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Marcello Rollando, known as The Reasonable Voice, is the Founder and Creative Director of The Reasonable Voices weekly podcast: Conversations with leaders in Film, Television, Theatre and Politics.
A Little Place Called Earth is cold water in the face of all who deny the truth of our past and its power to destroy our future – weaved into challenging love stories and gloriously beautiful songs. However, like life, this is an ensemble piece depending on actors, characters and ultimately audience internalizing Ben Franklin’s, “We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.” Luke, George, Sandy and Angel are meeting for the first time - again; all arriving from different locations. At their individual tempo each learns, time is both of the essence and of little consequence. It’s not so much from where or how, but when and why are the questions to which the quartet of solos is seeking individually, but eventually, collectively - answers. Clearly, they are here to accomplish something, help someone find their path forward, and in so doing, the arc of their journey is revealed - even to them. The question is, from when they and the audience come – and then, where too now...Fore more, please visit here.
Two theater lovers come together to discuss the plot, design elements, and lasting impacts of the shows they've seen. Each episode includes a synopsis of the show as well as a detailed discussion. In addition, the hosts discuss their own personal interactions with the shows and people involved. So join us on this exciting journey down the Great White Way!Find more at:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stage-whisper/id1573470927
The film follows a quest for redemption in Washington, D.C. Thanks to “second chance” legislation, three men who were sentenced in their youth to life in prison have the chance to plead for release. Through heartfelt, gritty stories, we follow their journeys: Anthony “Pete” Petty, who has just won his freedom and must rebuild his life after three decades in prison; Gene Downing, who awaits his second chance hearing after two decades behind bars and hopes to reunite with a daughter born after his incarceration; and Colie Levar Long, who is mentoring youth incarcerated with him at D.C. Jail. He longs to finish college as a free man after a 26-year interruption. But, as the film shows, a second chance is never guaranteed.Wynette Yao is an award-winning filmmaker who has produced, directed and written films on subjects as wide-ranging as Egypt, tornadoes, bees and bog mummies. She relishes storytelling that brings alive the human experience in history, science, social justice and modern life. Yao has created videos, spots and long-form documentaries highlighting the need for a more fair and effective justice system, including the award-winning “Half of Us,” “The Vanishing Trial” (Bronx Social Justice Matters Festival and 1st Place, Documentary Shorts).The cinematographer and editor for District of Second Chances is Travis Edwards.With work ranging from commercial to documentary to narrative, Travis’s focus has always been on the impact of storytelling through video. His award-winning work has taken him across the country and has involved everything from filming undercover in puppy mills to filming politicians in D.C.
Marcello Rollando has a forty-year career of successes at impressive venues, including, NBC/ABC, Lincoln Center, The Juilliard School, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington’s Shakespeare Theatre Company, the Broward County Center for the Arts, the annual awards ceremony of the Palm Beach County Film and Television Commission and Spoleto Festival USA.Marcello has not only received critical acclaim in America from NYC to DC and Florida, for his perceptive casting and directing – but in Portugal and Spain as well. As a writer, Marcello is most inspired and inspiring when discovering, developing and producing/directing new works in theatre, film, television and opera.For the interview on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsO8OjB1YJ4&t=248s
Kar Yin Tham is Home Is a Hotel's co-director and producer. Kar Yin is an independent media producer based in San Francisco and Kuala Lumpur. Her recent projects have won awards at film festivals around the country including Best Short (Adrift in Sunset) and Best Narrative Feature (Collisions). She has also produced educational media and standards based curricula aligned content for PBS LearningMedia. Kar Yin has more than 20 years of experience in youth development programs and organizational management. She’s currently calibrating her dreams for a better world into a series of challenging projects.For more information, please visit:https://www.homeisahotel.com/home
Director Kevin Duncan Wong’s Home Is a Hotel will premiere in Austin at the Austin Film Festival on October 29, 2023 and will also be featured in the San Diego Asian Film Festival on November 8, 2023 and premiering in Los Angeles on November 19, 2023 at the NewFilmmakers Los Angeles DocuSlate.Across America, cities are struggling with homelessness and housing affordability. How does one decades old solution (cramped Single Room Occupancy (SRO) units) impact the lives of those who live in them? Director Kevin Wong's Home Is a Hotel takes you inside San Francisco's SRO housing through intimate portraits of their residents filmed over five years. This character-driven, verité documentary immerses viewers in what it means to call a single room home in the heart of one of America’s richest cities. It's the story of an immigrant single mom in Chinatown, a blind Latina librettist fighting harassment and eviction, a divorced couple in recovery co-parenting a six-year-old son, a graffiti artist who paints murals for the tech companies gentrifying his neighborhood, and a determined mother on a quest to find her runaway daughter — all of them trying to better their lives within the four walls of rentals as tiny as 80 square feet.Kevin Duncan Wong is Home Is a Hotel's director and one of the films producers. After a stint in visual effects powerhouse ILM, he ventured out into the world of independent filmmaking. In 2005 while at San Francisco State University, he produced, shot and edited “A Moral Debt" a SFSU-funded documentary about the unjust treatment of Filipino veterans of WWII. His Non-Fiction films have played at festivals across the country including Bigy Sky, SFFilm and Cinequest, and been featured on PBS and in The Washington Post. For more information
Janine Sternlieb is a lover of literature, history, and theatre, In her role as a playwright, she combines all three. She created a call-in radio book club in Sonoma County, CA and interviewed such luminaries as Mary Karr, Michael Frayn, Ursula Hegi, and Tom Stoppard. She produced a writing contest of short plays on the subject of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. Her contribution, set on the day Jefferson died, was titled Mistress of Monticello. She wrote The Four Sisters or Time’s Up!: a Chekhovian Guide to Climate Change.When she isn't writing and producing theatrical works, she is raising money for pro-democracy get-out-the-vote efforst. She received a BA in English from Oberlin College and an MA in teaching from Boston University.
Directed by Jeff L. Lieberman, Bella! will open theatrically in New York on Friday, August 18, 2023 at the Village East by Angelika and in Los Angeles on Friday, August 25, 2023 at the Laemmle.
As Kamala Harris and Nancy Pelosi lead the nation, they travel a path blazed by several women before them, notably Bella Abzug. In 1970, when the United States was ruled by men, Bella challenged the status quo, running a successful campaign from the streets of Manhattan that elevated her all the way to the halls of Congress. With her trademark hat and Bronx swagger, Bella entered Congress swinging, battling for credit cards for women, equality for the LGBTQ community and trailblazing a path for leadership that reflected the broad diversity of the country.
But, the most recognizable woman in politics also became the target of a Washington establishment resistant to change. With her eyes set on breaking the boys’ club of The US Senate or becoming New York’s first female mayor, Bella battled mounting forces from both the right and the left, and the powers of the Nixon Administration, the CIA, FBI, even The New York Times.
Using never-before-seen home movies, audio diaries, and a vast trove of newly-discovered news footage, Bella! delves into a colorful and gritty era where one woman sacrificed her own political ambitions for future generations of female leadership.
BELLA! is written, directed and produced by Jeff Lieberman and producer Jamila C. Fairley. Lieberman is the Writer, Director and Producer of the feature documentaries: “Bella!”, “The Amazing Nina Simone” and “Re-Emerging: The Jews of Nigeria”. Lieberman’s most recent feature documentary film, “The Amazing Nina Simone” premiered in 2015 and played in over 100 cinemas in more than 10 countries, remaining in theatres for 4 weeks in several cities.
Dr. Guy McPherson is an internationally recognized speaker, award-winning scientist, and the world’s leading authority on abrupt climate change leading to near-term human extinction. He is professor emeritus at the University of Arizona, where he taught and conducted research for twenty years. His published works include 14 books and hundreds of scholarly articles. Dr. McPherson has been featured on TV and radio and in several documentary films. He is a blogger, cultural critic, and co-host of his own radio show “Nature Bats Last.” Dr. McPherson speaks to general audiences across the globe, and to scientists, students, educators, and not-for-profit and business leaders who seek their best available options when confronting Earth’s cataclysmic changes.
For More: https://guymcpherson.com/
Directed by Ginger Gentile, the documentary Exclusion U will be released on Friday, June 23, 2023, available on various on-demand platforms including iTunes, Amazon, and GooglePlay. Exclusion U will have its World Premiere in New York on Thursday, June 8, 2023 at the Lincoln Center Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center.
Exclusion U looks at the real scandal in higher education: How Ivy League universities hoard billions while refusing to expand enrollments. These tax-exempt institutions are failing their mission to act in the public good. Interviews with low-income students who fight for a place on campus, deans of admissions and shocking financial information force the question: why do we continue to invest so much in institutions that invest so little back in us?
Director Ginger Gentile’s previous documentary films include Erasing Family. Exclusion U Is produced by Veronica Nickel (Moonlight) and includes interviews with Davarian Baldwin (In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower), Tressie McMillan Cottom (Lower Ed), Anthony Jack (The Privileged Poor), Jeff Selingo (Who Gets In and Why) Dan Golden (The Price of Admission) Richard V. Reeves (Brookings Institution), Lauren Rivera (Northwestern University), Deja Foxx (influencer/staffer for Vice President Kamala Harris) and others.
Website: https://exclusionu.com
Instagram: @exclusionufilm
Facebook: @exclusionu
With a specialty in communications and promotion, Jay has been a fixture in the independent theater and film movement since 1977 and was part of Lincoln Center's Tribute to Caffe Cino and the original off-off Broadway movement in 1985. Jay has worked as an actor and director of stage and film, garnering accolades for new plays and musicals and a wildly successful series of Shakespeare plays featuring unique production schemes. Jay began as a member of the production staff for Hard Times, 1984, and Romulus Linney's Holy Ghosts at the Joyce Theater's American Theater series, which won a 1986 Drama Desk Award. He also served on the production staff of events featuring Eliot Feld, Meredith Monk, Pilobolus, and the Nicholas Brothers. He served as a national tour manager for Les Misérables, Cats, Oliver, and Edwin Drood and production associate at PBS for the special series, Increase the Peace. As a stage and film producer, Jay has worked with much of Theatre Row. Jay's career as a promotional executive began on Broadway with Guys & Dolls (1992) continued with Damn Yankees (1994), The Vagina Monologues (2005) and with Beginnings (2017). Jay lectures around the tri-state area in theater, communications, public relations, and media culture. A noted genre film and television historian, Jay hosted programs including Terror Talk, In the PassionPit, Nocturnes, and The Fourth Folio. He can be found producing and hosting conventions including Phoenix FearCon and Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival. Jay is also a published writer, reviewer, and a voice over artist. www.jaymichaelsarts.com
Andrea Miller is an election turn-out strategist working with under-represented voters in Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Mississippi, Arizona, North Carolina and Texas. She is the founding Tri-Chair of the Virginia Poor People's Campaign. She helped launch National Women's Political Caucus of Virginia and is currently Acting President. She has worked as a lobbyist, legislative, political director, and organizer.Andrea is the Executive Director of People Demanding Action, a multi-issue advocacy group. She is both an organizer as well as a digital advocacy expert. As an IT professional she is also responsible for PDAction's digital strategy and customizes advocacy tools for small to medium size organizations through the Progressive Support Project. During the 2017 and 2018 elections she designed and deployed virtual phone banks for outreach to under-represented voters in Virginia, Alabama and Pennsylvania. She is the former Co-Executive Director of Progressive Democrats of America, was the Democratic Nominee in 2008 for House of Representatives in Virginia’s 4th Congressional District, and from 2006 to 2008 was MoveOn.org’s Regional Coordinator for Central, Southwest and Hampton Roads areas of Virginia and West Virginia.
Gary Morgenstein’s novels and plays have been featured in national media from The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Parade Magazine, the New York Post, and Sports Illustrated to NPR. Winner of three 2022 Perry Awards including Best Original Play, Morgenstein’s multi-generational drama A Tomato Can’t Grow in the Bronx about a Bronx Jewish working class family in the tumultuous 1960s will premiere December 2-17 at the Chain Theater in Manhattan. His Broadway World award-winning (for Best Play) A Black and White Cookie, depicting the unlikely friendship between a conservative African American newsstand owner and a politically radical Jew, premiered this summer at New York City’s The Tank theater and was hailed as “fascinating” and “a heartwarming story”. Morgenstein’s latest play is Free Palestine, where two grieving families are caught up in a public clash over academic freedom and political bullying triggered by the firing of a Jewish teacher of Middle Eastern studies. An accomplished novelist, his seven novels include the critically-acclaimed dystopian political trilogy A Mound Over Hell (“1984 Meets Shoeless Joe”), A Fastball for Freedom (“a dystopian Field of Dreams”)andthe upcoming A Dugout to Peace, from bhcpress.com.
For more, please see: https://www.bhcpress.com/Author_Gary_Morgenstein.html
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Styled with wit and poetic diction, this surreal piece is well stocked with the accumulated lore of lifetimes in the theatre and is imbued with the quest for redemption and meaning.
QUOTES, Auditioning for Eternity:
“Death is not the end. Culturally we are somehow taught that, but this play shows us the truth. “ Carrie Wesolowski , Associate Director
“It's astonishing to me how much this play keeps revealing as we work.” Mary Tierney, actress
“Theatre mirrors life. All the world's a stage and we are but players. [We create our own endings. ]” Carla Susan Lewis, actress
"It's up to you . Your fate. Your hands. Make your future if you so desire."
Kevin G. Shinnick, actor
“Stop Look Listen Learn Love” Beth Griffth, Actress
“Acting is like life, and vice versa.” Dan Carter, Playwright, Director
“How can you know the meaning of your life, until you’re connected to the power that created you? From the words of H.H. Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi “ Coni Koepfinger, Playwright
Throughout her award-winning singing career Lori Brown Mirabal has worked with legendary opera and music theatre luminaries in international opera houses and on Broadway. In addition to her stage career she was featured in the PBS television documentary Aida’s Brothers and Sisters; and she had a comical cameo debut in the major motion picture The Secret Lives of Dentists.
Along with her performing career Mirabal has created an opera production company, Opera Soup Productions, LLC that introduces young audiences to opera in engaging and meaningful ways. Her first children’s book, “From Soul Singing to Opera Soup,” launches her career as a published author. Her debut children’s recording, Musetta's Musical Story Time; Original Stories with Melodies From Around The World will be available for international release in March 2019.
For more, please visit: https://www.loribrownmirabal.com/
On Broadway, Raissa appeared as “Christine Daae” in PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, and in CHESS, as a benefit for the Actor’s Fund. Her First National Tours include: “Jellylorum/Griddlebone” and “Jennyanydots” in CATS, as “Mother” in the National Theatre of the Deaf’s, A CHILD’S CHRISTMAS IN WALES, and as “Lizzie Phagan” in PARADE, where she worked with the original creative team of director Harold Prince, choreographer Patricia Birch, author Alfred Uhry, and composer Jason Robert Brown. Off-Broadway, Raissa created the roles of “Mother – Annie McGrath” in WATER FROM THE MOON and “Mother Hawkins” in DEVIL AND THE DEEP, a musical retelling of “Treasure Island” with music by Air Supply’s Graham Russell. Regionally, she created the role of “Grace” in SAVING AIMEE, where she again worked with the creative team: book by Kathie Lee Gifford and music by David Pomeranz and David Friedman.
Recent Regional theatre includes: “Helen” in FUN HOME and “Truvy” in STEEL MAGNOLIAS. She has been seen on TV in LAW & ORDER: SVU, UNSOLVED MYSTERIES. Raissa is a MAC & Bistro Award Winning headliner at Feinstein’s, The Metropolitan Room, Iridium, Beechman, and guest star at Rose Hall at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, 54 Below, Algonquin’s Oak Room, the Rainbow Room. “Can’t Help Singing – The Music of Jerome Kern” CD release show - on the LML Music label, joins her first 2 CD’s “Another Kind of Light”, and “What I Was Dreaming Of” - all available on Amazon, iTunes & LML Music.
Soprano Margaret Genovese, a native of Washington D.C. made her first professional operatic debut as Papagena in the MAGIC FLUTE with the Baltimore Opera Company. She performed at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. as a soloist and toured Sydney, Australia as Christine in an adaptation of PHANTOM OF THE OPERA by Grigal/Anderson. Other credits include Micaela in CARMEN with the Pacific Repertory Opera, Musetta in LA BOHEME, and Donna Elvira in DON GIOVANNI at the Bear Valley Music Festival. She has also performed Violetta in LA TRAVIATA, Mimi in LA BOHEME and Donna Anna in DON GIOVANNI with North Bay Opera, and is a former member of the San Francisco Opera chorus. Ms. Genovese was a finalist in the Metropolitan Opera Pacific Regional Competition and first place winner of the National Symphony Orchestra’s Young Soloist Competition. A graduate from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, she was a two-time recipient of the Liberace Foundation full tuition Scholarship and holds both a Bachelor of Music degree and an Artist Diploma in vocal performance. Recently she performed as a lead with the San Francisco Opera Guild’s Opera ala Carte program that brings opera to Bay Area schools.
For more, please visit:
https://www.margaretgenovese.com/
Avery Sommers appeared on Broadway in Ain’t Misbehavin’, Show Boat, Chicago, and Platinum, and in the national tours of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas with Ann-Margret, and Chicago with Chita Rivera and Joel Grey. Avery was also seen in Regina Taylor's Crowns at City Theatre in Pittsburgh, and Hairspray at Actors' Playhouse. She has been featured in 10 independent films shot in South Florida, and will begin filming a new web series in the spring.
For More, Visit:
https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Avery-Sommers/
https://www.palmbeachdramaworks.org/bio/avery-sommers-276
Eileen Davis is a professional Nurse, Adjunct Professor, Community advocate and care provider in a clinic for the uninsured in Central Virginia, Eileen is one of the co-founders of Women-Matter.org, dedicated to ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment in the ungratified state of Virginia. Her organization’s efforts have succeeded in passing the Equal Rights amendment with bipartisan support in the Virginia Senate for the last 5 sessions, only to be stuck in committee the the Virginia House of Delegates.
Laurence Dresner is an accomplished composer whose many pieces have been performed to audiences throughout the United States and Europe. His music has been performed by the Metropolitan Flute Orchestra, the Monmouth Winds Quintet, the American Chamber Ensemble, The Poetica Ensemble, and the Motyl Chamber Ensemble, to name a few. With a strong interest in all forms of music, Larry has been involved in musical theatre with several off-off Broadway shows, cabaret, and has directed talent productions, jazz bands, and produced chamber concerts. Larry is a board member of several organizations including the Long Island Arts Council at Freeport, and the Long Island Composers Alliance. He is a previous board member of Opera Night, and the Long Island Arts Alliance’s Arts Advocacy Team.
For more, please visit:
http://www.laurencedresner.com/bio2
Avery Sommers appeared on Broadway in Ain’t Misbehavin’, Show Boat, Chicago, and Platinum, and in the national tours of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas with Ann-Margret, and Chicago with Chita Rivera and Joel Grey. Avery was also seen in Regina Taylor's Crowns at City Theatre in Pittsburgh, and Hairspray at Actors' Playhouse. She has been featured in 10 independent films shot in South Florida, and will begin filming a new web series in the spring.
For More, Visit:
https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Avery-Sommers/
https://www.palmbeachdramaworks.org/bio/avery-sommers-276
Dr. Guy McPherson is an internationally recognized speaker, award-winning scientist, and the world’s leading authority on abrupt climate change leading to near-term human extinction. He is professor emeritus at the University of Arizona, where he taught and conducted research for twenty years. His published works include 14 books and hundreds of scholarly articles. Dr. McPherson has been featured on TV and radio and in several documentary films. He is a blogger, cultural critic, and co-host of his own radio show “Nature Bats Last.” Dr. McPherson speaks to general audiences across the globe, and to scientists, students, educators, and not-for-profit and business leaders who seek their best available options when confronting Earth’s cataclysmic changes.
For More:
https://guymcpherson.com/
Boomie Pedersen attended Princeton University, where she eventually majored in English and Theater and won the Frances LeMoyne Paige Prize at graduation for both theater and dance. She spent 10 years on and off in Tokyo, Japan, where she did professional voice-over work, ran Tokyo Theater for Children, was actor, director and board member for Tokyo International Players and wrote several commissioned pieces for Earth Day and other special events. She also taught English at several Tokyo colleges and worked with a group using drama to teach language skills, as well as doing a stint at Temple University as a theater teacher. Next came a brief 18 months in Los Angeles, where she was involved in the Asian Theater Lab and acted in the premiere performance of Widescreen Version of the World by Han Ong, as well as working with the Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival.
When she relocated to Charlottesville in 1995, Boomie became involved at Live Arts both as an actor (Scrooge, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Assassins, Edward the II, Copenhagen, Noises Off, Old Times and most recently August: Osage County) and a director (Three Tall Women, Buried Child, Play About the Baby, The Underpants, Glengarry Glen Ross). She also worked with the Nelson County Drama Foundation and mounted an outdoor production of Earl Hamner’s The Conflict at Mountain Cove Vineyard in 1998 and 1999. She has worked with Offstage Theater, Four County Players, Piedmont Virginia Community College, UVA’s Drama Department, Heritage Rep and Wintergreen Performing Arts. She taught theater at Renaissance School in Charlottesville for four years, served as an adjunct theater teacher at the Governor’s School in Fishersville and was adjunct professor of Acting and Directing at Randolph College in Lynchburg.
Boomie founded the Hamner Theater with Peter Coy in 2005 and has directed and produced several dozen productions there.
Tulis McCall is an actor, writer, producer and performer. Since 2007, she has hosted Monologues and Madness, an evening of original work read by 12-15 actors, each month at the Cornelia Street Café in Greenwich Village. She is the author of two previous one-person shows, What Everywoman Knows – a historical comedy combined with the true and often neglected stories of our foremothers – was produced at the Public Theatre in New York by Michael Moriarty and the Potters Field Theatre Company and at the West Coast Ensemble in Los Angeles by Dan Lauria, Joanna Kerns and Peter Gatien. McCall has toured this show to theatres, colleges and high schools in over 40 states. Her second one-person show, Running With Scissors – stories of contemporary urban lives – was directed by Philip Proctor of the Firesign Theatre and became Critic’s Choice of both the L.A. Weekly and Backstage West. She is the creator and editor of the theatre review site www.thefrontrowcenter.com (formerly www.ushernonsense.com) which now features 20 writers and covers over 300 shows per year.
She thinks the theatre is a temple. Period.
For more, please visit:
https://tulismccall.com/
Avery Sommers appeared on Broadway in Ain’t Misbehavin’, Show Boat, Chicago, and Platinum, and in the national tours of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas with Ann-Margret, and Chicago with Chita Rivera and Joel Grey. Avery was also seen in Regina Taylor's Crowns at City Theatre in Pittsburgh, and Hairspray at Actors' Playhouse. She has been featured in 10 independent films shot in South Florida, and will begin filming a new web series in the spring.
For More, Visit:
https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Avery-Sommers/
https://www.palmbeachdramaworks.org/bio/avery-sommers-276
Chris Andrews grew up in the Berkshires, the cultural corridor of Western Massachusetts where he started multiple businesses with fellow North Adams native Michael Zeppieri, including but not limited to: The Williamstown Realty Group, State Road Car Wash and Self Storage, and the Super Suds Laundromat before hightailing to Provincetown and becoming owner-operators of The Anchor Inn Beach House. Chris says he is “living a dream in the gayest little fishing village,” and that his entrepreneurial drive has allowed him to “dive into” the kind of life he dreamed of as a fourteen-year-old gay boy watching Hollywood on Rosie O’Donnell. Chris and the Anchor Inn have now met numerous artists, producers, and brilliant actors by virtue of becoming a top venue and constantly striving to supply reliable and fun hospitality. Currently, he is exploring the similarities between event-crisis-control and media production, and finding them, well, nearly identical. Chris is excited about making additional creative dreams like The Provincetown Screenwriting Competition and New Media Club (conceived with pal and sometime biz partner Eve Annenberg), come true.
For more, please visit:
https://newmediaclub.org/about-us/
Lana started her acting career in her 30's after receiving her M.A. in Acting from the Arts Educational School London. Her career work includes the recurring roles of Dr. Mary Osder in Fox’s hospital drama The Resident, as Inez Trujillo in Ambitions (OWN), Dr. Lopes in Tell Me a Story (CBS All Access), Mrs. Douglas in The Vampire Diaries (CW), Dr. Jacinta Butler in Greenleaf (OWN) and Gloria Ruiz in The Inspectors (CBS); guest-star roles include Detective Michele Hodiak in Gone (NBC), Linda in Kevin Can Wait (CBS), Debbie in The Act (HULU) opposite Patricia Arquette and most recently Dr. Highland in WandaVision (Disney+) opposite Teyonah Parris and Dr. Jantzen in Lisey’s Story (Apple Tv) opposite Julianne Moore and Clive Owen; co-star roles include Jessica Jones, Blindspot, Satisfaction, Nashville, Law & Order and Dynasty...to name a few. In film, Lana has been honored to work with some of the greats. Christopher Plummer and Ewan McGregor in the Oscar- winning film Beginners, playing Gloria the nanny opposite Jake Gyllenhaal and Rachel McAdams in the boxing drama Southpaw and playing a fertility doctor opposite Emily Blunt and Justin Theroux in the feature film The Girl on the Train. She has most recently been cast as a lead inTyler Perry's passion project, A Jazzman's Blues. She currently lives in New York City with her cats Monkey and Lennon, who do tricks. You can see a list of all her credits on www.imdb.me/lana
For more, also visit:
https://www.actorlanayoung.com/
A lifelong lover of arts and culture, Nadine Matthews has worked in television at A&E Television Networks and written about film, television, and art at the intersection of diversity and inclusion for over ten years.
Nadine has written numerous art reviews and profiles for many historically Black publications, including NY Amsterdam News, The Baltimore Afro American, the Los Angeles Sentinel, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, The Network Journal, Baltimore Times, and groundbreaking native digital publications, such as Shadow and Act, Style Caster, and Coveteur.
Nadine has a Master of Science in Communications from Quinnipiac University and is a Certified Field Producer in New York City. In her downtime, she volunteers with organizations dedicated to educational and cultural excellence, such as Girls Write Now and the East Harlem Tutorial Program.
For more, please visit:
https://newmediaclub.org/about-us/
Raynor Scheine is an American actor who has appeared in films for three decades dating back to 1979, including My Cousin Vinny and Fried Green Tomatoes. His name is a play on the phrase "rain or shine". Raised in Emporia, VA, he received a degree at Virginia Commonwealth University. For more, please visit here.
The Daniel L. Garner Pattern Method is a piano technique that will help you approach the music landscape with fresh confidence. Everyone has the capability to make their own music — and enjoy making it. Whether you’ve never touched a piano or are an experienced musician, the Pattern Method can liberate you to love playing music in ways you never thought possible. No music theory required.
For beginners, this tool will: Erase the fear of failure: it will be like bowling-alley bumpers are up on the piano.Help you see patterns on a keyboard instead of chaos.Provide you with bearings to know where to start.Liberate you to play freely. For those with experience, the Pattern Method will: Teach you how to improvise.Enable you to modulate and/or transition between keys instantly.Inspire you with new music possibilities. For more, visit:
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The mission of the Heifetz International Music Institute is to develop the expressive potential of every performer. Through the innovative and cross-disciplinary Heifetz Performance & Communication Training, the Institute teaches musicians to communicate the emotion of music, beyond mere technical agility and beautiful playing, to explore their creative potential, and to redefine the concert experience.
Founded in 1996, The Heifetz International Music Institute is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the artistic growth and career development of some of the most talented and promising young musicians in the world.
As a six-week summer program, the Institute is founded upon the revolutionary educational concept that young musicians can be taught to communicate the emotion of music, beyond mere technical agility and beautiful playing.
In addition to the intensity of two private lessons, chamber music coachings, and five hours per day of practice time, the students take a series of one hour classes each afternoon (one per day) in public speaking, voice, drama, movement, Health & Wellness, and freedom of expression. This innovative, comprehensive, and cross-disciplinary curriculum can enhance anyone’s ability to become a more expressive, effective communicator.
For More, Please Visit:
http://www.heifetzinstitute.org/
Andrea Miller is the Chair of the People’s Budget Campaign and Executive Director of People Demanding Action, a multi-issue advocacy group. She is both an organizer and digital advocacy expert. Andrea has appeared on the Thom Hartmann show, hosts the Progressive Round Table and is an IT professional.
Andrea Miller is also responsible for PD Action's digital strategy and customizes advocacy tools for small to medium size organizations through the Progressive Support Project.
