evelyn u/s)

Marie Eife as Citizen of New Rochelle (Mother u/s)

Timothy Hughes as Citizen of New Rochelle (Grandfather u/s, Morgan u/s, Ford u/s)

Ahmad Maksoud as Immigrant (Houdini u/s)

Cecelia Ticktin as Immigrant (Emma Goldman u/s)

Hannah Florence as Immigrant

Or Schraiber as Immigrant (Tateh u/s)

Robert Ariza as Immigrant (Houdini u/s)

Sharone Sayegh as Immigrant (Emma Goldman u/s)

Bligh Voth as Swing

Brandt Martinez as Swing

David Kaverman as Swing

Gabrielle Reid as Swing (Sarah’s Friend u/s)

Graham Scott Fleming as Swing (Morgan u/s, White u/s)

Grasan Kingsberry as Swing

Jenny Florkowski as Swing (Evelyn u/s)

Ken Robinson as Swing (Booker u/s)

Milika Cherée as Swing (Sarah u/s)

Honorable Mentions: Adam Kantor as Tateh Akron Watson as Coalhouse Walker, Jr. Alistair Brammer as Willie Conklin/Citizen of New Rochelle Anneliese Van Der Pol as Mother Ben Crawford as Father Brandon Uranowitz as Tateh Dee Roscioli as Mother Dee Roscioli as Emma Goldman/Immigrant (Mother u/s) Jarrod Spector as Mother’s Younger Brother Jasmine Cephas Jones as Sarah Jordan Donica as Coalhouse Walker, Jr. Katie Rose Clarke as Mother Teal Wicks as Mother

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Save Writing NSW

An open letter to Create NSW and the NSW Minister for the Arts

We, as writers and active members of the literary community, were dismayed by Create NSW’s decision not to grant Writing NSW Multi-Year Organisations Funding in their latest round, despite the fact that Writing NSW was recommended for funding.

This decision demonstrates the ongoing devaluation of literature within the Australian arts funding landscape. We know literature is the most popular artform in the country, with 87% of Australian reading some form of literary work in any given year, yet in this round Create NSW offered only 5.7% of their ongoing funding to literature organisations.

The decision to defund Writing NSW carries a particular sting. Writing NSW is the leading organisation representing writers in a state with a long literary history and one that is home to many of Australia’s leading publishers, writers, literary agents and other core participants in the Australian literary industry.

Writing NSW is an important stepping-stone for writers at the beginning of their careers, providing high quality professional development programs, and it also employs emerging and established writers to deliver and lead these programs. For decades the organisation has provided high-quality courses, seminars, workshops, festivals, events, grants and literary prizes. In putting such programs at risk, Create NSW is jeopardising both an entry point and an ongoing support system for writers.

Macquarie University research shows that the average income of an Australian author from their practice is $12,900. The current economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic makes the situation of writers even more precarious. Writing NSW offers key employment opportunities to writers, through teaching, publication, speaking engagements and both curatorial and judging positions. The removal of these opportunities will mean many writers will not be able to maintain the other income streams that support their writing careers.

The removal of $175,000 from a single source would be catastrophic for any business – not-for-profit or otherwise. For a government funding body to enact such a blunt economic withdrawal in the midst of a global pandemic and without concern for the economic flow-on effect to hundreds of industry professionals is deeply distressing.

We call on Create NSW to reverse this decision and ask them to reveal their future strategies for arts funding and how they plan to rectify the disparity in funding between other funded artforms and literature.

As writers, we will never accept the loss of a vibrant, essential cultural network such as Writing NSW.

What you can do We invite anyone affected by Create NSW’s decision – writers, publishers, literary agents, illustrators, readers alike – to co-sign this letter. You can copy and customise this letter to draft a version from your own point of view on this matter to send to a Member of Parliament.

