Andrea C. Ferster '79 was interviewed in the Washington Lawyer, the monthly magazine of the DC Bar, which goes out to 99,000 lawyers. In the interview, she said of Sarah Lawrence, "I had a really wonderful college experience.... Sarah Lawrence was an environment that encouraged unconventional choices." She goes on to speak of the wide variety of classes she took here at SLC.
Posted: June 5, 2013
Magda Bogin '73 announced Under the Volcano 2014, their 11th season of unforgettable workshops, readings, and performances (for fiction, poetry, memoir, playwriting, and mixed genre). Under the Volcano 2014 takes place January 10 - 19, 2014 in Mexico and will feature Paul Muldoon, Francisco Goldman, Magda Bogin, Alison Wearing, and Catherine Filloux. Applications are now being accepted. For more information, see:
www.underthevolcano.org
Posted: June 5, 2013
Chris Brandt MFA '72 announced the upcoming production of THE TRAGEDY OF TRAGEDIES; OR, THE LIFE AND DEATH OF TOM THUMB THE GREAT. The play will run June 6th through June 30th, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Sundays. All 8 p.m. curtains. Tickets are $18. Medicine Show Theatre Ensemble is located at 549 W. 52nd St, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10019.
For more information, see www.medicineshowtheatre.org
Posted: June 4, 2013
Jane Nyce MA 2007 was honored as AAUW's (American Association of University Women) Woman of the Year. Nyce is the founder and executive director of the New Canaan organization, Staying Put.
Posted: June 4, 2013
Mary (Ladd) McCray, MFA '97, has launched a poetry blog, www.bigbangpoetry.com, and her first book of poems, Why Photographers Commit Suicide, was named one of four finalists in the 2013 National Indie Excellence Awards.
Posted: June 4, 2013
Jed Distler '78 announced the next installment of the Composers Collaborative Serial Underground on Sunday, June 2nd at 6:00 p.m. The "subversive nightclub series" (Time Out New York) will have Demetrius Spaneas as guest curator and host and feature David Claman & Friends, New York's Cygnus Ensemble. The Serial Underground takes place at the Cornelia Street Cafe at 29 Cornelia Street between 6th and 7th avenues in NYC. Tickets are $20 at the door, which includes a $10 food/drink credit. Visit the Composers Collaborative web site for more information on upcoming events.
Posted: May 28, 2013
Historian Mary Louise Roberts MA '80 announced the upcoming publication of "What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American G.I. in World War II France,” from the University of Chicago Press. In this book, Roberts draws on French archives, American military records, wartime propaganda and other sources to advance a provocative argument: The liberation of France was “sold” to soldiers not as a battle for freedom but as an erotic adventure among oversexed Frenchwomen, stirring up a “tsunami of male lust” that a battered and mistrustful population often saw as a second assault on its sovereignty and dignity.
Posted: May 23, 2013
Nadine Bernard MFA 2005 announces "Miss Valentine", a Victorian salon with excerpts of a her new play. There will be music and refreshments. Performance takes place on June 5th at 3pm and 6pm. Tickets are free, but reservations required for seating at exclusive venue located near Metropolitan Museum of Art. For more information contact
ivy@Missvalentineplay.com
Posted: May 22, 2013
Estha Weiner announced the launch for her book, In the Weather of the World and a salute to Salmon Poetry at the American Irish Historical Society (991 Fifth Avenue, 80th Street, New York , New York 10028) on June 20th, at 6:30 p.m. Salmon is one of the most important publishers in the Irish literary world. For more information, see Estha's web site or Salmon Poetry's web site.
Posted: May 21, 2013
Joelle Wallach '67 is Composer-in-Residence at Copland House from May 13 to June 3 This award is part of the The Copland House Residency program, which was inspired by Copland's exceptional legacy of support for his fellow composers. Composers are invited to reside, one at a time, at Rock Hill, Aaron Copland's restored, longtime New York home. There, they can focus on their creative work, free from the distractions of daily life and other professional responsibilities. Visit Copland House at:
http://www.coplandhouse.org
Posted: May 21, 2013
Sam Amidon '04 was featured on NPR Morning Edition today. Check it out here:
http://www.npr.org/2013/05/17/184547006/sam-amidon- reshaping-an-american-folk-tradition
Posted: May 16, 2013
The music of Jeffrey Paul Bobrick has been selected for the Medicine Show Theatre Company's "Words Worth Singing" series. This series was created to feature emerging and established lyricists. The works are chosen to delight the mind, honor creativity, confound empty convention, encourage active compassion and present the many facets of the American experience within a global community. Jeffrey will be performing with four other songwriter/lyricists at the Medicine Show Theatre Company (549 W 52nd Street - 3rd floor, New York, NY) this Friday, May 17, at 8 p.m. in New York City. Visit Jeffrey's web site at www.ilovejpb.com for more information.
Posted: May 16, 2013
Alum and faculty member Joan Silber '67 has a new book out entitled Fools (Norton, 2013) for which she will be doing several readings in Manhattan and Brooklyn. See her website for details.
Posted: May 14, 2013
Director of Writing Brian Morton '78 was recently featured in The New York Times's series entitled "A Century of Proust" (May 3).
Posted: May 14, 2013
Ross Gay MFA 1998 is a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient. The Fellows are appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise. Read the announcement here.
Posted: May 14, 2013
Gretchen Primack MFA 2001 has a new collection of poetry: Kind (Post- Traumatic Press). She has a second book of poems forthcoming: Doris' Red Spaces (Mayapple 2014).
Posted: May 14, 2013
Sampson Starkweather MFA 2005 has published a book of poetry entitled The First Four Books of Sampson Starkweather (Birds LLC), which was recently reviewed in The Huffington Post.
Posted: May 14, 2013
Rosalind Brenner MFA 2009 has published a new book entitled Omega's Garden, with Finishing Line Press as part of their "New Women's Voices" series. It is her second published book. Her first, published last year, is called All That's Left, a compilation of poetry and art.
Posted: May 14, 2013
Alex Dimitrov's (MFA 2009) book, Begging For It, was recently reviewed in the LA Review of Books.
Posted: May 14, 2013
Christine Ritenis MFA 2011 had two essays published this spring. Her essay "Deep Purple Bruises" appears in the Spring 2013 edition of the online journal The Writing Disorder at www.thewritingdisorder.com and "There Is No Such Thing as a Perfect Waffle" has been published in Brain, Child Magazine's special issue for the parents of teenagers, at www.brainchildmag.com.
Posted: May 14, 2013
Katherine Hurley MFA 2011 has a story entitled "The Nosebleed Kid" in the current issue of The Westchester Review. Additionally, her story "Jessica Green Takes Flight" has been published in the annual print edition of apt.
Posted: May 14, 2013
The Westchester Review's 2013 issue includes works by Malea Baer MFA 2012, Michael Carman MFA 2004, Sarah Levine, Sophia Starmack MFA 2012, Meredith Trede MFA 1995, Jonathan Vatner MFA 2011, and Susan Walton MFA 2003.
Posted: May 14, 2013
Miranda Wilkotz '91 announced the Quorum Initiative, a forum for women holding an executive level position of influence to broaden their professional contacts, create business opportunity for each other and collaborate on ways to remove barriers for the next generation of women leaders. The founders, Meg Sullivan '91 and Miranda Wilkotz '91 met in the spring of their senior year and have both spent many years in Europe. Meg moved back to New York almost 10 years ago to continue her career in marketing, having worked with in fashion marketing before moving to professional services, as the Chief Marketing Officer and Director of Business Development at Paul Hastings. Miranda remains in Spain, when she’s not in New York for work, consulting for entrepreneurs on strategy, business and finance.
Please contact mirandawilkotz@thequoruminitiative.com if you are interested in attending our next meeting and getting to know the fantastic women who form a part of The Quorum Initiative community. You can also visit their web site at http://quoruminitiative.com/.
Posted: May 10, 2013
Liz Page Stitzel '09 spent this past year competing in the Alumni division at the Intercollegiate Horse Shows. She qualified for Regionals in both the flat and fences classes and then went on to win both classes at Regional and Zone Finals before heading to Harrisburg, PA for the IHSA National Finals. Liz then set a Gryphon first when she placed 1st in the flat class, becoming the 2013 National Champion and 2nd in the over fences class, 2013 National Reserve Champion.
Posted: May 8, 2013
Laurie Nadel '69, Ph.D. announces the opening of her new office for psychotherapy and concierge coaching services. In private practice for 23 years, she specializes in issues related to performance anxiety, creative blocks, phobias, and stress. For more information on Laurie and her practice, see her web site at:
http://www.laurienadel.com
Posted: May 3, 2013
Faculty member and alum Melissa Febos MFA '08, Leah Schnelbach MFA '12, current MFA student Joshua Lazarus and others will read at the Lumina's Volume XII City Launch. The event takes place on Wednesday, May 22 at Cakeshop in NYC (152 Ludlow St., bet. Stanton and Rivington). See the Lumina Journal online at
http://www.luminajournal.com
Posted: May 3, 2013
The Washington press corps singled out artist Kate O'Donovan Cook's ('01) work in her current exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Kate is represented by the Stephen Haller Gallery of New York. More information on Kate's work, including sample images, can be found on the Stephen Haller Gallery web site.
Posted: April 29, 2013
Elisabeth Rohm '95 announced the publication of Baby Steps, a memoir about her relationships with her mother and daughter and her struggles with infertility. The book can be found in bookstores and on Amazon.
Posted: April 29, 2013
Alex Dimitrov MFA 2009 joins Yona Harvey, Jay Baron Nicorvo, Allison Benis White, and Bruce Willard for Four Way Books reading at NYU's Main Bookstore on Monday, May 6th at 6 p.m. See the Facebook event page for more information.
Posted: April 26, 2013
Joseph Shrand '80 announced the publication of OUTSMARTING ANGER: 7 Strategies for Defusing Our Most Dangerous Emotion (Jossey-Bass; 9781118135488; March 2013; available in ebook format). Ever wonder how you can manage your own and someone else's anger so you can both be more successful. Dr. Joseph Shrand and writer Leigh Devine offer a seven-step method to defuse anger and replace it with positive, success-oriented cooperation. Dr. Shrand translates state of the art science about our ancient emotion center, the limbic system, and our more modern thinking center, our pre-frontal cortex, into engaging, educational, and entertaining reading. Dr. Shrand asks "When is the last time you got angry at someone you believed was treating you with respect?" With more than 20 years as a practicing psychiatrist, Dr. Shrand has vast experience in the field of adolescent anger management and conflict resolution which has made him a sought-after speaker. He is also affectionately known as Dr. Joe, as he was Joe in the original PBS TV Children's TV show, ZOOM.. Learn more about Dr. Joseph Shrand at his website:
http://www.drshrand.com/
Posted: April 26, 2013
Nadine Bernard MFA 2005 announced the upcoming staged reading of her new play with belly dance, Veils. VEILS is a serio-comedy about a group of suburban women in a belly dance class who learn to see beyond the narrow focus of their interpersonal problems and come to the aid of one who faces a much more imminent and dangerous struggle. The reading will feature Samara, the world renowned belly dancer as well and Tony-nominated actor, Lorraine Serabian. The reading will take place on May 8th at 1:30 p.m. at Manhattan Center for Movement and Arts (248 W. 60th Street, NYC). RSVP to
VeilsPlay@gmail.com
Posted: April 23, 2013
Stuart Diamond MFA 1973 (aka Electric Diamond) announced that he and Don Slepian are playing at The Firehouse Festival this coming Saturday evening, April 27th. Besides music they will also be featuring installations of their video music. The Firehouse Space is one of the best concert venues in New York: an actual converted firehouse, it has become one of the most sought after performance spaces. The Firehouse is located in trendy Williamsburg at 246 Frost St. Brooklyn, NY 11211. Door open at 6PM – Free snacks no less. Beer by the Brooklyn Brewery. For more information, see http://www.stuartdiamond.com/. For tickets, see:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/357779
Posted: April 22, 2013
Jed Distler '78 announced the next installment of the Composers Collaborative Serial Underground on Sunday, May 5th at 6:00 p.m. The "subversive nightclub series" (Time Out New York) will have Demetrius Spaneas as guest curator and host and feature David Claman & Friends, New York's Cygnus Ensemble. The Serial Underground takes place at the Cornelia Street Cafe at 29 Cornelia Street between 6th and 7th avenues in NYC. Tickets are $20 at the door, which includes a $10 food/drink credit. Visit the Composers Collaborative web site for more information on upcoming events.