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Maria Olon, the originator of Perceptual Acting and Directing, introduces the use of quantum physics, new trends of psychology, self-awareness, neurolinguistics programming, meditation, empathy, Ethos value system, and acting as tools for a substantial difference and evolution in human consciousness. During her years as an actor, director, and acting teacher, she developed her philosophical and practical approach to a new interpretation of what it means to be an actor in life and on stage. She wrote her first book at the age of thirteen and is acclaimed to be the youngest Greek author ever. She is a founding member of the Actor’s Society of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, a member of the Hellenic Physicist Association and of the Advisory Futurist and Media and Arts Board of Lifeboat foundation. She participated in TEDXAUEB, presenting her work through the performance “Knowing Thyself: The Eternal Process.” She works on helping the vulnerable groups of women and children at war. Her research and study on the supraconscious human started seventeen years ago and is in progress. For more: https://mariaolon.com/
[Supraconscious] is the first acting metatheatre text. Olon not only goes beyond art to find the source of art, she ultimately shines light on the essence of the human soul.
—Coni Ciongoli Koepfinger, playwright, director
[Supraconscious] is a very important book. Cultivation of witnessing awareness in method acting can awaken us to the fundamental reality of existence beyond the roles we play.
—Deepak Chopra, MD
Humanity’s greatest story ever told is the “Story of Immortality.” This story explains that every human being is an actor in the collective drama of life [...] This book is a life’s manual [...]'
—Gayatri Naraine, Brahma Kumaris Representative to UN
the bomb, created by Smriti Keshari and Eric Schlosser, is a groundbreaking experience that immerses you in the strange, compelling, and unsettling reality of nuclear weapons.
“Half the population of the U.S. were not yet born or were children when the Cold War ended, so there is a profound lack of knowledge about nuclear weapons,” said Schlosser. “There are more than 15,000 of these weapons in the world right now, buried underground and out of sight. The danger never went away; the awareness of it did. We hope the bomb will introduce a new generation to the threat posed by nuclear weapons – a threat as urgent and existential as the one posed by climate change, but which gets little if any attention.”
Since its inception, the bomb has been a one-of-a-kind film, music and art experience. Performed to great acclaim at the Tribeca Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival and the Glastonbury Music Festival, among other venues, the multimedia installation the bomb, has been re-imagined as a museum installation.
Opening this Friday, March 19th, and running until May 23rd, the installation can be experienced in person at Pioneer Works in New York. Since its inception, the bomb has been a one-of-a-kind film, music and art experience. Performed to great acclaim at the Tribeca Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival and the Glastonbury Music Festival, among other venues, the multimedia installation the bomb, has been re-imagined as a museum installation.
Opening this Friday, March 19th, and running until May 23rd, the installation can be experienced in person at Pioneer Works in New York.
Andrea Miller is the Chair of the People’s Budget Campaign and Executive Director of People Demanding Action, a multi-issue advocacy group. She is both an organizer and digital advocacy expert. Andrea has appeared on the Thom Hartmann show, hosts the Progressive Round Table and is an IT professional.
Andrea Miller is also responsible for PD Action's digital strategy and customizes advocacy tools for small to medium size organizations through the Progressive Support Project.
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Avery Sommers appeared on Broadway in Ain’t Misbehavin’, Show Boat, Chicago, and Platinum, and in the national tours of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas with Ann-Margret, and Chicago with Chita Rivera and Joel Grey. Avery was also seen in Regina Taylor's Crowns at City Theatre in Pittsburgh, and Hairspray at Actors' Playhouse. She has been featured in 10 independent films shot in South Florida, and will begin filming a new web series in the spring.
Dr. Guy McPherson is an internationally recognized speaker, award-winning scientist, and the world’s leading authority on abrupt climate change leading to near-term human extinction. He is professor emeritus at the University of Arizona, where he taught and conducted research for twenty years. His published works include 14 books and hundreds of scholarly articles. Dr. McPherson has been featured on TV and radio and in several documentary films. He is a blogger, cultural critic, and co-host of his own radio show “Nature Bats Last.” Dr. McPherson speaks to general audiences across the globe, and to scientists, students, educators, and not-for-profit and business leaders who seek their best available options when confronting Earth’s cataclysmic changes.
For More:
https://guymcpherson.com/
Avery Sommers appeared on Broadway in Ain’t Misbehavin’, Show Boat, Chicago, and Platinum, and in the national tours of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas with Ann-Margret, and Chicago with Chita Rivera and Joel Grey. Avery was also seen in Regina Taylor's Crowns at City Theatre in Pittsburgh, and Hairspray at Actors' Playhouse. She has been featured in 10 independent films shot in South Florida, and will begin filming a new web series in the spring.
A nationally acclaimed speaker, Susan Bro is the mother of Heather Heyer who was killed on August 12, 2017 in Charlottesville. Susan works as an advocate and ally in anti-racism work through the Heather Heyer Foundation and on-going hate crime legislation work.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland and raised in southern California, Kimberley A. Johnson is the host of the Start Me Up podcast, an author, an activist for women’s rights and has written for HuffPost. She is the the Director of Media and Public Relations Spokesperson for the national advocacy group We Are Woman. Her first foray into fiction is a Young Adult novel inspired by one of her favorite authors, Judy Blume, and is titled Peyton’s Choice.
Her entry into the women’s rights movement began when she was asked to be the spokesperson for RTSV United during the 2012 election season and in the summer of 2012, she gave a speech at the We Are Woman rally on the west lawn of the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. She is also a political blogger and is well known for her outspoken stance on the need to enshrine women’s rights into the U.S. Constitution. She encourages all Americans to participate in the political process.
While in her 20s she studied the Meisner Technique at Dvorak & Company acting studio and worked in several commercials and television programs. Her most prominent role, a police officer on the popular daytime drama Days Of Our Lives, continued for over seven years.
She now resides in Washington DC, where she spends her days writing, podcasting and working to further women’s rights.
For more, please visit:
https://linktr.ee/KimberleyJohnson
Coni Koepfinger’s work has been seen and heard all over the world. Despite our current restraints, her play MY DINNER WITH MARY was produced November 2020 by THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY (TNC), a Pulitzer Prize-winning community cultural center that is known for its high artistic standards. Streaming live from the legendary Players Club in Manhattan, this delightful new play starring celebrity stage veterans Mary Ellen, Ashley and Mary Tierney was enjoyed by over 1400 viewers. In addition, her SIMON SAYS was a finalist in Playbill’s inaugural Virtual Theatre Festival in October 2020.
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Joe Izen, renowned Singer/Guitarist and Songwriter, brings a wealth of musical history from his earliest days opening for Richie Havens and Joe Cocker, to playing with the great Bluesman Willie Dixon. He has recorded for A.V.I. and Barclay International Records as well as having his original songs published by Warner Bros. He brings the best of the Blues, Soul and we'll known songs to his performances from the Greats he has met and worked with along the way.
Joe is the Composer, Lyricist and Co-author of the Play "Eve of Beltane", "Schoolhouse" and "Kingdom Come," with Coni Koepfinger. "Eve of Beltane" was selected for the Broadway Bound festival along with several successful readings in NYC.
Avery Sommers appeared on Broadway in Ain’t Misbehavin’, Show Boat, Chicago, and Platinum, and in the national tours of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas with Ann-Margret, and Chicago with Chita Rivera and Joel Grey. Avery was also seen in Regina Taylor's Crowns at City Theatre in Pittsburgh, and Hairspray at Actors' Playhouse. She has been featured in 10 independent films shot in South Florida, and will begin filming a new web series in the spring.
As promised, Rollando and Dresner Productions is creating a #NewMusical #Dramedy about our triumph over a year that contested our very survival. It’s about our taking chances together, on each other without fear of contests, competition and cooperation.
It's about Funny Songs, Witty Lyrics, a timely dramatic Book written by me - Join us Mon 1-11-21 at 5pm - BUT if you can't wait, get a sneak teaser on Youtube with Marcello Rollando: https://tinyurl.com/y5qzxx5r
Avery Sommers appeared on Broadway in Ain’t Misbehavin’, Show Boat, Chicago, and Platinum, and in the national tours of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas with Ann-Margret, and Chicago with Chita Rivera and Joel Grey. Avery was also seen in Regina Taylor's Crowns at City Theatre in Pittsburgh, and Hairspray at Actors' Playhouse. She has been featured in 10 independent films shot in South Florida, and will begin filming a new web series in the spring.
And now with special wishes for your happiness and great joy, we present, When Time Was of No Consequence, written and performed by Marcello Rollando.
www.thereasonablevoice.com
Andrea Miller is the Chair of the People’s Budget Campaign and Executive Director of People Demanding Action, a multi-issue advocacy group. She is both an organizer and digital advocacy expert. Andrea has appeared on the Thom Hartmann show, hosts the Progressive Round Table and is an IT professional.
Andrea Miller is also responsible for PD Action's digital strategy and customizes advocacy tools for small to medium size organizations through the Progressive Support Project.
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Ways to Lose a Voter
1. Felony Disenfranchisement
2. Voter Intimidation at the polls
3. Ballot Harvesting
4. Interstate Crosscheck
5. De-registration for not voting
6. Closed Polling Locations
7. Photo ID/Real ID Requirements
8. Too few/broken voting machines on election day
9. Last minute poll closures/relocations
10. Exact signature match
11. No Same Day Registration
12. Voter Disinformation
13. Registration renewal requirements (TX)
14. Lack of weekend voting
15. Restrictive voter registration laws...
Linda partnered with Ms. Campbell on The Gospel According to Mark Twain, which played at the Manhattan Theatre Club before travelling to the Edinburgh Festival. This production marked the founding of Writers Theatre in New York where Ms. Laundra served as the Artistic Director for 10 years.
David Laundra is an actor, known for 30 Rock (2006), Oz (1997) and Homicide: Life on the Street (1993).
For More, Please Visit:
David:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1865743/
https://www.facebook.com/laundra
https://voice123.com/dlaundra
http://www.tv.com/people/david-laundra/
Linda:
https://www.writerstheatre.org/linda-laundra-biography
https://www.linkedin.com/in/linda-laundra-97844032
Patricia H. LaMarche is an educator, journalist, and broadcaster who has successfully managed business and charitable organizations and is well known for her innovative approach to public service.
Born in Providence, Rhode Island, educated at Boston College and the University of Amsterdam, Pat now lives in central Pennsylvania. Pat spent decades as a broadcaster turned homeless advocate. After years of reporting on poverty around the globe and here at home, Pat went to work with the nation’s most forgotten and least understood. Pat worked towards broad-spectrum social change, culminating in a 2004 run for Vice President of the United States. Pat is now self employed, writing books, donating her time to The Charles Bruce Foundation (which she and her husband started) to support Writers, Artists and Musicians (WAM!), and playing with her grandchildren.
Avery Sommers appeared on Broadway in Ain’t Misbehavin’, Show Boat, Chicago, and Platinum, and in the national tours of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas with Ann-Margret, and Chicago with Chita Rivera and Joel Grey. Avery was also seen in Regina Taylor's Crowns at City Theatre in Pittsburgh, and Hairspray at Actors' Playhouse. She has been featured in 10 independent films shot in South Florida, and will begin filming a new web series in the spring.
For More, Visit:
https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Avery-Sommers/
https://www.palmbeachdramaworks.org/bio/avery-sommers-276
Laurence Dresner is an accomplished composer whose many pieces have been performed to audiences throughout the United States and Europe. With a strong interest in all forms of music, Larry has been involved in musical theatre with several off-off Broadway shows, cabaret, directed talent productions, jazz bands, and produced chamber concerts, as well as teaching in the Dioceses of Rockville Centre Parochial School system. Larry is a board member of several organizations including the Long Island Arts Council at Freeport, and the Long Island Composers Alliance. He is a previous board member of Opera Night, and the Long Island Arts Alliance’s Arts Advocacy Team.
For More:
http://www.laurencedresner.com/
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Realizing there would be an unfortunate mood swing in the country following the Clinton administration, on the eve of a new century Marcello Rollando ( founder ) accepted the advice and encouragement of many of his NYC Television and Theatre associates and began the journey from NYC to DC seeking out some of the most promising political commentators and activists – all true patriots: Americans who understand that to love America and keep it great means loving ALL Americans and being citizens of the world. Our Mission continues to expand through developing rings of accepted responsibility.
For More:
https://www.thereasonablevoice.com/
No matter how you pronounce ”Dauzat St. Marie” [though dō’-zaht sānt muh-ree’ would be accurate], the name has certainly been circulating far and wide these past several years through heavyweight touring with heavyweight artists. These two hardcore troubadours have been busy touring all over the U.S. as main support for Grammy® Award winning heartthrob Rick Springfield’s “Stripped Down” solo acoustic show series for the past four years and have peppered in dates with The Marshall Tucker Band, Lindsay Ell, Schuyler Fisk / Sissy Spacek, and Rick Derringer in between. Most recently, the power duo toured the U.S. as main support for legendary music icons Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo, and Dauzat St. Marie is showing no signs of slowing down.
For More, Please Visit:
https://dsm.band/
Rosanna Tufts might best be described as a Polymath: Bitten by the History Bug when she was in 6th Grade, she has absorbed History on all kinds of subjects, including alternative and natural health, religion, politics, and the Lively Arts. She is a Past President of a local Toastmasters club, hosted a radio show called “The Tufts Get Going” for 5 years, is a musical composer and mezzo-soprano with a Master’s in Music from Peabody Conservatory — including being the composer of a rock opera called “The Passion of Persephone” which was directed at the Capital Fringe Festival by Yours Truly! She has a habit of bursting into song at the drop of a straight-line, and loves to sew in her spare time. Please welcome Rosanna Tufts!
For More:
https://veriforia.com/view/Rosanna-Tufts-FVFICgFD
In her lifetime on the stage, Jane VanBoskirk has performed searing dramas and musical comedies, queens and strumpets, even a marmot. She is best-known to Pacific Northwest audiences for her touring one-woman shows, rooted in history and exploring a range of fascinating personalities. She has introduced audiences to firebrand organizer Mother Jones, missionary Mother Cabrini, pioneering woman doctor Bethenia Owens Adair, suffragist Abigail Scott Duniway, and Florence Reece, a miner's wife who penned "Which Side Are You On?"
She has appeared before audiences from schools and churches to festivals and main-stage productions in such shows as Northwest Women, Armed in the Spirit, Through the Eyes of a Child, Prodigal Daughters, Hillbilly Women, and The Youngest Pioneer. Her historical recreations have been a staple of Young Audiences tours, and
have been sponsored by many other Northwest arts and humanities organizations. She performed "Eleanor Roosevelt - Across a Barrier of Fear" at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.
Jane also has a wide range of dramatic roles to her credit, having played lead roles in The Diary of Anne Frank, Tom and Viv, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Cabaret, and many more. She was a founder of Oregon Repertory Theatre in Eugene, which was her home until relocating to Portland in the early 1990's.
Laurence Dresner is an accomplished composer whose many pieces have been performed to audiences throughout the United States and Europe. With a strong interest in all forms of music, Larry has been involved in musical theatre with several off-off Broadway shows, cabaret, directed talent productions, jazz bands, and produced chamber concerts, as well as teaching in the Dioceses of Rockville Centre Parochial School system. Larry is a board member of several organizations including the Long Island Arts Council at Freeport, and the Long Island Composers Alliance. He is a previous board member of Opera Night, and the Long Island Arts Alliance’s Arts Advocacy Team.
For More, Please Visit:
http://www.laurencedresner.com/
Starting the day after the 2016 election, Smriti Keshari collected one headline per day from The New York Times that related to Trump’s presidency. At first, the headlines were like bullet points that helped her recall what happened the day before. This routine became a ritual, and soon, a multimedia art - a two-hour film and music art installation comprising 1,460 headlines, titled Disintegration.
Concentric art circles draw Keshari and music producer Marius de Vries to Matthew Herbert, who has spent the last 25 years questioning all aspects of the sound world. Together they imagined combining the headlines and music to become Disintegration. Herbert’s original composition for Disintegration is based on a distorted, slowed-down version of The Star-Spangled Banner.
Disintegration brings news headlines, originally consumed on small screens, to massive ones that overpower our consciousness — not unlike the very headlines they display. Its impact is three-fold: it reminds us of the narratives we have read; it offers insight into the parasitic grasp that media have on our collective attention; and, it haunts our psyche with forgotten headlines that once made front-page news.
Disintegration is a one-of-a-kind of art piece that will live on in many different incarnations, with this one - its first - as a mobile art installation called “HEADLINES ARE FRONTLINES” to share with the public in the critical days before the 2020 US election.
DIS|INTEGRATION premieres at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) from Oct 31 until Nov 4.
BAM will present the film for 24 hours a day on SIGNY, their outdoor screen. The beautiful, haunting score by Matthew Herbert will be accessible via the BAM website so BYOH, bring your own headphones.
Pat LaMarche is an educator, journalist, and broadcaster who has successfully managed business and charitable organizations and is well known for her innovative approach to public service. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, educated at Boston College and the University of Amsterdam, Pat now lives in central Pennsylvania. Pat spent decades as a broadcaster turned homeless advocate. After years of reporting on poverty around the globe and here at home, Pat went to work with the nation’s most forgotten and least understood. Pat worked towards broad-spectrum social change, culminating in a 2004 run for Vice President of the United States. Pat is now self employed, writing books, donating her time to The Charles Bruce Foundation (which she and her husband started) to support Writers, Artists and Musicians (WAM!), and playing with her grandchildren.
For More, Please Visit:
http://patlamarche.com/
Sue Kramer is a multi-hyphen talent. Filmmaker & creative director/founder of Connecting Dots Guru, a bespoke branding agency. Sue a proud Latina activist consistently fighting for diversity and inclusion. Kramer graduated UCLA Film school, winning the coveted “Best Direction/Jim Morrison Award.” As an accomplished Filmmaker & Screenwriter and film festival circuit darling, Sue has written & directed extensively for film and TV under her production banner, Bella Films. Sue has worked with a plethora of A-list talent. She is known as an “artists’ artist” who speaks all the languages of art fluently. Sue’s film “Gray Matters” written, directed and produced by Kramer is now on Amazon Prime.
~Be Dope Vote: A campaign to encourage & ignite voting in our Democracy.
Directed & conceived by Sue Kramer and hosted by LinkedIn host of “You are Dope” Micol Rankin, Be Dope Vote has assembled Allison Janney (“Mom”), A$AP Ferg (Floor Seats II), Billy Porter (“Pose”), Tom Cavanaugh (“Flash”), Richard Schiff (“West Wing”), Cara Buono (“Stranger Things”), Bridget Moynahan (“Blue Bloods”), Jenna Ushkovitz (“Glee”), Ryan Destiny (“Star”), Brittany O’Grady (“Little Voice”), Romy Rosemont (“Glee”), Miss J. (“Americas Next Top Model”), Leon (“The Temptations”) and many more as part of the Be Dope Vote campaign which kicks off on Friday, October 9, 2020 at 11:00am EST to encourage voting on all social platforms.
Instagram: @bedopevote ... Twitter: @bedopevote ... YouTube: https://bit.ly/3iHdq01
Avery Sommers appeared on Broadway in Ain’t Misbehavin’, Show Boat, Chicago, and Platinum, and in the national tours of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas with Ann-Margret, and Chicago with Chita Rivera and Joel Grey. Avery was also seen in Regina Taylor's Crowns at City Theatre in Pittsburgh, and Hairspray at Actors' Playhouse. She has been featured in 10 independent films shot in South Florida, and will begin filming a new web series in the spring.
For More, Visit:
https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Avery-Sommers/
https://www.palmbeachdramaworks.org/bio/avery-sommers-276
Susan Bro is the mother of Heather Heyer, a central figure in the counter-protest against the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville Virginia, August 12th, 2017. Heather was tragically killed when a car plowed into a crowd of counter-protestors. Death has only magnified Heather, and thanks to her sacrifice, millions have been inspired to stand up for justice and against hatred. Susan Bro is the mother of Heather Heyer, a central figure in the counter-protest against the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville Virginia, August 12th, 2017. Heather was tragically killed when a car plowed into a crowd of counter-protestors. Death has only magnified Heather, and thanks to her sacrifice, millions have been inspired to stand up for justice and against hatred.
Avery Sommers appeared on Broadway in Ain’t Misbehavin’, Show Boat, Chicago, and Platinum, and in the national tours of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas with Ann-Margret, and Chicago with Chita Rivera and Joel Grey. Avery was also seen in Regina Taylor's Crowns at City Theatre in Pittsburgh, and Hairspray at Actors' Playhouse. She has been featured in 10 independent films shot in South Florida, and will begin filming a new web series in the spring.
For More, Visit:
https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Avery-Sommers/
https://www.palmbeachdramaworks.org/bio/avery-sommers-276
Dr. Guy McPherson is an internationally recognized speaker, award-winning scientist, and the world’s leading authority on abrupt climate change leading to near-term human extinction. He is professor emeritus at the University of Arizona, where he taught and conducted research for twenty years. His published works include 14 books and hundreds of scholarly articles. Dr. McPherson has been featured on TV and radio and in several documentary films. He is a blogger, cultural critic, and co-host of his own radio show “Nature Bats Last.” Dr. McPherson speaks to general audiences across the globe, and to scientists, students, educators, and not-for-profit and business leaders who seek their best available options when confronting Earth’s cataclysmic changes.
For More:
https://guymcpherson.com/
Andrea Miller is the Chair of the People’s Budget Campaign and Executive Director of People Demanding Action, a multi-issue advocacy group. She is both an organizer and digital advocacy expert. Andrea has appeared on the Thom Hartmann show, hosts the Progressive Round Table and is an IT professional.
Andrea Miller is also responsible for PD Action's digital strategy and customizes advocacy tools for small to medium size organizations through the Progressive Support Project.
For More, Please Visit:
Tinyurl.com/vappc
Ways to Lose a Voter
1. Felony Disenfranchisement
2. Voter Intimidation at the polls
3. Ballot Harvesting
4. Interstate Crosscheck
5. De-registration for not voting
6. Closed Polling Locations
7. Photo ID/Real ID Requirements
8. Too few/broken voting machines on election day
9. Last minute poll closures/relocations
10. Exact signature match
11. No Same Day Registration
12. Voter Disinformation
13. Registration renewal requirements (TX)
14. Lack of weekend voting
15. Restrictive voter registration laws...
The mission of the Heifetz International Music Institute is to develop the expressive potential of every performer. Through the innovative and cross-disciplinary Heifetz Performance & Communication Training, the Institute teaches musicians to communicate the emotion of music, beyond mere technical agility and beautiful playing, to explore their creative potential, and to redefine the concert experience.
Founded in 1996, The Heifetz International Music Institute is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the artistic growth and career development of some of the most talented and promising young musicians in the world.
As a six-week summer program, the Institute is founded upon the revolutionary educational concept that young musicians can be taught to communicate the emotion of music, beyond mere technical agility and beautiful playing.
In addition to the intensity of two private lessons, chamber music coachings, and five hours per day of practice time, the students take a series of one hour classes each afternoon (one per day) in public speaking, voice, drama, movement, Health & Wellness, and freedom of expression. This innovative, comprehensive, and cross-disciplinary curriculum can enhance anyone’s ability to become a more expressive, effective communicator.
For More, Please Visit:
http://www.heifetzinstitute.org/
https://www.heifetzinstitute.org/virtual2020/?fbclid=IwAR3Fbv_AjIozvEOlfsWj0qT_ax0gyT_wID8O7Oeg5xpBYa5_r0ErpTRqcWc
Andrea Miller is the Chair of the People’s Budget Campaign and Executive Director of People Demanding Action, a multi-issue advocacy group. She is both an organizer and digital advocacy expert. Andrea has appeared on the Thom Hartmann show, hosts the Progressive Round Table and is an IT professional.
Andrea Miller is also responsible for PD Action's digital strategy and customizes advocacy tools for small to medium size organizations through the Progressive Support Project.
For More, Please Visit:
www.peopledemandingaction.org
Ways to Lose a Voter
1. Felony Disenfranchisement
2. Voter Intimidation at the polls
3. Ballot Harvesting
4. Interstate Crosscheck
5. De-registration for not voting
6. Closed Polling Locations
7. Photo ID/Real ID Requirements
8. Too few/broken voting machines on election day
9. Last minute poll closures/relocations
10. Exact signature match
11. No Same Day Registration
12. Voter Disinformation
13. Registration renewal requirements (TX)
14. Lack of weekend voting
15. Restrictive voter registration laws...
Avery Sommers appeared on Broadway in Ain’t Misbehavin’, Show Boat, Chicago, and Platinum, and in the national tours of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas with Ann-Margret, and Chicago with Chita Rivera and Joel Grey. Avery was also seen in Regina Taylor's Crowns at City Theatre in Pittsburgh, and Hairspray at Actors' Playhouse. She has been featured in 10 independent films shot in South Florida, and will begin filming a new web series in the spring.
For More, Visit:
https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Avery-Sommers/
https://www.palmbeachdramaworks.org/bio/avery-sommers-276
The Power Of Hope tells the inspirational story of a young woman with big dreams.
When her mother falls ill, an aspiring architect grapples with feelings of helplessness, but moved by the words of Michelle Obama, she finds the will to persevere and bring her dreams to life.
Kalia Love Jones is an ambitious 13-year-old animated filmmaker with a goal of empowering others. No stranger to hard work and commitment, Kalia divides her time between, school, filmmaking, piano lessons, district Honor band first chair flute and gymnastics. Kalia is a 8 year gymnast who trained with former US Olympian Chris Whaler at his gym in Los Angeles county. She is devoted to her passion as a filmmaker and confident that she can make a positive difference in the world and inspire more young women to pursue their filmmaking dreams.
Kalia is not afraid to take risks with her films to deliver powerful messages that prove anyone can push through obstacles in life and reach their goals. This may be the beginning of Kalia’s career, but she is certainly already showing girls of all color and ages that they can achieve greatness by carrying hope and believing in themselves. #BlackGirlMagic
The Power of Hope will be in Shorts By The Sea film festival in September. Kalia is also one of 50 kids being considered for the first-ever TIME Kid of the Year.
For More:
https://www.instagram.com/thepowerofhopemovie/?igshid=1scq5dtzw5kar
https://mobile.twitter.com/ThePowerOfHope2
https://www.facebook.com/The-Power-Of-Hope-Film-100211984998437/
Linda partnered with Ms. Campbell on The Gospel According to Mark Twain, which played at the Manhattan Theatre Club before travelling to the Edinburgh Festival. This production marked the founding of Writers Theatre in New York where Ms. Laundra served as the Artistic Director for 10 years.
David Laundra is an actor, known for 30 Rock (2006), Oz (1997) and Homicide: Life on the Street (1993).
For More, Please Visit:
David:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1865743/
https://www.facebook.com/laundra
Linda:
https://www.writerstheatre.org/linda-laundra-biography
https://www.linkedin.com/in/linda-laundra-97844032
Jenny Burton has had a long and varied career as a superb vocalist working successfully in Dance Music, R&B, Gospel and Inspirational Music.
Her latest release is The Best Of Jenny Burton, a tribute to a great career of recording and performance. Produced and primarily composed by Peter Link, The Best Of Jenny Burton is simply just that – the best of the recordings from 3 decades of music making. It represents the work of not only the radiant Jenny Burton, but also the inspired work of countless other musicians, engineers, arrangers and supporters.
Her Inspirational CD, I Think On These Things continues to be a best seller for her produced by Peter Link and with Inspirational record label, Watchfire Music.
Moving more into an Inspirational direction, she created with producer/composer Peter Link, The Jenny Burton Experience, an award winning Inspirational group ran for seven years to sold out standing room only audiences at New York City’s “Don’t Tell Mama”.
For more, please visit:
http://jennyburtonmusic.com/about/
Avery Sommers appeared on Broadway in Ain’t Misbehavin’, Show Boat, Chicago, and Platinum, and in the national tours of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas with Ann-Margret, and Chicago with Chita Rivera and Joel Grey. Avery was also seen in Regina Taylor's Crowns at City Theatre in Pittsburgh, and Hairspray at Actors' Playhouse. She has been featured in 10 independent films shot in South Florida, and will begin filming a new web series in the spring.
While at the University of Virginia, Daniel L. Garner spent several years working collaboratively with other artists at Eunoia, a creative community he helped develop in Charlottesville, Virginia. Daniel now lives on a farm, helps run a wedding venue named Mead Lake Lodge, operates Frozen Glory Photography, and teaches piano using visuals from his DLG Pattern Method.
A finalist for the 2020 UNO Press Lab Prize, Daniel writes pieces interested in irony, misinterpretation, the subtle distinction between delusions and visions, and trade-offs between competing goods. His creative works appear in The Write Launch, Allegory Ridge, Streetlight Magazine, Ponder Review, the Iowa Review website, The William and Mary Review, and upcoming publications of Pidgeonholes and Assure Press.
