#dedication: ginna

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I will say the whole "that's AI" "no it isnt" thing, the whole "AI is ginna make it impossible to tell whether a photo is real or not" thing, kinda drives me insane. Like. You remember photoshop exists, yea? This is nearly word for word the way the (only somewhat unjustified) panic about photoshop went. And its true! The existance of easily accessed photoshop Did make it slightly harder to determine whether a photo was real or not! You had to use some common sense and always retain some skepticism about anything other than a well verified image. But this didnt cause any like. Massive widescale issues.

So Im always just Baffled by this line of fear about AI cause like...this doesnt actually make the problem any worse? Photoshop is already extremely widespread and accessible? AI is probably not going to have a large effect on the number of well disguised fake images circulating, once the initial buzz runs out (alsp happened with photoshop, afaik).

Continuing with slightly more serious thing under the cut

This is also true for AI porn. Like, im not gonna get into the ethical debate about it, but regardless of anything else. Fake porn of celebrities already exists! There are in fact multiple websites dedicated to it. Using photoshop. A creep taking someones photos off facebook and using photoshop to make porn of them is Already an issue, which is why there are already policies about it, which can neatly be used with AI doing the same thing, because its functionally identical.

I cant remember the exact post, but there was one going around a while ago that essentially said "the barrier to doing [bad thing] isnt really how easy it is to do or how accessible it is, its people being willing to do it". AI is a decent step up from photoshop in terms of accessible ways to make decent quality fake images, but its a Miniscule increase compared to the one that occured when photoshop and social media became widespread. Since then, the barrier has been "how many people are willing to lie or be creeps", and AI isnt really going to have that big affect on how skeptical you need to be of important images that might be fake or how careful you should be with images of yourself online.

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Tell us more about Ginna and Zhuli please!

Of course?! I love them a lot <33

BACKSTORY BELOW

Akamine Gina is a samurai from the nation of Kumitari, a land in an original world I have!! He works for a group called “the sages” a clan of mythical beings that keep the demons and monster of Kumitari at bay. He is requested to work as a bodyguard for a lady named Hwayun, away from his home in Kumitari— a land of spirits called Lishulin. Gina is a reserved, slightly dryer person— who usually just goes about his duties without a word. when arriving at Lishulin’s North Village, he feels a presence of a monster, who Hwayun names as “The Mist Spirit of Mt. Guihua.” Having been one too slay monsters his entire life— Gina is quick too try and battle it via Hwayun’s request.

Of course, finding a monster hidden in the mountains is never easy— But he went too the highest slope every single morning.. trying to find the monster while it was asleep.. but too no avail.

Zhuli is the Mist Spirit of Mt. Guihua, who’s lived his life with nasty rumours keeping humans away from him, even if he was the kindest of all the spirits in Lishulin. (Besides from Yufei, but he’s a diff topic) Being a spirit, he had been simply keeping himself transparent the entire time— but wonders what his intentions are.. and chooses too reveal himself. Gina pulls his blade, but comes too realize Zhuli wasn’t intending too hurt him at all. He leaves for the time being, yet his curiosity brings him back a week later— and he spends a couple days attempting too spy on the spirit. Lady Hwayun had labeled him a monster, yet he hadn’t been doing anything wrong?

He soon starts too realize there’s something much more sinister behind Lishulin’s traditional walls, and quits his task— heading for the East Village, a village that believes in the Mist Spirits as positive deities. He meets a girl named Dambi there, who claims to know a Mist Spirit named Gi Ryung. That enough sent his thoughts into an overdrive, and he rented a place too stay for the night— dedicated too solving the mysteries laid before him. Which includes visiting Zhuli again, ofc!!

Thats the basic backstory !!!!!

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thinking about how i did all this research in swords and weaponry for the mage minho/knight chan au (which i've decided to title evening star by the way!!) but like im reslly just gonna use 'sword' the entire time.

also like i really wanna sketch out dagger/knife designs (like. engravings on the blade and the hilt and stuff) but lile wgat am i ginna do huh??? have a whole paragraph dedicated to explaining the layout of everything on this 30cm blade??? (Yeah bruhs wtf daggers are fricken mASSIVE i thought daggers were like. knife sized.)