Posted: April 22, 2013
Kati Agócs '98 was awarded the 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship in Music Composition! The Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded Fellowships to a diverse group of 175 scholars, artists, and scientists. Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, the successful candidates were chosen from a group of almost 3,000 applicants. For more information on the Fellows and their projects, please visit the Foundation's web site at
www.gf.org
Posted: April 17, 2013
Jennifer Fischer '00 announced that the screening of SMUGGLED, the film she produced, at DePaul University next month. She will be presenting the film and doing a Q&A afterwards, as part of an immigration event the University is hosting. The event takes place on May, 8th at 6:30 p.m. in Room 104 in McGowan South (1110 West Belden Avenue, Chicago, IL 60614). at DePaul University's Lincoln Park Campus. Click here for online map of the location. For more information on Jennifer and the film, please see her web site at:
http://www.thinktenmediagroup.com/
Posted: April 17, 2013
Debut author J. Daniel Parra '94 combines his love of art and travel in Pieces of Tracy, available as an eBook on May 21st, 2013 at all major digital retailers from Diversion Books. This globe-trotting romance steeped in double identities and missing art is sure to capture the imaginations of readers ready for an escape as summer approaches.
Pieces of Tracy follows Teresa Felicia Santana León as she travels from New York City to Rome in search of a stolen work of art. In New York, she’s Tracy León, a would-be artist and telemarketer who falls for an older tycoon, Bruce Babich. When Bruce’s mother sends her to Rome to find a stolen painting, Tracy assumes an alter ego, the zesty Felicia Santana. In Rome, she meets a younger artist named Mario Giordani who helps her on her quest.
Learn more about J. Daniel Parra and Pieces of Tracy at his website, http://jdanielparra.com
Photo credit: Michael Keel.
Posted: April 15, 2013
Benjamin Samuel '07 recently had a story published by McSweeney's It's a break-up story told through a grammar lesson. Check it out at:
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-comma-from-which-my-heart-hangs
Posted: April 15, 2013
The Peculiar Kind is a web series that candidly explores the lives and experiences of queer women of color with eye-opening and unscripted conversations. The series includes appearances by SLC alumnae, including Jade Foster '07 and Aja Mujinga Sherrard '11. There will be a screening of the series on campus, at Bates Meeting Room, on April 22nd.
Posted: April 15, 2013
Nanette Romero Regua '97 will speak at the first annual Women's History Alumni Talk. Her seminar, Women in the Chicano Movement: Grassroots Activism in San Jose, touches on the Chicanas who stood side by side with Chicanos, to challenge racial and class inequality in public education and city institutions. The talk takes place on April 16th at 6:00 p.m. in the Slonim Living Room.
Posted: April 15, 2013
Abigail Welhouse '09 shared the piece she wrote for the literary magazine Exit Strata about SLC professor Suzanne Gardinier's poetry. Abigail also published a poem on Keep This Bag Away From Children and has two poems forthcoming in their print issue.
Posted: April 12, 2013
Chris Brandt MFA '72 announced a series of staged readings this month at the Medicine Show Theatre. He promises these productions are from contemporary writers "too strange, too transgressive, too wild for mainstream theatre". On Fri. Apr. 19 & Sat. Apr. 20, 2013, 7:30 p.m., the two verse plays will be Contagious Knives, by Joyelle McSweeney and The Status Seekers, by Kathleen Ossip. On Mon. Apr. 22 & Tue. Apr. 24, 2013, 7:30 p.m. will be Blue Hour, by Doris Schwerin and Restoration: Vienna 1938, by Joel Shatzky.
Tickets are $10; $7 for seniors and students. Medicine Show Theatre Ensemble is located at 549 W. 52nd St, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10019. For more information, see
www.medicineshowtheatre.org
Posted: April 12, 2013
Brooke Ciardelli '87 just returned from directing the European Premiere of A. R. Gurney's play BLACK TIE. The production rehearsed in London and then transferred out to Vienna, at Vienna's English Theatre, for the run.
Posted: April 10, 2013
Jenna Esposito '00 has some exciting Spring performances to look forward to! First up, it's back to Empire City Casino in Yonkers, NY, with her critically acclaimed Connie Francis tribute on April 18th! Then, on April 23rd, she'll be part of the all-star lineup in the Concerts for Tudor City Greens Gala at the Laurie Beechman Theatre in Manhattan. It has also just been confirmed that on August 9th, Jenna will be returning to her hometown of Middletown, NY, to be part of their summer concert series in Festival Square! Keep up with Jenna's busy schedule on her web site:
www.jennaesposito.com
Posted: April 9, 2013
Tammy Winters MFA 2012 announced that she will be directing a piece by Gina Femia MFA 2011 as part of the lineup for this week's New York Madness. For the uninitiated, New York Madness is the brainchild of a bunch of brilliant playwrights who wanted a playground for new ideas, where creative risks are not only encouraged but expected -- think "Grad Lab," but specifically for playwrights. Learn more about NY Madness on their web site.
Posted: April 9, 2013
Kim Rosen MFA Writing '04 discussed her book entitled The Healing Power of Poetry on CBC News.
Posted: April 9, 2013
Carol Bartold MFA Writing '10 has a story entitled “From The Old Road To The New" that has just been published online by Haunted Waters Press.
Posted: April 9, 2013
Mira Spektor '50 announces "Take Me Home Tonight: The Songs of Mira J. Spektor," at the Metropolitan Room (34 West 22nd Street, NYC) on April 15th, 22nd, and 29th at 9:30 p.m. The evening features Shana Farr, Mark Campbell, Julie Reyburn, and Bill Zeffiro and will be directed by Karen Carpenter. Tickets are $20. For information, call 212-206-0440 or see www.metropolitanroom.com
Posted: April 9, 2013
Monique Marissa Lukens MFA Theatre '95 announced the 3rd Annual Earth Day / Raw Vegan Outreach Extra'vegan'za on Alternative Fueled Public Transit, to take place on Monday, April 22nd. Log into Facebook for event details. See videos from last year's outreach.
Monique also announced that the play she's in, MARILYN MY SECRET, just made the L.A. Weekly Pick of the Week.
Posted: April 9, 2013
Jessica Halem '94 was featured prominently in the NPR article, "How Ellen DeGeneres Helped Change the Conversation About Gays". For more information on Jessica, see http://www.jessicahalem.com.
Posted: April 9, 2013
Justine Davies '06 began work in September of '12 as a biology and earth science teacher at Bronxville High School. She teaches courses in Living Environment, Biology I Honors, Earth Science I Honors, and Earth Science II Honors. She is excited to be back in the hometown of her alma mater and has been collaborating with science faculty at Sarah Lawrence to build a collaborative partnership between the two science departments. Justine is also participating in Columbia University's Summer Research Program for Science Teachers, in which she is conducting cancer research and has recently contributed to journal article, published in the January issue of Cancer Research.
Posted: April 9, 2013
Judy Yerukhovich '10 and Nicholas Pollack '10 are thrilled to present, Along the Bronx River, a series of landscape photographs by Nicholasw Pollack. The series chronicles life along the twenty-four mile Bronx River, from its head at Kensico Dam in Valhalla, to its bottom, where it tapers into the East River North of New York City. The opening reception will take place this Wednesday, April 10th, from 7:30 - 10 p.m. at the Aish Center (313 West 83rd Street, New York, NY).
Posted: April 8, 2013
Corinne Manning '05 interviewed Peter Trachtenberg '74 about his new book Another Insane Devotion for The Nervous Breakdown. Read the full article online at
http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/cmanning/2013/03/on-cats-and-love-an-interview- with-peter-trachtenberg/
Posted: April 4, 2013
Rebekah Meyers Aronson '91 announced the Read Local! Red Hook Second Annual Literary Festival, slated for April 12-14. The weekend kicks off with an opening reception on Friday, April 12, 6-8pm at RHCAN’s gallery space on N. Broadway in Red Hook. The reception opens their Word Works exhibition, a celebration of the literary arts. This year’s READ LOCAL! RED HOOK Literary Festival events also includes a star- studded Saturday evening reading with David Strathairn, Jason Downs and Nicole Quinn, and a full Sunday schedule of panels, workshops and presentations. All events are FREE and open to the public.
Full schedule of events can be found:
http://www.rhcanadmin.com/red-hook-lit-fest/
Posted: April 4, 2013
Meghan Orbek '08 announced the 10th Annual YoHo Artists Open Studios this Saturday, April 20th and Sunday the 21st from noon to 5pm at her studio in Yonkers. This free event offers a rare opportunity to tour the creative studios of professional artists, artisans, musicians, and creative new media specialists within the YoHo complex. YoHo is a community of dozens of creative professionals located in the historic Alexander Smith Carpet Mills industrial complex in the heart of Yonkers, at the footstep of NYC. Meghan's studio is located at 578 Nepperhan Avenue and 540 Nepperhan Avenue, Yonkers, NY 10701. You can see the Facebook event page here
https://www.facebook.com/events/562961650380764/?fref=ts
Posted: April 3, 2013
Interior designer and writer David Netto '92 leads a tour of the VDL Research House, the former home and studio of Richard Neutra located on Silver Lake Boulevard in Los Angeles on the New York Times' Style Blog.
Posted: April 1, 2013
Michele Brody '89 announced that she will be traveling to Asia for the next month and a half, where she will be working on an environmental art installation for the 2013 Cheng-Long Wetlands International Environmental Art Project in Taiwan, followed by a site-seeing trip to Japan. She will be documenting her travels in her Travelogue Blog at
http://michelebrody.com/category/blog
Also, if you're in Chicago, you can see Michele's work from her Drawing Roots series in the group show Art & the Urban Garden at the Lillstreet Art Center from May 3 - June 2, 2013.
Posted: April 1, 2013
Ann Cefola '81, MFA '97 is one of 85 poets from seven countries selected to participate in the Pulitzer Remix (www.pulitzerremix.com). Each poet has created 30 "found" poems from a Pulitzer novel and will post one a day during April, National Poetry Month. Ann's assigned work is Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Pulitizer 1935). You can follow the poems at
www.pulitzerremix.com.
Posted: April 1, 2013
Jed Distler '78 announced the next installment of the Composers Collaborative Serial Underground on Sunday, April 7th at 6:00 p.m. The "subversive nightclub series" (Time Out New York) will have Demetrius Spaneas as guest curator and host. The Serial Underground takes place at the Cornelia Street Cafe at 29 Cornelia Street between 6th and 7th avenues in NYC. Tickets are $20 at the door, which includes a $10 food/drink credit. Visit the Composers Collaborative web site for more information on upcoming events.
Posted: March 27, 2013
Monique Marissa Lukens MFA Theatre 1995 announced the production, Marilyn - My Secret, a play with songs, by Willard Manus and Odalys Nanin. The play is about the passion and secret of screen siren, Norma Jean. The play stars Monique Marissa Lukens.