For more, please visit:
https://www.og-rose.com/
https://medium.com/@o.g.rose.writing
www.dlgpm.com
Our Mission
Our mission is to ensure that individuals and families have the freedom, information, and ability to make their own informed reproductive choices. We believe that each individual has a basic right to control their reproductive life. Individual control will lead to a better quality of life and stronger families and communities. Reproductive health decisions must be voluntary and private.
Our Vision of the Future
At the Virginia League for Planned Parenthood, we envision a future where there is universal understanding and support for the right of each person to responsibly manage their sexual and reproductive health. Every person's freedom, equality and health will be enhanced by access to a full range of family planning options. When the right to family planning is accepted as fundamental and mainstream, there is the potential for each person to fulfill their own dreams.
We envision a future where laws will guarantee these rights and ensure access to quality health care, education and advocacy services. These services will be readily available in safe settings that preserve and protect the privacy and rights of each individual regardless of income, age, marital status, race, ethnicity or sexual orientation.
VLPP will work collaboratively with a broad coalition of schools, organizations, parents, elected officials, and policy makers to encourage and promote strong families and communities. We will work with our partners to create a future where laws and funding will be based on the health needs of individuals and the desire to achieve positive health outcomes. In this climate, policy makers will embrace prevention initiatives, and there will be broad support for family planning, sexuality education, and freedom of choice.
John Roberts Brakey is an elections investigator, election integrity advocate and former business owner. He is a co-founder of AUDIT AZ (Americans United for Democracy, Integrity and Transparency in Elections), which is expanding to become AUDIT-USA.
Under John’s leadership, AUDIT-AZ spearheaded a successful Arizona election challenge. The plaintiffs succeeded in gaining access to “proprietary” election materials which helped them prove that a local bond election had been rigged by individuals with official access to election machinery.
John and AUDIT-AZ have played a major role in making Arizona elections more secure through advocacy and litigation.
Brakey filed a legal challenge to the 2016 Arizona Presidential Primary election for targeted disenfranchisement of parts of the population heavily supportive of candidate Bernie Sanders.
Brakey has recently developed a new method of election verification, which Bev Harris of BlackBoxVoting.org has dubbed “The Brakey Method”: mobilizing the public to use digital ballot images created by digital scan voting machines to verify or challenge official vote counts.
Election transparency and public oversight are the goals that drive John to travel all over the country speaking and educating people about the dangers in our current election system and what members of the community can do about it.
A dedicated gadfly, John is determined to make sure no election insider or outside hacker can manipulate an election with impunity (exemption from punishment). Making it more difficult to rig or hack an election without getting caught and punished will serve as a deterrent to future election crimes.
Monica Hutchinson is an Experienced Political Organizer with a demonstrated history of working in the political organization industry. Skilled in Grassroots Organizing, Phone Banking, Coalitions, Community Organizing, and Canvassing. Skilled in Organizing the Black community and other marginalized groups with a goal of increasing political power within. Strong community and social services professional with a Associate of Science - AS focused in Pre-Medicine/Pre-Medical Studies from Virginia Western Community College.
Eileen Davis is a professional Nurse, Adjunct Professor, Community advocate, and care provider in a clinic for the uninsured in Central Virginia. She is also a member of the Virginia State Health Committee for the NAACP.
Dr. Pamela Hamilton-Stubbs, MD is an Internal Medicine Specialist in Richmond, VA. She is affiliated with medical facilities such as Parham Doctors' Hospital and Henrico Doctors' Hospital. She specializes in Neurologist and Sleep Medicine.
Eileen Davis is a professional Nurse, Adjunct Professor, Community advocate and care provider in a clinic for the uninsured in Central Virginia, Eileen is one of the co-founders of Women-Matter.org, dedicated to ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment in the ungratified state of Virginia. Her organization’s efforts have succeeded in passing the Equal Rights amendment with bipartisan support in the Virginia Senate for the last 5 sessions, only to be stuck in committee the the Virginia House of Delegates.
Andrea Miller, Chair of the People’s Budget Campaign and Executive Director of People Demanding Action, a multi-issue advocacy group. She is both an organizer and digital advocacy expert. Andrea has appeared on the Thom Hartmann show, hosts the Progressive Round Table and is an IT professional!
For More, Please Visit:
www.peopledemandingaction.org
How to Lose a Voter
1. Felony Disenfranchisement
2. Voter Intimidation at the polls
3. Ballot Harvesting
4. Interstate Crosscheck
5. De-registration for not voting
6. Closed Polling Locations
7. Photo ID/Real ID Requirements
8. Too few/broken voting machines on election day
9. Last minute poll closures/relocations
10. Exact signature match
11. No Same Day Registration
12. Voter Disinformation
13. Registration renewal requirements (TX)
14. Lack of weekend voting
15. Restrictive voter registration laws
16. Rules restricting voter assistance (limit # of people you can help during an election/no driving to polls)
17. Require approved excuse for absentee voting
18. Limited or no early voting
Erica Arvold is the founder of arvold., a casting, production, and education company based in Charlottesville, VA and Atlanta, GA. She most recently developed story for the feature script Shoeless Wonders. Erica & team cast the indie feature Teacher’s Pet, Permanent, served as location casting for Jeff Nichols’ feature film Loving, the AMC series Turn: Washington’s Spies and three seasons of Netflix’s House of Cards. She produced and cast the indie film Josephine, served as associate producer and casting director on Coming Through the Rye, Wish You Well, Texas Rein, helped cast feature films Ithaca and Badge of Faith, National Geographic’s Killing Kennedy as well as helmed the casting for Ridley & Tony Scott’s Killing Lincoln and Hallmark Movie Channel’s Lake Effects.
Over the past 28 years, Erica has contributed to and participated in the making of over 130 films, 80 television projects and numerous short form and commercial projects. In 2012, she was inducted into the First Lady of Virginia’s Opportunity Hall of Fame for her contribution to the economic growth in the state. She is a member of the Casting Society of America and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. She travels across the country to speak, co-teach and lead master classes for creative artists as well as business professionals, utilizing her training from The Theatre School, DePaul University (formerly The Goodman School of Drama). Erica is grateful to the many writers, filmmakers, actors and professionals who have entrusted her & her company to collaborate over the years.
Dr. Rich Freeman (Tony Award winner Santino Fontana), an ambitious and well-liked psychology professor, pursues a sleep study with a focus on nightmares, dreams, and sleep paralysis — the success of which would result in a lucrative grant. As the line between dreams and reality blur, a member of the study is murdered, and everything begins to unravel, leaving Rich fighting to make things right.
FESTIVALS and AWARDS
Panavision New Filmmaker Grant Recipient
World Premiere - Cinequest Film Festival
New York Premiere - HBO Presents New York Latino Film Festival
UK Premiere - Cine-Excess International Film Festival
Winner - Best Narrative Feature - Arizona Underground Film Festival
Honorable Mention - New Jersey Film Festival
For More:
https://impossiblemonsters.com/
Dr. Rich Freeman (Tony Award winner Santino Fontana), an ambitious and well-liked psychology professor, pursues a sleep study with a focus on nightmares, dreams, and sleep paralysis — the success of which would result in a lucrative grant. As the line between dreams and reality blur, a member of the study is murdered, and everything begins to unravel, leaving Rich fighting to make things right.
FESTIVALS and AWARDS
Panavision New Filmmaker Grant Recipient
World Premiere - Cinequest Film Festival
New York Premiere - HBO Presents New York Latino Film Festival
UK Premiere - Cine-Excess International Film Festival
Winner - Best Narrative Feature - Arizona Underground Film Festival
Honorable Mention - New Jersey Film Festival
For More:
https://impossiblemonsters.com/
The Thomas Jefferson Emergency Medical Services Council covers the counties of Albemarle, Fluvanna, Greene, Louisa, Nelson, and the City of Charlottesville (Planning District 10) and Madison County (Planning District 9) in Central Virginia. We also work closely with the EMS agencies in Orange and Buckingham counties.
With over thirty five EMS agencies, the Council enjoys an excellent working relationship with it's two hospitals, the University of Virginia Medical Center (Level 1 Trauma Center) and Martha Jefferson Hospital. The UVa Pre-hospital Program provides for initial ALS certification programs, ALS continuing education, and constant "run review" for all agencies within the region.
Mission Statement
The Thomas Jefferson EMS Council is an integral part of the EMS system whose function is to assess, identify, coordinate, plan and implement an efficient and effective regional EMS delivery system in partnership with the Virginia Office of EMS and the Virginia EMS Advisory Board.
More, Please Visit:
https://www.facebook.com/VATJEMS/
http://www.tjems.org/
Linda partnered with Ms. Campbell on The Gospel According to Mark Twain, which played at the Manhattan Theatre Club before travelling to the Edinburgh Festival. This production marked the founding of Writers Theatre in New York where Ms. Laundra served as the Artistic Director for 10 years.
David Laundra is an actor, known for 30 Rock (2006), Oz (1997) and Homicide: Life on the Street (1993).
For More, Please Visit:
David:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1865743/
https://www.facebook.com/laundra
https://www.facebook.com/laundra/photos_all
https://voice123.com/dlaundra
http://www.tv.com/people/david-laundra/
Linda:
https://www.writerstheatre.org/linda-laundra-biography
https://www.linkedin.com/in/linda-laundra-97844032
Tulis McCall is an actor, writer, producer and performer. Since 2007, she has hosted Monologues and Madness, an evening of original work read by 12-15 actors, each month at the Cornelia Street Café in Greenwich Village. She is the author of two previous one-person shows, What Everywoman Knows – a historical comedy combined with the true and often neglected stories of our foremothers – was produced at the Public Theatre in New York by Michael Moriarty and the Potters Field Theatre Company and at the West Coast Ensemble in Los Angeles by Dan Lauria, Joanna Kerns and Peter Gatien. McCall has toured this show to theatres, colleges and high schools in over 40 states. Her second one-person show, Running With Scissors – stories of contemporary urban lives – was directed by Philip Proctor of the Firesign Theatre and became Critic’s Choice of both the L.A. Weekly and Backstage West. She is the creator and editor of the theatre review site www.thefrontrowcenter.com (formerly www.ushernonsense.com) which now features 20 writers and covers over 300 shows per year.
She thinks the theatre is a temple. Period.
Andrea Miller is the Chair of the People’s Budget Campaign and Executive Director of People Demanding Action, a multi-issue advocacy group. Andrea Miller is also responsible for PD Action's digital strategy and customizes advocacy tools for small to medium size organizations through the Progressive Support Project.
For More, Please Visit:
http://recreformcandidates.com
Facebook.com/ReformCandidates,
Andrea@ReformCandidates.com
https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/rec-reform-candidates,
www.peopledemandingaction.org
Avery Sommers appeared on Broadway in Ain’t Misbehavin’, Show Boat, Chicago, and Platinum, and in the national tours of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas with Ann-Margret, and Chicago with Chita Rivera and Joel Grey. Avery was also seen in Regina Taylor's Crowns at City Theatre in Pittsburgh, and Hairspray at Actors' Playhouse. She has been featured in 10 independent films shot in South Florida, and will begin filming a new web series in the spring.
For more, please visit:
https://averysommers.com/
Avery Sommers appeared on Broadway in Ain’t Misbehavin’, Show Boat, Chicago, and Platinum, and in the national tours of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas with Ann-Margret, and Chicago with Chita Rivera and Joel Grey. Avery was also seen in Regina Taylor's Crowns at City Theatre in Pittsburgh, and Hairspray at Actors' Playhouse. She has been featured in 10 independent films shot in South Florida, and will begin filming a new web series in the spring.
For more, please visit:
https://averysommers.com/
After thirty-two years on the Christmas tree farm, studying piano for seven years and voice for two, the onslaught of her husband’s Parkinson’s and hospital trips, the end of his life, and volunteering protocol, Yvette LaVarre Graham began world traveling and studying local history. She is currently reading and taking courses, driven by a desire to know all she can, about people, places, and more. She loves her bottles of sand from the beaches, her paintings of cherished views, the smell of good coffee, and laughter. Life is too good and beautiful to live with unpleasantness, particularly when you create it, and Yvette relishes in her love of Nature and Life.
The Daniel L. Garner Pattern Method is a piano technique that will help you approach the music landscape with fresh confidence. Everyone has the capability to make their own music — and enjoy making it. Whether you’ve never touched a piano or are an experienced musician, the Pattern Method can liberate you to love playing music in ways you never thought possible. No music theory required.
For beginners, this tool will: Erase the fear of failure: it will be like bowling-alley bumpers are up on the piano.Help you see patterns on a keyboard instead of chaos.Provide you with bearings to know where to start.Liberate you to play freely. For those with experience, the Pattern Method will: Teach you how to improvise.Enable you to modulate and/or transition between keys instantly.Inspire you with new music possibilities.
For more, visit:
www.dlgpm.com
https://www.thedaniellgarnerpatternmethod.com
https://www.facebook.com/DLGPatternMethod/
DLGPM Course:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMi1aT9wj1oF7iftTvkPjc4TYNpY-E5CI
DLGPM One-Take Improvisations:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMi1aT9wj1oGTj6SDX-ri5ocgh-KFmn1D
Andrea Miller is the Chair of the people’s budget Campaign and Executive Director of People Demanding Action, a multi-issue advocacy group. She is both an organizer and digital advocacy expert. Andrea has appeared on the Thom Hartmann show, hosts the Progressive Round Table and is an IT professional!
Andrea Miller is also responsible for PD Action's digital strategy and customizes advocacy tools for small to medium size organizations through the Progressive Support Project.
For More, Please Visit:
http://recreformcandidates.com
Facebook.com/ReformCandidates,
Andrea@ReformCandidates.com
https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/rec-reform-candidates,
www.peopledemandingaction.org
“Vinegar Hill” one of the city’s first neighborhoods was boarded loosely by Preston Ave., West Main St., and Fourth Street. It was established by Irish families in the early 1800s and incorporated into Charlottesville in 1835.
First called the “Random Row,” the origin of the name “Vinegar Hill” remains obscure. Ruled by the O’Tooles, the O’Traceys and the O’Donovans, the local tradition has it that National League pitcher Charlie Ferguson- a four time 20 game winner in the mid 1880s- was born and raised here.
African Americans fist moved onto the “Hill” after the Civil War. From the 1920s to the early 1960s it was the city’s principle black business district and the vibrant center of the community’s social life.
In the 1960s, noting “Vinegar Hill’s” large number of substandard homes, the voters of Charlottesville decided to redevelop the 20 acre neighborhood. Sadly, because of a poll tax, many of the residents were denied a say in their own future. By March 1965, one church, 30 businesses, and 158 families—140 of which were black—had been relocated. Today, “Vinegar Hill” is just a memory.
For more, please visit:
https://www.charlottesville.org/departments-and-services/departments-h-z/neighborhood-development-services/historic-preservation-and-design-review/historic-resources-committee/local-markers/vinegar-hill
Eileen Davis is a professional Nurse, Adjunct Professor, Community advocate and care provider in a clinic for the uninsured in Central Virginia, Eileen is one of the co-founders of Women-Matter.org, dedicated to ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment in the ungratified state of Virginia. Her organization’s efforts have succeeded in passing the Equal Rights amendment with bipartisan support in the Virginia Senate for the last 5 sessions, only to be stuck in committee the the Virginia House of Delegates.
Kati Hornung is Campaign Coordinator for the state-wide, nonpartisan, grassroots VAratifyERA campaign to ensure Virginia is the 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. Her passion on the topic stems from her own life’s experiences and the interest of her two daughters in achieving constitutional equality. As a campaign manager she leverages her professional background (accounting/finance, software coding, and consulting), her relationships with a wide variety of Virginians, and a deeper understanding of historical context gained while homeschooling her daughters.
Andrea Miller is Chair of the People’s Budget Campaign and Executive Director of People Demanding Action, a multi-issue advocacy group. She is both an organizer and digital advocacy expert. Andrea has appeared on the Thom Hartmann show, hosts the Progressive Round Table and is an IT professional!
Andrea Miller is also responsible for PD Action's digital strategy and customizes advocacy tools for small to medium size organizations through the Progressive Support Project.
For More, Please Visit:
http://recreformcandidates.com
Facebook.com/ReformCandidates,
Andrea@ReformCandidates.com
https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/rec-reform-candidates,
www.peopledemandingaction.org
Avery Sommers appeared on Broadway in Ain’t Misbehavin’, Show Boat, Chicago, and Platinum, and in the national tours of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas with Ann-Margret, and Chicago with Chita Rivera and Joel Grey. Avery was also seen in Regina Taylor's Crowns at City Theatre in Pittsburgh, and Hairspray at Actors' Playhouse. She has been featured in 10 independent films shot in South Florida, and will begin filming a new web series in the spring.
For more, please visit:
https://averysommers.com/
Impossible Monsters stars Tony Award nominee Santino Fontana (star of the highly anticipated Broadway production of Tootsie, Disney’s Frozen), Natalie Knepp, Devika Bhise, Chris Henry Coffey, Donall O Healai, Geoffrey Owens (The Cosby Show), Dennis Boutsikaris (Better Call Saul), and Laila Robins (Homeland). Impossible Monsters is produced by Dorothy Mathe, Jonathan Burkhart and Nathan Catucci.
In the psychological thriller Impossible Monsters, Dr. Rich Freeman (Fontana), an ambitious and well-liked psychology professor, pursues a sleep study with a focus on nightmares, dreams, and sleep paralysis – the success of which would result in a lucrative grant. As the line between dreams and reality blur, a member of the study is murdered, and everything begins to unravel, leaving Dr. Freeman fighting to make things right.
For More, Please Visit:
http://impossiblemonsters.com/
Impossiblemonsters
In her lifetime on the stage, Jane VanBoskirk has performed searing dramas and musical comedies, queens and strumpets, even a marmot. She is best-known to Pacific Northwest audiences for her touring one-woman shows, rooted in history and exploring a range of fascinating personalities. She has introduced audiences to firebrand organizer Mother Jones, missionary Mother Cabrini, pioneering woman doctor Bethenia Owens Adair, suffragist Abigail Scott Duniway, and Florence Reece, a miner's wife who penned "Which Side Are You On?"
She has appeared before audiences from schools and churches to festivals and main-stage productions in such shows as Northwest Women, Armed in the Spirit, Through the Eyes of a Child, Prodigal Daughters, Hillbilly Women, and The Youngest Pioneer.
Jane also has a wide range of dramatic roles to her credit, having played lead roles in The Diary of Anne Frank, Tom and Viv, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Cabaret, and many more. She was a founder of Oregon Repertory Theatre in Eugene, which was her home until relocating to Portland in the early 1990's.
"For the past 40 years, researching and performing women in history has been my passion. Some are well known, while with others, we interviewed descendants about their ancestors to gather the information needed to bring forgotten but fascinating stories into the historical light. [...] I bring these women to life for the education and entertainment of audiences throughout the Northwest, and have followed back along the Oregon Trail to the Northeastern states. Somehow, Eleanor Roosevelt encompasses all the historical women I've portrayed. Playing her is a high point of my career."
For More:
https://www.janevanboskirk.com
Sue Friedman, M.S., is the President and CEO of Alzheimer's Association of Central and Western Virginia. Sue has been a board member of the Albemarle County Rotary Club, Forest Lakes Community Association, League of Women Voters/Charlottesville-Albemarle County, and the I Have A Dream Foundation. She is a Leaders’ Leader Award Winner, was elected to the Albemarle County School Board as Rivanna District representative in 2003, served as an Executive Staff Leadership Planning Team Member for the Alzheimer’s Association (National), 2010-2012, and much more. She has given dozens of presentations to organizations, businesses, and conferences, including keynote speaker for the 2011 Quadraplicity Women’s Conference, Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce.
For more information, please visit:
www.alz.org/cwva
Andrea Miller is Chair of the People’s Budget Campaign and Executive Director of People Demanding Action, a multi-issue advocacy group. She is both an organizer and digital advocacy expert. Andrea has appeared on the Thom Hartmann show, hosts the Progressive Round Table and is an IT professional!
Andrea Miller is also responsible for PD Action's digital strategy and customizes advocacy tools for small to medium size organizations through the Progressive Support Project.
For More, Please Visit:
http://recreformcandidates.com
Facebook.com/ReformCandidates,
Andrea@ReformCandidates.com
https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/rec-reform-candidates,
www.peopledemandingaction.org
The Daniel L. Garner Pattern Method is a piano technique that will help you approach the music landscape with fresh confidence. Everyone has the capability to make their own music — and enjoy making it. Whether you’ve never touched a piano or are an experienced musician, the Pattern Method can liberate you to love playing music in ways you never thought possible. No music theory required.
For beginners, this tool will: Erase the fear of failure: it will be like bowling-alley bumpers are up on the piano.Help you see patterns on a keyboard instead of chaos.Provide you with bearings to know where to start.Liberate you to play freely. For those with experience, the Pattern Method will: Teach you how to improvise.Enable you to modulate and/or transition between keys instantly.Inspire you with new music possibilities. For more, visit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zad7BlHkvQ&feature=youtu.be
https://www.facebook.com/DLGPatternMethod/
https://www.thedaniellgarnerpatternmethod.com
Andrea Miller is Chair of the People’s Budget Campaign and Executive Director of People Demanding Action, a multi-issue advocacy group. She is both an organizer and digital advocacy expert. Andrea has appeared on the Thom Hartmann show, hosts the Progressive Round Table and is an IT professional!
Andrea Miller is also responsible for PD Action's digital strategy and customizes advocacy tools for small to medium size organizations through the Progressive Support Project.
For More, Please Visit:
http://recreformcandidates.com
Facebook.com/ReformCandidates,
Andrea@ReformCandidates.com
https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/rec-reform-candidates,
www.peopledemandingaction.org
A group of private citizens, in partnership with the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce, invites you to honor community leadership at The Grove, a stone terrace to be located under 150-year-old oak trees on the sweeping hilltop on the east side of McIntire Park.
With inscriptions to past and future community leadership, the terrace will provide a place to admire the oak canopy, view Brown's Mountain, and watch people playing on the lawn. A path, shaded by trees representing the current McIntire Citizenship Award recipients, will start at the new pedestrian bridge and end at The Grove.
Goals:
- Promote Community Leadership
Honor past civic leaders
In the future, annually honor other community leaders, including students, and community organizations that promote civic engagement.
- Preserve the Hilltop's Landmark Oak Trees
Prolong their lifespan through careful maintenance
Plant more native oaks
- Enliven the Park
Provide a tree-lined path to the stone terrace in The Grove that the entire community can enjoy.
Approved by City Council, The Grove will enhance the 2015 McIntire East Park Plan.
For More, Please Visit:
https://www.cvillechamber.com/grove/
https://cacf.iphiview.com/cacf/GivingOpportunities/OnlineContribution/tabid/512/dispatch/contribution_id$100973_hash$946b3f64c8d649d7b832edd1822b52b6c054f36b/Default.aspx,
Dr. Guy McPherson is an internationally recognized speaker, award-winning scientist, and the world’s leading authority on abrupt climate change leading to near-term human extinction. He is professor emeritus at the University of Arizona, where he taught and conducted research for twenty years. His published works include 14 books and hundreds of scholarly articles. Dr. McPherson has been featured on TV and radio and in several documentary films. He is a blogger, cultural critic, and co-host of his own radio show “Nature Bats Last.” Dr. McPherson speaks to general audiences across the globe, and to scientists, students, educators, and not-for-profit and business leaders who seek their best available options when confronting Earth’s cataclysmic changes.
John Kiriakou is considered the first US intelligence officer to reveal information about the US intelligence community’s use of torture techniques. John became chief of counterterrorist operations in Pakistan following the September 11 attacks acting as a senior operations officer. His tour culminated in the March 2002 with the capture of Abu Zubaydah, al-Qa’ida’s third-ranking official.
When he returned from Pakistan, John was named Executive Assistant to the CIA’s Deputy Director for Operations. In that capacity, John was the principal Iraq briefer for the Director of Central Intelligence.
John then became senior investigator on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee after a brief time in the private sector, where he focused on international terrorism, piracy, and counternarcotics. Additionally, John served as senior intelligence advisor to the Committee’s chairman, Senator John Kerry.
Following his service on the Hill, John became an intelligence and counterterrorism consultant and author. John Kiriakou is featured in “AI WEIWEI: YOURS TRULY”, the feature length documentary film directed by Cheryl Haines, which will have its New York Premiere at DOC NYC 2019.
For More, Visit:
https://www.johnkiriakou.com/#
https://www.yourstrulyfilm.com/
Guest House, a new documentary by first-time director Hannah Dweck co-directed by Yael Luttwak, will open at the Hot Springs Film Festival October 23, and the Austin Film Festival October 26.
Guest House is an honest portrait of women experiencing reintegration from the prison system as they work to overcome feelings of shame, isolation, disappointment and other-ness so they can be free to pursue their dreams and desires. Following these women over six weeks, with intimate access to their routines around the clock, Guest House shows complexities and daily ups and downs during a time when these women are figuring out who they can trust, and if they can even trust themselves.
Grace, Maddison and Selena have been in and out of prison since their teen years. They meet at the Guest House, a residential home nestled in a quiet neighborhood in Alexandria, Virginia. The Guest House is a live-in program that supports women in the crucial six weeks after they are released from prison. At the Guest House, the women for new routines and new friendships. They master life skills--work and career, managing money, preparing meals—and build the emotional support and self-care they need to succeed.
Co-directors Dweck and Luttwak are presenting their new film, Guest House, at a time when drug sentencing and prison overcrowding are in crisis. According to data from The Sentencing Project, the number of incarcerated women rose from 26,378 to 225,060 between 1980 and 2017-- an increase of 750%. Women in state prisons are also more likely than men to be incarcerated for a drug or property offense.
For More:
https://www.dweckproductions.com/guest-house
Avery Sommers (Ain't Misbehavin', Chicago) will be performing during BROADWAY'S FUTURE SONGBOOK (the Songs of Anthony Nunziata). Presented by Arts and Artists of Tomorrow, the Future Songbook Series continues its 2019-20 season on Monday, October 28th in the Bruno Walter Auditorium at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center located at 111 Amsterdam Avenue and 65th Street. Produced and Hosted by John Znidarsic, the evening spotlights the songs of Anthony Nunziata. Show time is 6PM and ADMISSION IS FREE.
Performers include: Marissa Rosen (R.R.R.E.D. The Musical), Caroline Cohen, Avery Sommers (Ain't Misbehavin', Chicago) and Marieann Meringolo (MAC-Award and Bistro-Award winning vocalist).
Award-winning songwriter Jeff Franzel will serve as music director with Stephen Benson featured on guitar.
For More, Please Visit:
https://averysommers.com/
https://www.broadwayworld.com/cabaret/article/BROADWAYS-FUTURE-SONGBOOK-Performs-the-Songs-of-Anthony-Nunziata-20191012
Lillian is an actor/playwright, and was commissioned by the Obie award-winning Metropolitan Playhouse to create and perform her first documentary theatre play, about world-renowned avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas, called That’s How Angels Arranged. Lillian has acted in NY theatre and numerous independent films.
For More, Please Visit:
http://www.lillianisabella.com/
Andrea Miller is the Chair of the people’s budget Campaign and Executive Director of People Demanding Action, a multi-issue advocacy group. She is both an organizer and digital advocacy expert. Andrea has appeared on the Thom Hartmann show, hosts the Progressive Round Table and is an IT professional!
Andrea Miller is also responsible for PD Action's digital strategy and customizes advocacy tools for small to medium size organizations through the Progressive Support Project.
For More, Please Visit:
http://recreformcandidates.com
Facebook.com/ReformCandidates,
Andrea@ReformCandidates.com
https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/rec-reform-candidates,
www.peopledemandingaction.org
Kati Hornung is Campaign Coordinator for the state-wide, nonpartisan, grassroots VAratifyERA campaign to ensure Virginia is the 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. Her passion on the topic stems from her own life’s experiences and the interest of her two daughters in achieving constitutional equality. As a campaign manager she leverages her professional background (accounting/finance, software coding, and consulting), her relationships with a wide variety of Virginians, and a deeper understanding of historical context gained while homeschooling her daughters.
Coline Jenkins is a legislator, author and television producer. Through the years, she has used her talents to inspire both awareness and pride in women’s history. Coline is co-founder and president of the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Trust, a collection of 3,000 objects of women’s suffrage memorabilia that has been lent to museum exhibits, book publishers, documentary film producers, presidential libraries, popular magazines, television programs (both domestic and international) and Congressional testimony.