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My first post is being dedicated do Mary Kate Morrissey and Ginna Claire Mason because I NEED A BOOTLEG OF THEM SOMEONE COME THROUGH PLEASEEEE

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Q&A With The Hosts Of “A Bintel Brief” Podcast: Where Culture & Identity Meet

In 1906, the Forward started A Bintel Brief, Yiddish for “A Bundle of Letters.” Now that classic Jewish advice column is a podcast. The co-hosts, two very different Jewish mothers, dish on the dilemmas of Jewish-American life, identity, culture and politics. They have already completed a successful season one and are well into season two.

The co-hosts are Ginna Green and Lynn Harris.

Ginna Green is a strategist-consultant-movement-builder now helping Jewish (and other) organizations change through her new firm, Uprise. She is on the boards of progressive Jewish groups including Bend the Arc and the Jews of Color Initiative, and lives in Columbia, South Carolina, where she went to high school and college. Her interests include cooking, bourbon and annihilating her four children at Scrabble, even on Shabbat.

Lynn Harris is a writer-activist-multihyphenate who uses the power of comedy to drive change. She is founder of GOLD Comedy, co-creator of Breakup Girl, and a former advice columnist for Glamour and other print magazines of blessed memory. She enjoys hot sauce and embarrassing her teen children just by existing, and dedicates this gig to her late mother, who gave the best advice in the world. We were able to talk with both Ginna Green and Lynn Harris about their podcast, A Bintel Brief.

Q. So, you took a column that began in 1906 and converted it to a podcast. That’s a massive undertaking. Why a podcast? How did you get started with the podcast?

A. Bringing A Bintel Brief into the age of audio was part of Jodi Rudoren’s vision when she became editor of the Forward. When you think about the way the original column generated community and conversation — people shared the paper, passed it around, discussed — audio, along with everything else that tech can enable, feels like a natural, and not even so new-fangled fit. (LH)

Q. Ginna & Lynn, how did you transition your skills from print to podcasting?

A. Learning how to co-host a podcast? In my prior lives, I spent time in just about every medium–and radio was always my favorite. It might have had something to do with the fact that I could do an interview from my living room in my pajamas before it was pandemic protocol. So jumping in the podcast pool was right up my alley. (GG)

Q. How did you decide on the topics (letters) for season one? Did you have a sequence you wanted to follow for season one?

A. We selected letters that stood out for a nice balance of specificity and relatability, a strong emotional current, and for the opportunity to bring in a Jewish angle even if the questions weren’t about Judaism itself. (There’s always a way to bring in a Jewish angle.) We didn’t have a pre-planned sequence, but we did plan the flow to shift between lighter to heavier and to vary among topics. We did save a couple of heavier ones for later in the season, in part because we felt it was important to first build up trust among our listeners. (LH)

Q. What has been the audience’s response to the podcast? Downloads? Listener feedback?

A.What’s fun is that listeners often respond not directly to us, but to the folks who wrote the letters — citing their own experiences and offering suggestions of their own. Again, it’s that sense of community and conversation that we can create, even without sitting around a table on the Lower East Side. (LH)

Q. What do you think is the answer to: My listeners come to the podcast to…?

A. Because Lynn and I are fun, and other people’s problems are way more fun than one’s own. But also because we are thoughtful and open-minded, non-dogmatic and curious. Sometimes we are lighthearted, and sometimes we are heavy, but we often have as many questions as we have answers, which is probably spot-on for a Jewish advice podcast. (GG)

Q. What’s been the most rewarding feedback you’ve received from listeners so far?

A. One of our earliest episodes, “Mr. Not-Dad,” dealt with an older gentleman lamenting that he had never become a dad. We grappled with that reality, and then offered our letter-writer to not give up–there are so many ways to become a dad, or even a father figure, in a time of such change around family composition, structure and creation. A dear friend of mine, who shared perhaps some of the same feelings as Mr. Not-Dad if not the exact circumstances, was listening to the episode on a bike ride to the beach, and he had to stop and pull over to text me that the episode meant so much to him. And that meant so much to me. (GG)

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A Bintel Brief isn’t simply an advice podcast, like say Dear Sugars, which is a good one. It also acts as a cultural reservoir, since the podcast reimagined a 116-year-old advice column in print into a podcast.