Previews run from March 22nd through the 29th. Opening night gala is March 30th, at 8 p.m. The play runs through April 21. The play is performed at Macha Theatre/Films at 1107 N. Kings Road, West Hollywood, CA. Purchase tickets online at
www.machatheatre.org
Posted: March 25, 2013
Leora Skolkin-Smith '75 announced that her essay on Clarice Lispector is going to taught at Bard College for a course called: "The Antiheroine: Writing the Female Rebel." Leora noted that this is especially important to her because Lispector is among her influences. Read the essay here:
http://quarterlyconversation.com/the-hour-of-the- star-clarice-lispector
Posted: March 25, 2013
Ron Hurl '98 was ordained a Catholic priest. Inspired by Michael Davis and his classes, Ron pursued graduate studies in philosophy at Catholic University and became a Franciscan brother in 2003. Ron then pursued studies for the priesthood at Washington Theological Union and was ordained a Roman Catholic priest on November 3rd 2013. He now works as a Roman Catholic parish priest at St. Andrews Church in Fort Worth, TX. See the photo of Father Ron with the bishop below!
Posted: March 15, 2013
Michele Myers, President Emeritus, announced that her short story "Seven Weeks" has been published in the February 27 issue of The Commonline Journal.
Composer Joelle Wallach '67 will be giving New York Philharmonic Pre-Concert Lectures on Wednesday, March 20 at 5:30 PM at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center Amphitheater, 144 W. 65th Street and on Thursday, March 21 at 6:30 PM, Friday, March 22 at 1:00 PM and Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 7:00 PM in the usual location, the Helen Huntington Hull Room of Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza.
The subject of these lectures will be Bach, Times and Timelessness. They will precede performances of violin concertos and orchestral masterwork by J.S. Bach, with violinist Isabelle Faust and the Philharmonic, under the direction of Bernard Labadie.
Tickets for these lectures and performances are available through the New York Philharmonic web site or at 212-875-5656.
Posted: March 15, 2013
Darlene Katz '77, an award-winning artist based in Southern California, has a doctorate in immunology but has always been artistically active, working extensively with oil and acrylic paints, pencil, charcoal and clay sculpture from an early age. Katz will be one of six artists featured during the fifth annual Evening with the Artists hosted by the Redlands Community Hospital Foundation on April 19. She was recently featured by Redlands Daily Facts. You can view samples of Katz's artwork on her web site at
http://studiokatz.com
Posted: March 15, 2013
Documentary filmmaker Cynthia Lowen MFA 2006 was profiled by Asbury Park Press, for her presentation on bullying at GCU's Lakewood Campus. In "Not Just Kids: Bullying from the Playground to the Workplace & Beyond," Ms. Lowen will combine clips from "Bully," as well as pop culture references, news stories, and more to illustrate the key characteristics of bullying behaviors and long-term patterns for the target, the bully, and the witness; how to identify bullying and its impact on our schools, workplaces, and communities. Cynthia Lowen is the co-filmmaker of the award-winning "Bully," which she developed, produced, and wrote in partnership with Emmy and Sundance Award-winning director Lee Hirsch. Filmed over the course of the 2009-2010 school year, "Bully" opens a window onto the pained and often endangered lives of bullied kids, revealing a problem that transcends geographic, racial, ethnic, and economic borders. Read the full article online.
Posted: March 15, 2013
The Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University chose four Mary MacKall Gwinn Hodder Fellows from a pool of over 1,100 applicants. The Hodder Fellowship is given to writers and other artists of exceptional promise to pursue independent projects at Princeton University. SLC dance alumna Pam Tanowitz MFA 1998 has been awarded the fellowship for the 2013-2014 academic year. The Hodder is designed to provide Fellows with the "studious leisure" to undertake significant new work.
Posted: March 14, 2013
Leslie McGuirk '82 has been doing astrology for the past ten years and it is now a bigger part of her business than her children's books. Check out her website:
www.luckystarsastrology.com
Posted: March 14, 2013
Abigail Welhouse '09 announced that her poem "Assembly Required" is featured in the new issue of Big City Lit.
Posted: March 14, 2013
Josh Mann '01 announced that he recently booked and shot the lead in a short film, Bacon, which was directed by Josh Tate and filmed at Bad Robot Productions. Josh also announced that Dystopia, the film he wrote, directed and starred in is now available online:
http://youtu.be/M47PqZTP_hk
Posted: March 14, 2013
Frederic Richter '10 recently presented his AFI thesis film. His film was selected for the "thesis showcase" at the DGA, which means it was one of five out of thirty films chosen. See photos below of Fred, along with a sizeable SLC contingent present at the film premiere.
The photo on the left, from left to right features: William Parker Marshall '11, Aaron Edwards '10, Rafael Gamboa '09, Frederic Richter '10. The photo on the right features Robert Phillips'11 and Frederic Richter '10.
Posted: March 14, 2013
Kyle Curry '09 (kcurry@gm.slc.edu) relocated to Colorado and stormed the festival circuit with his screenplay, Diamond Express, which collected commendations at sixteen competitions last year. He also served as an associate producer on Paul Schrader's The Canyons. Kyle is currently navigating the legal and financial hurdles of forming a production company while finishing more scripts and planning a five-continent world tour.
Posted: March 14, 2013
Lizzie Cz announced her upcoming storytelling show, Don't Tell My Mother, is seeking a few good volunteers. Founded by Fox executive Nikki Levy and hailed by Flavorpill as "LA's newest, coolest comedy show," she is looking for some men and women to help us out in all aspects of production. Check out the reel at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h27pVURGP4w. Volunteers get to see shows free and can take the DTMM Creative Writing Workshop. If interested or to get more information, contact donttellmymothershow@gmail.com
Posted: March 13, 2013
Steven Burke '90 is one of four composers who will receive a $7500 Arts and Letters Award in Music, which honors outstanding artistic achievement and acknowledges the composer who has arrived at his or her own voice. He will also receive an additional $7500 toward the recording of one work.
Posted: March 13, 2013
Jedd Novatt '80 has an exhibit, Chaos Caliente and Chaos Agosto, at the Lever House in New York City.
Posted: March 13, 2013
Paula Leland Douthett '55 announced the publication of her autobiography, An Extraordinary Life/An Extraordinary God, after over 10 years of writing.
Posted: March 13, 2013
Hadar Ahuvia '10 announced Cleaner, which she choreographed with Laura Bartzack and Larissa Sheldon. Cleaner explores the similarities in the physical and economic situation of dance artists and domestic workers. Female bodies caught in literal and abstracted cleaning and exercises in repetition and duration bring their experience to the stage. In so doing, Cleaner aims to challenge the isolation of workers and defend the value of their labor. The performance takes place on Wednesday, April 17 at 7:30 p.m. at Dixon Place (161A Chrystie Street, between Rivington and Delancey), New York, NY.
Posted: March 13, 2013
Laura von Holt '02 announced that the Bushwick Starr and Little Lord present "Pocahontas, and/or America", written and adapted by Michael Levinton '02 and Laura von Holt '02, directed by Michael Levinton '02. Part historical pageant, part roadside attraction, Little Lord corrupts over 400 years of fact and fiction to grant America the founding myth we all deserve. Performances will take place from March 5th through the 23rd. For tickets and information, see:
http://littlelordpocahontas.com
Posted: March 5, 2013
Richard Hochberg '77 announced a staged reading of a new musical, Scary Musical, written by himself and Michael Paternostro. The performance will take place on March 8th at 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. at the York Theatre, at 619 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY. Please RSVP to scarymusical@gmail.com. Questions? Please call Amanda Coleman at (212) 589-5437.
Posted: March 5, 2013
Thea Goodman '91 will read from her new book, The Sunshine When She's Gone, at the Corner Bookstore (313 Madison Avenue, NYC) on March 14, 2013 at 6:00 p.m. See Thea's web site for more information and other upcoming events.
Posted: February 25, 2013
Michele Brody '89 invites you to Reflections in Tea, a tea and dance performance at chashama 461 Gallery located at 461 West 126th Street, New York, NY. A special tea will be served in collaboration with Sabine Heubusch dancing to Tea House stories read by Gary Glazner on March 9th and 10th at 5:00. $8 suggested donation. For more information, see www.michelebrody.com.
Posted: February 25, 2013
Ruth J. Abram '67 announced the upcoming Exodus Conversations, a unique dialogue among distinguished scholars of the Jewish, Christian and Muslim faiths on themes raised by the story of the Exodus and the Haggadah (service for the Passover) will be launched on the web the week of March 18, 2013. By launching Exodus Conversations on the web, the project participants hope to encourage international public discussion about important questions and themes common to our humanity and religious traditions. Be sure to check out www.exodusconversations.org in March.
Posted: February 25, 2013
Jed Distler '78 announced the next installment of the Composers Collaborative Serial Underground on Sunday, March 3rd at 6:00 p.m. The "subversive nightclub series" (Time Out New York) will have Demetrius Spaneas as guest curator and host. The Serial Underground takes place at the Cornelia Street Cafe at 29 Cornelia Street between 6th and 7th avenues in NYC. Tickets are $20 at the door, which includes a $10 food/drink credit. Visit the Composers Collaborative web site for more information on upcoming events.
Posted: February 25, 2013
Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth, a feature documentary film by Pratibha Parmar, will receive an exclusive world premiere on March 10, 2013 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall at the South Bank in London, England. The screening will be followed by a conversation with the director and Alice Walker. The film follows the life and art of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple.
Posted: February 25, 2013
The next installment of the SLC Playwrights workshop will take place on Sunday, March 10th in New York City.
Posted: February 25, 2013
Greta Turken '81 announced the upcoming Is It Already Dusk?, A beautiful new physical theater piece.... The performances take place from February 21st through March 2nd, Tuesday - Friday, 8 p.m. and Saturday, 7 p.m. and 9:30. Tickets are $18 and take place in the Irondale Center at 85 South Oxford Street in Brooklyn, NY. See the Irondale Theatre web site for more information.
Posted: February 20, 2013
Lisa Aronson '71 spent a 8.5 month period in India as a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar (2010-2011) and has co-authored a book that emerged out of this experience ("A School Counsellor Casebook"). Her Fulbright proposal, which gained her the Fulbright award, was: "Addressing the Mental Health Needs of Children, Youth and Caretakers in Under-resourced Environments." During her Fulbright period, she was affiliated with "Sangath," a mental health NGO in Goa, India. In addition to the Fulbright-Nehru Scholar award, she also received a Fulbright South Central Asia Travel Grant to Bangladesh, where she worked with a center for developmentally disabled children. She is available to discuss Fulbright with alums, faculty and students who might wish to be informed about the application process. She found her experience invaluable!
Posted: February 20, 2013
Estha Weiner announced her upcoming book of poems, IN THE WEATHER OF THE WORLD, which has just been published by Ireland's Salmon Poetry. Thomas Lux said of the book, "These poems embody what I most often love in poems: the contradiction of lucidity and strangeness, originality. Mostly urban, swift, and full of heart, we need not take shelter from the weather in this book. Its weather IS shelter!” For more information on the book, see Salmon Poetry's web site. For more information on Estha, see:
http://www.esthalynneweiner.blogspot.com
Posted: February 20, 2013
Liz Page Stitzel '09 announced that she will be representing SLC as an alumni equestrian competitor in Zone Finals on the flat and Regional Finals over fences.
Posted: February 20, 2013
Lisa Aronson '71 announced her upcoming book, "A School Counsellor Casebook". "A School Counsellor Casebook" is a training and resource book for supervised nonspecialists and mental health professionals working with school going youth who are experiencing distress, disorders or disabilities. Expected date of publication is June 2013, and it will be available through Amazon.