She co-authored a book, 33 Things Every Girl Should Know about Women’s History, and produced the television documentary, An American Revolution: Women Take Their Place. Her 2009 testimony before the U.S. Senate contributed to the passage of federal legislation creating a national trail of historic sites, coordinated by Women’s Rights National Historical Park.
Ms. Jenkins comes from a long line of women activists. Her great grandmother Harriot Stanton Blatch, worked as a major organizer of New York State woman’s suffrage during the Militant Period of 1913-1915. Jenkins’ mother was born one month prior to the passage of the 19th Amendment of the U. S. Constitution in 1920.
For More:
https://monumentalwomen.org/board-of-directors/
Network2Work at PVCC, is a job network that connects job seekers to the skills and resources they need to become valued employees and helps employers find the quality employees they need for their companies.
In Charlottesville and Albemarle, 5,600 families, or 17 percent, do not make enough money to pay for the essentials of life—food, shelter, clothing, and utilities, and the added costs associated with working childcare and transportation. The goal of PVCC’s Network2Work Program is to help these families become self-sufficient by identifying jobs within their reach and positioning them to secure and excel in those jobs.
For More, Please Visit:
https://www.pvcc.edu/community-business/network2work
Impossible Monsters stars Tony Award nominee Santino Fontana (star of the highly anticipated Broadway production of Tootsie, Disney’s Frozen), Natalie Knepp, Devika Bhise, Donall O Healai, Geoffrey Owens (The Cosby Show), Dennis Boutsikaris (Better Call Saul), and Laila Robins (Homeland). Impossible Monsters is produced by Dorothy Mathe, Jonathan Burkhart and Nathan Catucci.
In the psychological thriller Impossible Monsters, Dr. Rich Freeman (Fontana), an ambitious and well-liked psychology professor, pursues a sleep study with a focus on nightmares, dreams, and sleep paralysis – the success of which would result in a lucrative grant. As the line between dreams and reality blur, a member of the study is murdered, and everything begins to unravel, leaving Dr. Freeman fighting to make things right.
For More, Please Visit: http://impossiblemonsters.com/
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Andrea Miller is the Chair of the people’s budget Campaign and Executive Director of People Demanding Action, a multi-issue advocacy group. She is both an organizer and digital advocacy expert. Andrea has appeared on the Thom Hartmann show, hosts the Progressive Round Table and is an IT professional!
Andrea Miller is also responsible for PD Action's digital strategy and customizes advocacy tools for small to medium size organizations through the Progressive Support Project.
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Dr. Guy McPherson is an internationally recognized speaker, award-winning scientist, and the world’s leading authority on abrupt climate change leading to near-term human extinction. He is professor emeritus at the University of Arizona, where he taught and conducted research for twenty years. His published works include 14 books and hundreds of scholarly articles. Dr. McPherson has been featured on TV and radio and in several documentary films. He is a blogger, cultural critic, and co-host of his own radio show “Nature Bats Last.” Dr. McPherson speaks to general audiences across the globe, and to scientists, students, educators, and not-for-profit and business leaders who seek their best available options when confronting Earth’s cataclysmic changes.
Dr. Rogers is the Chief Knowledge Officer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. He received a Ph.D. from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations focusing on the role of cooperation in high tech firms. In the early 1980s he performed five years of international relief work in Southern Lebanon. Prior to returning to academic work at Cornell, Dr. Rogers operated a private consulting business focused on knowledge workers and intelligent enterprise. His research applies game theory to human behavior in organizations. He has consulted with a number of organizations on building conceptual transparency, learning, and leveraging collective knowledge. He teaches an MBA course at the top-ranked Indian School of Business on Managing Complexity. He has conducted numerous executive education sessions on conceptual thinking helping managers to ‘see’ their own decision-making models.
Linda & Laura Good are twin sisters, songwriters and co-founders of the alt-pop indie band, The Twigs. After releasing five cortically acclaimed CDs and having many of their songs on TV, FIlm and Radio, they have written a new original musical, LadyShip. Originally from Chicgao they now split their collaboration between Los Angeles and Charlottesville.
For More:
https://www.theatermania.com/broadway/news/6-shows-you-should-see-in-july_89108.html
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/BWW-TV-Travel-to-the-Outback-with-a-First-Look-at-LADYSHIP-at-NYMF-20190629
https://www.broadwayworld.com/off-broadway/article/NYMFs-LADYSHIP-Announces-Dates-and-Casting-Maddie-Shea-Baldwin-Jennifer-Blood-and-More-20190618
http://www.playbill.com/article/look-inside-the-2019-new-york-musical-festivals-preview
From Triana James:
Everyone says, "if you don't have a seat at the table, you are on the menu." My grandmother says "bring your own table" and that's what I am about, bringing my own table, creating an environment whereas, people not only have a voice but they have rights. I grew up in the cities of Smyrna and Marietta in Cobb County. I attended Morris Brown College. I joined the United States Army where I served on Active Duty and in the Reserves. I returned home to the community of my childhood to give back. For a long time, I felt that my small town of Smyrna was being left behind in the progress of Cobb County. I worked tirelessly with Representatives, Police Departments, Community Leaders and others to ensure that Smyrna had its place on the map.
I have advocated to increase accountability and transparency, to assure equal pay for equal work, to save our pensions, to maintain local control of our schools, to work with our farmers, broadband for rural areas, to restore constitutional rights (including gun-sense laws), and to make government effective and efficient. I am the candidate who has worked to pass several resolution bills related to HPV Awareness and Cervical Cancer Awareness.
During my reign as Mrs. Georgia, I worked across the aisle and around the State with Republicans and Democrats for Medicaid Expansion, to opening urgent care centers in South Georgia, to working with Department of Health and Human Services for medical services for impoverished communities.
No more missing moments to building bridges.
We need to embrace the diversity of all communities in the State of Georgia. I fully support and will fight for the rights of the LGBTQIA, women, veterans, immigrants, Georgians with disabilities, impoverished communities, small businesses, all races and religions.
Susan Bro is the mother of Heather Heyer, a central figure in the counter-protest against the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville Virginia, August 12th, 2017. Heather was tragically killed when a car plowed into a crowd of counter-protestors. Death has only magnified Heather, and thanks to her sacrifice, millions have been inspired to stand up for justice and against hatred.
Teepa Snow, an occupational therapist with forty years of clinical practice experience, is one of the world’s leading educators on dementia and the care that accompanies it. In 2005, she founded Positive Approach® to Care (PAC), a company that provides dementia care training, services, and products around the world. A core principle of PAC is that, in order to obtain the relationships and outcomes that are desired, the first and most important shift must originate with each person’s own willingness and ability to change. Join PAC in helping to change the culture of dementia care, one mind at a time.
Positive Approach® to Care (PAC) provides a wide variety of services to enhance awareness and increase dementia care skills, including PAC Speakers, Trainers, Teepa Talks, and Certifications. We are now offering an array of virtual options, too! Click below to find the service that fits your needs.
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Live Arts is a volunteer theater that has given a home to drama, dance, comedy, music and performance art since 1990. We strive to present high-caliber work unlike anything you’d expect to find in the area. We look to surprise, to delight, to astonish, to move the public, and above all, through live performing arts, forge a deep and lasting bond with our community of volunteers, our community of audience members, our community of Charlottesville and beyond.
OUR MISSION
Forging Theater and Community
The Live Arts mission statement describes a process, not an end. We forge with passion, melding the disparate raw materials of theater and community. We change and grow together, shaping both a theater and community. We know of no better way to deepen our understanding of ourselves and the human condition.
Who we are: Artists, audiences, volunteers, benefactors, students, businesses, organizations, neighbors (for a start).
What we do: Theater, dance, music, circus, puppetry, spoken word, improv.
Our tools and goals: Passion, participation, risk, rigor, connection.
The mission of the Heifetz International Music Institute is to develop the expressive potential of every performer. Through the innovative and cross-disciplinary Heifetz Performance & Communication Training, the Institute teaches musicians to communicate the emotion of music, beyond mere technical agility and beautiful playing, to explore their creative potential, and to redefine the concert experience.
Founded in 1996, The Heifetz International Music Institute is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the artistic growth and career development of some of the most talented and promising young musicians in the world.
As a six-week summer program, the Institute is founded upon the revolutionary educational concept that young musicians can be taught to communicate the emotion of music, beyond mere technical agility and beautiful playing.
In addition to the intensity of two private lessons, chamber music coachings, and five hours per day of practice time, the students take a series of one hour classes each afternoon (one per day) in public speaking, voice, drama, movement, Health & Wellness, and freedom of expression. This innovative, comprehensive, and cross-disciplinary curriculum can enhance anyone’s ability to become a more expressive, effective communicator.
For More, Please Visit:
http://www.heifetzinstitute.org/
Andrea Miller is the Chair of the people’s budget Campaign and Executive Director of People Demanding Action, a multi-issue advocacy group. She is both an organizer and digital advocacy expert. Andrea has appeared on the Thom Hartmann show, hosts the Progressive Round Table and is an IT professional!
Andrea Miller is also responsible for PD Action's digital strategy and customizes advocacy tools for small to medium size organizations through the Progressive Support Project.
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Andrea@ReformCandidates.com
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George Worthington is the convener of Dementia Friendly Albemarle Charlottesville, a group that is working to raise awareness of dementia in the Charlottesville area to enable people living with dementia and their care partners and families to remain engaged with the community. As the Dementia Services Coordinator for Virginia's Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services (DARS), George supports the Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Commission, reviews existing programs and works with other agencies to more effectively deliver services to Virginians living with dementia. George spent much of his adult life living and working overseas as an economist before completing his studies in psychology and returning to his childhood home in Albemarle County in 2014.
Prior to joining DARS, he spent three years working at the Jefferson Area Board for Aging (JABA), the Area Agency on Aging serving Charlottesville and surrounding counties, where he developed and oversaw programs supporting individuals living with dementia and their care partners and programs helping connect seniors and adults living with a disability to supports and services available in the community.
George is a graduate of the Master of Clinical Psychology program at LaTrobe University in Melbourne, Australia and holds a Master of Science in Economics from The London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom.
Dr. Martin has served in a variety of roles in support of diversity and equity at the University of Virginia, including as assistant dean in the School of Medicine, and as assistant and associate vice president in the UVA Office of Diversity. In 2011, Dr. Martin was appointed Vice President and Chief Officer for Diversity and Equity at UVA.
Dr. Martin established the Emergency Medicine Center for Education, Research and Technology (EMCERT) and the Life-Saving Techniques course for medical students at UVA, using computerized human patient simulation. He has published widely in the medical literature and contributed chapters to textbooks in his area of expertise. He was recently selected as one of “the top 100 most influential black graduates of NC State University,” and in 2007 was appointed by Governor Tim Kaine to serve on the Secure Commonwealth Panel and as vice chair of the Virginia Tech Incident Review Panel.
Dr. Martin served for 12 years as a board member of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine(SAEM), and is a past president of both SAEM and the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors. In 1994, he received the Joseph F. Waeckerle Founder’s Award from the national Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association. He is a 2008 recipient of the SAEM Diversity Interest Group Leadership Award, named the Marcus L. Martin Leadership Award in his honor. He also received, in 2008, a “Citizen of the Year” award for the state of Virginia from Omega Psi Phi fraternity.
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https://med.virginia.edu/diversity/marcus-martin-md-university-vp-chief-officer-for-diversity/
John Roberts Brakey is an elections investigator, election integrity advocate and former business owner. He is a co-founder of AUDIT AZ (Americans United for Democracy, Integrity and Transparency in Elections), which is expanding to become AUDIT-USA.
Under John’s leadership, AUDIT-AZ spearheaded a successful Arizona election challenge. The plaintiffs succeeded in gaining access to “proprietary” election materials which helped them prove that a local bond election had been rigged by individuals with official access to election machinery.
John and AUDIT-AZ have played a major role in making Arizona elections more secure through advocacy and litigation.
Brakey filed a legal challenge to the 2016 Arizona Presidential Primary election for targeted disenfranchisement of parts of the population heavily supportive of candidate Bernie Sanders.
Brakey has recently developed a new method of election verification, which Bev Harris of BlackBoxVoting.org has dubbed “The Brakey Method”: mobilizing the public to use digital ballot images created by digital scan voting machines to verify or challenge official vote counts.
Election transparency and public oversight are the goals that drive John to travel all over the country speaking and educating people about the dangers in our current election system and what members of the community can do about it.
A dedicated gadfly, John is determined to make sure no election insider or outside hacker can manipulate an election with impunity (exemption from punishment). Making it more difficult to rig or hack an election without getting caught and punished will serve as a deterrent to future election crimes.
For More:
https://www.auditelectionsusa.org/
Gelbman Law PLLC exclusively practices Elder Law in Central Virginia. Attorney Gelbman’s offices are in Charlottesville, and she serves the surrounding counties in Central Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley.
A half-hour initial consultation, either by phone or in person is always free of charge.
Offices of Gelbman Law PLLC in Charlottesville, Virginia
Gelbman’s offices are located near downtown Charlottesville. Plenty of free parking is available and the building is fully handicapped accessible.
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In A New York Minute follows three strangers as they accidentally discover the solution to their problems lie in a single pregnancy test. Amy is haunted by a past breakup that has manifested into an eating disorder. Angel is caught between a loveless marriage to an American businessman and a passionate affair with a Chinese writer. Nina moonlights as an escort in order to support herself.
Based on a Chinese short story, In A New York Minute takes a slice-of-life look at relationships highlighted by its Asian and Asian American-led cast. First time writer/ director Ximan Li leads a female driven production crew to create an intimate character study that interprets love from three different points of view. The film stars Celia Au, Amy Chang, Yi Liu, with Ludi Lin and Cheng Pei Pei.
World Premiere of
IN A NEW YORK MINUTE
IN A NEW YORK MINUTE will have its World Premiere at the 2019 Newport Beach Film Festival on Sunday, April 28, 2019. It will follow up with a Los Angeles premiere at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.
IN A NEW YORK MINUTE follows three strangers as they accidentally discover the solution to their problems lie in a single pregnancy test. Amy is haunted by a past breakup that has manifested into an eating disorder. Angel is caught between a loveless marriage to an American business man and a passionate affair with a Chinese writer. Nina moonlights as an escort in order to support herself.
Based on a Chinese short story, IN A NEW YORK MINUTE takes a slice-of-life look at relationships highlighted by its Asian and Asian American-led cast. First time writer/director Ximan Li leads a female driven production crew to create an intimate character study that interprets love from three different points of view. The film stars Celia Au, Amy Chang, Yi Liu, with Ludi Lin, and Cheng Pei Pei.
Ai Weiwei is a Beijing-based artist and activist whose work encompasses sculpture, installation, photography, film, architecture, curation, and social criticism. His art has been featured in major solo exhibitions including Ai Weiwei at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, UK, 2014; Evidence at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 2014; and Ai Weiwei: According to What?, which was organized by the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, in 2009, and traveled to North American venues in 2013–14. Ai collaborated with architects Herzog & de Meuron on the “bird’s nest” stadium for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including Amnesty International’s Ambassador of Conscience Award in 2015.
https://www.for-site.org/project/yours-truly-film/
http://www.aiweiwei.com/
Linda & Laura Good are twin sisters, songwriters and co-founders of the alt-pop indie band, The Twigs. After releasing five cortically acclaimed CDs and having many of their songs on TV, FIlm and Radio, they have written a new original musical, LadyShip. Originally from Chicgao they now split their collaboration between Los Angeles and Charlottesville.
Venus Melite follows a queer American photographer, Mars, who travels to the isolated Mediterranean island of Malta on assignment for a travel publication. She is recently single and grieving the loss of her mother, and she’s searching - for a story, for a connection, for inspiration.
She finds inspiration in Isla, the daughter of a recently deceased Maltese beekeeper. After Mars breaks up a drunken, midnight fight between Isla and her estranged husband, Kane, the two women bond over their grief. As Isla works to rebuild her father’s honeybee colonies, Mars tours the island, uncovering a brutal history of colonial occupation and violence, as well as contemporary issues such as corruption, environmental degradation, and the migrant crisis. Meanwhile, as sexual tension grows between the two women, Kane’s increasingly erratic behavior serves as a constant threat.
For More, Please Visit:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scottelyman/venus-melite-venus-of-honey
Bill is in the midst of an eclectic career as an acting coach, a teacher, a director, an actor, and a playwright. He is a past Artistic Director of Offstage Theatre, and a current resident director with Live Arts in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is the coauthor of Step Right Up! The Adventure of Circus in America. His film work includes roles in Familiar Strangers, The Purple Pileus, and Disappearances. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and a founder and co-president of the American Alliance for Theatre and Education.
Bill holds degrees from the University of Virginia, and from Columbia and Princeton Universities. More importantly, he is a life-long lover of good movies, large and small, with a particular regard for the unique perspectives offered by independent and foreign films.
The film stars Tony Award nominee Santino Fontana (star of the highly anticipated Broadway production of Tootsie, Disney’s Frozen), Natalie Knepp, Devika Bhise, Donall O Healai, Geoffrey Owens (The Cosby Show), Dennis Boutsikaris (Better Call Saul), and Laila Robins (Homeland). Impossible Monsters is produced by Dorothy Mathe, Jonathan Burkhart and Nathan Catucci.
In the psychological thriller Impossible Monsters, Dr. Rich Freeman (Fontana), an ambitious and well-liked psychology professor, pursues a sleep study with a focus on nightmares, dreams, and sleep paralysis – the success of which would result in a lucrative grant. As the line between dreams and reality blur, a member of the study is murdered, and everything begins to unravel, leaving Dr. Freeman fighting to make things right.
Find out more at:
http://impossiblemonsters.com/
Impossiblemonsters
Written and directed by Nathan Catucci, Impossible Monsters will have its World Premiere at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, California on Saturday, March 9, 2019.
The film stars Tony Award nominee Santino Fontana (star of the highly anticipated Broadway production of Tootsie, Disney’s Frozen), Natalie Knepp, Devika Bhise, Donall O Healai, Geoffrey Owens (The Cosby Show), Dennis Boutsikaris (Better Call Saul), and Laila Robins (Homeland). Impossible Monsters Is produced by Dorothy Mathe, Jonathan Burkhart and Nathan Catucci.
In the psychological thriller Impossible Monsters, Dr. Rich Freeman (Fontana), an ambitious and well-liked psychology professor, pursues a sleep study with a focus on nightmares, dreams, and sleep paralysis - the success of which would result in a lucrative grant. As the line between dreams and reality blur, a member of the study is murdered, and everything begins to unravel, leaving Dr. Freeman fighting to make things right.
Find out more at impossible monsters.com, #Impossiblemonsters
At IKOR, we know living well isn't defined by health alone. At IKOR we offer services that extend beyond that of typical care management to cover the spectrum of an individual’s needs. At the heart of our process is the Life Management Advocacy Plan, or Life Map, we create for each of our clients. The Life Map ensure our client’s medical needs, financial health, emotional well-being are all included in our client’s plan of care. Whether our clients need assistance locating and vetting service providers, light forensic accounting, routine bill pay or help following a prescribed medical treatment plan, IKOR Advocates bring the expertise necessary to ensure our clients are living a meaningful and fulfilling life.
At IKOR, our goal is to help each of our clients achieve an optimal level of wellness and improve coordination of their care services. Contact us today to learn how IKOR can help improve the quality of life for the ones for which you care.
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Carmenita Higginbotham’s research examines early 20th century American art with an emphasis on how notions of "the city" have had an impact on representation. Her book, The Urban Scene: Race, Reginald Marsh and American Art (Penn State University Press, 2015), considers how Reginald Marsh as an American Scene artist represents African Americans during the 1930s. The Urban Scene situates the language of racial representation within urban contexts invested in the legibility of New York’s landscape and responding to a growing interracialism in popular public spaces.
Higginbotham joined the faculty in 2005. Her undergraduate teaching includes lecture courses on the history of American Art, Popular Visual Culture, African American art, and Art Film. Her graduate seminars have included 1930s: Poverty, Politics and American Art, and Problems in American Art: The City.
Her teaching in the Art History Department is complimented by her courses in UVa’s Program in American Studies. As joint faculty in this undergraduate major, she offers cinema studies courses on topics such as American film noir, Hollywood and the Great Depression, and 20th century stardom. She also teaches on the cultural and visual impact of Disney in American popular culture.
Brydon Ross leads HBW Resources state affairs policy group. Before joining HBW, he served as the director of energy and environmental policy for the Council of State Governments and as the Interim Executive Director of the Association of Air Pollution Control Agencies.
Ross worked in the private sector as the director of government relations for the Association of Oil Pipelines in Washington D.C. and for nearly 10 years was a senior staff person in the U.S. Senate; specializing in energy and environmental issues for U.S. Senators George LeMieux and Mel Martinez of Florida and Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina. He also staffed the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and he began his Capitol Hill career with his home state Senator Tim Hutchinson of Arkansas.
He has spent a significant portion of his career advising private sector leaders, elected federal officials and other policymakers on energy and environmental policies impacting the nation’s infrastructure, energy sector and markets.Ross has a master’s degree in national security and strategic studies from the U.S. Naval War College and a bachelor’s degree in history from Centre College.
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https://hbwresources.com/bios/brydon-ross/
Dr. Guy McPherson is an internationally recognized speaker, award-winning scientist, and the world’s leading authority on abrupt climate change leading to near-term human extinction. He is professor emeritus at the University of Arizona, where he taught and conducted research for twenty years. His published works include 14 books and hundreds of scholarly articles. Dr. McPherson has been featured on TV and radio and in several documentary films. He is a blogger, cultural critic, and co-host of his own radio show “Nature Bats Last.” Dr. McPherson speaks to general audiences across the globe, and to scientists, students, educators, and not-for-profit and business leaders who seek their best available options when confronting Earth’s cataclysmic changes.
Tulis McCall is an actor, writer, producer and performer. Since 2007, she has hosted Monologues and Madness, an evening of original work read by 12-15 actors, each month at the Cornelia Street Café in Greenwich Village. She is the author of two previous one-person shows, What Everywoman Knows – a historical comedy combined with the true and often neglected stories of our foremothers – was produced at the Public Theatre in New York by Michael Moriarty and the Potters Field Theatre Company and at the West Coast Ensemble in Los Angeles by Dan Lauria, Joanna Kerns and Peter Gatien. McCall has toured this show to theatres, colleges and high schools in over 40 states. Her second one-person show, Running With Scissors – stories of contemporary urban lives – was directed by Philip Proctor of the Firesign Theatre and became Critic’s Choice of both the L.A. Weekly and Backstage West. She is the creator and editor of the theatre review site www.thefrontrowcenter.com (formerly www.ushernonsense.com) which now features 20 writers and covers over 300 shows per year.
She thinks the theatre is a temple. Period.
EMMETT GOODMAN is an animation artist, and has been involved with a number of animation projects, both commercial and independent. A graduate of Pratt Institute, Emmett has directed music videos, web shorts, short films, and has also been involved with properties for Comedy Central, HBO, and Speakaboos. Emmett has also written several online articles on animation for ASIFA-East, as well a short film on Asperger Syndrome (A Life With Aspergers, dir. Jaime Ekkens 2013). He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
JOHN MEYER: Beginning as a songwriter, John wrote special comedy material for LILY TOMLIN, MADELINE KAHN and JOAN RIVERS. He can even list JUDY GARLAND as one of his interpreters (she performed his number "I’d Like to Hate Myself in the Morning" on the Tonight Show in 1968). From this base, JOHN expanded his skills to Memoirs (Heartbreaker, 1983, Doubleday), musicals (The Betrayal of Nora Blake, Jermyn Street Theatre, London, 1998), film (Not for Publication, 1984) and TV (The Amazing Stories episode, “Gershwin’s Trunk”, 1986, produced by Steven Spielberg). The Magical Mystery of Musigny marks his first experience as Writer/Director of an animated film.
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/themagicalmysteryofmusigny/
Pat Elder grew up in Hyattsville, Maryland. He attended Catholic schools until junior year when his family moved to Dunkirk, in Calvert County. Pat graduated from Calvert County High School in 1973 and from St. Mary’s College of MD in 1977. He earned an MA in Government from the University of MD in 1986.
Pat has always been politically active. He worked as an intern for Common Cause at age 16 on a lobbying campaign directed at reforming campaign finance laws. Pat still advocates for these same positions 45 years later. At age16, Pat first became involved in non-violent direct action against the wars in Cambodia and Vietnam.
Mr. Elder’s professional career has been rich and varied. During three separate stints spanning 40 years, Pat spent 12 years as an 8th and 9th grade classroom teacher. It was the work he loved best. He taught English at the Islamic Education Center in Potomac for three years. To provide for his family, Pat started a real estate title abstract firm which he operated for 20 years. It eventually grew to employ a dozen workers. Pat knows what it means to meet a payroll and he appreciates how tough it is for very small businesses to properly compensate workers without state-supported health care and day care.
Most of Mr. Elder’s time over the last 25 years has been spent as a political activist. He was an organizer of mass protests in Washington with the DC Antiwar Network, (DAWN), United for Peace and Justice, and Code Pink Women for Peace. In 2005, Pat embraced the counter-recruitment movement and joined the Coordinating Committee of the National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth. www.nnomy.org
For More, Visit:
https://www.elderforcongress.org/about-pat-elder.html
STINK! opens with a foul smell and a pair of kids pajamas. And a single father trying to find out what that smell could possibly be. But instead of getting a straight answer, director Jon Whelan stumbles on an even bigger issue in America, which is that some products on our store shelves are not safe — by design.
https://stinkmovie.com/
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq5t0GAtw7A
The Magical Mystery of Musigny
An award-winning animated short by John Meyer & Emmett Goodman. John discovers the power of Burgundy, but has a hard time convincing his wife...
JOHN MEYER: Beginning as a songwriter, John wrote special comedy material for LILY TOMLIN, MADELINE KAHN and JOAN RIVERS. He can even list JUDY GARLAND as one of his interpreters (she performed his number "I’d Like to Hate Myself in the Morning" on the Tonight Show in 1968). From this base, JOHN expanded his skills to Memoirs (Heartbreaker, 1983, Doubleday), musicals (The Betrayal of Nora Blake, Jermyn Street Theatre, London, 1998), film (Not for Publication, 1984) and TV (The Amazing Stories episode, “Gershwin’s Trunk”, 1986, produced by Steven Spielberg). The Magical Mystery of Musigny marks his first experience as Writer/Director of an animated film.
EMMETT GOODMAN is an animation artist, and has been involved with a number of animation projects, both commercial and independent. A graduate of Pratt Institute, Emmett has directed music videos, web shorts, short films, and has also been involved with properties for Comedy Central, HBO, and Speakaboos. Emmett has also written several online articles on animation for ASIFA-East, as well a short film on Asperger Syndrome (A Life With Aspergers, dir. Jaime Ekkens 2013). He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/themagicalmysteryofmusigny/
Pilgrim Baptist Church was established in May 1965 under the leadership of Late Reverend Dr. Reginald Alexander Johnson & Mrs. Geneva Johnson. The first church service was held the second Sunday in May with eight persons in attendance. A Sunday school was established with Mrs. Lucille Williams as the Superintendent. As membership grew the first choir was established under the musical direction of Mrs. Geneva Johnson. Deacons and Trustees were appointed as well as an Usher Board established. The first Deacons of Pilgrim Baptist Church were Mr. Archie Luck Sr., Mr. Henry T. Taylor and Mr. Robert Hill. The first ushers were Mrs. Thelma Wicks, Mrs. Lucy Morton and Mrs. Ora Woodfolk.
On February 5, 1981 the original sanctuary was destroyed by fire. It destroyed many of the original documents included the original church charter and church History. Dr. Johnson, the Deacons, trustees and members met shortly thereafter. Immediately plans were made to rebuild the sanctuary. For six months the membership of Pilgrim Baptist Church held services in the portion of the building which had sustained only smoke damage. With donations from other churches, businesses and fundraising by the membership it was possible to begin rebuilding. In August 1981 the rebuilding was completed the church was rededicated and worship services were again being held in the new Pilgrim Baptist Church sanctuary.
Pilgrim Baptist Church arose from a vision of Dr. R.A. Johnson in the early 1960s to minister to the people in the community. He continued that vision for 47 years at Pilgrim. Dr. R.A Johnson retired as Pastor Emeritus on August 11, 2012. On April 19, 2015, fifty years later the vision continues with Pastor Christopher A. Cooper and First Lady Wendy Cooper.
For More:
www.pbccharlottesville.org
Experiencing Veterans and Artists Collaborations (EVAC) is an art project that brings together veterans and artists. EVAC curators interviewed veterans about their experiences, and artists made an edition of prints based on their interpretation of those stories. The prints are exhibited with excerpts from the transcribed interviews. EVAC works to bridge the often precarious gap between military and civilian life.