Unfortunately, we are in an age in the U.S. where having a cultural and ethnic identity and waving that flag seems to anger those who feel threatened by such displays of group pride and expression.

A Bintel Brief and its two charming and wise-beyond-their-years co-hosts skillfully answer these listener questions in every episode: Who am I? How do I relate to others in the Jewish-American community? How do I relate to others outside that community? How is my faith related to my lifestyle?

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NORMAN – MAINSITE Contemporary Art, the home of the Norman Arts Council, reopens to the accessible today afterward its acting cease in acknowledgment to the coronavirus pandemic. 

Current hours at the nonprofit city Norman art gallery, which briefly shuttered in March due to the pandemic, are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday. The arcade will accomplish with a bound capacity, and its agents awful recommends any and all visitors abrasion a affectation and attach to amusing break protocols with any added guests in the space.

The arcade is aperture with a new display alleged “ONEderland,” which appearance works from the “Alice in ONEderland” bargain acknowledging the Norman Arts Council. The display includes works by Carol Beesley, Tim Kenney, Ginna Dowling, Brad Stevens, Shevaun Williams and more. Art lovers can abode aboriginal bids on art or alike acquirement at the “buy it now” price. 

The display will be on appearance through July 24 and will culminate in a Facebook Live activity and accident from 7 to 11 p.m. July 25. 

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Artemis, Trident, Sparta

Ahhh, oh my gosh, thank you so much!

Artemis: What do you first notice about new people?

Oooh, okay. I have a little routine when meeting new people because I get really nervous so I do this to sort of ground myself.1. The first thing that I tend to notice is whether they seem friendly or not. I’m not very good at reading people and sometimes I get a really hostile vibe from the loveliest people (for example, my friend Emily), so I don’t try to go by this and try to introduce myself anyway.2. I tend to notice their style. Whether it’s something that I would wear or if it sticks out to me or if they’re wearing any kind of merchandise of things that I like or that they might like. One of my favourite things is bringing up that you know someone likes something when they haven’t mentioned it to you and you only know because you remembered that one t-shirt that they wore when you first met them. It really makes people smile to see that you actually pay attention to them, and not just in a verbal sense.3. The last thing that I notice is whether they remind me of any fictional characters that I admire or not. This is really odd but it’s just a thing that I’ve always done. For example, I met a girl the other week on my NCS Summer program who had curly blonde hair tied back into a ponytail and glasses. We were doing problem solving and we had to build a super tall tower and she just took over with the architectural assets we needed to make sure that it was structurally sound and we made the best damn tower there, height-and-design-wise. She just reminded me so strongly of Annabeth from PJO and I had to tell her and she smiled so much, it was so wonderful!

Trident: Who are your favourite people?

My favourite people? Okay. Let’s start with the people that I admire for their talent and hard work and dedication.I’m a Newsies blog so of course we’re including Jeremy Jordan, Ben Fankhauser, Kara Lindsay, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Andy Richardson, Ben Cook, Joshua Burrage, Morgan Keene, Stephen M. Langton, Corey Cott, Ginna Claire, Stephanie Styles, and about a million others (just because someone wasn’t included here doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate them any less than any of these- I tried to keep this short).Secondly, I’m a musical fan, so there’s Laura Osnes, Aaron Tveit, Betsy Wolfe, Jessie Mueller, Robert Lenzi, Ben Platt, Andrew Rannells, Anthony Rosenthal, Stephanie J. Block, Alan Menken, Andy Mientus, Christy Altomare, Mary-Beth Peil, Jennifer Damiano, Rachel Tucker (who I saw live at a very intimate concert- she is so tremendously fantastic, even out of character), Carolee Carmello, and, once again, many more.There are many people in television and movies but this is already getting long.My favourite people who I actually know are some of the most wonderful people out there, I believe. Everyday, I am so happy that I know Thea and Mark and Sophie and Liam and Matthew and my wonderful teachers, Mrs MacAdam and Mrs Herbert and Mr Watkins and Miss Day and Mr Murphy and Mr Stimson and Helen- you are all so very, very wonderful and inspire me every single day to create and to work and to be the person that I want to be and to screw what others think because I can do this. I know that none of them will ever see this, heck, I pray that they don’t, but I truly don’t know if Rowan would be sitting here, at two am, writing this without them. I will never look up to any celebrity more than these fantastic people because I am tremendously lucky to have such wonderful friends and mentors.