To co-sign this letter, add your name here: shorturl.at/dERX6

Signatories

Pip Smith, Writer, creative writing teacher Sam Twyford-Moore, Writer and arts administrator Fiona Wright, Writer, editor, critic, reader Gabrielle Tozer, Author, writer, editor Brigid Mullane, Editor Jules Faber, Author, Illustrator Dr Christopher Richardson, Author and academic Liz Ledden, Author, podcaster, book reviewer Kate Tracy Ashley Kalagian Blunt, Writer, reviewer, reader Julie Paine, Writer Nick Tapper, Editor Belinda Castles, Writer and academic Simon Veksner, Writer Amanda Ortlepp, Writer, reader, reviewer, High School English Teacher Bronwyn Birdsall, Writer, editor Robin Riedstra, Writer, reviewer, reader, English teacher Dr Delia Falconer, Writer, critic, academic Robert McDonald, Author, writer, creative writing teacher Dr Kathryn Heyman, Author Wai Chim, Author Kirsten Krauth, Writer, editor Tricia Dearborn, Poet, writer, editor Dr Mireille Juchau, Writer Gail Jones, Writer Dr Jeff Sparrow, Writer, editor, academic Linda Jaivin, Writer, editor, translator Adara Enthaler, Poet, editor, literary arts manager Keighley Bradford, Writer, editor, arts and festival administrator Nicole Priest, Reader and aspiring writer Shamin Fernando, Writer Andrew Pippos, Writer Bianca Nogrady, Writer and journalist James Bradley, Writer Ali Jane Smith, Writer Dr Eleanor Limprecht Idan Ben-Barak, Writer Jennifer Mills, Writer Nicole Hayes, Writer, podcaster Michelle Starr, Writer/journalist Phillipa McGuinness, Writer and publisher Vanessa Berry, Writer and academic Blake Ayshford, Screenwriter Emily Maguire, Writer Sarah Lambert, Screenwriter Anwen Crawford, Writer Sarah Bassiuoni, Screenwriter Jackson Ryan, Writer, journalist, academic Simon Thomsen, Journalist, editor, other wordy stuff Ivy Shih, Writer Miro Bilbrough, Writer, filmmaker, screenwriting teacher, script editor Graham Davidson, Writer, artist, festival director Christos Tsiolkas, Writer JZ Ting, Writer, lawyer Susan Francis, Writer, teacher Suneeta Peres da Costa, Writer Dr Harriet Cunningham, Writer, critic, journalist Adele Dumont, Writer, reader Sheree Strange, Writer, book reviewer, book seller Phil Robinson, Reader Ashleigh Meikle, Reader, writer, book blogger Naomi RIddle, Writer, editor Cathal Gwatkin-Higson, Writer, book seller Hannah Carroll Chapman, Screenwriter Angela Meyer, Writer, editor Steve Blunt, Reader, supporter Ambra Sancin, Writer, arts administrator Michelle Baddiley, Writer, reader, archive producer Dinuka McKenzie, Writer, reader Catherine C. Turner, Writer, reader, freelance editor and publisher, arts worker Hilary Davidson, Writer, poet, academic, reader Dr Eleanor Hogan, Writer Nicola Robinson, Commissioning Editor Kim Wilson, Screenwriter Jane Nicholls, Freelance writer and editor Lisa Kenway, Writer Virginia Peters, Writer Sarah Sasson, Physician-writer and reader Dr Joanna Nell, Writer Laura Clarke Author / Copywriter Nicole Reddy, Screenwriter Anna Downes, Writer Sharon Livingstone, Writer, editor, reader Lily Mulholland, Writer, screenwriter, technical editor Benjamin Dodds, Poet, reviewer, teacher Markus Zusak, Writer Alexandria Burnham, Writer, screenwriter Sam Coley, Writer Marian McGuinness, Writer Selina McGrath, Artist Adeline Teoh Natasha Rai, Writer Catherine Ferrari, Reader Jessica White, Writer & academic Zoe Downing, Writer, reader, creative writing student Amanda Tink, Writer, researcher, reader Lisa Nicol, Children's author, screenwriter, copywriter Aurora Scott, Writer Gillian Polack, Writer, academic Susan Lever, Critic and writer Denise Kirby, Writer Michele Seminara, Poet & editor Meredith Curnow, Publisher, Penguin Random House David Ryding, Arts Manager Catherine Hill Genevieve Buzo, Editor Hugo Wilcken DJ Daniels, Writer Linda Vergnani, Freelance journalist, writer and editor Tony Spencer-Smith, Author, writing trainer & editor Dr Viki Cramer, Freelance writer and editor Petronella McGovern, Author, freelance writer and editor Jacqui Stone, Writer and editor Talia Horwitz, Writer, reader & writing student Sophie Ambrose, Publisher, Penguin Random House Rebecca Starford, Publishing director, KYD; editor and writer David Blumenstein, Writer, artist Rashida Tayabali, Freelance writer Sheila Ngoc Pham, Writer, editor and producer Rosalind