Posted: February 19, 2013
Karren Bain Garrity '84 announced her recently published book, The Tool Box: Tricks of the Trade for Raising Teenagers. It offers hands on, easy to understand, practical strategies used by many therapists to help parents, mentors and teachers navigate their relationships with teenagers. The Tool Box is intended to coach adults who live and work with adolescents, in such a way that the adults survive and the kids thrive. It will allow people to build successful, strong and positive relationships with the adolescents in their lives. Here is the link to the book site:
https://www.createspace.com/3705445
Posted: February 18, 2013
Soma Mei Sheng Frazier MFA 2000, was announced on January 1 as First Place winner in Glimmer Train's Family Matters competition. Her winning piece, "Everyone is Waiting," will appear in Spring 2014 (Issue 90 / Issue 91) and her brief essay on literary craft will be sent to Glimmer Train's 90,000+ opt-in online bulletin readers. You can sign up to receive the bulletin here:
http://www.glimmertrain.com/.
Posted: February 18, 2013
MFA alums Melissa Fadul, Leah Umansky and Chloe Yelena Miller, as well as Timothy Donnelly and Danniel Schoonebeek will participate in the next installment of the Perfect Sense Reading Series. The next event takes place on Wednesday, February 27 at the Cornelia Street Cafe. Cost is $8 and includes one drink. See Facebook for more information.
Posted: February 18, 2013
Casey S. Samulski '07 recently published his first novel of science fiction, The Water Sign. See his web site at http://cssamulski.com for more information.
Posted: February 14, 2013
Asia Friedman '97 announced that she recently started as an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware, her first tenure track academic appointment. Asia also announced the publication of her first book, from the University of Chicago Press: Blind to Sameness: Sexpectations and the Social Construction of Male and Female Bodies. You can find more information about the book on the University of Chicago Press web site.
Posted: February 14, 2013
Leslie Meeker '77 offered a quick update on her last 30+ years. Leslie moved to Thailand in 1979 where she worked with refugees for many years. She joined US Citizenship & Immigration Service (USCIS)'s Asylum Division in 1996 and worked in the US until 2005, then spent 3 years in South Africa, 3 years in the Virgin Islands and is now in Tampa as the USCIS field office director. She married her longtime boyfriend, Enver Bismillah, along the way and finally bought a house, a car, and a bull terrier.
Posted: February 14, 2013
Dr. Laurie Nadel '69 shared her online class, Managing Excessive Stress After a Traumatic Event, which is available on fitango.
Posted: February 14, 2013
Erin Orr '96 is proud and happy to invite you to the newest incarnation of Don Cristóbal, Billy-Club Man, the Lorca-inspired musical puppet play she created in collaboration with Rima Fand. The piece has grown richer and more beautiful since its last showing in the spring of 2011. Please come! You will see that there is a discount code for $15 tickets for the first weekend. Please find all info below!
Don Cristóbal, Billy-Club Man
February 15, 16, 22, 23, March 1, 2 at 8pm
February 16, 23, March 2 at 3pm
February 17, 24, March 3 at 5pm
Tickets: $20
Available at http://www.abronsartscenter.org/performances/don-cristobal-billy-club-man.html
Discount code for $15 tickets for first weekend: Rosita
Posted: February 13, 2013
Seth Santoro '99 announced the publication of his new self-help book, "How I Learned To Smile From The Inside".
Posted: February 13, 2013
Abigail Welhouse '09 recently interviewed with Dennis Joy Johnson and Valerie Merians, the husband-and-wife team that are co-founders and co-publishers of Melville House. The interview is here:
http://therumpus.net/2013/01/the-rumpus-interview-with-dennis-johnson-and-valerie- merians/
Posted: February 13, 2013
Elizabeth Collins '93 announced her new book, Too Cool for School: A Memoir. It is slated for release in mid-March. You can find more information on this book on Amazon and Goodreads.
Posted: February 13, 2013
Tina Raye Dayton MFA 1996 is the recipient of the 2012 Dogfish Head Poetry Prize. She received the award Sunday, Dec. 9, after judges selected her chapbook of poetry titled "The Softened Ground" as the best of this year's entries.
Posted: February 13, 2013
Ann Lanzillotto '90 announced the publication of her book, "L is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir" from SUNY Press 2013. For more information on the book and for Ann's event schedule, see:
www.annielanzillotto.com
Posted: February 13, 2013
Jonathan Callahan's (MFA 2008) first book of fiction, The Consummation of Dirk, selected by judge Zachary Mason as the winner of the 2012 Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction, will be published on April 16, 2013.
Posted: February 13, 2013
Leora Skolkin-Smith '75 announced her novel HYSTERA won the 2012 USA Book Award for Fiction (ebooks) and the 2012 Global E-Book Award for Multicultural Fiction. It was also a Finalist in the 2012 International Book Awards and the 2012 Indie Excellence Award. Leora started the novel studying with Grace Paley years ago when I was getting my MFA from Sarah Lawrence.
For more information on Leora and HYSTERA, see
http://www.leoraskolkinsmith.com
Posted: February 13, 2013
Kyla Marshell, MFA 2012, was named one of "7 Young Black Writers You Should Know" by Ebony Magazine, alongside other award-winning writers in fiction, playwriting, and journalism.
Posted: February 13, 2013
Artistic consultant, former artistic director, and founder of Youth Theatre Interactions Paul Kwame Johnson '74, MFA '77 will be on campus this Saturday Feb. 16 to present "Youth Arts Jubilee: A Celebration of African American Theatre." The show begins at 1:30pm in Reisinger Auditorium. Youth Theatre Interactions draws about 200 students, ages 9 to 19, to free classes in ballet, West African dance, vocal music, drama, and more. Kwame proudly lists their achievements: performances at Lincoln Center, television appearances, awards galore. YTI students come to Sarah Lawrence to perform and participate in workshops with undergraduate and graduate students.
Posted: February 12, 2013
Stephanie Summerville '97 is an actress, singer, and writer living in New York City. She is an Equity Scholarship Award recipient at the Singers Forum and routinely performs cabaret at the Laurie Beechman Theatre. Friday, February 15th she will be performing at The MOTH, “Laws of Attraction: Stories of Chemistry,” hosted by: Simon Doonan Stories by: Stephanie Summerville '97, Mark Lukach, Cynthia Riggs and more at The Great Hall at Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street, NY. 6:30 p.m. doors open, 7:30 p.m. stories begin. $30 tickets available. To reserve a table please call The Moth office at 212-742-0551 or see
http://themoth.org/events/event/laws-of-attraction-stories-of-chemistry
Posted: February 11, 2013
Eireann Corrigan '99 has released her fifth book for teens, The Believing Game, published by Scholastic Press last December. It tells the story of a cult that infiltrates a therapeutic/reform school called McCracken Hill. Kirkus Reviews calls it "A dark page-turner with a satisfying resolution."
Posted: February 1, 2013
Elizabeth Schwartz '81 has authored a chapter on klezmer vocal instruction for the book Shpil: The Art of Playing Klezmer (Scarecrow Press 2012). Each chapter was written on a specific instrument and includes the history of a klezmer instrument, sheet music and personal instruction. Intended for the passionate amateur, professional individual or ensemble.
Posted: February 1, 2013
Lisa Christie Leach '86 announced the publication of her new novel, Lucinda. It tells the story of a strong, passionate, yet tenderhearted woman named Lucinda, who is determined to make her marriage to Rod--full of potential but at times abusive--work. At what point does “turn the other cheek” not apply? The book draws attention to a battle that peels the lid off age-old questions within her, challenging her newfound faith. Lucinda’s journey is not a straight line to freedom. She doubts herself at every turn, yet seeking help seems even scarier than sticking it out.
Posted: February 1, 2013
Katie Lippa '95 announced the publication of her first book, Hiding in Water: A Memoir Based Mostly in Reality. In the years before she was born, author Katherine Lippa’s father co-founded a group in which the participants believed they could levitate and move buildings with their minds. His parenting style was based on the premise that all people have a psychic nature and that with special training, a child can harness and build on those abilities. Young Miss Lippa was a willing participant in the experiment until the day she came to believe that her “powers” caused an unforgivable tragedy. Told with a surprising amount of humor and insight, Hiding in Water uses its unique platform to share a universal story of reconciling belief with reality: belief in ourselves and in others.
For more information, or to read the first few chapters for free, please visit www.lippalogic.com. There you'll also find purchase links as well as some other fun things like stand-up comedy videos and cartoons.
Posted: January 30, 2013
Patricia Dunn MFA 1998 was recently interviewed in the latest issue of Kirkus Review regarding her YA novel, Rebels By Accident:
http://www.kirkusreviews.com/features/back-story-patricia-dunns-teenage- rebels-rise-tahr/
Posted: January 30, 2013
Joshua Mehigan MFA 1994 will publish his second book of poems, Accepting the Disaster, later in 2013. He is a recent National Endowment for the Arts Fellow. He has two poems in the current issue of The Paris Review.
Posted: January 30, 2013
MFA alum Pamela Hart is a recipient of the 2013 Literature Fellowship in Creative Writing (Poetry), awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Posted: January 30, 2013
Alex Dimitrov’s MFA 2009 first book of poems, Begging for It, will be published by Four Way Books in March 2013.
Posted: January 30, 2013
Emmy-winning filmmaker Kate Schermerhorn '89 announced the upcoming broadcast premiere of After Happily Ever After. Kate's film, the 2012 winner of the Council for the Contemporary Family Media Award, is her quest for the secret to a happy marriage. The film premieres nationally on Sunday, February 10th, 8pm (PBS's World Channel, as part of the America Reformed series). Scientific American called the film "delightfully quirky". For more information on the documentary, see its accompanying web site at:
http://www.afterhappilyeverafter.net
Posted: January 30, 2013
Max Warsh '02 presents his first solo show in New York. The exhibition title, BILDER—German for "pictures"— speaks to Warsh’s interest in the dialogue between framing and building images.
Warsh's recent series of photo-based works look at the repetitive language of architectural facades through a process of photographing, collecting, cutting, painting and rebuilding. Bold painted shapes emerge amidst densely patterned brick or tile, forming a visual syntax derived from the psychological experience of moving through a city.
The show runs from January 30 through February 24 at 100a Forsyth Street, New York, NY 10002. Opening reception for the artist will take place on Wednesday, January 30. For more information on the artist, see:
http://www.maxwarsh.com/
Posted: January 23, 2013
Amber Doe '02 was very recently selected for an Artists Residency at Arteles Creative Center in Finland for this March. See more about her art, called evening doe at
http://eveningdoe.tumblr.com/
Posted: January 16, 2013
Libby Emmons '98 announced the return of Sticky!, a night of short plays, cheap booze, and good company. The next installment takes place on January 26th in Williamsburg, NY. Buy tickets at http://www.blueboxworld.com. Actors and directors include: Ali Ayala, Megan Cooper, Barrie Gelles, Cameron Page, Ari Vigoda, Imran W. Sheikh, Maiken Wiese, Belle Caplis, Jacquetta Szathmari, Libby Emmons, David Marcus, Jimmy Pravisilis, Lindsay Torrey, Megan Cooper, and more.
Posted: January 14, 2013
Tovah Feldshuh announced the upcoming show, "Tovah: Oh, Off, and Now Under Broadway!". The show runs for three special night: February 7 - 9 (February 7th, at 7:00p.m. and February 8th and 9th, at 8:30 p.m.), at 54 Below (254 West 54th Street, Cellar, NYC). For tickets and more information, see
http://54below.com/wordpress/?artist=tovah-feldshuh
Ms. Feldshuh will revisit the 1970s when she first came to Studio 54 and sings classics from Bernstein and Gershwin to contemporary artists Dar Williams and Craig Carnelia. She also inhabits a gallery of hilarious characters, ages 8 to 80, ranging from radio host Sylvia Chronic to socialite Muffy Brooke Asthma Alsop. She will be joined by Broadway’s Jesse Kissel on piano.