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https://www.evacproject.org/
Dr. Rogers is the Chief Knowledge Officer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. He received a Ph.D. from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations focusing on the role of cooperation in high tech firms. In the early 1980s he performed five years of international relief work in Southern Lebanon. Prior to returning to academic work at Cornell, Dr. Rogers operated a private consulting business focused on knowledge workers and intelligent enterprise. His research applies game theory to human behavior in organizations. He has consulted with a number of organizations on building conceptual transparency, learning, and leveraging collective knowledge. He teaches an MBA course at the top-ranked Indian School of Business on Managing Complexity. He has conducted numerous executive education sessions on conceptual thinking helping managers to ‘see’ their own decision-making models.
Nick Brana is the Founder and National Director with the Movement for a People's Party, the national nonprofit at the helm of the rapidly growing movement for a new progressive political party in America. With more than fifty thousand members and coverage in more than a hundred mainstream and independent media outlets, the Movement for a People’s Party is building a coalition of labor and progressive organizations for a nationally-viable party for working people. Formerly Draft Bernie, MPP was founded last year by Bernie 2016 staff, delegates and supervolunteers.
Nick was the National Political Outreach Coordinator with the Sanders presidential campaign, where he lobbied the superdelegates and elected officials for Bernie, organized his political meetings, and planned convention activities. He went on to become a founding member of Our Revolution and its first Electoral Manager, where he created an endorsement plan and assembled the candidates.
Before that he was the Deputy Director of Voter Protection on Terry McAuliffe’s gubernatorial campaign and worked on then-Sen. John Kerry’s PAC. He earned his BA in sociology and environmental policy at William & Mary and lives in Virginia, outside of Washington D.C.
For More, Please Visit:
https://www.forapeoplesparty.org/
In his debut novel SLOP – The Wild Boar Nation (November 2013), Bishop creatively warns readers of the growing dangers of intolerance and extremism here in America. In SLOP’s sequel, Dr. Carson’s outlandish concerns about anarchy become reality. While polls open and voting takes place—terrorism erupts on Election Day 2016 as an ingenious plot carried out by conservative sympathizers rocks the nation. Branded within as the Collateralized Right Wing Fringe (CRWF), the clandestine organization's revolutionary tactics enable Republicans to increase their congressional majorities and easily win the Presidency. Upon inauguration elected officials issue:
Touted as “The Contract with America 2.0,” bond issuers authoritatively pledge to observe a fundamental set of ultra-conservative social, economic, geopolitical and religious doctrines. Riding the wave of conservatism, investors pile on sending the bond’s price soaring to extreme levels—resulting in negative bond yields. Deflation sets in and GDP plummets. Pollution, unemployment and budget deficits skyrocket. Due to political infighting, over ninety million citizens and counting become medically uninsured. Those not conforming to Christian values are openly discriminated against. Corporate corruption becomes commonplace while millions of illegal aliens flee incarceration. Undeterred, leaders double down in their policy initiatives believing upon maturity The Republican Bond will yield positive returns. When a world-wide flu pandemic brings the U.S. healthcare system to its knees, leftist radicals yield to their own extremism. Anarchy follows, resulting in the blackest of all black swan events; an “American Spring.”
For More, Please Visit:
http://www.keithbishopbooks.com
CHINA LOVE takes us on a billion-dollar ride of fantasy exploring contemporary China through the window of the pre-wedding photography industry. The film is a feature length observational documentary which follows Chinese and Australian participants as they navigate love, weddings and family in the lead up to the most important ritual of Chinese society – getting married.
CHINA LOVE is directed and produced by Olivia Martin-McGuire, produced by Rebecca Barry and Madeleine Hetherton, and features documentary subject Allen Shi the owner of the Jiahao Group.
CHINA LOVE to premiere in the U.S. on November 9, 2018
CHINA LOVE to premiere in the U.S. on November 9, 2018 at 7:45 p.m. ET as part of DOC NYC.
For more information:
http://www.docnyc.net/film/china-love/
Bio:
Olivia Martin-McGuire is an Australian documentary photographer based in Shanghai. She has exhibited her work widely, shoots for various International publications and companies (most specifically, in China, The Australian Financial Review) and is part of the popular Instagram group of documentary photo & video storytellers called “Eyes on China” project. She directed two short films early on in her career, which screened as part of LOUD festival on ABC and a few International Festivals. Having a Hons degree in Photomedia – she recently completed an intensive course in documentary making at AFTRS and is now moving her storytelling skills into the filmmaking field. She has been working on a long-term stills project on Chinese Pre-wedding photography and has a selection of her work featured in TIME Magazine lightbox. This is the story she is hoping to transform into an observational documentary.
The mission of the Heifetz International Music Institute is to develop the expressive potential of every performer. Through the innovative and cross-disciplinary Heifetz Performance & Communication Training, the Institute teaches musicians to communicate the emotion of music, beyond mere technical agility and beautiful playing, to explore their creative potential, and to redefine the concert experience.
Founded in 1996, The Heifetz International Music Institute is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the artistic growth and career development of some of the most talented and promising young musicians in the world.
As a six-week summer program, the Institute is founded upon the revolutionary educational concept that young musicians can be taught to communicate the emotion of music, beyond mere technical agility and beautiful playing.
In addition to the intensity of two private lessons, chamber music coachings, and five hours per day of practice time, the students take a series of one hour classes each afternoon (one per day) in public speaking, voice, drama, movement, Health & Wellness, and freedom of expression. This innovative, comprehensive, and cross-disciplinary curriculum can enhance anyone’s ability to become a more expressive, effective communicator.
For More, Please Visit:
http://www.heifetzinstitute.org/
Born and raised in Buffalo, New York, a city of perseverance and resilience, it’s no surprise Marc Scibilia fiercely carves out his own path in the music world.
Encouraged by his musical family, Scibilia discovered his passion for songwriting at an early age. “I was convinced by the time I was 10 years old that I wanted to make music for the rest of my life,” he recalls. One month after graduating high school, against well-intentioned advice, he left home, landed in East Nashville and hasn’t looked back.
After tens of millions of streams on Spotify, national headlining tours, opening spots with Zac Brown Band, James Bay and Gavin DeGraw to name a few, collaborations with international powerhouse DJ and producer Robin Schulz, appearances on the Today Show, MTV EMAs, and songs in national ads and Super Bowl commercials, 2018 finds Marc Scibilia re-exploring his Buffalo roots. Wearing his heart on his sleeve, he’s writing a new soundtrack for the Northeast: unapologetically raw and with nothing to prove, think Springsteen singing over Coldplay’s Rush of Blood to the Head.
For More, Please Visit:
http://marcscibilia.com/
Peter Rousselot is on the Board of the Together Virginia PAC. The Together Virginia PAC was founded to emphasize the importance of bringing people together, building communities and coalitions to solve problems, and having a government that works for everyone. They are focused on bringing people together from rural and urban parts of Virginia.
Together Virginia PAC is a strong supporter of Democratic candidate Carter Turner to fill a vacancy in Virginia’s 8th Delegate District in the House of Delegates. If Carter can win this seat, it will shift the partisan make-up of the House of Delegates from 51 R/49 D to 50 R/50 D. This would lead to a major change toward bi-partisanship and co-operation between the two parties in the 2019 legislative session.
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Peter Rousselot is the immediate Past Chair of the Arlington County Democratic Committee. He has served as the Arlington Chair of the successful 2010 Jim Moran for Congress campaign in Arlington, and also served on DPVA’s Strategic Planning Committee. He also ran for Chair of the Democratic Party of Virginia and was affiliated with the Washington, DC law firm of Hogan & Hartson (now known as Hogan Lovells) for 28 years (Associate: 1966-1974; Equity Partner: 1975-1994; Member, Executive Committee: 1986-1988).
Peter is Summa Cum Laude, Yale University; JD, Harvard Law School. He is an Op Ed Columnist at Peter’s Take and ARLnow.com, and board member for Together Virginia, a new PAC dedicated to fostering conversations among Virginians, with a particular focus on rural voters.
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For More, Please Visit:
https://www.arlnow.com/
http://togethervapac.org/
Andrea Miller is the Chair of the people’s budget Campaign and Executive Director of People Demanding Action, a multi-issue advocacy group. She is both an organizer and digital advocacy expert. Andrea has appeared on the Thom Hartmann show, hosts the Progressive Round Table and is an IT professional!
Andrea Miller is also responsible for PD Action's digital strategy and customizes advocacy tools for small to medium size organizations through the Progressive Support Project.
Robert Chapel is professor of Drama and former chair (1990-2005) of the University of Virginia’s Department of Drama and has been with the Heritage Theatre Festival since 1987, first as a stage director, then as managing and stage director and, since 1995, as its producing artistic director. Bob also chaired the Virginia 2020 Commission on the Fine and Performing Arts. In addition, he has served as executive director of the Virginia Film Festival. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Bob has directed over 120 plays and musicals and has acted in over 60 more in New York, Los Angeles, regional, and university theatre. He has produced over 200 productions during his career.
Prior to joining the UVA faculty, he taught and directed at San Diego State University (head of MFA Musical Theatre Program and recipient of an outstanding teaching award), New York University's Tisch School of the Arts (coordinating director of the MFA Musical Theatre Composing and Writing Program), the University of Michigan (assistant professor and head of BFA Musical Theatre Program), and the University of Alabama (assistant professor in Theatre). While in New York, he created and produced, with Brooks McNamara, a series of shows out of the Shubert Archive, culminating in Shubert Alley that was performed at the Players Club and the "Performathon" at Lincoln Center.
During an eight-year residence in Los Angeles, he served as vice-president for a film company, assisting in the production of three feature films shot in Australia, Canada, New York, and Los Angeles. During that time he also received the Drama-Logue Award for his direction of Genet's The Balcony at the Company of Angels Theatre.
Alan Minsky, Executive Director of the Progressive Democrats of America (PDA), is a lifelong activist, who has worked as a progressive journalist for the past two decades. Alan was the Program Director at KPFK Los Angeles from 2009-2018; and has coordinated Pacifica Radio's national coverage of elections. Before that, Alan was one of the founders of LA Indymedia. He is the creator and producer of the political podcasts for The Nation and Jacobin Magazine, as well as a contributor to Commondreams and Truthdig.
Alan's activism began in college with union solidarity work and opposition to US involvement in Central America. In the 1990s and early 2000s, Alan was active in the counter-globalization and media democracy movements. In 2011, he began organizing for Occupy Wall Street in the months leading up to the occupation of Zuccotti Park.
Alan is a committed anti-racist and feminist. He is also an advocate for economic policies that address social inequality, eradicate poverty, and prioritize the interests of working and middle-class households. Alan began working with PDA in 2014.
Doris W. Gelbman is a private, solo attorney whose practice is focused entirely on Elder Law. Doris spent the 10 years of her early career living and traveling in 35 different countries. Gelbman later returned to the U.S. and began her formal education at age 37 earning her B.A. summa cum laude in History from Salisbury University (Maryland) and her Juris Doctor (J.D.) from New England Law in Boston at age 45.
In Boston, Gelbman practiced at the firm of Bernkopf Goodman LLP in the complex civil litigation department. She later moved to Charlottesville, Virginia to be closer to her aging parents and new grandchildren. While awaiting her Virginia law license, she volunteered at the Legal Aid Justice Center in the Elder Law Initiative and for Jefferson Board on Aging (JABA) where she served as a volunteer Ombudsman, advocating for residents of nursing facilities.
In 2009, she opened her own office where she exclusively practices Elder Law. In 2016, she opened the multi-disciplinary “Center for Elder Services.”
Read more about Gelbman’s practice at www.gelbmanlaw.com
Dr. Guy McPherson is an internationally recognized speaker, award-winning scientist, and the world’s leading authority on abrupt climate change leading to near-term human extinction. He is professor emeritus at the University of Arizona, where he taught and conducted research for twenty years. His published works include 14 books and hundreds of scholarly articles. Dr. McPherson has been featured on TV and radio and in several documentary films. He is a blogger, cultural critic, and co-host of his own radio show “Nature Bats Last.” Dr. McPherson speaks to general audiences across the globe, and to scientists, students, educators, and not-for-profit and business leaders who seek their best available options when confronting Earth’s cataclysmic changes.
Andrea Miller is the Chair of the people’s budget Campaign and Executive Director of People Demanding Action, a multi-issue advocacy group. She is both an organizer and digital advocacy expert. Andrea has appeared on the Thom Hartmann show, hosts the Progressive Round Table and is an IT professional
Andrea Miller is also responsible for PD Action's digital strategy and customizes advocacy tools for small to medium size organizations through the Progressive Support Project.
For more, please visit:
http://www.peopledemandingaction.org/pda-radio/itemlist/user/431-andreamiller
Andrea Miller is the Chair of the people’s budget Campaign and Executive Director of People Demanding Action, a multi-issue advocacy group. She is both an organizer and digital advocacy expert. Andrea has appeared on the Thom Hartmann show, hosts the Progressive Round Table and is an IT professional!
Andrea Miller is also responsible for PD Action's digital strategy and customizes advocacy tools for small to medium size organizations through the Progressive Support Project.
THE OLD MAN & THE GUN is based on the true story of Forrest Tucker (Robert Redford), from his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public. Wrapped up in the pursuit are detective John Hunt (Casey Affleck), who becomes captivated with Forrest’s commitment to his craft, and a woman (Sissy Spacek), who loves him in spite of his chosen profession.
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMA8GvEyDSE
Molly Ryan is an actress and producer, known for Exorsisters(2018), Beacon Hill (2018) and Brooklyn Moving Company(2018).
24 Hour Musical at the People’s Improv Theater:
https://thepit-nyc.com/events/tuff-boys-presents-24-hour-musical
Exorsisters
http://filmthreat.com/news/tromas-exorsisters-kick-demon-ass/
https://youtu.be/JouDMJtNFtw
Brooklyn Moving Company:
Variety Announcement: https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/nytvf-independent-pilot-competition-selections-2018-1202818309/,
Tuff Boys Links: http://www.tuffboys.xyz
Americans United envisions an America where everyone can freely choose a faith and support it voluntarily, or follow no religious or spiritual path at all, and where the government does not promote religion over non-religion or favor one faith over another. They are lawyers and lobbyists, students and activists, religious leaders and impassioned Americans, people of faith and people who don't profess any particular faith. They are a community that includes and welcomes people of all genders, races, ethnicities, religions or beliefs, sexual orientations, ages, classes and abilities.
The AU uses high-impact litigation, powerful lobbying and grassroots advocacy to ensure that religion does not dictate public policy, that the government does not tell Americans what to believe or how to practice their faith, and that discrimination is not justified under the guise of religion.?
The AU is a nonpartisan educational and advocacy organization dedicated to advancing the constitutional principle of church-state separation as the only way to ensure freedom of religion, including the right to believe or not believe, for all Americans.
For More, Please Visit:
https://www.au.org/
https://www.au.org/introducing-rachel-laser
What would you do to transform your life? How far would you go for a metamorphosis? Would you drive, would you fly, would you run?
The most elusive, elite multi-day race in the world, the Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race, takes place in Queens, New York City each summer. This race is held around one square sidewalk block (0.56 miles) and requires at least 59 miles a day for 52 straight days to complete the event.
The Race promises personal expansion and, indeed, participants come from around the world to shatter their limitations and discover a deeper sense of self. At the same time, the act of running to transform oneself is as old as time. Ancient man and woman ran not just for survival, but to connect with Nature and the Divine.
We follow Aspirants of the Highest from three cultures whose own narratives parallel that of one 3100 Mile Runner – a diminutive paperboy from Finland, Ashprihanal Aalto. These three heroic Aspirants (Shaun Martin-Navajo, Gaolo-San Bushmen, Gyoman-san-Monks of Mt. Hiei Japan) run not for glory but for spiritual enlightenment, universal oneness or because they simply have the responsibility to run.
3100 Run and Become is opening in theaters across the United States in August 2018. Dates and locations to be announced soon! To request a screening in your city, email us at illuminefilm (at) gmail (d0t) com.
For More, Please Visit:
https://3100film.com/
Instagram: @3100film, Facebook: facebook.com/3100film
Maynvard Jackson, Jr. was an important figure in American politics. He was part of a generation of black empowerment figures who took the civil rights movement to the next level. Maynard, like other mayors of his generation, Carl Stokes, Thomas Bradley, Richard Hatcher, took the civil rights movement from the streets to the corridors of government and corporate America. And what they achieved and sometimes failed at is a powerful story of how the urban cities became populated by a large black population, and the impact that had on a changing American landscape in some of the major U.S. cities during the turbulent 1960s and ever-changing 1970s.
But that is not the only story of Maynard Jackson, Jr. Beyond the arc of his political career there is a more intimate story of a man. A man who had big shoes to fill with a grandfather, John Wesley Dobbs, who was a distinguished black leader in Atlanta, as well as parents, aunts, uncles and friends who were model representatives of the burgeoning middle class black community in Atlanta.
This is the story of a man who understood what his mission was in life but who had the strength, heart and soul of his loved ones as he faced incredible odds both positive and negative as the first black mayor of a major Southern city. The obstacles he faced with the creation of the Atlanta International Airport and his empowerment of minority contractors. His fight to end endemic racism in the city government, and the struggles he faced to end the series of missing and murdered children in Atlanta between 1979 and 1981.
Maynard is the story of a mayor, grandson, husband, father, and friend whose journey was about being a human being who wanted to achieve much for himself and his people.
For More, Please Visit:
http://maynardmovie.com
Dr. Rogers is the Chief Knowledge Officer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. He received a Ph.D. from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations focusing on the role of cooperation in high tech firms. In the early 1980s he performed five years of international relief work in Southern Lebanon. Prior to returning to academic work at Cornell, Dr. Rogers operated a private consulting business focused on knowledge workers and intelligent enterprise. His research applies game theory to human behavior in organizations. He has consulted with a number of organizations on building conceptual transparency, learning, and leveraging collective knowledge. He teaches an MBA course at the top-ranked Indian School of Business on Managing Complexity. He has conducted numerous executive education sessions on conceptual thinking helping managers to ‘see’ their own decision-making models.
For More, Please Visit:
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7182
Maynvard Jackson, Jr. was an important figure in American politics. He was part of a generation of black empowerment figures who took the civil rights movement to the next level. Maynard, like other mayors of his generation, Carl Stokes, Thomas Bradley, Richard Hatcher, took the civil rights movement from the streets to the corridors of government and corporate America. And what they achieved and sometimes failed at is a powerful story of how the urban cities became populated by a large black population, and the impact that had on a changing American landscape in some of the major U.S. cities during the turbulent 1960s and ever-changing 1970s.
But that is not the only story of Maynard Jackson, Jr. Beyond the arc of his political career there is a more intimate story of a man. A man who had big shoes to fill with a grandfather, John Wesley Dobbs, who was a distinguished black leader in Atlanta, as well as parents, aunts, uncles and friends who were model representatives of the burgeoning middle class black community in Atlanta.
This is the story of a man who understood what his mission was in life but who had the strength, heart and soul of his loved ones as he faced incredible odds both positive and negative as the first black mayor of a major Southern city. The obstacles he faced with the creation of the Atlanta International Airport and his empowerment of minority contractors. His fight to end endemic racism in the city government, and the struggles he faced to end the series of missing and murdered children in Atlanta between 1979 and 1981.
Maynard is the story of a mayor, grandson, husband, father, and friend whose journey was about being a human being who wanted to achieve much for himself and his people.
For More, Please Visit:
https://maynardmovie.com
Twenty years ago, the eyes of the nation were drawn to Laramie, Wyoming after the hate crime murder of Matthew Shepard. In the following weeks, the Matthew Shepard Foundation was founded and members of Tectonic Theater Project traveled from New York to Laramie to conduct interviews with the people of the town. These interviews formed the basis of The Laramie Project, which has become one of the most performed contemporary plays in the world. On September 24, 2018, join the Matthew Shepard Foundation and Tectonic Theater Project for a benefit reading of The Laramie Project to honor the progress made over the last two decades to erase hate. http://laramiealegacy.org/
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The Matthew Shepard Foundation’s longstanding mission is to erase hate by replacing it with understanding, compassion and acceptance. Through local, regional and national outreach, we empower individuals to find their voice to create change and challenge communities to identify and address hate that lives within their schools, neighborhoods and homes.
Our work is an extension of Matt’s passion to foster a more caring and just world. We share his story and embody his vigor for civil rights to change the hearts and minds of others to accept everyone as they are. https://www.matthewshepard.org/
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The Matthew Shepard Foundation and Tectonic Theater Project are joining together for a campaign to #EraseHate in honor of the 20th anniversary of Matthew Shepard’s murder. Go to laramiealegacy.org to find out more and get your tickets to the culminating event, the Laramie: A Legacy benefit on September 24, 2018 in New York City. http://www.tectonictheaterproject.org/
Andrea Douglas, PhD is the Executive Director of Charlottesville’s Jefferson School African American Heritage Center. Dr. Douglas holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in art history from the University of Virginia and an M.B.A. in arts management and finance from Binghamton University, NY. Formerly, she was curator of collections and exhibitions and curator of contemporary art at the University of Virginia. Andrea’s research considers the cultural and social connections in the biographies of 20th and 21st century artists of the African Diaspora.
Dr. Chris Dietz is a physician with MedExpress in Charlottesville, Virginia. He went to medical school at NOVA Southeastern College of Osteopathic Medicine at NOVA Southeastern University in Davie, FL. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Largo Medical Center. He’s been practicing medicine for the past ten years in urgent care settings.
For More:
https://www.healthcare6.com/physician/culpeper-va/christopher-dietz-2704937.html
https://www.healthcare4ppl.com/physician/virginia/richmond/christopher-m-dietz-1952581886.html
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The History of Charlottesville and the August 12, 2017 Riot
Now available on Amazon Kindle for only $1.99on all platforms with the free reader app. Compelling description and lengthy excerpt at Amazon. 12 Chapters, 244 Kindle screen pages, 85 color images. Published March 4, 2018.
Chapter 1 is Blair's citizen's report to the President. The goal is to build momentum, get the President to mention the book in public. Countdown to the first anniversary.
— After the riot at Lee Park on August 12, 2017, President Donald J. Trump said he wanted to study Charlottesville's history to find out what happened. Mr. President: This book is your study manual. —
For More, Please Visit:
http://www.blairhawkins.net/
The Thomas Jefferson Emergency Medical Services Council covers the counties of Albemarle, Fluvanna, Greene, Louisa, Nelson, and the City of Charlottesville (Planning District 10) and Madison County (Planning District 9) in Central Virginia. We also work closely with the EMS agencies in Orange and Buckingham counties.
With over thirty five EMS agencies, the Council enjoys an excellent working relationship with it's two hospitals, the University of Virginia Medical Center (Level 1 Trauma Center) and Martha Jefferson Hospital. The UVa Pre-hospital Program provides for initial ALS certification programs, ALS continuing education, and constant "run review" for all agencies within the region.
Capturing The Flag tells the story of Election Day 2016 from the deeply personal perspective of a diverse team of volunteer voter protection workers that represents the final line of protection for each American citizen’s right to vote.
The film will be featured at the Provincetown Film Festival, June 13-17, with the screening taking place June 15th at 5pm. The second screening will be in Wellfleet on June 17th at 5pm, with another at the Skirball Center at NYU – Oct 1 at 6:30 pm.
For More, Please Visit:
http://www.capturingtheflag.com/
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) is a worker-based human rights organization internationally recognized for its achievements in the fields of social responsibility, human trafficking, and gender-based violence at work. Built on a foundation of farmworker community organizing starting in 1993, and reinforced with the creation of a national consumer network since 2000, CIW’s work has steadily grown over more than twenty years to encompass three broad and overlapping spheres.
For More, Please Visit:
http://ciw-online.org/
Pat Elder is the director of the National Coalition to Protect Student Privacy, an organization that works to prohibit the automatic release of student information to military recruiting services from the nation's high schools. He is also creator of the website Counter-Recruit.org, which documents the deceptive practices used by the US military to recruit students into the armed forces.
For More, Please Visit:
http://www.truth-out.org/author/itemlist/user/49161
A down-on-his-luck bookie befriends an ex-girlfriend's son and begins taking bets on his little league games, creating chaos in the community.
ALL SQUARE will be part of the 13th Annual Sunscreen Film Festival (April 26-29) in Florida and the Newport Beach Film Festival (April 26-May 3).
For More, Please Visit:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6927880/
http://variety.com/2018/film/news/all-square-review-1202729780/
A down-on-his-luck bookie befriends an ex-girlfriend's son and begins taking bets on his little league games, creating chaos in the community.
ALL SQUARE will be part of the 13th Annual Sunscreen Film Festival (April 26-29) in Florida and the Newport Beach Film Festival (April 26-May 3). ALL SQUARE recently won an audience award at SXSW.
For More, Please Visit:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6927880/
http://variety.com/2018/film/news/all-square-review-1202729780/
Leslie is a graduate of Yale University with a distinguished career in journalism that spanned thirty-five years. A producer for CBS News “60 Minutes”, a correspondent for PBS “Frontline”, a Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton, a writer and author, Leslie has won two Emmys, two George Polk Awards, two Columbia Dupont journalism awards, and the Robert F. Kennedy Award.
Leslie and her husband Andrew bought their farm in Rappahannock County, Virginia in 1999. Rappahannock County hugs the Blue Ridge Mountains, has many more cows than people and has yet to install a stoplight. It is a place of unsurpassed beauty, where people care deeply about conservation and community. It is also a place where income disparity is acute, where the community services, as fine as they are, must be enhanced to serve all.
Leslie has done many years of community service on the boards of the Piedmont Environmental Council and the Krebser Fund in Rappahannock, both dedicated to conservation. She has been engaged in battles against unnecessary power lines, pipeline and uranium mining. She is equipped to stand up for the rights of Virginians in the pipeline battles that are raging in several counties. She can see the folly of repealing stream protection and allowing the poisoning of our waterways.
Leslie and Andrew (Washington Editor of Harper’s Magazine) celebrated their 40th anniversary this year and have three children and four grandchildren. Their daughter Olivia Wilde is starring in “1984” on Broadway and their daughter Chloe is a Harvard-trained attorney who has devoted her life to criminal justice. Their son Charlie is a writer.
For More, Please Visit:
https://www.lesliecockburnforcongress.com/
Leslie is a graduate of Yale University with a distinguished career in journalism that spanned thirty-five years. A producer for CBS News “60 Minutes”, a correspondent for PBS “Frontline”, a Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton, a writer and author, Leslie has won two Emmys, two George Polk Awards, two Columbia Dupont journalism awards, and the Robert F. Kennedy Award.
Leslie and her husband Andrew bought their farm in Rappahannock County, Virginia in 1999. Rappahannock County hugs the Blue Ridge Mountains, has many more cows than people and has yet to install a stoplight. It is a place of unsurpassed beauty, where people care deeply about conservation and community. It is also a place where income disparity is acute, where the community services, as fine as they are, must be enhanced to serve all.
Leslie has done many years of community service on the boards of the Piedmont Environmental Council and the Krebser Fund in Rappahannock, both dedicated to conservation. She has been engaged in battles against unnecessary power lines, pipeline and uranium mining. She is equipped to stand up for the rights of Virginians in the pipeline battles that are raging in several counties. She can see the folly of repealing stream protection and allowing the poisoning of our waterways.
Leslie and Andrew (Washington Editor of Harper’s Magazine) celebrated their 40th anniversary this year and have three children and four grandchildren. Their daughter Olivia Wilde is starring in “1984” on Broadway and their daughter Chloe is a Harvard-trained attorney who has devoted her life to criminal justice. Their son Charlie is a writer.
For More, Please Visit:
https://www.lesliecockburnforcongress.com/
Capturing The Flag tells the story of Election Day 2016 from the deeply personal perspective of a diverse team of volunteer voter protection workers that represents the final line of protection for each American citizen’s right to vote.
For More, Please Visit:
http://www.capturingtheflag.com/
The Virginia Institute of Autism is dedicated to helping people overcome the challenges of autism through innovative, evidence-based programs in education, outreach and adult services.
Working collaboratively with VIA’s Board of Directors, consumers and community stakeholders, Executive Director Ethan Long has articulated a vision and mission for VIA that results in a center of excellence with core services developed to meet the needs of people with autism across their lifespans. These services and programs generate individual, family and community outcomes. These outcomes are then analyzed to inform subsequent program development and improvement.
The Virginia Institute of Autism incorporates the values of strategic leadership (LEAD), innovation and evidence-based (CREATE), and systems transformation (CHANGE) into all planning, program development and operational activities.