Gustafson, Writer Alan Vaarwerk, Editor, Kill Your Darlings Gillian Handley, Editor, journalist, writer Karina Machado Isabelle Yates, Commissioning Editor, Penguin Random House Michelle Barraclough, Writer Natalie Scerra, Writer Melanie Myers, Writer, editor and Creative Writing teacher Emily Lawrence, Aspiring Writer Nicola Aken, Screenwriter Jennifer Nash, Librarian, writer Clare Millar, Writer and editor Kathryn Knight, Editor, Penguin Random House Linda Funnell, Editor, reviewer, tutor, Newtown Review of Books Stacey Clair, Editor, writer, former events/projects producer at Queensland Writers Centre Virginia Muzik, Writer, copyeditor, proofreader, aspiring author Lisa Walker, Writer Sarah Morton, Copywriter, aspiring author, Member of Writing NSW Board Laura Russo, Writer and editor Vivienne Pearson, Freelance writer Justin Ractliffe, Publishing Director, Penguin Random House Australia James Ley, Contributing Editor, Sydney Review of Books Alison Urquhart, PublisherPenguin Random House Debra Adelaide, Author and associate professor of creative writing, University of Technology Sydney Magdalena Ball, Writer, Reviewer, Compulsive Reader Anna Spargo-Ryan, Writer, writing teacher, editor, reader Charlie Hester, Social media & project officer, Queensland Writers Centre Mandy Beaumont, Writer, researcher and reviewer Chloe Barber-Hancock, Writer, reader, pre-service teacher Dr Patrick Mullins, Academic and writer Wendy Hanna, Screenwriter Chloe Warren Dianne Masri, Social Media Consultant Jane Gibian, Writer, librarian, reader Dr Airlie Lawson, Academic and writer Karen Andrews, Writer, teacher, reader Tim Coronel, General manager, Small Press Network and Industry adjunct lecturer, University of Melbourne Tommy Murphy, Playwright and screenwriter Evlin DuBose, Editor, writer, screenwriter, director, poet, UTS's Vertigo Magazine Tony Maniaty, Writer Emma Ashmere, Writer, reader, teacher Alicia Gilmore, Writer Suzanne O'Sullivan, Publisher, Hachette Australia Jacqui DentWriter, Content Strategist Rachel Smith, Writer Intan Paramaditha, Writer Cassandra Wunsch, Director TasWriters (The Tasmanian Writers Centre) Meera Atkinson Eileen Chong, Poet, Writer, Educator Debra Tidball, Author, reviewer Beth Spencer, Author, poet, reader Lou Pollard, Comedy writer, blogger Bronwyn Stuart/Tilley, Author and program coordinator, Writers SA Gemma Patience, Writer, illustrator, reviewer Amarlie Foster, Writer, teacher Dr Felicity Plunkett, writer Angela Betzien Drew Rooke, Journalist and author Michael Mazengarb, Journalist RenewEconomy Katrina Roe, Children's author, broadcaster, audiobook narrator Liz Doran, Screenwriter Arnold Zable, Writer. Tom Langshaw, Editor, Penguin Random House Brooke Maddison Monica O'Brien, ProducerAmbience Entertainment Jacinta Dimase, Literary AgentJacinta Dimase Management Jane Novak, Literary AgentJane Novak Literary Agency Sarah Hollingsworth, Arts Organisation ManagerMarketing and Communications Manager, Writers Victoria Barbara Temperton, Writer Sandra van Doorn, Publisher Red Paper Kite Alex Eldridge, Writer Karen Beilharz, Writer, editor, comic creator Esther Rivers, Writer, editor, poet Jane Pochon, Board Member, lawyer and reader Zoe Walton, Publisher, Penguin Random House Eliza Twaddell Alison Green, CEO, Board Member, Pantera Press Emma Rafferty, Editor Sarah Swarbrick, Writer Dayne Kelly, Literary Agent, RGM Léa Antigny, Head of Publicity and Communications, Pantera Press Jenny Green, Finance, Pantera Press Sarah Begg, Writer Mark Harding, Writer, Brand Manager, Social Media and Content Specialist Shanulisa Prasad, Bookseller Katy McEwen, Rights Manager, Pantera Press Olivia Fricot, Content Writer/Bookseller, Booktopia Jack Peck, Writer, Open Genre Group Convenor, Writing NSW, Retired Kathy Skantzos, Writer, Editor Serene Conneeley, Author, Editor Kerry Littrich, Writer Merran Hughes, Creative Cassie Watson, Writer Lisa Seltzer, Copywriter, Social Media Manager and Marketing Consultant Gemma Noon, Writer and Librarian Tanya Tabone, Reader Laura Franks, Reader, Editor, Writer Dani Netherclift, Writer Who to contact We urge you to join us in advocating for Writing NSW and the state of funding for Australian literature, by contacting Create NSW, your NSW Member of Parliament, and the NSW Minister for the Arts.