For tickets and reservations, call (646) 476-3551 or see ticketweb.com
Posted: January 14, 2013
Dr. Laurie Nadel '69 has an article in the Huffington Post about living through Hurricane Sandy in her home in Long Beach, NY. Read the article online here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/laurie-nadel/how-hurricane-sandy-helpe_b_2412872.html
Also, Laurie, a psychotherapist/coach living in Long Beach, NY, is leading a Hurricane Sandy Stress Relief Group for area residents. The group meets weekly on Tuesdays from 6 – 7 pm at Long Beach City Hall, 6th floor. Since 1991, Dr. Nadel has been specializing in helping people heal from traumatic events, including the attacks on the World Trade Center.
Visit www.laurienadel.com or call 516.368.4552 for more information.
Posted: January 14, 2013
Stephanie Bernheim '62 announced an upcoming opening at Andre Zarre gallery on January 31st. The gallery is located on 529 West 20th Street, Chelsea, NYC.
Posted: January 14, 2013
Kalle Macrides '97 announced her participation in the upcoming production, The Service Road, a new play by Erin Courtney. A violent storm of mythic proportions hits Prospect Park. The once peaceful service road turns strange as a nature guide attempts to find a lost child. Obie award-winning playwright, Erin Courtney examines what it means to be of service and the true nature of forgiveness. Performances take place between January 11 and February 2 at the Vorhees Theater (CUNY Technology, 186 Jay Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY). Get tickets online at:
http://www.adhesivetheater.com/contact/contact.html#tickets or call 1-800-838-3006
Posted: January 14, 2013
Erica Kloehn '91 announced an upcoming performance on January 17th at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Gregory Kloehn will unveil the Confessionalcycle. Erica Blue will be taking confession in the lobby space throughout the evening and then ascending the staircase with a cast of amazing performers reenacting some of the Seven Deadly Sins. For more information, please see http://www.ybca.org/visit.
Posted: January 14, 2013
Danny Katz '99 announced that the CDS are finally at the printers and that his album, "Orbiting" will be available in early 2013. To hear some of Danny's 80s-flavored folk-pop, go to http://www.dannykatz.com
Posted: January 14, 2013
Jed Distler '78 announced the next installment of the Serial Underground, "the subversive nightclub series" (Time Out New York) will take place on Sunday, February 3rd at 6:00 p.m. Demetrius Spaneas will be guest curator and host. Event takes place at The Cornelia Street Cafe at 29 Cornelia Street (between 6th and 7th avenues), NYC. Tickets are $20 at the door. For reservations, call (212)989-9319. Visit the Composers Collaborative Inc web site for more information and more events at the Cornelia Street Cafe.
Posted: January 14, 2013
Michele Brody '89 announced that she is one of six international artists to be invited to create a site-specific outdoor installation for the 2013 Cheng Long Wetlands International Environmental Art Project in Taiwan.
Posted: January 14, 2013
The release of a new romance novel, The Whaler's Bride, by author Carla Maria Verdino-Sullwold '69, concerns a middle-aged widow who is obsessed by a scrimshaw carving given to her by her late husband on their honeymoon. Accompanied by her faithful Newfoundland dog, she sets out on a quest to discover the origins of the piece, only to embark on a journey that takes her across several lifetimes to another dimension.
Posted: January 14, 2013
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has launched a $3.7 million initiative that will fund three-year playwright residencies, putting the selected scribes on staff at theaters around the country, complete with salaries and benefits. Among the the playwrights and the theaters where they have residences under the Mellon's new initiative is David Adjmi '95, at Soho Repertory Theatre, New York.
Posted: January 14, 2013
Jeffrey Paul Bobrick's new song -- and first ever holiday single -- is out now. Download "Winter Wonderland" on iTunes today!
Posted: January 3, 2013
Cara Judea Alhadeff '92 announced that this past year has overflowed with a fecundity of writing essays for international conferences, periodicals, and books, with the completion of herdoctoral dissertation to be published this winter, and with the extraordinary growth of her son Zazu, now 20 months old. European Graduate School (EGS) will publish her doctoral dissertation in hardcover with 85 color reproductions of her photographs. The title of her new book is Viscous Expectations: Justice, Vulnerability, The Ob-Scene. New York and Dresden: Atropos Press, 2013. For more information on Cara, see www.carajudea.com
Posted: December 19, 2012
Author Christine Benvenuto '82 is the winner of the 2012 Brooklyn Non-Fiction Prize for her story "Death in Brooklyn." Read more about Christine's win here.
Posted: December 18, 2012
Bruce Frankel, MFA Poetry 2003, is an editor for and contributor to LIVE SMART AFTER 50! The Experts' Guide to Life Planning for Uncertain Times (from Life Planning Network, pub date - 01/11/13). It is an indispensable handbook by 33 of the nation's top experts on positive aging and life planning. Bruce, the author of the prize-winning What Should I Do With The Rest Of My Life?, was recently elected Communications Chairperson of Life Planning Network, a national non-profit for professionals. Learn more at http://www.livesmartafter50.com
Posted: December 18, 2012
Sarah Warner's '95 Warner Literary Group is proud to announce the addition of partner Shannon Hassan. A graduate of Harvard Law School and George Washington University in economics and journalism, Shannon will serve as literary agent and attorney at WLG offering our authors a broad, valuable skill set. Shannon was acquisitions editor and general counsel at independent Fulcrum Publishing, and corporate and licensing attorney at Arnold & Porter in New York. She's also mom to twin eight-year-olds. Warner Literary Group is very pleased to welcome her.
Posted: December 13, 2012
Jeffrey Paul Bobrick announced the greatest Chanukah Song ever! Check out "It's Chanukah!" song and music video on Youtube.
Posted: December 11, 2012
ESTHA WEINER has a number of forthcomings! Her next poetry book, IN THE WEATHER OF THE WORLD, is forthcoming end of Feb. from Ireland's Salmon Poetry. Her poems and short essay appear or are forthcoming in the anthologies, NEW AMERICA , RABBIT EARS: TV POEMS, and IT'S ALL ABOUT SHOES.
http://www.esthalynneweiner.blogspot.com
http://www.fishousepoems.org/
Posted: December 11, 2012
Mira Spektor '50 announces Womens' Words, an evening of poetry reading produced by Harriet Slaughter. The evening includes the poets PJ Gibson, Carol Hall, Anne Hamilton, Harriet Slaughter, Mira J. Spektor and Gayl Teller and will be directed by Cara Reichel. Tickets are $20. For information, call 212-268-5846.
Posted: December 7, 2012
Ingrid Jonas '88 was recently promoted to the rank of lieutenant, Vermont State Police from the rank of sergeant, Vermont State Police, Bureau of Criminal Investigations. With this promotion Ingrid became the investigator in charge of the internal affairs department for Vermont State Police.
Posted: November 27, 2012
Michael Aanavi '88, phD, announced that he recently published the book, The Trusting Heart: Addiction, Recovery, and Intergenerational Trauma (Chiron Publications). In The Trusting Heart, Dr. Aanavi writes about his experience over the past twenty-plus years, both as a person in recovery and as a clinician. The book is about his exploration, his process, and his commitment to both the profoundly personal and the remarkably vast. It is about telling the stories of one’s experience and committing to the integrity of one’s felt truth, and to following one’s energetic thread wherever it might lead.
For more information on the book, see:
http://thetrustingheart.com
For more information on Michael, see:
michaelaanavi.com
Posted: November 19, 2012
Chloe Yelena Miller’s MFA 2005 first poetry chapbook, Unrest, will be published by Finishing Line Press in January 2013. Unrest illustrates the experience of loss through food, foreign language, travel, visual art, and more. To learn more, visit
http://chloeyelenamiller.blogspot.com/
Posted: November 15, 2012
Matthew Lancit '02 announced that his documentary, FUNERAL SEASON, has now officially been released on DVD. The film has been described as “a snapshot of our multicultural, inter-connected world" (Montreal Gazette) and “a documentary in which ethnography is flipped on its head” (jury of the Traces de Vies - Rencontres du Film Documentaire). FUNERAL SEASON has been chosen for preservation by the Library and Archives of Canada, and has screened at: UnionDocs in New York, the Musée Dapper in Paris, the Jerusalem Cinematheque, and at various museums and universities around the world and over 40 international film festivals. Learn more at:
http://www.der.org/films/funeral-season.html
Posted: November 15, 2012
Laura Dinnebeil '90 announced the upcoming "Political Comedy Thriller: Mademoiselle Many Times". Laura Dinnebeil stars as Mademoiselle Many Times, a writer in love with a French terrorist. A one-woman comedy about sex poetry, bombs, an emotionally unavailable astrophysicist and a spy who’s an art yuppie.
Mary Allen of the NY Post called Laura, "Probably the funniest person in entertainment today". Interview Magazine's Paisley Dalton called Laura "the best monologuist in NYC!"
The performance takes place at The Space at 9 Bleecker. Performances take place on November 29, December 7, and December 13. Tickets are $10. For more information, see
http://www.laurad.me
Posted: November 15, 2012
Dana Frasz '06 works to solve the problem of food waste through her organization, Food Shift. Food Shift was born out of the desire to create a more just and sustainable food system -- and the belief that food is too precious to waste. See a video about the organization on YouTube.
The East Bay Express covered Food Shift's collaboration and upcoming event series with Interface Art Gallery in this article:
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/ebx/a-second-life-for-food/Content? oid=3378716
Visit Food Shift's newsletter for more information.
Please listen to a 16 minute interview with Dana Frasz talking about her organization, Food Shift and see the interview with her on New Empire Builders.
Posted: November 15, 2012
Michele Brody '89 announced the publication of Reflections in Tea: World Tea Stories. The book is a compilation of stories written on stained t-sacs that were collected during an artistic tea ceremony in celebration of the World Tea Expo's 10th year anniversary.
Posted: November 15, 2012
Soma Mei Sheng Frazier '00, asks writers: What do Nikki Giovanni, Lemony Snicket (AKA Daniel Handler), Kim Addonizio, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Michelle Tea, Walter Mosley and Robert Olen Butler have in common? 1. Stellar writing. 2. Enizagam. Last year, Nikki Giovanni and Daniel Handler adjudicated my literary journal's annual writing competition and blurbed the winners' work. This year, poetry phenom' Kim Addonizio and The New Yorker's "20 Under 40" star Sarah Shun-lien Bynum will do the same.
Winners in the Poetry and Fiction competitions will receive $1,000.00 each; blurbs about their work from the celebrity judges; and publication in the print journal, and online.
The caliber of this year's submissions -- from writers working in the U.S. and beyond -- has been fantastic thus far. Our deadline is March 15, and this is our first call for submissions.
Please consider submitting online at:
http://enizagam.org/
Posted: November 14, 2012
Christine Benvenuto '82 announced publication of her new book, SEX CHANGES: A MEMOIR OF MARRIAGE, GENDER, and MOVING ON, from St. Martin's Press. For more information, see http://us.macmillan.com/sexchanges/ChristineBenvenuto. Sex Changes is "part memoir, part voyeur’s look into a marriage" and follows Christine Benvenuto when her husband of more than twenty years decides to become a woman.
Posted: November 13, 2012
Harriet Alonso MA 1982 is the author of five books. Her most recent is Yip Harburg: Legendary Lyricist and Human Rights Activist. Yip Harburg is the writer of such beloved lyrics as "Over the Rainbow," "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?," and hundreds of other songs. On November 27, she will be giving a talk and book signing event to celebrate the new book. The event will take place at 6:30 p.m. at the CUNY Graduate Center in NYC (365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY). The book will be available from Wesleyan University Press this week.