The Virginia Institute of Autism is committed to creating innovative programs that will provide models for how services can more effectively and efficiently help people with autism and their families, even people not directly served by VIA. Virginia Institute of Autism programs will be developed, refined and ultimately replicated to demonstrate to key stakeholders and policymakers ways in which people impacted by autism can be best served in their communities. This is the strategic process by which VIA’s vision of a world in which people overcome the challenges of autism will be accomplished.
For More, Please Visit:
https://www.viaschool.org/
Please register for the April 14th Run for Autism 5K:
www.runforautism5k.org
John Funderburk is the Senior Field Director for the Alzheimer's Impact Movement (AIM) and its connected political action committee, AIMPAC. In this role John works to build AIM's membership base and increase participation in AIMPAC. John also serves as Senior Director of Advocacy for the Alzheimer's Association. In this capacity, John oversees the Association's nationwide grassroots and grasstops federal and state advocacy programs and manages its national issue advocacy campaigns.
Prior to working at the Alzheimer’s Association, John oversaw the political and grassroots outreach strategy for the American Medical Association (AMA). Before working in patient advocacy, John was the Upstate Director in South Carolina for U.S. Senator Ernest F. Hollings (D-SC) and served for seven years in the Clinton Administration as a Special Assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Education and Deputy Director of Scheduling and Advance for First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. John is a veteran of numerous presidential, congressional and statewide campaigns.
Adarsh Ramakrishnan
Adarsh Ramakrishnan is an entrepreneur with a passion for design and education. Adarsh graduated from the University of Virginia where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Currently, he is the CEO of Startship (startship.co), which combines active learning techniques with great design to provide a better learning experience. He has been involved with mentorship and volunteering through numerous startup ecosystems, including the Charlottesville and Richmond scenes.
Ryan Donahue
Ryan Donahue is an entrepreneur and world traveler. After studying Materials Engineering at the University of Virginia, Ryan set out out a multi-year voyage, traveling across 4 continents and dozens of countries. After traveling through Asia and Europe, he settled in Australia to work in the beer brewing industry as well as in academic research. During his travels in South America, Ryan co-founded Startship, an online active learning platform, and currently serves as its CTO.
Startship
STARTSHIP is a professional education platform which delivers high quality content across a variety of topics. Content within each journey is unique and approachable, allowing beginners and advanced learners alike to build new approaches within various subjects. We're passionate about bringing experiential learning to a variety of industries and students across the world!
Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story
The extraordinary story of maverick British comedian and artist Chris Sievey
and his alter ego – Frank Sidebottom
World Premiere – SXSW 2018 \
Screening dates:
Alamo Ritz 1 on Tuesday, March 13 at 9:00 PM – WORLD PREMIERE
Stateside Theatre on Wednesday, March 14 at 4:15 PM
Alamo Ritz 2 on Saturday, March 17 at 11:30 AM
Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story
Steve Sullivan’s debut feature documentary Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story tells a twisted tale of split personalities.
Chris Sievey was a songwriter, artist, comedian and wayward genius. A man whose life was a fantastic, subversive piece of performance art.
His greatest creation, the mysterious Frank Sidebottom becomes a star – a manic, insane, mercurial star who obscures his own creator – playing at Wembley Stadium, getting his TV show and building an army of fans.
Chris Sievey grows to resent his creation and descends into alcoholism and bankruptcy, but his genius cannot survive without ‘Being Frank’. So Chris devises a master plan…
Facebook: www.facebook.com/BeingFrankDoc/
Twitter: @BeingFrankDoc
Website: www.beingfrankmovie.com
Stoll Vaughan is an Americana artist who has seized the opportunities that well written and thoughtfully recorded songs can provide. For Vaughan’s newest album, “The Conversation”, the artist joined forces with Tête-à-Tête, a creative studio founded by filmmaker Austin Lynch and Artist Case Simmons, to create a series of stripped down videos documenting five acoustic performances and the landscapes and people they convey in and around Los Angeles. The videos and music will be released worldwide on Thursday, March 15, 2018 on iTunes, Vimeo and other digital platforms.
His first two records, Hold on Thru Sleep and Dreams, and Love Like a Mule produced by Mike Wanchic respectfully hit the top 10 on the Americana charts. Vaughanhas toured alongside names like Mellencamp, Marty Stuart, James McMurtry, Don Williams and John Fogerty and played venues including the Hollywood Bowl and Jones Beach. His music has been featured prominently on major motion pictures and network TV series such as "True Blood", "The Office (US)", "Friday Night Lights", "Shameless", "A World Made Straight" and countless others. He has also been the composer for "David Lynch’s Interview Project", (for which it garnered a Webby Award), "Really" written and directed by Jay Chandrasekhar, and The Making Of "There Will Be Blood".
Keeping his work completely independent, he founded his own music publishing company, Commonwealth Artists, with collaborator Mike Wanchic. Vaughan has created the foundation and leverage needed to thrive in the fragmented world of music.
For More:
http://www.stollvaughan.com
WPVC 94.7 is a FM radio station serving the Charlottesville area. Founded by Jeff Lenert and Rod Howard the station plans to serve up a mix of progressive talk radio during the day and hip-hop music during the evening.
“There are needs in the market that aren’t currently being met,” said Jeff Lenert, a probation officer who co-founded the station, WPVC 94.7FM, with local businessman Rod Howard. Lenert, who has served as the executive director for PACEM, the nonprofit that provides shelter for the homeless, pointed out that while Charlottesville already has a variety of local and nationally syndicated conservative talk radio shows, it doesn’t fill what he sees as a hunger for locally produced progressive content.
“This is a progressive city, and it stands to reason that it would support this kind of programming.”
The station is also working on a partnership with the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center to produce programming focused on issues important to the local African-American community.
“Our mission is to provide an opportunity for people who are currently underserved in the media to get their message out,” said Lenert.
Lenert and Howard both hope the evening hip-hop format will attract a young listenership, and those hours will also feature segments addressing issues including domestic violence, education, and substance abuse.
For More, Please Visit:
http://www.c-ville.com/listen-up-charlottesville-radio-dial-about-to-get-progressively-busier/#.Wp1HuujwbIV
http://www.cvillepodcast.com/2015/11/08/wake-up-call-wpvc-co-founder-jeff-lenert/
WPVC 94.7 is a FM radio station serving the Charlottesville area. Founded by Jeff Lenert and Rod Howard the station plans to serve up a mix of progressive talk radio during the day and hip-hop music during the evening hours.
“There are needs in the market that aren’t currently being met,” said Jeff Lenert, a probation officer who co-founded the station, WPVC 94.7FM, with local businessman Rod Howard. Lenert, who has served as the executive director for PACEM, the nonprofit that provides shelter for the homeless, pointed out that while Charlottesville already has a variety of local and nationally syndicated conservative talk radio shows, it doesn’t fill what he sees as a hunger for locally produced progressive radio content.
“This is a progressive city, and it stands to reason that it would support this kind of programming,” he said.
The station is also working on a partnership with the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center to produce programming focused on issues important to the local African-American community.
“Our mission is to provide an opportunity for people who are currently underserved in the media to get their message out,” said Lenert.
Lenert and Howard both hope the evening hip-hop format will attract a young listenership, and those hours will also feature segments addressing issues including domestic violence, education, and substance abuse.
For More, Please Visit:
http://www.c-ville.com/listen-up-charlottesville-radio-dial-about-to-get-progressively-busier/#.Wp1HuujwbIV
http://www.cvillepodcast.com/2015/11/08/wake-up-call-wpvc-co-founder-jeff-lenert/
Justin Sarafin is Director of Preservation Initiatives and Engagement with Preservation Virginia. He joined the organization after having worked at Jefferson’s Monticello for more than a decade. Justin graduated from Wheaton College (Massachusetts) and the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia. He is an architectural historian and historic preservationist.
For More, Please Visit:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virginia-rosenwald-school-network-meeting-registration-42645697429
https://preservationva.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=8e99b251059e4f57b192cf5347854618
https://preservationvirginia.org/programs/statewide-rosenwald-school-initiative
Justin Sarafin is Director of Preservation Initiatives and Engagement with Preservation Virginia. He joined the organization after having worked at Jefferson’s Monticello for more than a decade. Justin graduated from Wheaton College (Massachusetts) and the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia. He is an architectural historian and historic preservationist.
For More, Please Visit:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virginia-rosenwald-school-network-meeting-registration-42645697429
https://preservationva.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=8e99b251059e4f57b192cf5347854618
https://preservationvirginia.org/programs/statewide-rosenwald-school-initiative
The World Peace Game is a hands-on political simulation that gives players the opportunity to explore the connectedness of the global community through the lens of the economic, social, and environmental crises and the imminent threat of war. The goal of the game is to extricate each country from dangerous circumstances and achieve global prosperity with the least amount of military intervention. As “nation teams,” students will gain greater understanding of the critical impact of information and how it is used.
As their teams venture further into this interactive social setting laced with highly charged philosophical issues, the skills needed to identify ambiguity and bias in the information they receive will be enhanced and more specifically they will rapidly perceive that reactive behavior not only provokes antagonism, it can leave them alone and isolated in the face of powerful enemies. Beliefs and values will evolve or completely unravel as they begin to experience the positive impact and windows of opportunity that emerge through effective collaboration and refined communication.
In essence, as meaning is constructed out of chaos and new creative solutions are proposed, World Peace Game players will learn to live and work comfortably at the frontiers of the unknown.
For more, please visit:
http://worldpeacegame.org/
Co-founder of 34 Million Friends of the United Nations Population Fund, Jane Roberts has an M.A. in French from the Middlebury College Graduate School of French in France. In 2001 she joined the PLANET campaign sponsored by the Hewlett and Packard Foundations to try to urge Americans to support international family planning, and in 2003 traveled to Mali and Senegal as a guest of UNFPA to see their work on site. In 2003 she was one of the Women of the Year for MS Magazine and received a Special Recognition Award from the Population, Reproductive Health, and Family Planning branch of the American Public Health Association, and in 2005 with Lois Abraham, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by the 1000 Peace Women Project under the patronage of UNESCO in Bern, Switzerland. In 2005 her book “34 MILLION FRIENDS of the Women of the World” was published by LadybugPress.
Since 2002, Jane has traveled to over 35 states and spoken at over 60 colleges and universities and to civic, law, environmental, women’s, church, and public health groups about 34 Million Friends and the deeper issues of gender inequality, global health, and particularly reproductive health. In 200, she was named Purpose Prize Fellow through Civic Ventures, and in 2009 was awarded the Global Citizenship Award from the United Nations Association, Southern California Division.
For More, Please Visit:
www.34millionfriends.org
Leslie is a graduate of Yale University with a distinguished career in journalism that spanned thirty-five years. A producer for CBS News “60 Minutes”, a correspondent for PBS “Frontline”, a Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton, a writer and author, Leslie has won two Emmys, two George Polk Awards, two Columbia Dupont journalism awards, and the Robert F. Kennedy Award. She has covered the major issues of our time, from the financial meltdown to nuclear weapons, from radical jihad to the drug cartels. She covered the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Colombia, Cambodia and Central America.
Leslie and her husband Andrew bought their farm in Rappahannock County, Virginia in 1999. Rappahannock County hugs the Blue Ridge Mountains, has many more cows than people and has yet to install a stoplight. It is a place of unsurpassed beauty, where people care deeply about conservation and community. It is also a place where income disparity is acute, where the community services, as fine as they are, must be enhanced to serve all.
Leslie has done many years of community service on the boards of the Piedmont Environmental Council and the Krebser Fund in Rappahannock, both dedicated to conservation. She has been engaged in battles against unnecessary power lines, pipeline and uranium mining.
Leslie and Andrew (Washington Editor of Harper’s Magazine) celebrated their 40th anniversary this year and have three children and four grandchildren. Their daughter Olivia Wilde is starring in “1984” on Broadway and their daughter Chloe is a Harvard-trained attorney who has devoted her life to criminal justice. Their son Charlie is a writer.
For More, Please Visit:
https://www.lesliecockburnforcongress.com/
Peter Rousselot is the immediate Past Chair of the Arlington County Democratic Committee. He has served as the Arlington Chair of the successful 2010 Jim Moran for Congress campaign in Arlington, and also served on DPVA’s Strategic Planning Committee. He also ran for Chair of the Democratic Party of Virginia and was affiliated with the Washington, DC law firm of Hogan & Hartson (now known as Hogan Lovells) for 28 years (Associate: 1966-1974; Equity Partner: 1975-1994; Member, Executive Committee: 1986-1988).
Peter is Summa Cum Laude, Yale University; JD, Harvard Law School. He is an Op Ed Columnist at Peter’s Take and ARLnow.com, and board member for Together Virginia, a new PAC dedicated to fostering conversations among Virginians, with a particular focus on rural voters.
Adarsh Ramakrishnan
Adarsh Ramakrishnan is an entrepreneur with a passion for design and education. Adarsh graduated from the University of Virginia where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Currently, he is the CEO of Startship (startship.co), which combines active learning techniques with great design to provide a better learning experience. He has been involved with mentorship and volunteering through numerous startup ecosystems, including the Charlottesville and Richmond scenes.
Ryan Donahue
Ryan Donahue is an entrepreneur and world traveler. After studying Materials Engineering at the University of Virginia, Ryan set out on a multi-year voyage, traveling across four continents and dozens of countries. After traveling through Asia and Europe, he settled in Australia to work in the beer brewing industry as well as in academic research. During his travels in South America, Ryan co-founded Startship, an online active learning platform, and currently serves as its CTO.
Startship
STARTSHIP is a professional education platform which delivers high quality content across a variety of topics. Content within each journey is unique and approachable, allowing beginners and advanced learners alike to build new approaches within various subjects.
Erica Arvold is the founder of arvold., a casting, production, and education company based in Charlottesville, VA and Atlanta, GA. She most recently developed story for the feature script Shoeless Wonders. Erica & team cast the indie feature Teacher’s Pet, Permanent, served as location casting for Jeff Nichols’ feature film Loving, the AMC series Turn: Washington’s Spies and three seasons of Netflix’s House of Cards. She produced and cast the indie film Josephine, served as associate producer and casting director on Coming Through the Rye, Wish You Well, Texas Rein, helped cast feature films Ithaca and Badge of Faith, National Geographic’s Killing Kennedy as well as helmed the casting for Ridley & Tony Scott’s Killing Lincoln and Hallmark Movie Channel’s Lake Effects. Erica began her dual role as producer and casting director with the psychological thriller House Hunting. She has been nominated for CSA’s prestigious Artios Award four times - for the films Loving and Elemental in 2017, Big Stone Gap in 2016 and Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln in 2013. Over the past 28 years, Erica has contributed to and participated in the making of over 130 films, 80 television projects and numerous short form and commercial projects. In 2012, she was inducted into the First Lady of Virginia’s Opportunity Hall of Fame for her contribution to the economic growth in the state. She is a member of the Casting Society of America and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
Ashley Warner is author of the award-winning rape memoir The Year After, and its companion workbook, The Year After Journal: Your Guide to Reclaiming Personal Power After Rape. She maintains a private practice in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis specializing in trauma, anxiety, transitions, and sexual assault recovery in New York City and globally via online platforms.
Julia Wade is one of those rare and gifted crossover vocalists who can handle both worlds (Classical and Pop) with great style and grace. On top of it all, she is a singer who has the ability to get deeply into the lyric and magically inspire the audience.
Peter Link is probably best known for his work as a composer/lyricist. His CD, Thru Me, is a compilation of some of his favorite songs that he has written throughout his long and varied career. His Ode To Joy album is a mostly instrumental and personal statement on the joys of life. He has also produced and orchestrated for many of the Watchfire artists: Julia Wade, Mindy Jostyn, Jenny Burton, Tom Tipton, Osceola Davis, and Bobby Stanton, to name a few.
For More, Please Visit:
http://www.watchfiremusic.com/artist.php?arid=7
http://www.watchfiremusic.com/artist.php?arid=2
Susan Bro is the mother of Heather Heyer, a central figure in the counter-protest against the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville Virginia, August 12th, 2017. Heather was tragically killed when a car plowed into a crowd of counter-protestors. Death has only magnified Heather, and thanks to her sacrifice, millions have been inspired to stand up for justice and against hatred.
Muscles With Russel’s mission is to use therapy dogs to motivate children and their families to make a life style change that will improve socialization, encourage positive behavior and develop good eating habits for their life going forward.
For More, Please Visit:
http://www.muscleswithrussell.com/About.php
Stephen Davis joined CIC as its first President in April, 2013. He brings a decade of experience in organization building, management, consulting and education. He hopes to harness that experience to guide CIC in training, financing and mentoring the next generation of entrepreneurs in Central Virginia. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance and Master’s degree in Education from James Madison University. CIC identified the elements essential for micro-enterprise success in Charlottesville.CIC offers financing, education, mentoring, and networking opportunities.Cultivating a local business network that connects aspiring entrepreneurs with existing entrepreneursConnects city officials with nonprofit service providersConnects state agents with local businesspeopleBringing together the impressive experience and expertise found in Charlottesville For more, please visit:
https://www.cicville.org/
Kim Drew Wright is the founder of LWCC - Liberal Women of Chesterfield County & Beyond, which started 2 days after the 2016 presidential election and has rapidly grown to almost 3,000 members. LWCC strives to connect people, educate citizens, and advance equality. LWCC, also, has neighborhood groups and advocacy groups that are active in the community and with the current Virginia House of Delegate races.
Kim is an award-winning author. Her fiction and poetry has been published in numerous journals and anthologies. Her debut collection of short stories and poems, The Strangeness of Men, won Finalist in the USA Best Book Awards and a Silver IPPY. Kim lives in North Chesterfield with her husband and three children. She loves animals, craft beer, and paddle boarding.
This Week in Richmond gives Virginians an in-depth look at important developments and decisions coming out of the capitol. From budget cuts to regulatory affairs, the program spotlights the latest happenings at the General Assembly. It provides timely insights and behind-the-headlines analysis of the most recent news about taxes, education and other matters that are critical to people in our region.
State capitol veteran, David Bailey, is the host of the show. Bailey captures first-hand perspectives of state legislators and other voices from the Capitol. He also presents viewers with unique analysis and thoughtful perspective on important issues of regional interest.
For More, Please Visit:
http://ideastations.org/tags/week-richmond
Andrea Miller is the Chair of the people’s budget Campaign and Executive Director of People Demanding Action, a multi-issue advocacy group. She is both an organizer and digital advocacy expert. Andrea has appeared on the Thom Hartmann show, hosts the Progressive Round Table and is an IT professional!
Andrea Miller is also responsible for PD Action's digital strategy and customizes advocacy tools for small to medium size organizations through the Progressive Support Project.
Al Durante wants to represent the people in Richmond, to put their needs above party politics, to do what’s best for the community. Al wants state government to work for everyone in his district, the 54th House District (Spotsylvania and Caroline counties), not just incumbent politicians and special interests.
Al’s wife Jeanne and he have been active residents for nearly 10 years, becoming involved in various initiatives improving the community. Jeanne (Dr. Jeanne Wesley) is Vice President for Workforce at Germanna Community College. Al is a retired teacher (high school, college, and university). He’s been involved in local politics and is currently Chair of the Spotsylvania County Democratic Committee. Al also serves as Committee Chair of One Virginia 2021 for the five-county greater Fredericksburg region (non-partisan redistricting reform advocacy).
Al knows the challenges everyday life can bring, from his time teaching photography to gang members and other at-risk youth (as a Texas Commission on the Arts Artist-in-Residence in San Antonio at an Alternative High School) as well as growing up in a regular working class household. His dad was a factory worker, and shop steward for the Teamsters, and his mom was a server in a cafeteria at the World Trade Center. After his parents divorced when he was a young boy, his single parent mother and he lived in a housing project, and for a time they were fortunate to have support from the benefits of government assistance when she was out of work.
Informed by these challenges, Al knows the value of education, and the future that it can offer the youth. He knows the importance of workforce training and certification and what that means to job prospects and the economic development of our communities.
For More, Please Visit:
https://duranteforva.com/
Dr. Edward Rogers is the Chief Knowledge Officer at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Maryland. Dr. Rogers joined NASA in May 2003 as the Center’s Chief Knowledge Architect working first in the Safety and Mission Assurance Directorate and then in the Office of Mission Success. He became the Chief Knowledge Officer for the Center in 2006.
At Goddard, he has built a set of knowledge management practices that strategically support the Center’s overall mission of designing, developing and flying space missions and continuously improving space communications. He introduced the simple yet effective Pause and Learn (PaL) process, which allows project teams to reflect on their experience and improve organizational learning. He developed an internal case study methodology and used it to create Goddard-specific case studies for use in training sessions and workshops. He designed (and runs) the Goddard Road to Mission Success workshop series which helps employees across organizational boundaries to better understand how the Center works, promotes knowledge sharing and ultimately strengthens collaboration across the Center. His programs and initiatives have also been embraced within the Agency.
Dr. Rogers is a frequent guest lecturer in MBA classes and at Federal Agencies in the Washington, DC area. Since 2009 he has been a visiting faculty member at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India where he teaches a popular course on Managing Complexity. He has authored or co-authored a number of papers, articles and case studies. In 1996, he appeared as a guest on the Oprah Winfrey show.
Email: edward.w.rogers@nasa.gov
Website: http://www.nasa.gov/goddard/ocko
Sheila Bynum-Coleman is a native of Chesterfield County, where she graduated from Monacan High School where she was a member of the track and basketball teams. Sheila attended Virginia Commonwealth University, where she received her B.A. from the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs, with a major in Political Science and a minor in International Studies.
Sheila Bynum-Coleman is a wife and mother of five. Her children attend Chesterfield County Public Schools, with her oldest child received her B.A. from Virginia Wesleyan College and will be attending Eastern Virginia Medical School in the fall. On February 28th, 2017, Sheila was sworn in as a member of the Board of Contractors, the first African American woman to do so.
Sheila began her career as a licensed real estate agent. She expanded her real estate services and founded R.H. Coleman Enterprises LLC, headquartered in Chesterfield County which operates in fifteen states around the country providing services for bank foreclosures and default properties.
Sheila has volunteered as a mentor with at risk youth along with providing counseling services. She has worked to help citizens being released from prison with job placement and housing recently Sheila and her husband opened a transition home offering housing for men that are homeless coming from the prison system. Their program involves housing, job training, credit repair and counseling services.
Sheila volunteers with Veterans Helping Veterans, Guardians and several other community and civic organizations, linking the needs of the community to people and programs providing assistance. She has also worked as a children’s advocate for over ten years.
For More:
https://www.sheilafordelegate.com/
Brian Cannon became the Executive Director of OneVirginia2021 in January 2015. He brings over a decade of experience in non-profit leadership, community building, fundraising, and bipartisan advocacy for state policy issues. Previously, he worked as a consultant with startups and high-growth companies. While in law school, Brian studied election law and was on one of the winning teams in the 2011 state-wide redistricting competition.
Brian is a double William and Mary graduate (2011 JD, 2004 BA). He and his wife, Kelly, live in Richmond, Virginia with their son. When not working on redistricting reform, he serves on several non-profit boards and plays rec league football.
Guy is professor emeritus of conservation biology at the University of Arizona and is the leading voice of abrupt climate change. Because he receives no paycheck, his unswerving commitment to compiling and presenting evidence is untarnished by money. If you want the facts, no matter how dire, he is your source. He lives on the homestead he created in rural, southern New Mexico upon leaving active service at the university in 2009.
Book Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib3WVhg4uMc
For More, Please Visit:
https://www.amazon.com/Guy-R.-McPherson/e/B001IXMAWY
https://cals.arizona.edu/~grm/
Emerge trains Democratic women to run for office with a seven-month program.
Emerge Virginia is changing the face of Virginia politics by identifying, training and encouraging women to run for office, get elected and to seek higher office. Their intensive, cohort-based six-month training program is unique. As the number of elected Democratic women remains flat or even declines, the need for Emerge’s work is growing.
Virginia became a state in 1788 but has yet to elect a female governor. Despite being more than 50% of the population, currently, less than 18% of Virginia state legislators are women.
A pool of highly qualified Democratic candidates is being left untapped. Too often, women do not see themselves running for office—they assume they aren’t experienced enough or they don’t know where to begin. Emerge Virginia is changing that!
Emerge Virginia is an affiliate of Emerge America, a national organization currently working in 17 states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
For More:
www.emergeva.org
Sophie Robinson is the Executive Producer and Director of Outreach for The Age of Consequences. Sophie is a former grassroots climate organizer who has changed paths to pursue filmmaking for social change. Sophie has Psychology and Environmental Science degrees from Williams College, and is currently working toward a Master’s degree in Sustainability and Environmental Management from Harvard.
Film web site: theageofconsequences.com
Production company web site: pfpictures.com
FB: https://www.facebook.com/theageofconsequences/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/aoconsequences
Along the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Charlottesville and Albemarle County offer a unique experience in a picturesque setting!
Delight in the finest restaurants, attend our events, stroll the brick-lined Downtown Mall or taste fruits and vino at our 30+ local orchards and vineyards.
Make sure to toast to the area's most famous son, Thomas Jefferson. Today, his legacy lives at our two UNESCO World Heritage Sites: the grounds of his home, Monticello, and at the University of Virginia.
For More, Please Visit:
https://www.visitcharlottesville.org/
Preservation Virginia holds the notable distinction of being the first statewide historic preservation organization in the nation. Founded in 1889 as the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, we have a proud legacy of saving, preserving, promoting and serving as an advocate for Virginia’s historic places—more than 160 places.
Seven strangers journey to a village in Bosnia-Herzegovina to investigate reports of miracles and supernatural phenomena. Join two atheists, one believer, a mother struggling with cancer, a man diagnosed with ALS, a struggling addict, and a woman questioning her faith as they search for answers to life’s big questions on Apparition Hill.
For More, Please See:
www.apparitionhill.org
www.facebook.com/apparitionhillmovie
https://vimeo.com/stellamarfilms
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY1t3cDTUVsClMsOQBgZsDw
the bomb, created by Smriti Keshari and Eric Schlosser, is a groundbreaking experience that immerses you in the strange, compelling, and unsettling reality of nuclear weapons.
“Half the population of the U.S. were not yet born or were children when the Cold War ended, so there is a profound lack of knowledge about nuclear weapons,” said Schlosser. “There are more than 15,000 of these weapons in the world right now, buried underground and out of sight. The danger never went away; the awareness of it did. We hope the bomb will introduce a new generation to the threat posed by nuclear weapons – a threat as urgent and existential as the one posed by climate change, but which gets little if any attention.”
For more, please visit:
https://www.netflix.com/title/80080106
Along the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Charlottesville and Albemarle County offer a unique experience in a picturesque setting!
Delight in the finest restaurants, attend our events, stroll the brick-lined Downtown Mall or taste fruits and vino at our 30+ local orchards and vineyards.
Make sure to toast to the area's most famous son, Thomas Jefferson. Today, his legacy lives at our two UNESCO World Heritage Sites: the grounds of his home, Monticello, and at the University of Virginia.
For More, Please Visit:
https://www.visitcharlottesville.org/
Melissa Dart is running for the 56th District of the Virginia House of Delegates to fight for the rights of all Virginians. A healthcare administration professional and a graduate of VCU with a Masters in Science and Health Administration, Melissa understands the importance of quality affordable healthcare and has the knowledge and experience to make sure that the residents of Henrico, Louisa, Goochland, and Spotsylvania counties receive they care they deserve.
As the mother of three young boys, Melissa is deeply committed to ensuring the continuing excellence of public education in the district. Melissa serves on the Henrico County Special Education Advisory Committee where she advocates for her son Leo and 6,000 children in Henrico County with special needs. With daily threats encroaching on public education funding, Melissa wants to work in the House of Delegates to create a state-level firewall to protect special needs students throughout the commonwealth.
For more, please visit:
https://www.facebook.com/Dart4Delegate/
https://www.crowdpac.com/campaigns/207486/melissa-dart-for-virginia-house-of-delegates-district-56
https://ballotpedia.org/Melissa_Dart
Sue Friedman has been a board member of the Albemarle County Rotary Club, Forest Lakes Community Association, League of Women Voters/Charlottesville-Albemarle County, and the I Have A Dream Foundation. She is a Leaders’ Leader Award Winner, was elected to the Albemarle County School Board as Rivanna District representative in 2003, served as an Executive Staff Leadership Planning Team Member for the Alzheimer’s Association (National), 2010-2012, and much more. She has given dozens of presentations to organizations, businesses, and conferences, including keynote speaker for the 2011 Quadraplicity Women’s Conference, Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce.