Chris Keely Executive Director, Create NSW Email: chris.keely@create.nsw.gov.au

The Hon. Don Harwin, MLC Phone: (02) 8574 7200 Email: office@harwin.minister.nsw.gov.au

Who to else to contact

The Hon. (Walt) Walter Secord, MLC Shadow Minister for the Arts Phone: (02) 9230 2111 Email: walt.secord@parliament.nsw.gov.au Ms. Cate Faehrmann, MLC Greens representative for Arts, Music, Night-Time Economy and Culture Phone: (02) 9230 3771 Email: cate.faehrmann@parliament.nsw.gov.au A full list of names and contact details for NSW State MPs is available here.

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Greene đến Kinda Verdickt và Robert Garrison, 561 Station Road, 425.000 đô la.Alayne G. Ronnenberg và Richard J. Wood đến Weifeng Liu và Yiru Carol Chen, 170 East Hadley Road, 170.500 đô la.Stephen J. Payne đến East Pleasant Street Realty LLC, East Pleasant Street, $ 100.William E. Hart, đại diện cá nhân, và William MccVickery, bất động sản, đến Mary W. Hoch và Christopher M. Hoch, 2 McIntosh Drive, 375.000 đô la.Paul Brissette đến Jamroth LLC, ngõ 54 Pomeroy, $ 100.000.Michael Shally Jensen và Beth Shally Jensen đến D. Joseph Jerry và Veronica L. Stirewalt, 60 Echo Hill Road, 530.000 đô la.BelchertownJan M. Skaza cho Mary Rachel Kosiorek, ủy thác và Mary Rachel Kosiorek Trust, 131 Metacomet St., $ 18,750.Hickory Hills Realty LLC, đến J.N. Duquette & Son Construction Inc., Magnolia Lane, $ 110.000.Margaret M. Suttenfield đến Jacob S. Girard và Jessica E. Girard, 20 Juckett Hill Drive, $ 272.500.BernardstonGloria Funkhouser đến Urban Veneer LLC, 497 Northfield Road, $ 400.000Cánh đồngKimberly S. H. Donze và Todd J. W. Donze cho Lisa B. Palmer-White, 48 Saint George Road, 285.000 đô la.BucklandElizabeth A. Carpenter 1997 Tin tưởng, Denise A. Famosi "hay còn gọi là" Denese A. Famosi, những người được ủy thác, đến Gary Gerald Blank và Darlene Blank, 77 Elm Street, 200.000 đô la.William D. Connelley và Alice B. Connelley đến Patricia M. Heminger, 14-16 Ashfield St., $ 282.500.ChesterJames R. Hathaway và Melissa M. Spear cho Christopher H. Martenson, 11 Johnson Hill Road, $ 587.500.Robert H. Martincich đến C8102M12 LLC, Đường Johnson Hill, $ 50.000.ChesterfieldNgân hàng Hoa Kỳ NA, ủy thác, LXS 2007-2N và PHH Mortthing Corp, luật sư thực tế, đến 2019 Castle LLC, 4 Willcutt Road, 22.100 đô la.ChicopeeRM Acre Chicopee Hampden MA LLC, đến Trường Khoa học East Hampden Charter, 20 Johnson Road, $ 8,085,000.CJK Realty LLC, đến Kam Meat S. Mistri và Rachna K. Mistri, 206 Fairview Ave., $ 275,000.Denette Properties LLC, đến Steven J. Tessier, 26 Muzzy St., $ 167.000.Douglas W. Dolbow và Robin M. Dolbow đến Antonio Daniele III, 109 Paradise St., $ 215.000.Grandview Development Associates LLC, đến Richard P. Mienkowski và Halina Mienkowski, Sycamore Lane, 120.000 đô la.Richard P. Jambora và Marilyn T. Jambora đến Jeremy M. Guz, 58 Roberts Pond Lane, 236.000 USD.Robert J. Russo Sr., và Paulette A. Russo đến Scott A. Russo, 695 Britton St., 210.000 đô la.Sherry M. Oblerro đến Nathan W. Garstka-Osley, 57 Marten St., $ 171.000.