Posted: November 13, 2012
Mary McCray MFA 1997 announced that she has a new book of poetry out now, Why Photographers Commit Suicide. It's a book of poems about explorers and frontiers and is available on Amazon and Smashwords. Why Photographers Commit Suicide explores, in small narratives and lyrical poems, the American idea of Manifest Destiny, particularly as it relates to the next frontier—space exploration. For more information on Mary, see
http://www.marymccray.com
Posted: November 13, 2012
Beverly Falk '70 announced the release of her new book, Teaching Matters: Stories from Inside City Schools. As public schools become increasingly embattled by budget shortfalls, crowded buildings, and ever-more-rigid curricula, the burden of these restrictions has drastically changed the way children are expected to learn. Nowhere is this more obvious or more devastating than classrooms in high-need urban areas. Drawing upon teachers' firsthand experiences in some of today’s most demanding schools, Beverly Falk and Megan Blumenreich take readers into a variety of classrooms to witness the art of teaching at its most creative and effective, with a focus on early childhood and elementary school.
They follow educators as they strive to change systems that fail to address the needs of their students, from efforts to break the silence about homophobia in schools and multipronged strategies to build stronger relationships with immigrant families to the modification of ineffective curriculum to foster the growth of the “whole child.” This book offers an insider’s look at some challenging and relevant questions in education today.
The book is available on Amazon.
Posted: November 13, 2012
Catherine Brubeck Yaghsizian '76 announced a great concert taking place in Connecticut to honor her father Dave Brubeck and her late husband, who helped her found a charity called Jazz'd4Life. Please go to www.jazzed4life.org to find out about their charity activities and the special Jazz concert on December 6th in Palace Theater in Waterbury, CT.
Posted: November 13, 2012
Jennifer Wallace '02, a Ph.D. student in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences’ Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, was awarded a 2012–13 Fulbright Award to study in Vietnam. There, Ms. Wallace will examine the perspective of local stakeholders who depend on the resources of the Mekong River and assess how their participation is shaping water policy at the basin and at national levels. The full announcement can be read here: http://www.bsos.umd.edu/news-and-events/hot-topics/bsos-student-awarded-fulbright-to-study-in-vietnam.aspx
Posted: November 6, 2012
Emma Gaalaas Mullaney '07 leads youth delegation to UN Convention on Biological Diversity. Mullaney is fascinated by the relationships that exist between humans and their environments. Her academic research and environmental justice activism have brought her all over the world. Mullaney, who is now a doctoral candidate at Penn State, was selected for this position by SustainUS, a volunteer-led youth organization which advocates for sustainable development at the international level. As a youth delegate, Mullaney has joined a coordinated effort of young people from countries around the world to strengthen youth representation at the Convention.
Posted: November 6, 2012
Producers Guild just announced that award-winning television and film producer and director J.J. Abrams will be honored with the 2013 Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television. The award will be presented to Abrams at the 24th Annual Producers Guild Awards ceremony on Saturday, January 26 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.
Posted: November 6, 2012
Composer Joelle Wallach will be giving New York Philharmonic Pre-Concert Lectures in the Helen Huntington Hull Room of Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza on Thursday, November 8 at 6:30 PM, Friday, November 9 at 7:00 PM, Saturday, November 10 at 7:00 PM and Tuesday, November 13 at 6:30 PM. The subject of these lectures will be Brahms' Melancholy Search for Family. They will precede performances of his Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra with soloists Glenn Dicterow, violin, and Carter Brey, cello and Symphony No. 2, conducted by Kurt Masur.
Posted: November 6, 2012
The Straits Times featured Jeet Thayil MFA 2000 and his book, The Seedy Side of Mumbai. The book is one of six novels up for the coveted literary award, the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. The Straits Times called it a "hypnotic roman a clef".
Posted: November 2, 2012
Kai Andersen '02 was recently named editor-in-chief of Modern Luxury Hawai'i magazine, part of the Modern Luxury family of city publications. His official debut appeared this September. Modern Luxury Hawai'i is distributed throughout Hawai'i and is also available for the iPad and online at http://www.modernluxury.com/modern-luxury-hawaii
Posted: October 19, 2012
Titi Nguyen '07 published an essay in the Fall Issue of Threepenny Review.
Posted: October 19, 2012
Aaron Mattocks '02 recently published an on performance in the 21st century, for Claudia La Rocco's Performance Club. Read the article at the link below
http://theperformanceclub.org/2012/10/performance-at-the-beginning- of-the-21st-century/
Posted: October 19, 2012
Joelle Wallach's (1967) Scalerica d'oro for cello and percussion was given its World Premiere performance by cellist Regina Mushaba and percussionist William Trigg on Thursday, October 11 at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in New York City.
Posted: October 19, 2012
Bernardo Ruiz '95 announced that his documentary film, Reportero, will have its European premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam (IDFA) this November (14-25).
Posted: October 19, 2012
Faculty member and alum Cynthia Cruz MFA 1999 has a new collection of poetry entitled The Glittering Room (Four Way Books 2012).
Posted: October 19, 2012
Molly Jaffa '11, a literary agent at Folio Literacy, was featured prominently in the summer issue of Poets & Writers magazine.
Posted: October 19, 2012
Margo Taft Stever MFA 1988, who founded the Hudson Valley Writers Center, was profiled in the October issue of Westchester Magazine.
Posted: October 19, 2012
Anneke Hansen '02 announced a new dance project called Practical Space. By repetition of a 30 minute piece of choreography during 26 intimate, informal performances, she and her dancers will craft, explore, and hone their identities as performers and their relationship to the choreographic material. Click here to reserve tickets and see www.annekehansendance.org for more information.
Posted: October 19, 2012
Margaret Lewis '91 currently has a Jeff Recommended play, Freshly Fallen Snow, running in Chicago. In Freshly Fallen Snow, Dr. Jane Smith pioneers a controversial new treatment that can "edit" memories. In treating a terribly scarred veteran of the Iraq War, she also touches on the long-buried pain of her own mother, a haunted survivor of World War II's Dresden firestorm.
Posted: October 19, 2012
Michele Myers, President Emeritus, wrote a short story you can read on the following site: http://www.tommandel.com/downloads/sevenweeks.pdf
The story is a kind of parable about the two competing visions for America's future and for American votes in the current electoral campaign. It is about a woman, her boyfriend, and a bum, whose live intersect over a seven-week period. The story is titled: Seven Weeks.
Posted: October 8, 2012
Susan Shapiro Barash '76, author of The Nine Phases of Marriage and teacher of Gender Studies at Marymount Manhattan College, spoke about the absence of women and women’s issues at the first presidential debate on MSNBC. View video of Women's Issues Missing from First Presidential Debate here.
Posted: October 8, 2012
Donna Gigliotti '76 is one of the producers of a new film, "Silver Linings Playbook". This is an intense, loving, emotional and funny family story from Oscar-nominated director, David O. Russell. Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, and Robert De Niro will star.
Posted: October 5, 2012
Congratulations to Josh Selig ’86! Josh wrote and directed the movie “Small Potatoes – Meet the Small Potatoes,” a 45-minute animated rock mockumentary, and Disney Junior has recently picked up the rights to its TV movie debut. “Small Potatoes – Meet the Small Potatoes” (a Little Airplane Productions film) follows the rise, break-up and triumphant comeback of a group of singing spuds and stars acclaimed actor Malcolm McDowell (Entourage, Clockwork Orange) as the band’s manager. Its music was written and produced by the Little Airplane team and features original songs by the late Jerry Bock (Fiddler on the Roof). This film’s American premiere is set for early 2013 on Disney Channel and Disney Junior, and it will debut on Disney Junior in Japan in late 2013.
Posted: September 27, 2012
Congratulations to Rio Cortez ’07 who has been named a winner of the 2012 Amy Award. Poets & Writers presents the Amy Award each year to recognize promising women poets, age 30 and under, living in the New York City metropolitan area or on Long Island. The award was established in 1995 by Paula Trachtman and Edward Butscher of East Hampton, New York, in memory of Ms. Trachtman's daughter, Amy Rothholz, an actor and poet. Poets & Writers will host a public reading for the winners at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 17, at the New York Society Library in Manhattan. The winners will be joined by guest poet Anne Marie Macari. To read excerpts from Rio and other winners' work, please visit
http://www.pw.org/about-us/2012_amy_award
Posted: September 27, 2012
Alexandra Lehmann MFA 2003 announced that she will give a lecture on German student Resistance during the Second World War. Alexandra wrote a book about Sophie Scholl and her boyfriend, Officer Fritz Hartnagel. Scholl, a German student, was a paramount figure in Munich's resistance efforts in 1942. For more information, here is the website: www.freiheitfreedom.com.
She may be reading from my essay/SLC thesis, "Spirit Birds of Hope, Freed foread Flying: The Letters and Diaries of Anne Frank and Sophie Scholl." This is a nonfiction essay requested by Yad Vashem in Jerusalem last year which speaks to the differences and similarities of two young German-born women murdered by the Nazi regime.
The lecture, "Literary, Spiritual and Political Influences on Munich's Student Resistance to Hitler" will take place September 24, 7:00 p.m. at. Holyoke College Art Museum.
Posted: September 20, 2012
Alma Gottlieb '75 co-authored the book, Braided Worlds, with Philip Graham '73. Alma Gottlieb is professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Philip Graham is professor of creative writing at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and teaches at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. The publication date for Braided Worlds is October 1, 2012.
Posted: September 20, 2012
Georgia Lee Hussey '01 is currently building a financial advisory practice at Wells Fargo Advisors in Portland, Oregon. She specializes in working with entrepreneurs and creative professionals who want a financial advisor who reflects the passion and craft they bring to their own work. See Georgia's web site for more information.
Posted: September 20, 2012
Suzanne Guillette MFA 2005 recently published two pieces, both of which are adapted from her Sarah Lawrence thesis (about women and boxing). Read them online at https://www.tinhouse.com/blog/16271/web-extra-the-rings-part-one.html and http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/16275/web-extra-the-rings-part-two.html
Posted: September 20, 2012
Jonathan Callahan '08 announced that his first book, The Consummation of Dirk, will be published by Starcherone/Dzanc Press in March, 2013. He is the winner of the 8th Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction competition. Jonathan will receive $1,500 and publication in Starcherone Books’ 2012-13 season. THE CONSUMMATION OF DIRK, a collection of short stories, was selected from among five finalists by contest final judge ZACHARY MASON, author of the internationally celebrated debut, The Lost Books of the Odyssey, and himself a former winner of the prize. A total of 232 manuscripts were submitted for the prize.
Posted: September 19, 2012
Jean Milofsky '70 announced an upcoming Dazzle gig on Tuesday, 10/23 at 7 p.m. in Denver. She will be playing w/ Jack McCutchan, drummer, Paul Musso, guitar, and Dean Ross, bass. Come out and support live jazz in Denver!
Posted: September 19, 2012
A. Nora Long '02 recently received a promotion at the Lyric Stage Company of Boston and is now the Associate Artistic Director. Also, her fringe theatre company, New Exhibition Room, just closed their biggest project to date: Zombie Double Feature. In addition to the gory greatness of Zombies, the project brought together a talented ensemble of local performers and feature live local music and art-making! See http://www.newexhibitionroom.org/ for more information.
Posted: September 19, 2012
Thea Goodman '91 announced that her first novel, The Sunshine When She's Gone, will be published by Henry Holt and co. in March, 2013. Favorable advance praise by Susan Minot and Nell Freudenberger can be read at Amazon.