For more information, please visit:
www.alz.org/cwva
Sue Friedman has been a board member of the Albemarle County Rotary Club, Forest Lakes Community Association, League of Women Voters/Charlottesville-Albemarle County, and the I Have A Dream Foundation. She is a Leaders’ Leader Award Winner, was elected to the Albemarle County School Board as Rivanna District representative in 2003, served as an Executive Staff Leadership Planning Team Member for the Alzheimer’s Association (National), 2010-2012, and much more. She has given dozens of presentations to organizations, businesses, and conferences, including keynote speaker for the 2011 Quadraplicity Women’s Conference, Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce.
For more information, please visit:
www.alz.org/cwva
Seven strangers journey to a village in Bosnia-Herzegovina to investigate reports of miracles and supernatural phenomena. Join two atheists, one believer, a mother struggling with cancer, a man diagnosed with ALS, a struggling addict, and a woman questioning her faith as they search for answers to life’s big questions on Apparition Hill.
For more, please visit:
www.apparitionhill.org
www.facebook.com/apparitionhillmovie
https://vimeo.com/stellamarfilms
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY1t3cDTUVsClMsOQBgZsDw
Seven strangers journey to a village in Bosnia-Herzegovina to investigate reports of miracles and supernatural phenomena. Join two atheists, one believer, a mother struggling with cancer, a man diagnosed with ALS, a struggling addict, and a woman questioning her faith as they search for answers to life’s big questions on Apparition Hill.
For more, please visit:
www.apparitionhill.org
www.facebook.com/apparitionhillmovie
https://vimeo.com/stellamarfilms
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY1t3cDTUVsClMsOQBgZsDw
Dan is the Director of Strategic Mentoring, based in Charlottesville, Dan is also the principal of Syntient. Dan's Doctoral Degree is in Psychology from the University of Kansas. Dan's consultant expertise includes coaching for professional and personal development. He brings a deep experience in working with married couples. He works to foster leadership skills based upon authentic communication, collaborative thinking and staff development. He works within organizations to foster organizational capability at the individual, team and organizational levels. Dan is a speaker and teacher who places a strong emphasis on continuous learning; both for himself and in client organizations. His goal is to help client companies realize their untapped potential.
Dan Elash has over 35 years of experience helping business organizations, teams, and individuals realize their potentials. His role has been to guide their vision, thought and practice in ways that led to better results through higher productivity. As a leader, visionary, counselor, and strategic thinker, Dan Elash brings a deep background in behavioral science and broad business experience to his role as a mentor. The goal has always been to help deliver the value that organizations and individuals promise to their customers and stakeholders. This includes helping organizations nurture and leverage their financial, human, and intellectual capital.
E-mail: delash@syntient.com and visit www.syntient.com or www.strategicmentoring.us
David D. Greene III is the founder, president and CEO of Urbanomics Consulting Group, a Washington, D.C., public relations firm the media strategies of which are designed to build awareness, credibility and influence for clients in order that they may impact key public policy issues.
A former marketing consultant and strategic planning and business development manager at a leading management consulting firm, Greene always knew he would one day be an entrepreneur. The seeds for the now-flourishing Urbanomics Consulting Group were planted during an experimental learning program sponsored by the Kellogg Foundation, he says. He relished the opportunity to be engaged in expanding the influence of people of color in business, public policy and social issues.
Greene enjoys writing and has visions of teaching college courses on entrepreneurship. He places great value on his relationships with family and friends and stresses the importance of healthy relationships in general, both personal and professional. He views himself somewhat as a humanitarian, with a “passion for people” that greatly influenced his career path.
Greene graduated from the State University of New York at Stony Brook with a bachelor of arts in sociology and business marketing. He acquired certification in focus-group moderation from RIVA Institute for Group Process Mastery, in Rockville, Md., and is certified as a professional facilitator by the International Association of Facilitators. He received a fellowship to the M. Carl Holman Leadership Development Institute, a leadership and urban-policy program of the National Urban Coalition funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
Steve Wimberly EP, Director at Peppertree Films about his Don Siegelman Documentary Killing Atticus Finch. Killing Atticus Finch is a documentary of how an innocent man was politically assassinated by some of the most notorious names in American politics.
The whole story of how former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman was railroaded into prison remains unknown to most of the public. Justice has not been served. This documentary tells the whole story behind DonSiegelman's malicious prosecution and wrongful conviction. Steve Wimberly studied at Emory UniversityGoizueta Bussiness School and at Harvard University.
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) is a worker-based human rights organization internationally recognized for its achievements in the fields of social responsibility, human trafficking, and gender-based violence at work. Built on a foundation of farmworker community organizing starting in 1993, and reinforced with the creation of a national consumer network since 2000, CIW’s work has steadily grown over more than twenty years to encompass three broad and overlapping spheres:
In 2011, CIW launched the Fair Food Program (FFP), a groundbreaking model for Worker-driven Social Responsibility (WSR) based on a unique partnership among farmworkers, Florida tomato growers, and participating retail buyers, including Subway, Whole Foods, and Walmart. In 2015, the Program expanded into tomatoes in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Maryland, Virginia and New Jersey, as well as Florida strawberries and peppers.
For More, Please Visit:
http://www.ciw-online.org/
Judith Reagan has performed in numerous films, including Coming Through the Rye,Walking Marshall Walker, Trading Mom, Dave, Paternity, Toy Soldiers, Love Field, and True Colors. She has appeared in a number of television programs, including Listen to Me, Through the Legal Maze, The Guiding Light, All My Children, One Life to Live, Love of Life, and Loving. She has also appeared in commercials, participated in voiceovers, and performed in theater and plays such as Taming of the Shrew and Steel Magnolias. She also teaches public speaking in education, law, architecture, politics, and business.
Richard studied in New York City with Michael Howard and performed in NYC at Manhattan Theatre Club, Chelsea Theatre Center, W.P.A. Theatre and Douglas Fairbanks Theatre. He has acted regionally in over one hundred roles in such theatres as Hippodrome State Theater, GEVA Theatre, Florida Studio Theatre, SideShow Theatre Company, Paper Mill Playhouse, P.A.F. Playhouse, Olney Theatre and TheatreVirginia. Film credits include: Homer Benson in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln; Dr. Ezra Abbott in Ridley Scott’s Killing Lincoln; Chester Bowles in Killing Kennedy; Marshall Walker in Waking Marshall Walker (Screened at over 40 film festivals) and Vic LeClue in Patriot Son (LA Film Fest, Telluride). Richard appeared as L.P. Everett in the episode, “The 20% Solution” for the television program, Homicide, Life on the Street. Richard received the University of Virginia’s Outstanding Teacher Award in 1991, the Mayo Distinguished Teaching Professorship in 1998 and was selected as an inaugural member of the University Academy of Teaching in 2011.
Heather Hill was raised in Northern NY, the oldest of three sisters. She earned a degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech, and her first job after graduation was with IBM where she maximized efficiencies through development and improvement of manufacturing and supply chain systems and became a lead manufacturing engineer.
When Heather first moved to Charlottesville, she put her process and continuous improvement experience to work in the clinical research industry before earning her MBA from UVA’s Darden School of Business. During her two years in Minneapolis, she worked in brand management for General Mills where she was tasked to project manage a broad cross functional team to achieve over $20MM in sustainable cost reductions not valued by consumers. It was also during this time that she trained for and completed two half ironman triathlons.
One of the first things Heather took on in Charlottesville was in support of establishing a major fundraising event for the Shelter for Help in Emergency, whose mission was to end domestic violence in the community. She led the marketing efforts for the Charlottesville Design House from its inception through two annual events (and nearly two pregnancies!) and is proud of what that team accomplished. Soon after, Heather joined the board of the North Downtown Residents Association, and now serves as President.
With the support of the neighborhood Board, Heather led the effort working with the City on upgrades to the playground at McGuffey Park in 2014 to better serve its smallest of visitors who come from far beyond the downtown neighborhood for outdoor play.
Andrea Miller, Executive Director and IT Director, was the Democratic Nominee in 2008 for House of Representatives in the Virginia 4th District. Running on a Medicare for All and clean energy platform, Andrea was endorsed by PDA, California Nurses and The Sierra Club. Prior to running for office, Andrea was a part of Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s presidential campaign, first as Statewide Coordinator for Virginia and subsequently as Regional Coordinator. From 2006 until leading the VA Kucinich campaign Andrea was MoveOn.org’s Regional Coordinator for Central, Southwest and Hampton Roads areas of Virginia and West Virginia. Andrea is also the PDA Virginia co-chair as well as the Technical Director. Andrea co-hosts, organizes and programs PDA's Blog Talk Radio show. She is also the lead designer and production team leader for PDA's websites and printed materials. Andrea co-directs PDA's Capitol Hill letter drops and Hill meetings. Her problem-solving skills are essential to PDA's operations.
Jeffrey E. Fogel is a Charlottesville-based attorney. For More, Please See:
http://www.nbc29.com/story/34335616/jeff-fogel-expected-to-enter-race-for-cville-commonwealths-attorney
http://www.c-ville.com/tag/jeff-fogel/
Colleen Kelly is a founding board member of the Association of Theatre Movement Educators and recipient of the ATME Lifetime Achievement Award. She is a past vice president of the Virginia Theatre Association and a past vice president of the Society of American Fight Directors. Colleen, a member of Actors’ Equity Association, has worked professionally as an actor, director, fight director, and dance choreographer. Her work has been seen at professional theatres such as the American Shakespeare Center, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Denver Center Theatre, Dallas Theatre Center, the Old Globe Theatres, La Jolla Playhouse, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Clarence Brown Theatre, and San Diego Repertory Theatre. Film and TV credits include dance choreography for the film Sommersby and fight direction for the PBS television series Tell About the South. Publications include articles in Theatre Symposium and The Fight Master. Colleen has taught at the University of San Diego/Old Globe Theatres, headed the Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s MFA/Professional Actor Training Program and served as director of training at the American Shakespeare Center. For the U.Va. Department of Drama, Colleen has directed several productions including Chicago, 1940′s Radio Hour, The Imaginary Invalid and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Colleen has been a master teacher for projects supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities and has given presentations at several national and international conferences. Grant awards include a Teaching Tolerance Grant from the Southern Poverty Law Center and the U.Va. Fall 2012 Challenge for Newly Hybrid Technology-Enhanced Courses. Colleen earned her M.F.A. at Ohio University and B.S and M.A degrees at Eastern Michigan University.
Hospitality Homes is a nonprofit organization that provides short-term housing in volunteer host homes for families and friends of patients receiving medical care in the Boston area. Our services are free of charge and are made possible by the generosity of our volunteer hosts and supporters.
Founded in 1983, Hospitality Homes was the first program of its kind in the nation. Since then we have served more than 15,300 families. The need for convenient, caring, and cost-free accommodations for patients’ family members increases every year.
For More, Please Visit:
http://hosp.org/
Jack Robertson is the Fiske and Marie Kimball Librarian at Monticello’s Jefferson Library where he has worked since the founding of the library in 2000. Prior to this he directed U.Va.’s Fiske Kimball Fine Arts Library for 13 years and had also worked at the National Gallery of Art Library and Vanderbilt University’s Arts Library. He has taught at Vanderbilt, Univ of Maryland, U.Va. and currently teaches classes at U.Va.’s OLLI program.
After her celebrated debut, “The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas”, Elina Psykou returns with “Son of Sofia”, a dark, yet tender coming-of-age fairytale that strikes a masterful balance between realism and dreams, much like its young lead.
The story revolves around 11-year-old Misha, who flies from Russia to Athens in the summer of 2004, to join his mother, Sofia, after having spent a long time apart. What he doesn’t know is that there is a father waiting for him there. While Greece is living the Olympic dream, Misha will get violently catapulted into the adult world, riding on the dark side of his favorite fairy tales.
The film is produced by Heretic, co-produced by Chouchkov Brothers and Kinoelektron, and supported by the Greek Film Center, the Centre National du Cine´ma et de l'Image Anime´e, the Bulgarian National Film Center, Eurimages, Creative Europe, ERT and Berlinale Residency. Heretic Outreach is handling world sales.
Public Screening Schedule:
1st Screening - 04/21/2017, 6:30 PM at REGAL-05
2nd Screening - 04/22/2017, 4:45 PM at CIN-01
3rd Screening - 04/23/2017, 6:45 PM at REGAL-09
4th Screening - 04/28/2017, 4:00 PM at CIN-09
Press/Industry Screening Schedule:
Press/Industry Screening 1 - 04/23/2017, 10:45 AM at CIN-01
Please contact WeimanSeid@FATDOT.net for interview opportunities with writer/director Elina Psykou, producers Giorgos Karnavas and Konstantinos Kontovrakis, and actors Victor Khomut, Valery Tscheplanowa, Thanassis, Papageorgiou and Artemios Havalits.
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SonofSofia
After her celebrated debut, “The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas”, Elina Psykou returns with “Son of Sofia”, a dark, yet tender coming-of-age fairytale that strikes a masterful balance between realism and dreams, much like its young lead.
The story revolves around 11-year-old Misha, who flies from Russia to Athens in the summer of 2004, to join his mother, Sofia, after having spent a long time apart. What he doesn’t know is that there is a father waiting for him there. While Greece is living the Olympic dream, Misha will get violently catapulted into the adult world, riding on the dark side of his favorite fairy tales.
The film is produced by Heretic, co-produced by Chouchkov Brothers and Kinoelektron, and supported by the Greek Film Center, the Centre National du Cine´ma et de l'Image Anime´e, the Bulgarian National Film Center, Eurimages, Creative Europe, ERT and Berlinale Residency. Heretic Outreach is handling world sales.
Public Screening Schedule:
1st Screening - 04/21/2017, 6:30 PM at REGAL-05
2nd Screening - 04/22/2017, 4:45 PM at CIN-01
3rd Screening - 04/23/2017, 6:45 PM at REGAL-09
4th Screening - 04/28/2017, 4:00 PM at CIN-09
Press/Industry Screening Schedule:
Press/Industry Screening 1 - 04/23/2017, 10:45 AM at CIN-01
Please contact WeimanSeid@FATDOT.net for interview opportunities with writer/director Elina Psykou, producers Giorgos Karnavas and Konstantinos Kontovrakis, and actors Victor Khomut, Valery Tscheplanowa, Thanassis, Papageorgiou and Artemios Havalits.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SonofSofia/
SonofSofia
After her celebrated debut, “The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas”, Elina Psykou returns with “Son of Sofia”, a dark, yet tender coming-of-age fairytale that strikes a masterful balance between realism and dreams, much like its young lead.
The story revolves around 11-year-old Misha, who flies from Russia to Athens in the summer of 2004, to join his mother, Sofia, after having spent a long time apart. What he doesn’t know is that there is a father waiting for him there. While Greece is living the Olympic dream, Misha will get violently catapulted into the adult world, riding on the dark side of his favorite fairy tales.
The film is produced by Heretic, co-produced by Chouchkov Brothers and Kinoelektron, and supported by the Greek Film Center, the Centre National du Cine´ma et de l'Image Anime´e, the Bulgarian National Film Center, Eurimages, Creative Europe, ERT and Berlinale Residency. Heretic Outreach is handling world sales.
Public Screening Schedule:
1st Screening - 04/21/2017, 6:30 PM at REGAL-05
2nd Screening - 04/22/2017, 4:45 PM at CIN-01
3rd Screening - 04/23/2017, 6:45 PM at REGAL-09
4th Screening - 04/28/2017, 4:00 PM at CIN-09
Press/Industry Screening Schedule:
Press/Industry Screening 1 - 04/23/2017, 10:45 AM at CIN-01
Please contact WeimanSeid@FATDOT.net for interview opportunities with writer/director Elina Psykou, producers Giorgos Karnavas and Konstantinos Kontovrakis, and actors Victor Khomut, Valery Tscheplanowa, Thanassis, Papageorgiou and Artemios Havalits.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SonofSofia/
SonofSofia
The Arc of the Piedmont
Mission
Ensuring full community inclusion and participation of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities through the provision of services and advocacy.
Values
The principles that govern our behavior and the way we do business are: Personal choicePerson-centeredRespectAccountabilityProfessionalismAdvocacy Vision
To be the leading provider of services and advocacy for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Dr. Rogers is the Chief Knowledge Officer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. He received a Ph.D. from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations focusing on the role of cooperation in high tech firms. In the early 1980s he performed five years of international relief work in Southern Lebanon. Prior to returning to academic work at Cornell, Dr. Rogers operated a private consulting business focused on knowledge workers and intelligent enterprise. His research applies game theory to human behavior in organizations. He has consulted with a number of organizations on building conceptual transparency, learning, and leveraging collective knowledge. He teaches an MBA course at the top-ranked Indian School of Business on Managing Complexity. He has conducted numerous executive education sessions on conceptual thinking helping managers to ‘see’ their own decision-making models.
While working as an actor in New York City, Richard studied with Michael Howard and performed at Manhattan Theatre Club, Chelsea Theatre Center, W.P.A. Theatre and Douglas Fairbanks Theatre. He has acted regionally in over one hundred roles in many prestigious regional theaters.
Film credits include: Homer Benson in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln (2011); Dr. Ezra Abbott in Ridley Scott’s Killing Lincoln (2012); Chester Bowles in National Geographic channel’s Killing Kennedy (2013); Vic LeClue in Patriot Son, winner of the 1998 LA Film Fest’s independent short category and selected to show at the Telluride Festival. In 2014 Richard played the lead opposite Grey’s Anatomy’s Sarah Drew in the short film, Waking Marshall Walker. This film was selected for viewing at over 40 film festivals. This past year he appeared in Farewell Old Stringy in the leading role of Davey.
As a director, he has staged Hamlet,A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, Hedda Gabler, Hay Fever, A Raisin in the Sun, Cloud Nine, Fuddy Meers, The Foreigner, A Man for All Seasons, Misalliance, Suddenly Last Summer, Six Characters in Search of an Author, and More.
Richard has been teaching acting at the University of Virginia for 30 years where he has had the honor of coaching many talented UVa actors including Tina Fey, Ben McKenzie (Gotham, The O.C.), Sean Patrick Thomas (Cruel Intensions, Barbershop), Jason George (Grey’s Anatomy, Mistresses), Sarah Drew (Grey’s Anatomy, Everwood) and Emily Swallow (Supernatural, The Mentalist). He received the UVa’s Outstanding Teacher Award in 1991.
Anne G'Fellers-Mason is a native of East Tennessee, a blue dot in a red state. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and History from Mars Hill University in 2007, her Master of Arts in History from East Tennessee State University in 2013, and her Master of Fine Arts in Playwriting in 2016. Since 2008, Anne has worked for the Heritage Alliance of Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia, a small non-profit that works to preserve the history and cultural heritage of the northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia region. Through her work, Anne combines her research skills with her playwriting skills to create original, local history based plays that engage audiences in new ways and help them appreciate the history all around them. Her biggest goal in life is always to be sure that history never repeats itself. She lives in Jonesborough, TN, the oldest town in the Volunteer State, with her husband and two cats.
Jeffrey E. Fogel is a Charlottesville-based attorney. For More, Please See:
http://www.nbc29.com/story/34335616/jeff-fogel-expected-to-enter-race-for-cville-commonwealths-attorney
http://www.c-ville.com/tag/jeff-fogel/
Erica Arvold has been a guest instructor and speaker for over 20 years, sharing insights from a career as a casting director and producer that spans major studio films, television shows and multimedia projects. She has had the honor of collaborating with and serving students and faculty at universities, schools and acting studios across the country, including the University of Virginia, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Regent University, George Mason University, Longwood University, The Robert Mello Studio, Actor’s Arsenal, TRAIN/Cadence Theatre at Virginia Repertory, and The Renaissance School, among others. Her festival appearances as a panelist, moderator and mentor include the Austin Film Festival Screenwriters Conference, Virginia Film Festival, Richmond International Film Festival and the Independent Television Festival. She has been the keynote speaker for organizations outside of the filmmaking industry, such as the Philanthropic Educators Organization (PEO) and the Charlottesville Area Association of Realtors (CAAR). In 2010, Erica founded arvold.education with the goal of raising the bar for all film artists through training and collaboration. arvold.education offers master classes for actors and also sponsors events, panels & discussions on all aspects of the industry.
Erica created and taught a six (6) week class titled The Art of Casting for the University of Virginia for those aspiring to enter the field of casting. She utilizes her training at The Theatre School, DePaul University (formerly The Goodman School of Drama) and, as the daughter of a professor, Erica believes that we are and will always be students of one another and that she continues to grow as an artist herself.
For More, Please Visit:
www.arvold.com
Erica Arvold has been a guest instructor and speaker for over 20 years, sharing insights from a career as a casting director and producer that spans major studio films, television shows and multimedia projects. She has had the honor of collaborating with and serving students and faculty at universities, schools and acting studios across the country, including the University of Virginia, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Regent University, George Mason University, Longwood University, The Robert Mello Studio, Actor’s Arsenal, TRAIN/Cadence Theatre at Virginia Repertory, and The Renaissance School, among others. Her festival appearances as a panelist, moderator and mentor include the Austin Film Festival Screenwriters Conference, Virginia Film Festival, Richmond International Film Festival and the Independent Television Festival. She has been the keynote speaker for organizations outside of the filmmaking industry, such as the Philanthropic Educators Organization (PEO) and the Charlottesville Area Association of Realtors (CAAR). In 2010, Erica founded arvold.education with the goal of raising the bar for all film artists through training and collaboration. arvold.education offers master classes for actors and also sponsors events, panels & discussions on all aspects of the industry.
Erica created and taught a six (6) week class titled The Art of Casting for the University of Virginia for those aspiring to enter the field of casting. She utilizes her training at The Theatre School, DePaul University (formerly The Goodman School of Drama) and, as the daughter of a professor, Erica believes that we are and will always be students of one another and that she continues to grow as an artist herself.
For More, Please Visit:
www.arvold.com
Andrea Miller, Co-Executive Director and IT Director of People Demanding Action, was the Democratic Nominee in 2008 for House of Representatives in the Virginia 4th District. Running on a Medicare for All and clean energy platform, Andrea was endorsed by PDA, California Nurses and The Sierra Club. Prior to running for office, Andrea was a part of Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s presidential campaign, first as Statewide Coordinator for Virginia and subsequently as Regional Coordinator. From 2006 until leading the VA Kucinich campaign Andrea was MoveOn.org’s Regional Coordinator for Central, Southwest and Hampton Roads areas of Virginia and West Virginia. Andrea is also the PDA Virginia co-chair as well as the Technical Director. Andrea co-hosts, organizes and programs PDA's Blog Talk Radio show. She is also the lead designer and production team leader for PDA's websites and printed materials. Andrea co-directs PDA's Capitol Hill letter drops and Hill meetings. Her problem-solving skills are essential to PDA's operations.
For More, Please Visit:
http://www.peopledemandingaction.org/pda-radio/itemlist/user/431-andreamiller
Join Us for a TRV Podcast with Jessiah Mansfield and Christopher Hays on Activism, Local Government, the Woman’s March, and More.
Jessiah Mansfield is a local hairdresser in Charlottesville Va, mother, and dreamer. Jessiah loves the outdoors, cooking, and reading. She’d love to own a bakery and believes music has the power to take us out of our heads and free us for a bit. She believes we all have a voice and the power to make a change, and that we should use our gifts to make a positive and peaceful impact on our community. She believes that now more than ever we need to come together and resist the hate and divisiveness filling our country.
Join Us every Monday at 5PM for a New TRV Podcast.
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Daniella Gibbs Léger is the Senior Vice President for Communications and Strategy at American Progress. Previously, she was the organization’s Senior Vice President for American Values and New Communities, where her work focused on the intersection of politics, race, demographic change, religion, and values.
Prior to joining American Progress, Daniella served as a special assistant to the president and director of message events in the Obama administration. In this role she was responsible for helping to plan and execute the president’s official domestic events.
Daniella has also been the deputy director of communications at the Democratic National Committee, where she began working in June 2002 as communications director for the Women’s Vote Center in the political department. During her tenure at the Democratic National Committee, Daniella also handled African American and specialty media and was a regional media director during the 2004 presidential cycle.
Daniella has been a guest on numerous TV and radio shows and has been quoted in various print publications. Her columns have been posted on Huffington Post and TheGrio.com, and she is currently a contributing columnist for Essence.com.
Daniella Gibbs Léger is the Senior Vice President for Communications and Strategy at American Progress. Previously, she was the organization’s Senior Vice President for American Values and New Communities, where her work focused on the intersection of politics, race, demographic change, religion, and values.
Prior to joining American Progress, Daniella served as a special assistant to the president and director of message events in the Obama administration. In this role she was responsible for helping to plan and execute the president’s official domestic events.
Daniella has also been the deputy director of communications at the Democratic National Committee, where she began working in June 2002 as communications director for the Women’s Vote Center in the political department. During her tenure at the Democratic National Committee, Daniella also handled African American and specialty media and was a regional media director during the 2004 presidential cycle.
Daniella has been a guest on numerous TV and radio shows and has been quoted in various print publications. Her columns have been posted on Huffington Post and TheGrio.com, and she is currently a contributing columnist for Essence.com.
Bernard Hankins is a musician, filmmaker, spoken word poet, and creative catalyst. Originally from Chesapeake, he lives in Charlottesville. Bernard teaches workshops for adults and children on Hip Hop, poetry, and creative identity. He is co-founder of Cypher, an idea-generation and branding consulting venture that uses Hip Hop and word-play to help companies generate brand names. Bernard holds a degree in Architecture from UVa.
Poet, Teacher, Public Speaker
Tedx Charlottesville, "Integrating People of Color"
www.bernardhankins.com
www.cypherideas.com
Dr. Lynn Rainville • Digital Humanist, Historian, & Anthropologist • Director, Tusculum Institute at Sweet Briar College • www.lynnrainville.org
Recent Work: Sweet Briar College History Book • World War I Memorials •
African American Cemeteries •
ANDREA DOUGLAS, PhD - Executive Director Jefferson School African American Heritage Center
Jody brings nearly 15 years of marketing, branding, and design expertise to her role as the communications specialist for Albemarle County. She oversees the County website, media relations, e-newsletter (A-mail), and social media, as well as designs publications and highly visible marketing materials including reports, brochures, and advertisements.
Jody came to the County from the private sector and immediately found communicating for local government to be a perfect intersection of her marketing and design skills. She finds working alongside her passionate and civic-minded colleagues to be extremely rewarding and meaningful and has a passion for communicating complex information in an understandable and digestible way.
Jody grew up in California wine country but moved to Virginia nearly 20 years ago. She received her bachelor of arts in graphic design from James Madison University. She lives with her husband and her dog in Earlysville.
The County's Mission, Vision, and Values
Mission
To enhance the well-being and quality of life for all citizens through the provision of the highest level of public service consistent with the prudent use of public funds.
Vision
A thriving County, anchored by a strong economy and excellent education system, that honors its rural heritage, scenic beauty and natural and historic resources while fostering attractive and vibrant communities.
Values
Integrity | Innovation | Stewardship | Learning
For More, Please Visit:
https://www.albemarle.org/department.asp?department=ctyexec
Founder and Creative Director of The Reasonable Voice, Mr. Rollando has lived an incredibly productive and creative life: to name a few things, he has directed Nixon’s Nixon in New York and 1776 in Philadelphia for the bicentennial, was Franco in NBC’s Another World, worked at Juilliard, interviewed prominent names from the Congress to Tribeca Film Festival – in other words if you can think it, Marcello has probably done it.
For More, Please Visit:
http://www.thereasonablevoice.com/
Andrea Miller, Co-Executive Director and IT Director, was the Democratic Nominee in 2008 for House of Representatives in the Virginia 4th District. Running on a Medicare for All and clean energy platform, Andrea was endorsed by PDA, California Nurses and The Sierra Club. Prior to running for office, Andrea was a part of Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s presidential campaign, first as Statewide Coordinator for Virginia and subsequently as Regional Coordinator. From 2006 until leading the VA Kucinich campaign Andrea was MoveOn.org’s Regional Coordinator for Central, Southwest and Hampton Roads areas of Virginia and West Virginia. Andrea is also the PDA Virginia co-chair as well as the Technical Director. Andrea co-hosts, organizes and programs PDA's Blog Talk Radio show. She is also the lead designer and production team leader for PDA's websites and printed materials. Andrea co-directs PDA's Capitol Hill letter drops and Hill meetings. Her problem-solving skills are essential to PDA's operations.