Đông LongmeadowColleen M. Milbier, Brian J. Milbier và Kevin F. Milbier cho Scott F. Davis, 9 North St., $ 87.326.Kathleen A. Dasilva, đại diện, và James F. Dasilva, bất động sản, đến Lena Vellturo, 112 Braeburn Road, 220.000 đô la.Kelly Fradet Lumber Inc., đến K Fradet Mass LLC, Phố Dorset, $ 1,425,000.Pamela L. Rutherford đến Deborah I. Cubi, 15 Corning St., $ 245.000.Robert J. Lefebvre, Nina Pare, James B. Lodigiani, Anne A. Beltramello, Leonard C. Lodigiani và Helen N. Lodigiani đến Frederick B. Shea và Susan M. Shea, 594 Parker St., 200.000 USD.Steven W. Longmoore II và Amy L. Longmoore đến Owen C. Jarmoc, 57 ổ đĩa, 605.000 đô la.DeerfieldMary Gragen Scoville Estate, "còn gọi là" Mary G Scoville động sản, Gregory P. Scoville, đại diện cá nhân, đến Harold J. Wrisley, Jane A. Wrisley và Kevin A. Wrisley, 87 North Main St., 240.000 đô la.William J. Babcock, Jr., và Nancy J. Hrynyshyn đến J2K Realty LLC, 28 Thayer St., 165.000 đô la.XóaJacquelin T. Felton động sản, Nancy J. Felton, đại diện cá nhân, đến Jamie L. Will, 9 Central St., 108.000 đô la.Đông thànhAllison S. Crawford đến Brooke Ann Johnson và Curtley Cruize Johnson, 62 West St., 240.000 USD.Christopher Cleland và Rebecca Starr đến Allison S. Crawford, 3 Crown Drive, 336.100 USD.John S. Gay, người được ủy thác, Misty J. Althizer, người được ủy thác và Saltpath II Tin tưởng vào Scott A. Richards và Pamela Brooks, 181 East St., $ 620.000.Theresa M. Lord, bất động sản, và Earl S. Lord, đại diện cá nhân, cho Nicholas D. Duprey và Betty L. Dupre, 3 Kimberly Lane, 220.000 đô la.Nhà đầu tư Mountain View, LP, Edward F. Fedor, đối tác chung, Martin E. Fedor, đối tác chung, Mary Ann F. Fedor, đối tác chung và David E. Fedor, đối tác chung, cho RVC Properties LLC, 228 Northampton St., 2.850.000 đô la.Trời ạMark S. Richardson, Mark S. Richardson, đại diện cá nhân, Susan L. MacInni, Susan L. MacInni, đại diện cá nhân, và Sylvia E. Richardson, bất động sản, cho Michael J. Cesario và Hannah M. Cesario, 75 Pond Hill Road, $ 219.000.GranbyRichard G. Archambault đến Gloria Lyons, 26 Smith Ave., $ 214.500.Cynthia F. Kennedy đến Patrick Kennedy và Lynne M. Sullivan, 106 East St., 100 đô la.William M. Clark đến Josuha M. Clark và Leslie A. Clark, Phố Batch Bachelor, 100 đô la.Michael Bennett, Katrina Marie Bennett và Katrina Marie Reinholz đến Vania M. Guzman, Reynaldo Huertas Nokers và Evelyn Velez, 19 New Ludlow Road, $ 214.900.Cánh đồng xanhCC MA Realty LLC, đến NLCP 7 Legion MA LLC, 7 Legion Ave., $ 2,108,951.Samantha Tones cho Philip M. Katsar, 145 Silver St., $ 175.000.Constance