Posted: September 19, 2012
Jason Irwin '04 announced that his play, "Checkpoint" will be part of Scripted: An Evening of One Act Plays on September 29, 2012. This event will take place at Willits Shakespeare Company at 1195 #B South Main Street, Willits, CA 95490. See http://thewillitsshakespearecompany.org/index.html for more information.
Posted: September 19, 2012
Louise M. Halsey '71 of Little Rock has been selected by curators at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) to represent the state of Arkansas in their upcoming exhibition, High Fiber: Women to Watch 2012. The exhibition opens November 2, 2012 and will continue through January 6, 2013 at the museum in Washington, D.C. As the title implies, the theme of the exhibition is “inventive textile-based works.” Halsey will have four woven wool works included in the exhibition: Supersize My House (2011), Dream Facade (2005), Crackhouse (2006), and House/Moon (2005).
Posted: September 18, 2012
Christina Justiz '08 announced in her summer newsletter that she has been posting a piece of art on her twitter and facebook pages every day since July 16th. Among her projects this summer were a baby belly cast and an interactive digital piece inspired by the Mayan calendar's mapping of time.
Posted: September 18, 2012
Estha Weiner will read at a celebration of Ireland's Salmon Press on Sunday, September 9th at 4:00 p.m. at The Lounge at Hudson View Gardens (Pinehurst Avenue and 183rd Street in NYC). Suggested donation of $7 includes free drinks and snacks. There will be a reception after to meet the poets. This event is part of the Sunday Best Reading Series.
Posted: September 14, 2012
Claire Jeanine Satin '56 studied in Venice, Italy, after being awarded a residency by the Emily Harvey Foundation. As part of it, she hosted a one-woman exhibition of her works and gathered material for future work. She was recently profiled by the South Florida Sun Sentinel.
Posted: September 14, 2012
Jon Grinspan '06 recently published an article in the New York Times. Read his article here
http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/09/riling-up-the-shrewd-wild-boys/
Posted: September 14, 2012
The Masters Review, an annual anthology that publishes the ten best stories written from students in graduate-level creative writing programs, has chosen a short story by Kristin Ferebee '09. The judge this year is the wonderful and talented Lauren Groff, is a New York Times best selling author, with work that has appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, and Glimmer Train, among others. Her titles include: Monsters of Templeton, Delicate Edible Birds, and the recently released Arcadia. Lauren chose the top ten stories for publication from a shortlist that was developed from hundreds of submissions. The final product is a collection of stories that are unique, well crafted, and moving. For more information, please see The Master Review web site at
http://www.masters-review.com
Posted: September 14, 2012
A group of 2011 SLC Alumni have formed a theater company in Los Angeles! Fraggled Productions is a passionate and dedicated group who create exciting pieces together using their combined perspectives, opinions, aesthetics, and talents to communicate a play's important message to the world. The company came together while producing Reefer Madness under The Body Electric Theater in Downstage. Their next venture is Urinetown The Musical! It is a hilarious musical satire that offers new perspectives on the dangers of big corporations and the need for environmental sustainability. In rehearsals now, and will premier October 5th at The Lounge Theater in Hollywood. Here is the link to their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/UrinetownTheMusical. They are still raising money via Indiegogo. Come support your fellow alums and see some funny and meaningful theater!
Posted: September 12, 2012
Peter Trachtenberg '74 announced his new book, ANOTHER INSANE DEVOTION, will be published by Da Capo Press on November 13, 2012.
From "a genuine American Dostoevsky" (The Washington Post): a dazzling, funny, bittersweet exploration of the mysteries of relationship, both human and animal. When his favorite cat Biscuit goes missing, Peter Trachtenberg sets out to find her. The journey takes him 700 miles and many years into his past-- into the history of his relationships with cats and the history of his relationship with his wife F., who may herself be on the verge of disappearing. What ensues is a work that recalls travel narratives from The Incredible Journey to W. G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn. Trachtenberg ponders the mysteries of feline intelligence (why do cats score worse on some tests than pigeons?), the origins of their domestication, their terrible treatment during the Middle Ages. He also looks at the riddle of human love, and at all the unforeseen places that insane devotion leads us.
"Peter Trachtenberg is such a wonderful writer, and this book is so damn good, that I found myself carried along by its lucidity, its generosity, it's deep wisdom", said Nick Flynn.
Posted: August 31, 2012
Rosalind Brenner MFA 2009 announced that her poetry collection from Finishing Line Press, /Omega's Garden/, is coming out this fall. /Omega's Garden/ is a compendium of woman's voices, as they share their joys, disappointments, and their triumphs. Maxwell Corydon Wheat, Jr., said of the book, "You do not want to miss this book's intense language, its extraordinary original imagery and the rawness of /Omega's Garden's/ situations...."
Posted: August 31, 2012
Madison Gate Records will release the soundtrack album titled "Breaking Bad: Original Score From The Television Series" on August 28, 2012. The recording features original music by Dave Porter '94 from all five seasons of the Emmy® Award-winning and critically-acclaimed television series. The album will also debut never-before-heard music and extended versions of fan-favorite cues. Dave Porter began his musical training at the piano at age five, and began composing as a teen. He studied classical and electronic music composition at Sarah Lawrence College, and has been awarded ASCAP Film and TV Awards for "Breaking Bad" and the Fox Studios paramedic drama "Saved." This album is available on Amazon.
Posted: August 31, 2012
Jed Distler '78 hosts the Serial Underground, "the subversive nightclub series". The next installment is on Sunday, September 2, at 6:00 p.m. (doors will open at 5:45) and will feature the Mighty CCi House Band. Jed will play piano. Admission is $20 at the door and includes a $10 food/drink credit. Visit Composers Collaborative web site for more information.
Posted: August 31, 2012
Elisabeth Rohm has opened REJUICE, a cafe that serves fresh pressed juices and 100$ organic and vegan fare. REJUICE has had great reviews from EaterLA, The Hollywood Reporter, Daily Candy, KTLA, Huffington Post, Fox News. REJUICE is located in Santa Monica. For more information, see www.rejuice-california.com.
Posted: August 31, 2012
Jennifer Woodward '00 announced that she and her husband are starting a handmade papermaking studio in our home of Portland, OR. You can visit their website at:
http://pulpanddeckle.com
Posted: August 31, 2012
Claire Jeanine Satin was recently profiled by the Sun Sentinel. Read the full article online.
Posted: August 31, 2012
Jessica Cymerman '11 and a group of 2011 SLC Alumni have formed a theater company in Los Angeles! Fraggled Productions is a passionate and dedicated group who create exciting pieces together using their combined perspectives, opinions, aesthetics, and talents to communicate a play's important message to the world. The company came together while producing Reefer Madness under The Body Electric Theater in Downstage. Their next venture is Urinetown The Musical! It is a hilarious musical satire that offers new perspectives on the dangers of big corporations and the need for environmental sustainability. In rehearsals now, and will premier October 5th at The Lounge Theater in Hollywood. Here is the link to their Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/UrinetownTheMusical.
Posted: August 24, 2012
Realize magazine is recently launched by Ellary Eddy ’72. Realize is a portal for Baby Boomers to stay engaged with contemporary lifestyle and culture, covering topics in art, entertainment, the Internet, travel, food and wine, style, and relationships. It is driven by the concept that aging can mean living more instead of living less — for example, instead of AARP and hearing aids, its ads will feature kayaks, vineyards, and the latest apps. Visit and subscribe to Realize at http://www.realizemagazine.com Realize is also looking for contributors; contact Ellary at editor@realizemagazine.com for more information.
Posted: August 15, 2012
Karl Taro Greenfeld '87 announced a new novel, Triburbia, published by Harper Collins. Karl’s going to be at the Barnes & Nobel in Tribeca on September 5th (97 Warren Street). See Harper Collins' web site for more information on Karl.
Posted: August 15, 2012
Cornelia Read '85 recently published her fourth Madeline Dare novel, Valley of Ashes. Find out more about Cornelia Read at
www.corneliaread.com
Posted: August 15, 2012
The Harvard Committee on General Scholarships has awarded Justin Stern '07 the Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship. The competitive fellowship, which affords scholars the opportunity to conduct research or study outside of Cambridge, is awarded to only one Harvard graduate. Stern was selected by the fellowship committee from a pool of applicants from Harvard’s various graduate Schools.
A recent graduate of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), Stern is a research associate in the department of urban planning and design and an instructor in urban planning in the GSD Career Discovery Program. Having also received a Fulbright Scholarship for the 2012-13 year, he will use the Sheldon fellowship to fund research and language study in Hong Kong and Seoul, after which he will continue his studies in a doctoral program. Stern’s research will focus on the political economy of urban morphology in late industrializing countries in Asia, exploring how export-oriented industrialization and the scale of industry in East Asian countries factor into urban design, planning, and other elements of spatial morphology.
Posted: August 7, 2012
Elizabeth Collins-Nagle '93 announced a new book, just published in late June by TNB Books, entitled The Beautiful Anthology. The book features some well-known writers (Jessica Anya Blau, Greg Olear, Ronlyn Domingue, Melissa Febos, Robin Antalek) and many emerging artists. Elizabeth Collins-Nagle has been teaching writing for the past nine years and currently teaches at Philadelphia University. Check out the book on Amazon.
Posted: August 7, 2012
Brian O’Connor, '82, personal finance editor of The Detroit News, now has his personal finance column nationally syndicated by Tribune Media Services. O’Connor’s “Funny Money” column humorously chronicles the financial implications of everything from potty training and the Pregnancy Industrial Complex to tax avoidance and the shadowy international baking cabal that forces consumers to buy unnecessary hot dog buns. His award-winning market commentary includes the observation that, if Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke were to spontaneously combust, “The stock market will undoubtedly go down, unless it goes up or stays the same.”
The column is available online at http://bit.ly/tms-oconnor
Earlier this year, O’Connor won his second Best in Business award for his column from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, and was an awarded finalist for commentary in the Scripps Howard National Journalism Awards.
Posted: August 7, 2012
Outside Providence, a play written by current SLC Senior Andrew Joseph Clarke (class of 2013) and workshopped through the SLC Theatre Department will have its New York premiere as part of the New York International Fringe Festival next week. The show is being directed by Daniella Caggiano '10 and produced by Zachary Tomlinson '11. Performances are August 15, 18, 19, 21 and 23rd. For tickets and more information, please visit www.outsideprovidenceplay.com.
Posted: August 7, 2012
75th Annual Convention of the New York State Psychological Association awarded first and second place prizes to two short stories from Ellen Luborsky '70, PhD. You can read "Heaven" and "Milk and Poison" on the NYSPA website.
Posted: August 7, 2012
Joanna Kraus '59 announced the publication of her adaptation of Korean folk tale "The Story of Heungbo".
Posted: August 7, 2012
Jedd Novatt '80 announced a new permanent installation, Chaos Nervion, in Bilbao, Spain. See the sculpture below.
Posted: August 7, 2012
Gary Ploski MFA 2008 and his feature film, Rising Star, continues to receive much positive press. Gary and hiw wife, Ali Berman '04, were profiled by the Bronxville-Eastchester Patch for their ascent in the film world. For more information on the film, see
http://risingstarmovie.com
Posted: August 7, 2012
Julia Barry '04 celebrated her new CD release with a party at the Folk Art Museum. For more information on Julia Barry, see:
juliabarry.com
Posted: August 7, 2012
Sarah Sarai's MFA 1997 poem, "Fabian Avenarius (Arthur Craven)," is in Cordite Poetry Review, at http://cordite.org.au/poetry/jackpot/fabian-avenarius-arthur-craven /.