Sparta: Do you have a bucket list? If so, what’s on it?

I don’t have a traditional bucket list. I have a few things that I know that I want to do but have never actually put down on paper.I suppose I could try it.1. I want to ride again. There is nothing I love more than riding and, although it’s only been three months since my stable closed down, there’s no hobby that I crave to reignite more. I’m not able to buy my own horse and, despite living in the countryside, there are no riding stables nearby. I may only be seventeen and there may be copious chances in the future, but this will always be at the top of my list whilst I’m not riding regularly.2. I want to travel. Not even in the traditional sense because I hate flying and I hate ‘holidaying’. I want to live places. I want to move to countries with no one that I know and I want to find friends all around the globe who I stay in contact with. I know that this is all ridiculous because of money and my introvertedness but, hey, it’s a bucket list. It doesn’t have to be realistic.3. I want to be in a show. Just one show. Just one professional show. I’m not a dancer or a singer so I don’t expect a main character in a musical, all I want is to be up there. I’d love to be in one of Frantic Assembly’s lyrical pieces because they’re the most amazing shows I’ve ever seen, they’re all visually stunning with such small and intimate casts and there’s nothing I’d love more than a relationship with my cast like Newsies.

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Who We Are: Identity and Diversity in Our Jewish Community

Sunday, October 18, 2020 at 4:00pm EST

Speaker: Ginna Green in conversation with Dr. Harriette Wimms

Register for this Live Stream Event Now

Join writer and political strategist Ginna Green and clinical psychologist Dr. Harriette Wimms as they open this important series on the diversity of Jewish identity and experience.

About Our Speaker:

Ginna Green is a political strategist, writer and consultant, and, until June 2020, the Chief Strategy Officer at Bend the Arc: Jewish Action. There she led the work of the communications, advocacy, electoral, rapid response and racial equity teams from 2018-2020, a period of unprecedented white nationalism, antisemitism and authoritarianism in American life.

Prior to Bend the Arc, Ginna was Managing Director of the Democracy Collaborative at ReThink Media. At ReThink she strengthened the communications capacity of groups working on money in politics, fair and diverse courts, and voting rights. Before joining ReThink, Ginna worked at the Center for Responsible Lending for several years, including during the Great Recession and foreclosure crisis, and worked to pass the California Homeowner Bill of Rights and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. She has also been on staff at Full Court Press Communications, The OpEd Project, SPIN Academy, and the South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center.

Ginna is a frequent speaker and writer on democracy, leadership, race, racism in the Jewish community, and Jewish community diversity, and has been published in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Salon, and more. A 2020-2021 Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, Ginna also sits on the boards of Women’s March, Political Research Associates, the Jews of Color Initiative and Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice. An alum of the Jeremiah Fellowship and the Selah Leadership Program, and a 2019 Schusterman Fellow, Ginna is a native southerner and the mother of four amazing kids.

Dr. Harriette E. Wimms is a Maryland licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in providing compassion-infused assessments and therapies to children and families across the age span. Dedicated to providing affirming and culturally-responsive care, Dr. Wimms holds a PhD in Human Services Psychology, a MS in Developmental Psychology, and is a certified Human Services Psychologist with specializations in child clinical, pediatric, and community/social psychology.