Andrew đến Lyle L. Lavin, Jr., và Nancy G. Lavin, 44 Harrison Ave., 138.000 đô laJames F. Pitchko đến Matthew F. Risch, 98 phố James, 150.000 đô la.Anita Margaret Wall Living Trust, Anita Margaret Wall, ủy thác, cho Douglas R. McNamara và Pamela J. McNamara, 43 Norwood St., 160.000 đô la.Adams Weekks Realty LLC, đến Donna M. Rhodes và Sven T. S. Rhodes, đường 312 Adams, 229.000 đô la.Joseph Gorey đến LCS Realty LLC, 308 Deerfield St. và 310 Deerfield St, 175.000 đô la.HadleyLori A. Hoffman, đại diện cá nhân, và Walter R. Hoffman tới Sharon Wachsler, 9 đường Moody Bridge, $ 305.000.HampdenMichael J. Sicbaldi LLP, Emily Burkhead, Peter Sicbaldi và Christopher Sicbaldi cho Michael A. Ciecko Jr., Đường 291 Scantic, $ 235.000.Richard A. St. Aubin và Deborah I. St. Aubin đến Natasha Rodriguez, 186 đường Bennett, $ 299.900.HatfieldNan Wiegersma đến Phillip J. Van Alstine và Dana L. Kuras, 115 Elm St., 340.000 USD.Angela Greco đến Jenni L. Manfredi, 8 Tòa án Elm và Elm, $ 277.500.Gary R. Hebert, Kristen A. Hebert và Kristen A. Lanza đến Chuong Q. Dinh, 26 Nice View Drive, 482.000 đô la.Beverly A. Labbee, đại diện cá nhân, và Nellie A. Osepowicz, bất động sản, đến Gary R. Hebert và Kristen Hebert, 12 Primrose Path, $ 290.000.Patrick J. Melnik Jr., đại diện cá nhân, và Ann N. Burda, bất động sản, đến Paula Sayword và Karen A. Sims, $ 263.000.HolyokeAntonio E. Daniele III, và Christopher Daniele đến Jillian McKay, 8 Maple Crest Circle E, 97.000 USD.Diana Garcia đến Sylvia Delgado và Elias Silva Perez, 140 Essex St., $ 172.500.Gabriele T. Brin-Martin đến Scott L. Cournoyer, Đường núi 445, $ 204.000.GG LLC, đến Rebecca E. McPhee và Anshumali KC, 51 Elm St., $ 102.000.Luis A. Gonzalez và Marisol Gonzalez đến Jose Luis Rivera và Waleska Gonzalez Arroyo, 31 Springdale Ave., 129.900 đô la.Peter M. Brunault, đại diện, Edward Arthur Miles Jr., và Edward A. Miles, bất động sản, đến James C. Durand, 234 West Franklin St., 52.000 đô la.Vanwijak Eowsakul và Manivone Chanthalouangnam cho Joel M. Bierwert, 80 South Bay State Road, 184.000 đô la.LongmeadowJohn T. Kreinest đến Donald H. Bolduc, 689 Laurel St., $ 345.000.KC Propco LLC, để lưu trữ tài trợ chính XVII LLC, 28 Dwight Road, 2.240.000 đô la.Ralph C. Merullo, đại diện, và Helen C. Merullo, bất động sản, đến Dmitry J. Gulak và Mary McDonald, 35 Herbert St., $ 168,041.Shelley Cotton và Shelly Cotton cho John A. Tomaszewski và Elizabeth D. Tomaszewski, đường 309 Frank Smith, $ 380.000.Steven N. Sobel đến Ehdaa A. Tahoun, 80 Hawthorn St., $ 215.000.LudlowDolores R. Norton đến Robert Archambault Jr., 16 West Belmont St., 128.500 đô la.John Pelczar, bất động sản, và Debra A. Sciascia, đại diện, cho David C. 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CONF: Drawing conversations 2: Body, Space, Place (Coventry, 8 Dec 18)