Posted: August 7, 2012
Adam Distenfeld '85, in conjunction with the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, presents the 30th annual outdoor sculpture show, Perpetual Energy. The show will open on August 4, 2012.
Posted: July 26, 2012
Clarion E. Johnson, M.D. '72 is the 2012 recipient of the SPE Health, Safety, Security, Environment, and Social Responsibility Award. Congratulations on this well-deserved recognition. He will be awarded this recognition on Tuesday, October 9th, 2012 during the SPE Annual Banquet.
Posted: July 26, 2012
Ox-Bow, school of art and artists’ residency is elated to announce the appointment of Elizabeth J. H. Chodos '04 as its new Executive Director. Previously Ms. Chodos served as the Associate Director of Ox-Bow since February 2010. Prior to Ox-Bow, Ms. Chodos was the Executive Director of Chicago residency and exhibition space, threewalls. She earned Dual Masters Degrees in Art History, Theory and Criticism and Arts Administration from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago—where she wrote a thesis on artist residencies. Ox-Bow, school of art and artist residency is a 102 year-old creative community located on a protected 115-acre property in Saugatuck, Michigan.
Posted: July 26, 2012
Ellen Marcus MS 1973 was appointed Vice Chair on the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Board of Governors. Marcus has served on BGU's board of governors since 2006. Ellen Marcus and her family have been passionately devoted to BGU for many years. In 2005, the Marcus Family Campus was named in honor of the family’s magnanimous gift and pledged bequest to the University. Marcus, now retired, was among the first master’s level genetic counselors and the first to open a private practice, specializing in prenatal genetics. With experience in marketing her practice, she switched to marketing communications full-time, practicing for 15 years in the healthcare, financial and petroleum-exploration industries.
Posted: July 26, 2012
Poet Estha Lynn Weiner announces Maine Branches--four widely published poets read and reflect on their Maine connections: Margo Taft Stever (Frozen Spring, Mid-List Press); Estha Weiner (In the Weather of the World, Salmon Poetry); Jo Ann Clark (The Paris Review); and John Perrault (Here Comes the Old Man Now, Oyster River Press). Readings will take place on August 2, 2012 at the University of New England Art Gallery (716 Stevens Ave., Portland, Maine, 5:00pm) and August 3, 2012 at York Art Association (394 York Street, York Harbor, Maine, 7:00 p.m.). For more information, see:
http://www.esthalynneweiner.blogspot.com
Posted: July 25, 2012
Laura Dinnebeil '90 announces a political comedy thriller (about poetry, bombs, and an astrophysicist-spy!) called Mademoiselle Many Times. The show, which is promised to rule, premieres on Sunday July 29th at 7 p.m. at the Yippie Cafe in New York City (9 Bleecker Street, off Bowery. 6 to Bleecker or F to Broadway Lafayette.) Special guests will include John Marshall (Politically Incorrect, Huffington Post) Big Mike, and David Huberman (Outlaw Bible of American Poetry).
Posted: July 25, 2012
Erin Boyle '06 was recently profiled on the Today Show and in the NY Post for the teeny (240 square feet!) apartment she and her fiance share in Brooklyn.
Posted: July 25, 2012
Jade Foster '07 announced that the 3rd annual Revival, QWOC Poetry Tour tour has confirmed collaborations with Durham's Mobile Homecoming Project, Toronto's Kim Katrin Crosby, Brooklyn's LGBT Pride Center and is a recent grant recipient of DC's Al Sura Foundation.
Posted: July 25, 2012
Dancer Anneke Hansen '02 has been busy teaching dance for CLASSCLASSCLASS and restaging last year's youandyouandyou. She is hard at work developing a new project, with the hope to premiere in "early-ish" 2013.
Posted: July 25, 2012
Kay Chernush '66 announced that her exhibit, "Bought & Sold: Voices of Human Trafficking" was installed on Orchard Road in front of Mandarin Gallery, under the gracious patronage of Ambassador Tommy Koh -- part of a two-month awareness campaign presented by EmancipAsia and ArtWorks for Freedom Singapore. For details, please check out:
http://www.emancipasia.org
Posted: July 25, 2012
Danny Katz '99 has begun work on a new album of 80s flavored folk-pop. For more information and to listen to some of Danny's music, see http://www.dannykatz.com
Posted: July 12, 2012
American Medical Student Association (AMSA) elections for the 2012-13 academic year have just concluded, and six MSIH students will step into leadership positions in the MSIH-AMSA chapter and the global AMSA organization. AMSA Programming Director is Katy Goldlist '11 (far left). She will be responsible for organizing programming at AMSA and ensuring deadlines are met.
Posted: July 10, 2012
Barbara Bennion '51 announces that her play about Latino immigration, FLOWERS BEHIND THE MOUNTAIN, is a winner of the 2012 Mario Fratti-Fred Newman Political Play Contest at Castillo Theater in Manhattan. The director will be J.J. El-Farr. A previous reading was in 2011 at the CCNY Conference on Immigration and Education.
The reading takes place on August 6, 2012 at Castillo Theater in New York City (543 West 42nd Street, between 10th and 11th avenues).
Posted: July 3, 2012
Charlotte Observer profiled Charlotte-based musician Lindsey Ryan Horne MFA 2007. Lindsey just finished her new, self-released album, The Divers. Read the full profile on the Charlotte Observer web site.
Posted: July 3, 2012
Crain's Chicago Business profiles Mayor Rahm Emanuel '81 and discusses his past and present interest in Dance. Emanuel studied Dance as a student at SLC.
Posted: July 3, 2012
In promotion of his seventh studio album "Japanese Satellites", Danny Katz '99 will be playing at Gamuso in Tokyo, Japan on Friday, June 29th. Self-described as "80s-flavored folk-pop", Danny's music has been mentioned as "tight acoustic gems with more hooks than the Tsukiji fish market."
Posted: June 29, 2012
Jenna Esposito '00 and her three-piece band will be performing on a sunset cruise with Empire Cruise Lines on Saturday, July 21st (July 28th in case of rain) from 6-9:00 p.m. The cruise will depart from Poughkeepsie, NY. There will be a cash bar and a light fare will be served by Café Bocca. $5 from each ticket will be donated to Families of SMA. Please call (845) 483-7300 for reservation and more information.
Posted: June 29, 2012
Claire Satin '56 announces that she has just completed her second artist residency in Venice, Italy. During her stay, her book works and collages were exhibited in Mestre, Venice, and an article on her Judiac works has been published in Jewish Art Now. She is currently working on a proposed large scale installation to be presented in Venice next year.
Posted: June 29, 2012
James Tynion IV '10 will write the new DC Comics title, with current scribe Scott Snyder as co-plotter. The Batman and Swamp Thing writer previously served as his new colleague's writing teacher at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. "A lot of people say it's great to see new blood and young writers given a chance, and this book is that," Snyder told USA Today.
Posted: June 29, 2012
Howie Seligman '77 invites fellow alumni to attend the annual birthday celebration of the Founding of The Solo Foundation, a non-profit arts organization based in Manhattan and Brooklyn. The party will take place on Saturday July 14th at 6pm at The Trophy Bar (351 Broadway in Brooklyn – take the J,M Trains to Myrtle Ave or Hewes St). This year the solo foundation turns 31 and the party will include an open bar and a cabaret performance by Howie. Please RSVP to: howiesolo@yahoo.com
Posted: June 26, 2012
Sarah Sarai's (MFA 1999) story, "Far Star Girl," has been published in Pangur Ban Party, at http://sarah-sarai-pbp.blogspot.com/. Also, Sarah's poem, "This Way and That," was published in the Spring 2012 issue of Lavender Review, at http://lavrev.net/gardens/sarai.html.
Posted: June 21, 2012
Chris Brandt MFA 1972 announces a world premier production of Wall Street: A Farce in Three (3) Acts. Wall Street is a rambunctious short play about the horrors of the cash & stock trade in the early 19th century, much of which is being repeated today. Bankers, shavers, stockbrokers & more are struggling to make ends meet before the close of bank business and, to say the least, have a difficult time doing so. The piece is surrounded by shockingly relevant songs of hard times ranging from Stephen Foster to Leonard Cohen to Coxey's Army, as well as guest "occupiers". The play runs from June 21st through July 8th, Thursday through Sunday, all 8pm curtains. Tickets are $18 general admission, $15 for seniors and students.
See http://www.medicineshowtheatre.org/ for more information and www.smarttix.com for tickets.
Posted: June 19, 2012
Composer Joelle Wallach '67 will be giving New York Philharmonic Pre-Concert Lectures in the Helen Huntington Hull Room of Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza on Wednesday, June 20 at 6:30 PM, Thursday, June 21 at 6:30 PM, Friday, June 22 at 7:00 PM and Saturday, June 23 at 7:00 PM. The subject of these lectures will be The Mature Mozart. Tickets are available on the
New York Philharmonic Web Site.
Posted: June 19, 2012
Will Forber '11, Nellen Dryden '11, Jane O’Hara '12, James Simmons '11 will star in The Natives Are Restless in The Catalyst Project festival, directed by Amy Roxanne Surratt '12 and stage-managed by Hui-Shurn Yong '12, on Friday, June 29th at 7pm at the Dixon Place Theatre The play follows two siblings as they each fight one of the two fronts of a war. For more details and ticket information, please visit http://dixonplace.org/html/Catalyst_Jun12.html
Posted: June 19, 2012
Caitlin McDonald ’05 recently published Global Moves: Belly Dance as an Extra/Ordinary Space to Explore Social Paradigms in Egypt and Around the World, in print and as an e-book. The book examines the way globalization affects the evolving belly dance culture in the Middle East and, increasingly, in the international community, particularly focusing on gender paradigms in dancing and the dance community.
Posted: June 15, 2012
On June 1-3, Adam Distenfeld ’85 showcased his sculptures at the Bushwick Open Studios 2012, presenting at his studio Brooklynrockwerk and in the Sculpture Garden at The Onderdonk House. His works are created from natural rocks found at urban construction sites.
Posted: June 15, 2012
As the artist-in-residence this spring at the Emily Harvey Foundation in Venice, Italy, Claire Satin '56 exhibited a series of drawings and artist books at the3D Gallery in Venice. The site-specific new works in the series are based upon the concept of indeterminacy, weaving personal experiences with accidental events and casual combinations of facts.
Posted: June 15, 2012
Zilpha Starnes '05 and Dania Abu-Shaheen '04 recently celebrated 6 years of performing together as Starnes&Shah, and their 6th year is off to an exciting start with an upcoming performance at The Knitting Factory on Friday June 29th at 9pm. The Knitting Factory is located at 361 Metropolitan Avenue in Brooklyn (Williamsburg) near the L/G Trains at Lorimer-Metropolitan or the L train at Bedford Avenue. Zilpha and Dania love seeing fellow SLCers at their shows, so swing by and say hello! To learn more about Starnes&Shah, please visit http://www.starnesandshah.com
Posted: June 5, 2012
Photo taken at the Inauguration of Jonathan Lash as the Sixth President of Hampshire College, April 27, 2012. Pictured are delegate Margaret Benczak '71 and parent of Hampshire student Jeff Porter, Ellie Scattergood Lash '67 and wife of the President, and "Flat Sarah."
Posted: June 5, 2012
Bernardo Ruiz's ('95) REPORTERO will premiere on both coasts this June, at the Los Angeles Film Festival, June 16 & 18, and the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in NY, June 21-23. REPORTERO explores the crucial issues of violence on the border, corruption and power in Mexico, and the struggle for 'free-speech.
Posted: June 5, 2012
New York Times Style Magazine interviewed Julianna Margulies '89, to glean insight into her beauty regimen. Read the full article on the New York Times web site.
Posted: June 5, 2012