Jews of Color, Jewish Institutions, and Jewish Community in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter

Join Chizuk Amuno Congregation, the Jewish Museum of Maryland and a variety of speakers from rabbis to researchers to activists as we share, explore, and engage with the ethnic, racial, and cultural diversity of Jewish identity and experience. In the present moment of growing awareness about the need for dramatic change in response to structural racism in our society, the importance of many perspectives and voices is unparalleled.

This multi-program series will open up conversations about who we are as Jews; how Jewish spaces and institutions need to change; and how these changes can lead us to a more robust and inclusive Jewish community.

See a full list of programs in the series here.

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HARTFORD, CT — January 22, 2019 — Hartford Stage announced today the cast and creative team for Dominique Morisseau’s Detroit ’67. The powerful drama, produced in association with the McCarter Theatre Center, will perform at Hartford Stage Thursday, February 14, through Sunday, March 10.

Jade King Carroll, who previously helmed Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years and August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson at Hartford Stage, will direct. The cast from the McCarter Detroit ’67production will reprise their roles at Hartford Stage.

Detroit ’67 unfolds during an explosive moment in United States history — the civil and racial unrest that tore the city of Detroit apart. The play centers around Chelle and her brother, Lank, who make ends meet by turning their basement into an after-hours party. When a mysterious woman makes her way into the siblings’ lives, they clash over much more than the family business.

“Acclaimed director Jade King Carroll is returning to Hartford Stage for the third time to stage this great play by a contemporary master, Dominique Morisseau,” said Darko Tresnjak, Hartford Stage Artistic Director. “It is also wonderful to collaborate again with the McCarter Theatre Center, a company led for the past three decades by the incomparable Emily Mann.”

Dominique Morisseau is among 25 individuals nationwide to be named as a MacArthur Foundation 2018 MacArthur Fellow (also known as the “Genius Grant”).  This prestigious fellowship is awarded to creative individuals – including writers, scientists, artists, social scientists, humanists, teachers, and entrepreneurs – who exhibit extraordinary originality and dedication in their careers. Morisseau was selected as a MacArthur Fellow for her reputation as “a powerful storyteller whose examination of character and circumstance is a call for audiences to consider the actions and responsibilities of society more broadly. With a background as an actor and spoken-word poet, she uses lyrical dialogue to construct emotionally complex characters who exhibit humor, vulnerability, and fortitude as they cope with sometimes desperate circumstances.”

Detroit ’67 is part of Morisseau’s “Detroit Project” trilogy, which includes Paradise Blue and Skeleton Crew – plays focusing upon the complicated yet hopeful history of her hometown. The Huffington Post called Morisseau “a direct heir to Hansberry, Williams, and Wilson. You feel the pulse and vibrations of her characters.” Philadelphia Magazine raved of the McCarter Theatre Center production, “Detroit ’67 has heart and soul. The subject matter places it in the grand tradition of realistic American drama.” US 1 called the production “extraordinary – an impressive and involving production.”

Morisseau’s body of work includes Pipeline, Sunset Baby, Detroit ‘67, Paradise Blue, and Skeleton Crew. She will make her Broadway debut this spring as book writer for Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations. Morisseau has had work commissioned by the Steppenwolf Theatre, the Hip Hop Theater Festival, the South Coast Repertory, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Her plays have been staged at The Public Theater, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and the Atlantic Theater Company, among others.

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In addition to directing Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years and August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson at Hartford Stage, Jade King Carroll’s directorial credits include Trouble in Mind at Two River Theater and PlayMakers Repertory Company; The Whipping Man and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom at Portland Stage; Hello, From the Children of Planet Earth at The Playwrights Realm; Dominique Morisseau’s Sunset Baby at City Theatre Company; Seven Guitars, The Persians and Splittin’ the Raft at People’s Light and Theatre; and Mr. Chickee’s Funny Money at Atlantic Theatre Company.