The Institute for Creative Enterprise (ICE), Coventry University Technology Park, Puma Way CV1 2NE, UK., December 8, 2017

VAR: VISUAL ARTS RESEARCH

Drawing conversations 2: Body, Space, Place

Conveners: Professor Jill Journeaux, Dr. Helen Gorrill, Dr. Imogen Racz, Dr. Sara Reed.

The event includes a keynote presentation by Marsha Meskimmon, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History and Theory at Loughborough University, and 23 papers from practitioners, art historians and theoreticians. These will be accompanied by a selected set of poster presentations. For further information contact: Jill Journeaux on j.journeaux@coventry.ac.uk

The cost of event attendance is:

£50 – Per person

£30- Doctoral students

A payment link is in the process of being set up, in the meantime please contact Lotte Crawford at crawfo22@uni.coventry.ac.uk for more details.

DRAWING CONVERSATIONS 2: BODY, SPACE, PLACE

9.00 Digital Arts Studio Registration; tea, coffee, pastries Put up Poster Presentations

10.00 Welcome to Coventry University and Visual Arts Research and C-Dare – Jill Journeaux and Sara Reed

10.10 Keynote speaker – Marsha Meskimmon

11.00 Jenny Keane – Traced, Erased: The Lick drawings and the Female Body in Space

11.20 Brick Room Tea and Coffee

11.40 – 1pm Performance Studio Strand A, chaired by Imogen Racz

11.40 Deborah Harty- Wandering Through Drawings

12.00 Joe Graham- Climate Drawing: the atmosphere of time

12.20 Lesley Haliwell- An Elongated Moment: the body and the marked surface

12.40 Raul Martinez- Drawing Architectural Experience: Depicting Body Movement Through Gaudi’s Palau Guell

11.40 – 1 pm Digital Arts Studio Strand B, chaired by Jill Journeaux

11.40 Sofia Mali- Reflections on the Female Body

12.00 Simon Woolham- In Search of the Shortcuts

12.20 Jenny Walden- Drawing (upon) Body Drawing.

12:40 Andrew MacDonald- Fence/Hammock: escape, animation, performance, film, anxiety, drawing

1.00 Brick Room Lunch and opportunity to view Poster Presentations

2.00-3.00 Performance Studio Strand C, chaired by Sara Reed

2.00 Chris Crickmay- An account of our work in performance drawing

2.20 Ram Samocha- The Restless Body

2.40 Laurence Schmidlin- Drawing as a tool for mapping the body in space

2.00-3.00 Digital Arts Studio Strand D, chaired by Helen Gorrill

2.00 Jennifer Clarke- Gestural Traces

2.20 Kiera O’Toole- Drawing from the Non-Place

2.40 Lucy O’Donnell- Maternal Lines: Drawing in/on Conversations.

3.00 Brick Room Mulled wine and mince pies Tea, Coffee

3.20 – 4.45 Performance Space Strand E, chaired by Sara Reed

3.20 Katrina Brown- Working-low: activating the horizontal plane

3.40 Courtney Coyne – Jensen- Drawing on Lived Experience: Presenting and Prosthetics

4.00 Sally Doughty- Hourglass: mark making in and as performance

4.20 Greig Burgoyne- SPLACE: Performative drawing – co-creating third sites

3.20 – 4.45 Digital Arts Studio Strand F, chaired by Rob Tovey

3.20 Clare Smith- Encountering Place: Boldshaves Garden

3.40 Richard Lloyd and Alan Parson- Location Drawings

4.00 Lesley Hicks- Drawing: a protest against forgetting

4.20 Sarah Lawton- Drawing the Human Form: a Sign of our Thinking

4.45 Closing comments Imogen Racz

4.55 Close

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By Janell Hobson

September has become the month to remember disasters. Apart from September 11, there is the memory of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and its devastating impact on New Orleans. And now the new hurricane season has spawned new memories of Harvey and Irma and the disasters left in their wake. As a daughter of Caribbean parents with family and friends scattered throughout the islands and southern states, I have significant memories of hurricanes. There is Hurricane David in 1979 that threatened my time in St. Croix with my family but mercifully passed us by (while damaging nearby Puerto Rico). And how could I forget Hurricane Hugo in 1989, which destroyed my grandmother’s house in Nevis and blew the roof off my aunt’s house in the U.S. Virgin Islands? Living in upstate New York, I felt, but was spared the effects of Hurricanes Irene and Sandy back to back.