The cast of Detroit ’67 includes Nyahale Allie (Seven Guitars, People’s Light and Theatre; Unspeakable, Apollo Theater) as Bunny; Will Cobbs (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Broadway; Autumn’s Harvest, The Public Theater) as Sly; Ginna Le Vine (Picnic, Transport Group Theatre Company; The New World , Bucks County Playhouse) as Caroline; Johnny Ramey (The Whipping Man, Baltimore Center Stage; The Liquid Plain, Signature Theatre) as Lank; and Myxolydia Tyler (The Mountaintop, Baltimore Center Stage and Vermont Rep; A Raisin in the Sun, Arkansas Repertory Theatre) as Chelle.

The creative team for Detroit ’67 includes Set Designer Riccardo Hernandez (Indecent, Broadway; Seascape, Hartford Stage) Costume Designer Dede M. Ayite (American Son and Fireflies, Broadway); Lighting Designer Nicole Pearce (Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years, Hartford Stage and Long Wharf Theatre; Hello, From The Children of Planet Earth, The Playwrights Realm); Sound Designer Karin Graybash (Having Our Say: The Delany Sister’s First 100 Years, Hartford Stage and Long Wharf Theatre; Intimate Apparel, McCarter Theatre Center); and Hair and Makeup Designer Leah J. Loukas (Sweat and Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, Broadway).

Heather Klein (She Has a Name, Off-Broadway; Well Intentioned White People, Barrington Stage Company) will serve as Production Stage Manager, with Nicole Wiegert (Henry V and A Lesson from Aloes, Hartford Stage) as Assistant Stage Manager.

Sponsors

The Executive Sponsor for Detroit ’67 is Travelers.

The Lead Sponsor is Robinson+Cole.

Individual Producers are Rick & Beth Costello.

The Assisting Production Sponsor is Eversource Energy.

The 2018-19 Season is also sponsored by the Greater Hartford Arts Council and the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development.

Special Dates

Previews begin at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, February 14

Opening Night: 8 p.m., Friday, February 22

Closes: 2 p.m., Sunday, March 10

Tickets & Performances

Tue, Wed, Thu, Sun at 7:30 p.m.—Fri, Sat at 8 p.m.—Sat, Sun at 2 p.m.

Wed matinee at 2 p.m. on March 6 only.

Weekly schedules vary. For details, visit www.hartfordstage.org.

Tickets for all shows start at $25. Student tickets: $18.

For group discounts (10 or more), email groupsales@hartfordstage.org or call 860-527-5151.

For all other tickets, please call the Hartford Stage box office at 860-527-5151 or visit www.hartfordstage.org.

Special Events

HPL @ Hartford Stage. Hartford Public Library and Hartford Stage invite you to dig deeper into the world of the plays onstage. Check out a book today! Select books available at the theatre and at each Hartford branch library.

Sunday Afternoon Discussion, February 24. Enjoy a discussion with artists and scholars connected with the production immediately following the 2 p.m. matinee. Free

AfterWords Discussion—Tuesday, February 26 and Tuesday, March 5, and Wednesday, March 6. Join members of the cast and our Artistic staff for a free discussion, immediately following select 7:30 p.m. performances on Tuesday or the 2 p.m. Wednesday matinee

Open Captioned Performances—Sunday, March 3, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. For patrons who are deaf or have hearing loss — free service with admission.

Audio Described Performance—Saturday, March 9, 2 p.m. For patrons who are blind or have low vision — free service with admission.

About Hartford Stage

Now in our 55th season, Hartford Stage is currently under the leadership of Artistic Director Darko Tresnjak. In January 2019, Melia Bensussen was named the sixth Artistic Director of Hartford Stage and will assume the role in June. One of the nation’s leading resident theatres, Hartford Stage is known for producing innovative revivals of classics and provocative new plays and musicals, including 73 world and American premieres, as well as offering a distinguished education program, which reaches close to 21,000 students annually.