“July, stand by/August, look out – you must!/September, remember/October, all over.” So goes the saying, and climate change may have extended the season. Such moments recall provocative conversations with my mother, who suggests that hurricane winds are more than the trade winds forming off the coast of Africa. What if they have absorbed the collective rage of our fallen ancestors from the slave ships? Anyone who has heard such winds would not doubt that spirits are still reeling from pain. The hurricanes of the Atlantic certainly follow in the path of the Middle Passage, beginning at the west African coast and making their way to the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, or the eastern coast of North America.

Whether interpreted as “nature” or “rage,” the winds – or spirits – demand our listening and our memory. It is with this current hurricane season in mind that I have revisited Zora Neale Hurston‘s Their Eyes Were Watching God. A novel told from the perspective of its light-skinned heroine Janie Crawford, who walks away from two husbands before falling in love with the younger Tea Cake, it is as much an ecological tale as it is love story with its documentation of the 1928 hurricane devastating the Lake Okeechobee area and leaving over 2,000 dead – most of whom were black migrant workers. As Janie survives controlling marriages, a passionate but also controlling lover, and a deadly storm before she reaches self-actualization, we are treated to the genius of Hurston, who allegedly wrote this novel in seven weeks while embarking on anthropological research in Haiti before it was published in 1937.

Having left behind a tumultuous love affair with a younger man, Hurston’s Guggenheim-fellowship-supported trip gave her respite from a man who demanded she give up her career to devote to their relationship. This personal tale is interwoven with memories of Hurston’s own experience of a 1929 hurricane in the Bahamas, as well as her interviews with survivors of the Okeechobee hurricane in Florida. Their Eyes Were Watching God thus intersects the geopolitical memories of Florida, Haiti, the Bahamas, and New York (the site for Hurston’s love affair), the hurricane an apt metaphor for tensions and contentions shaping black women’s lives and their own Diasporic consciousness.

In Sister Citizen, Melissa Harris-Perry connects Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God to the black female Katrina survivors, arguing that “post-Katrina New Orleans, as read through the lens of Hurston’s novel, is a place to begin taking seriously the idea that black women’s experiences act as a democratic litmus test for the nation.” Harris-Perry further contends that it was the pain and vulnerability of black women that shifted the national conversation from black male looters and rapists to suffering black mothers, daughters, and children. Such political legibility extends back to a legacy of black women writers like Hurston. Asserting a similar argument, Keith Cartwright suggests Hurston’s role – based on her participation in a Vodou ceremony in New Orleans as an Oya initiate – is akin to a literary Oya-Yansa, Vodou goddess of the storms. 1 In rewriting the history of Florida’s hurricane, Hurston conjures the storm – both literally and figuratively – as a transformative and passionate force.

Widening the Diasporic lens, Claire Tancons traces this 1928 Okeechobee hurricane back to its initial impact on the island of Guadeloupe, based on the memories of that storm shared by her grandmother, as well as its later manifestation as Hurricane Felipe on the island of Puerto Rico. Locating the historical “women of the whirlwind,” Tancons suggests their representation “is never too assured, or so secured, and is always on the verge of going with the wind.” 2

In other words, whether we look to the literary role of Hurston-as-Oya or the political symbol of black womanhood and their precarity, what would it mean to locate a “Black Atlantic” or “Diaspora” not on solid ground or even the expansive Atlantic, but within the stormy winds? What gets irrevocably transformed, what is salvaged, and what are the remnants of memory and our livelihood?

In revisiting Hurston, who devoted her anthropological and literary works to making legible the Black Diaspora and to validating its cultural expressions, linguistics, and aesthetics, her interests remained as mobile as the hurricane winds, and as committed to tracing the tracks of our Diasporic footsteps. She simply conjured a proto-feminist tale in the process of remembering an unforgettable storm.

K. Cartwright, “‘To Walk with the Storm’: Oya as the Transformative “I” of Zora Neale Hurston’s Afro-Atlantic Callings,” American Literature 78, no. 4 (December 2006): 741-767.

C. Tancons, “Women in the Whirlwind: Withholding Guadeloupe’s Archipelagic History,” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 16, no. 3 39 (November 2012): 143-165.

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