Since Tresnjak’s appointment in 2011 the theatre has presented the world premieres of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder on Broadway, winner of four 2014 Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Direction of a Musical by Tresnjak; Rear Window with Kevin Bacon; the new musical Anastasia by Terrence McNally, Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens; Quiara Alegría Hudes’ Water by the Spoonful, winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Breath & Imagination by Daniel Beaty; Big Dance Theatre’s Man in a Case with Mikhail Baryshnikov; and Reverberation by Matthew Lopez.

Hartford Stage has earned many of the nation’s most prestigious awards, including the 1989 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. Other national honors include Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, OBIE, and New York Critics Circle awards. Hartford Stage has produced nationally renowned titles, including the New York transfers of Enchanted April; The Orphans’ Home Cycle; Resurrection(later retitled Through the Night); The Carpetbagger’s Children; and Tea at Five.

The leading provider of theatre education programs in Connecticut, Hartford Stage’s offerings include student matinees, in-school theatre residencies, teen performance opportunities, theatre classes for students (ages 3-18) and adults, afterschool programs and professional development courses.

Hartford Stage Announces Cast and Creative Team for Dominique Morisseau’s “Detroit ’67” HARTFORD, CT — January 22, 2019 — Hartford Stage announced today the cast and creative team for Dominique Morisseau’s Detroit ’67.

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Le Faculté de Médecine

On  Friday, January 12, we went to take a tour of Montpellier's Faculté de Médecine. The building’s original purpose was a monastery and was split in two at one point. You can distinctly see the difference between church and school from the building’s exterior. However, over time, the monks were pushed out, and the school took over. The building was built in 1220 and became a school in 1289, making it the oldest medical school in France that is still taking in students. We started the tour by going into a room called le Salle des Actes. This room is currently a lecture hall that is also used during a special ceremony where students present their research to important professors and doctors in order to receive their diploma and graduate medicine school. The room has portraits covering every wall depicting past professors. After that, we went into a locker room where the ceremonial red robes for the presentation ceremony are kept. Montpellier's school is the only school in France that uses red robes. That room also contained many portraits of professors past, but these were considerably older than the ones in the Salle des Actes. From there we went to what was probably the highlight of the tour, depending on how strong your stomach is. Le Salle des Arts is a grand hall filled top to bottom with wax and real anatomical structures preserved in jars of formaldehyde. Among the human remains, you can find a horse skeleton, a lot of turtles and fish, and many birds. The hall itself looks like it belongs to an art museum, as there are murals covering the clerestory and ceiling, and the floors and ceiling are made of marble. (We are unable to include pictures of the room due to its graphic nature.) We started by taking a look at the wax models, which were mainly of sexually transmitted infections’ symptoms with a few facial and skull deformities included. Moving on, we came into the real, preserved remains. There were a lot of deformed skulls as when the height of this collection’s growth took place, the medical world was obsessed with trying to find out what the shape and measurements of one’s skull had to do with their intelligence and personality. This is known as phrenology. Continuing down the length of the hall, we passed muscular and circulatory systems, a cabinet full of marine specimens, and even a case dedicated to the progression of a fetus in the womb. Near the end of the hall were arguably the most disturbing cases. Preserved genitalia and cross-sectioned brains, as well as a full human torso in formaldehyde, had a minimal impact compared to the final wall, which had cases on either side bordering the exit door. On the left, large, curved forceps for aiding the birthing process were piled on top of each other with a few speculums as well. An early wheelchair and other various medical supplies were on the higher shelves. On the right, were jars of deformed fetuses preserved in formaldehyde. The shelves were filled from the ceiling to the floor. From the grand Salle des Arts, we moved into a smaller, warmer room with a six foot tall light up brain that students used to study with and a series of wax sculptures of the various ways to give birth that were used to educate people in sideshows at fairs in the 1800's. The university also has France's oldest botanical garden, appropriately titles Le Jardin des Plantes. It was fairly nice to walk through, even in winter when everything has died or gone dormant. It has a bamboo forest and even an old mechanical well that sadly no longer runs. You may even run into friendly neighborhood cats while strolling through. We highly recommend sitting on a bench and saying "Salut!" to them.

--Ginna and Michele

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