For More, Please Visit:
http://www.peopledemandingaction.org/pda-radio/itemlist/user/431-andreamiller
Andrea Miller, Co-Executive Director and IT Director, was the Democratic Nominee in 2008 for House of Representatives in the Virginia 4th District. Running on a Medicare for All and clean energy platform, Andrea was endorsed by PDA, California Nurses and The Sierra Club. Prior to running for office, Andrea was a part of Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s presidential campaign, first as Statewide Coordinator for Virginia and subsequently as Regional Coordinator. From 2006 until leading the VA Kucinich campaign Andrea was MoveOn.org’s Regional Coordinator for Central, Southwest and Hampton Roads areas of Virginia and West Virginia. Andrea is also the PDA Virginia co-chair as well as the Technical Director. Andrea co-hosts, organizes and programs PDA's Blog Talk Radio show. She is also the lead designer and production team leader for PDA's websites and printed materials. Andrea co-directs PDA's Capitol Hill letter drops and Hill meetings. Her problem-solving skills are essential to PDA's operations.
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Carl Anderson is a singer-songwriter who according to The Bluegrass Situation, “melds classic Nashville instrumentation, Muscle Shoals flourishes, and West Texas poeticism into a perfectly balanced musical pastiche." Originally from Charlottesville, he first found success behind the scenes as a songwriter, contributing to Andrew Combs’ Worried Man album among others. His latest single, Not Forgotten You, is a sunny follow-up to his acclaimed 2015 LP Risk Of Loss, filled with songs of pain and redemption. He recently performed at the 2016 Stagecoach Music Festival in Indio, CA. www.thecarlanderson.com
Seven strangers journey to a village in Bosnia-Herzegovina to investigate reports of miracles and supernatural phenomena. Join two atheists, one believer, a mother struggling with cancer, a man diagnosed with ALS, a struggling addict, and a woman questioning her faith as they search for answers to life’s big questions on Apparition Hill.
APPARITION HILL opening in New York on Friday, November 25
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The Worst Generation attempts to reflect into individual lives the results of large-scale choices of American society in recent decades. It is character Jenny Alhouse’s indictment of her parents’ generation’s contributions to the world. Her recounting of childhood shows much she is thankful for—a stable, caring home, times kayaking with her father, family trips, a quality education, the benefits of prosperity. But she tells the story from her adulthood, and includes the things she could not see as a child: the economic and environmental plundering and inconsideration imbedded in her upbringing that leave her world unstable, uncivil, and unsafe.
Dan P. Greaney has worked in education and the outdoors since his youth. Influences on him include a degree in English from Stanford, a teaching credential through UC, Davis, a Catholic upbringing, and years of working with youth—in the classroom, through outdoor science schools, summer camps, and the National Park Service. Now he works in university outreach for California State University at Chico, leads walks and writes for his local Audubon, and participates in community development efforts. He lives in northern California with his wife, a teacher; their two children are grown and mostly out of the house, developing their contributions to the world.
When Dean (Lucas Near-Verbrugghe), a graphic designer in Los Angeles, reconnects with Alex (Aaron Costa Ganis), an ex-boyfriend he hasn’t seen or heard from in 15 years, his life is upended. Over the course of a weekend at a vacation house in the desert, the two men open up old wounds, reveal secrets, and determine whether or not they have a future together. Written and directed by Emmy, Gotham, GLAAD and Independent Spirit Award Nominee Tim Kirkman (Dear Jesse, Loggerheads, The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me) and co-starring Michaela Watkins (Casual, Wet Hot American Summer), Lazy Eye is about roads not taken, unfinished business, and the struggle to adjust to progressive lenses.
Kirkman is represented by Robin Budd of Viewfinder Management. LAZY EYE is produced by T42 Entertainment which is headed by Kirkman and producer and Human Rights Campaign Award-Winner Todd Shotz (executive producer of Paramount’s Ghost Team One and former development exec on films such as Live Free or Die Hard). Executive producers are Independent Spirit Award Nominee Gill Holland (Over 100 feature films, including Sweet Land, Hurricane Streets, Flow: For Love of Water), Howard Rosenman ("The Celluloid Closet", "Father of the Bride", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer") and Leesa Wagner. LAZY EYE's cinematographer is Emmy Award-winning Gabe Mayhan (All The Birds Have Flown South, Greater) and actor John Ainsworth (Charlie, Proposition 8: Reenactment) is a co-executive producer. Partial funding for the film is provided by the LGBT film nonprofit More Than Friends Film Funding founded by Jan Miller Corran (exec producer of "I'll See You in My Dreams").
When Dean (Lucas Near-Verbrugghe), a graphic designer in Los Angeles, reconnects with Alex (Aaron Costa Ganis), an ex-boyfriend he hasn’t seen or heard from in 15 years, his life is upended. Over the course of a weekend at a vacation house in the desert, the two men open up old wounds, reveal secrets, and determine whether or not they have a future together. Written and directed by Emmy, Gotham, GLAAD and Independent Spirit Award Nominee Tim Kirkman (Dear Jesse, Loggerheads, The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me) and co-starring Michaela Watkins (Casual, Wet Hot American Summer), Lazy Eye is about roads not taken, unfinished business, and the struggle to adjust to progressive lenses.
Kirkman is represented by Robin Budd of Viewfinder Management. LAZY EYE is produced by T42 Entertainment which is headed by Kirkman and producer and Human Rights Campaign Award-Winner Todd Shotz (executive producer of Paramount’s Ghost Team One and former development exec on films such as Live Free or Die Hard). Executive producers are Independent Spirit Award Nominee Gill Holland (Over 100 feature films, including Sweet Land, Hurricane Streets, Flow: For Love of Water), Howard Rosenman ("The Celluloid Closet", "Father of the Bride", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer") and Leesa Wagner. LAZY EYE's cinematographer is Emmy Award-winning Gabe Mayhan (All The Birds Have Flown South, Greater) and actor John Ainsworth (Charlie, Proposition 8: Reenactment) is a co-executive producer. Partial funding for the film is provided by the LGBT film nonprofit More Than Friends Film Funding founded by Jan Miller Corran (exec producer of "I'll See You in My Dreams").
‘“The Killing Season’ takes viewers on a chilling ride through the unknown and is a perfect example of impactful storytelling that drives the cultural conversation,” says Elaine Frontain Bryant, EVP and Head of Programming, A&E. “The Killing Season” premieres with back-to-back episodes Saturday, November 12th at 9PM ET.
Working with amateur cyber-sleuths, Zeman and Mills uncover a web of eerie connections to unsolved murders from Atlantic City to Daytona Beach and beyond -- revealing that serial killers are targeting sex workers in record numbers, while using the Internet as their virtual hunting ground. Many of the victims, often referred to as the “Missing Missing,” are never accounted for and their murders are far less likely to be solved.
This gripping eight-episode series is a deep-dive into a world of serial murder rarely seen before, going beyond pop-culture stereotypes to expose a real-life American nightmare. However, with the help of Websleuths.com and data journalists, Zeman and Mills learn that everyday citizens can make a difference -- by uncovering clues that police cannot, in hopes that one day, “The Killing Season” will end.
“The Killing Season” is produced for A&E Network by Jigsaw Productions and Gigantic Pictures. The series is directed by Joshua Zeman. Executive producers for Jigsaw Productions are Alex Gibney, Joshua Zeman, Rachel Mills, Stacey Offman, and Dave Snyder, and Co-Executive Producers are Brad Hebert, Richard Perello and Showrunner Ben Parry. Executive producers for A&E are Shelly Tatro and Brad Abramson.
‘“The Killing Season’ takes viewers on a chilling ride through the unknown and is a perfect example of impactful storytelling that drives the cultural conversation,” says Elaine Frontain Bryant, EVP and Head of Programming, A&E. “The Killing Season” premieres with back-to-back episodes Saturday, November 12th at 9PM ET.
Working with amateur cyber-sleuths, Zeman and Mills uncover a web of eerie connections to unsolved murders from Atlantic City to Daytona Beach and beyond -- revealing that serial killers are targeting sex workers in record numbers, while using the Internet as their virtual hunting ground. Many of the victims, often referred to as the “Missing Missing,” are never accounted for and their murders are far less likely to be solved.
This gripping eight-episode series is a deep-dive into a world of serial murder rarely seen before, going beyond pop-culture stereotypes to expose a real-life American nightmare. However, with the help of Websleuths.com and data journalists, Zeman and Mills learn that everyday citizens can make a difference -- by uncovering clues that police cannot, in hopes that one day, “The Killing Season” will end.
“The Killing Season” is produced for A&E Network by Jigsaw Productions and Gigantic Pictures. The series is directed by Joshua Zeman. Executive producers for Jigsaw Productions are Alex Gibney, Joshua Zeman, Rachel Mills, Stacey Offman, and Dave Snyder, and Co-Executive Producers are Brad Hebert, Richard Perello and Showrunner Ben Parry. Executive producers for A&E are Shelly Tatro and Brad Abramson.
Written and performed by Fisk and Anderson and produced by Wilson and Fisk, "Restless Heart" will be available on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, Google Play and other platforms on September 23, 2016.
Schuyler Fisk is a songwriter and singer and actor. Her debut album The Good Stuff debuted on Billboard’s Heatseekers Chart and at #1 on the iTunes Singer/Songwriter Chart. Her active grassroots following has garnered her hundreds of thousands of monthly spotify subscribers and over 7 million plays on a single songs. She has toured North America, Europe and Japan with artists including Sheryl Crow, Tori Amos, Rachael Yamagata, Joshua Radin, and The Weepies.
Carl Anderson is a singer-songwriter who according to The Bluegrass Situation, “melds classic Nashville instrumentation, Muscle Shoals flourishes, and West Texas poeticism into a perfectly balanced musical pastiche." Originally from Charlottesville, he first found success behind the scenes as a songwriter, contributing to Andrew Combs’ Worried Man album among others. His latest single, Not Forgotten You, is a sunny followup to his acclaimed 2015 LP Risk Of Loss, filled with songs of pain and redemption.
Sam Wilson is the eldest of the brothers in the cosmic Americana group Sons of Bill, whose four studio albums and decade of international touring has garnered praise from some of the world’s top critics including The Guardian who dubbed them “Virginia's scholarly heirs to R.E.M.” A classical guitar major who spent years as a jazz musician in New York City, Sam is also an adept producer, studio owner, and multi-instrumentalist, lending his full range of talents to this new collaborative single.
John Rachel has a B. A. in Philosophy, has traveled extensively, is a songwriter, music producer, novelist, and a bi-polar humanist. He has spent his entire life trying to resolve the intrinsic clash between the metaphysical purity of Buddhism and the overwhelming appeal of narcissism. Prompted by the trauma of graduating high school and having to leave his beloved city of Detroit to attend university, the development of his social skills and world view were arrested at age 18. This affliction figures prominently in all of his creative work.
Since 2008, when he first embarked on his career as a novelist, he has had eight fiction and two non-fiction books published. These range from three satires and a coming-of-age trilogy, to a political drama and now a crime thriller. The two non-fiction works were also political, his attempt to address the crisis of democracy and pandemic corruption in the governing institutions of America.
The author’s last permanent residence in America was Portland, Oregon where he had a state-of-the-art ProTools recording studio, music production house, a radio promotion and music publishing company. He recorded and produced several artists in the Pacific Northwest, releasing and promoting their music on radio across America and overseas.
John Rachel now lives in a quiet, traditional, rural Japanese community, where he sets his non-existent watch by the thrice-daily ringing of sonorous temple bells, at a local Shinto shrine.
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Eileen Bedell has proudly called Virginia home since she was born. After graduating from high school in Fairfax at the age of 16, Eileen received her bachelor’s degree magna cum laude at Virginia Tech and was inducted as a member of the prestigious Phi Beta Kappa Society, an honor she shares with many of our nation’s great leaders including John Quincy Adams, Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Always knowing Virginia was where she wanted to raise a family, Eileen attended the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William & Mary and began her practice in central Virginia nearly 20 years ago. Throughout her professional career, Eileen has focused her work on the representation of individuals and small businesses, helping them navigate the legal process and ensuring their interests are protected when it matters most.
As both a small business owner and a mother, Eileen lives the challenges Virginians face every day juggling the desire for economic security with devotion to family and a commitment to setting the right example for our children and grandchildren to follow in the future. With the support of her husband, Colin, her daughter, Sadie, and her son, Elery, Eileen looks forward to representing, fighting for, and protecting the interests of all the citizens of Virginia’s 7th congressional district.
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The Worst Generation attempts to reflect into individual lives the results of large-scale choices of American society in recent decades. It is character Jenny Alhouse’s indictment of her parents’ generation’s contributions to the world. Her recounting of childhood shows much she is thankful for—a stable, caring home, times kayaking with her father, family trips, a quality education, the benefits of prosperity. But she tells the story from her adulthood, and includes the things she could not see as a child: the economic and environmental plundering and inconsideration imbedded in her upbringing that leave her world unstable, uncivil, and unsafe.
Dan P. Greaney has worked in education and the outdoors since his youth. Influences on him include a degree in English from Stanford, a teaching credential through UC, Davis, a Catholic upbringing, and years of working with youth—in the classroom, through outdoor science schools, summer camps, and the National Park Service. Now he works in university outreach for California State University at Chico, leads walks and writes for his local Audubon, and participates in community development efforts. He lives in northern California with his wife, a teacher; their two children are grown and mostly out of the house, developing their contributions to the world.
The Worst Generation is due out from the Roundfire imprint of John Hunt Publishing on September 30, 2016. It can be viewed at amazon.com.
New York, NY (9/1/15) – Writer/Performer Tulis McCall will present her latest solo work All ABOARD : A Woman of a Certain Age Sticks Her Fingers Into The Light Socket of Life And Invites You To Hold Hands, a funny, poignant and gently in-your-face rumination on arriving at the inevitable and being unprepared. ALL ABOARD is part of the United Solo Festival with a performance on Friday, September 25th at 7:30pm at The Studio Theatre @ Theatre Row (410 West 42nd Street – just east of Broadway.) For further information, please visit allaboard.nyc.
Tulis McCall is an actor, writer, producer and performer. Since 2007, she has hosted Monologues and Madness,an evening of original work read by 12-15 actors, each month at the Cornelia Street Café in Greenwich Village. She is the author of two previous one-person shows, What Everywoman Knows – a historical comedy combined with the true and often neglected stories of our foremothers - was produced at the Public Theatre in New York by Michael Moriarty and the Potters Field Theatre Company and at the West Coast Ensemble in Los Angeles by Dan Lauria, Joanna Kerns and Peter Gatien. McCall has tuored this show to theatres, colleges and high schools in over 40 states. Her second one-person show, Running With Scissors - stories of contemporary urban lives - was directed by Philip Proctor of the Firesign Theatre and became Critic’s Choice of both the L.A. Weekly and Backstage West.
HELIO is a short, visceral film centered on a post apocalyptic underground society where miners work for light to survive. But when a dying rebel thrusts the unexpected onto an unassuming worker’s lap, all hell breaks loose. What begins as one man’s race to escape the hostile government quickly escalates into a city-wide uprising of the people.
Teddy Cecil - Writer/Director
Born and raised in New York, Teddy Cecil moved out to Los Angeles in 2009 upon completing his film studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. HELIO represents his first sincere foray into writing, directing and producing his own material.
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Delegate Marcus Simon is a lifelong resident of Fairfax County, where he currently resides with his wife Rachel, and two children, Emily and Zachary.
Marcus’s public service career began right after graduating college when he went to work for former Delegate Jim Scott as a legislative aide. From there, he worked for the Providence District Supervisor and then the Chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors.
After graduating from Law School, Marcus received his Commission as an officer in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps. His first assignment was the Military District of Washington and Ft. Myer, in Arlington. As an Army Captain, Marcus served as a prosecutor and also as a part time Special Assistance United States Attorney.
In 2008, Marcus co-founded the Law Firm of Leggett, Simon, Freemyers & Lyon and Ekko Title, a real estate settlement, title and escrow company. In 2015, he began his term as the Chair of the Board of the McLean Chamber of Commerce and served on the Fairfax County Ad Hoc Police Practices Review Committee.
Elected to the House of Delegates in 2013, Marcus is well into his second term representing the 53rd House District. He currently serves on the House Committee on Militia, Police, & Public Safety and the House Committee on Science & Technology.
A mysterious girl pursues a young man in her new small town home. Coinciding deaths and a disappearance create a common thread between them as they struggle with young love and loss over the course of one summer.
Written and directed by Eric Chaney, Isabelle McNally and Robert Olsen star in INDIGO CHILDREN. The film will be digitally released on Tuesday, August 23, 2016 and will be available on iTunes.
www.indigochildrenfilm.com/about
Chaney grew up in New Jersey and studied screenwriting at SUNY Purchase where he graduated from their conservatory program. He is an award winning filmmaker whose work has screened throughout the United States. Eric has worked as an assistant to Fred Zollo, and as a freelance story analyst for New Line Cinema, Fine Line Features, Picturehouse, RHI Entertainment, The IFP Market, Tribeca All Access, and Guy Walks Into a Bar. He has written several feature length screenplays. Indigo Children is his debut feature film as a writer and director.
A mysterious girl pursues a young man in her new small town home. Coinciding deaths and a disappearance create a common thread between them as they struggle with young love and loss over the course of one summer.
Written and directed by Eric Chaney, Isabelle McNally and Robert Olsen star in INDIGO CHILDREN. The film will be digitally released on Tuesday, August 23, 2016 and will be available on iTunes.
www.indigochildrenfilm.com/about
Chaney grew up in New Jersey and studied screenwriting at SUNY Purchase where he graduated from their conservatory program. He is an award winning filmmaker whose work has screened throughout the United States. Eric has worked as an assistant to Fred Zollo, and as a freelance story analyst for New Line Cinema, Fine Line Features, Picturehouse, RHI Entertainment, The IFP Market, Tribeca All Access, and Guy Walks Into a Bar. He has written several feature length screenplays. Indigo Children is his debut feature film as a writer and director.
Career Opportunities in Organized Crime, the first ever feature-length film shot with 360-degree virtual reality cameras, is set for release on Reelhouse.org on Wednesday, August 31, 2016.
According to Oshmyansky, "The film is a an experiment to see what kind of experience a feature-length virtual reality film would be. I'm obviously biased, but I think it turned out great. The film is a whole new kind of cinematic experience that hasn't existed before. We are thrilled to be able to present it at the South by Southwest VR/AR Experience Expo."
For more, please visit www.mafiacareers.com. The website also contains a behind-the-scenes, in-progress cut of the first scene of the movie. Film developments can also be followed on Facebook at www.mafiacareersfacebook.com. On twitter @mafiacareers
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4873012/
A former CIA contractor, who has faked his own death, forms an unlikely bond with a self-employed sex worker while awaiting the arrival of his new identity. She involves him in a deadly conspiracy that puts them both in the cross-hairs of a Russian pimp, a corrupt police detective, and a Honduran drug cartel.
Written and directed by Dan Eberle and starring Alexandra Hellquist, Dan Eberle, Nick Bixby, Alexandra Chelaru, and Chris Graham, SOLE PROPRIETOR is produced by Ashley Sprenkel, Per Anderson and Omar Jackson; Executive Producer Danielle Primiceri. SOLE PROPRIETOR will be theatrically released on Friday, August 12, 2016 in Los Angeles and will be available digitally on Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, and Google Play the same day and date.
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A former CIA contractor, who has faked his own death, forms an unlikely bond with a self-employed sex worker while awaiting the arrival of his new identity. She involves him in a deadly conspiracy that puts them both in the cross-hairs of a Russian pimp, a corrupt police detective, and a Honduran drug cartel.
Written and directed by Dan Eberle and starring Alexandra Hellquist, Dan Eberle, Nick Bixby, Alexandra Chelaru, and Chris Graham, SOLE PROPRIETOR is produced by Ashley Sprenkel, Per Anderson and Omar Jackson; Executive Producer Danielle Primiceri. SOLE PROPRIETOR will be theatrically released on Friday, August 12, 2016 in Los Angeles and will be available digitally on Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, and Google Play the same day and date.
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Diana Egozcue is the Virginia National Organization for Women (NOW) President. Previously, she was the Fredericksburg president prior to 2010. She graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso in 1970 with a BS in Education, and from the University of South Florida in 2001 with an MA in Geography. In her life, she has been an Air Force brat, an Army wife, teacher, mother and in the words of a friend, “an all-around trouble-maker”.
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Sue Friedman has been a board member of the Albemarle County Rotary Club, Forest Lakes Community Association, League of Women Voters/Charlottesville-Albemarle County, and the I Have A Dream Foundation. She is a Leaders’ Leader Award Winner, was elected to the Albemarle County School Board as Rivanna District representative in 2003, served as an Executive Staff Leadership Planning Team Member for the Alzheimer’s Association (National), 2010-2012, and much more. She has given dozens of presentations to organizations, businesses, and conferences, including keynote speaker for the 2011 Quadraplicity Women’s Conference, Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce.
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Awareness building
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How to join the fight
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Walk To End Alzhiemer's
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Caregiver Center
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When a struggling writer, HIV positive for 20+ years, accidentally deposits a $100 birthday check, he is dropped from his health plan for earning too much. In thi snew era of sort-of universal care, can he take a helpless bureaucracy but also come up with $3000 a month to buy meds on his own? Welcome to the world's first AIDS comedy.
Starring James Roday ("Psych"), Danny Glover (Lethal Weapon), Robin Weigert ("Jessica Jones") and Khandi Alexander ("CSI: Miami"); written and directed by Tom Brown and produced by Chris Martin, Richard Lagravenese, and Jim Bloom, PUSHING DEAD will premiere at Frameline and Outfest 2016.
Daria Brezinski, PhD is a Soft Skills expert, professor, concierge anthropological psychologist, socially responsible serial entrepreneur, internationally renowned motivational speaker and author, national consultant and mentor, TV/Radio show host took an overarching, circuitous and unconventional path towards business, health, education and parenting in search of practical, logical, humane, out-of-the-box solutions to problems and issues that give meaning, purpose, value and depth to life.
For thirty years, she researched educational systems, family living models, holistic health modalities, ecological solutions, religious influences, birthing practices, neurophysiological breakthroughs, child-related legislation, genetics and laws around the world, authored publications on a variety of these topics and mentioned in as many more which include Forbes Magazine, US News and World Report, AHP Journal (Association for Humanistic Psychology), New York Times, Echo (alternative magazine), In Business Journal, WABC, WNBC, PBS.
Currently, she is Executive Director of Cyber Security Savvy (for profit) and What Wize Women Want, Inc (non-profit) that Encourages Women’s Voices to Make Informed Choices. As an advocate and counselor for Autistic Young Adults, she assists clients to navigate through lifetime issues, business stumbling blocks, the education, health, legal and financial mazes as well as teaches and coaches from a holistic perspective including as college professor. Besides this, her business accomplishments include her business accomplishments include: a holistic health center (Life Creations™), the first environmentally friendly wholesale/retail store (Earthwise: A Green Store™), women’s promotional/educational enterprise (What Wize Women Want™). Dr. Brezinski is the host of TV Show- What Wize Women Want™ and radio program- Children Come First™.
Donald is a 1982 graduate of American University and a 1986 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law. While at UVA, he met his future wife, Colette, who is currently a prosecutor with the Richmond City Commonwealth Attorney's office. They married in 1988 and are the proud parents of three children.
Donald is a lawyer and partner in the law firm of McEachin & Gee. The firm, specializes in personal injury, and has offices in Richmond, Henrico, Hanover and Mecklenburg.
Donald was the Democratic nominee for Attorney General in 2001 and currently serves as state Senator representing parts of the City of Richmond, a small part of Hanover, including Ashland, Henrico County, and all of Charles City County. In this role he serves as Democratic Caucus Chair.
Donald received his Master of Divinity from the School of Theology at Virginia Union University in 2008.
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Eileen Davis is a professional Nurse, Adjunct Professor, Community advocate and care provider in a clinic for the uninsured in Central Virginia, Eileen is one of the co-founders of Women-Matter.org, dedicated to ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment in the ungratified state of Virginia. Her organization’s efforts have succeeded in passing the Equal Rights amendment with bipartisan support in the Virginia Senate for the last 5 sessions, only to be stuck in committee the the Virginia House of Delegates.
Jim Warren is the Artistic Director and Co-Founder of the American Shakespeare Center. He directed ASC’s first show, Richard III (in which he played Buckingham), and, by the end of the 2016/17 artistic year he will have directed 127 ASC productions, including 32 of Shakespeare’s 38 plays.
Jim co-founded the ASC in 1988 as the traveling troupe: Shenandoah Shakespeare Express. Jim led the growth of the ASC touring season from fourteen performances of Richard III in Virginia to over two hundred performances of three full-length Shakespeare plays and one modern classic in six countries during 1995; in addition, by the end of the millennium, the ASC had performed in 47 US states, the District of Columbia, and one US territory. In 2001, the ASC opened the Blackfriars Playhouse, the world’s only re-creation of Shakespeare’s indoor theatre.
Jim has worn many administrative and artistic hats with the ASC throughout its quarter-of-a-century history. Early on in the ASC’s development, Jim acted, directed, booked the shows, and ran the office out of his apartment. Now he’s part of the management team that runs the company while he also oversees the artistic endeavors of the ASC and its Blackfriars Playhouse. He conducts auditions across the country; casts actors for a touring troupe and two resident troupes; directs several plays each year; hires guest directors, and oversees the direction of all the shows in each
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The mission of the Heifetz International Music Institute is to develop the expressive potential of every performer. Through the innovative and cross-disciplinary Heifetz Performance & Communication Training, the Institute teaches musicians to communicate the emotion of music, beyond mere technical agility and beautiful playing, to explore their creative potential, and to redefine the concert experience.
Founded in 1996, The Heifetz International Music Institute is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the artistic growth and career development of some of the most talented and promising young musicians in the world.
As a six-week summer program, the Institute is founded upon the revolutionary educational concept that young musicians can be taught to communicate the emotion of music, beyond mere technical agility and beautiful playing.
In addition to the intensity of two private lessons, chamber music coachings, and five hours per day of practice time, the students take a series of one hour classes each afternoon (one per day) in public speaking, voice, drama, movement, Health & Wellness, and freedom of expression. This innovative, comprehensive, and cross-disciplinary curriculum can enhance anyone’s ability to become a more expressive, effective communicator.
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Author of The New “N” Word: The White Middle Class and the first person of color to be elected to a statewide office in Oregon, Jim Hill served two terms as State Treasurer, beginning in 1993. Previously, he had served as an Assistant Attorney General at the Oregon Department of Justice, an Oregon State Representative, and an Oregon State Senator. Among his many noted accomplishments, Hill is known for co-sponsoring the establishment of a holiday in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., passing the Anti-Apartheid Act, and introducing a bill to allow Oregon State Lottery funds to enhance Oregon’s economy.
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David Bendernagel was born in New York and raised in Reston, Virginia. He studied art at the University of Virginia and has an M.F.A. in fiction writing and a law degree from the University of Washington. He lives in Reston, Virginia with his family. The End of the City is his debut novel.
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John Rachel has a B. A. in Philosophy, has traveled extensively, is a songwriter, music producer, novelist, and a bi-polar humanist. He has spent his entire life trying to resolve the intrinsic clash between the metaphysical purity of Buddhism and the overwhelming appeal of narcissism. Prompted by the trauma of graduating high school and having to leave his beloved city of Detroit to attend university, the development of his social skills and world view were arrested at age 18. This affliction figures prominently in all of his creative work.
Since 2008, when he first embarked on his career as a novelist, he has had eight fiction and two non-fiction books published. These range from three satires and a coming-of-age trilogy, to a political drama and now a crime thriller. The two non-fiction works were also political, his attempt to address the crisis of democracy and pandemic corruption in the governing institutions of America.
The author’s last permanent residence in America was Portland, Oregon where he had a state-of-the-art ProTools recording studio, music production house, a radio promotion and music publishing company. He recorded and produced several artists in the Pacific Northwest, releasing and promoting their music on radio across America and overseas.
John Rachel now lives in a quiet, traditional, rural Japanese community, where he sets his non-existent watch by the thrice-daily ringing of sonorous temple bells, at a local Shinto shrine.
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http://jdrachel.com/
On January 18, 1926, Cols. Carl Loth and James Patterson opened the doors on Waynesboro’s first vaudeville/silent movie theatre. Its neo-classical façade, fashionable interior, and mighty organ were the wonders of the day. Seeking to take advantage of the post-war boom, the management gutted and expanded the original auditorium in 1949, effectively doubling the seating. Along with a new concession/lounge area and bathrooms the Wayne continued as the entertainment center for the community. In 1980, a fire began in the concession area and travelled upward into the balcony. The conflagration allowed the owners to remodel the auditorium and divide it into two theatres. Twenty years later the management decided to withdraw from the Waynesboro entertainment market and turned the Wayne Theatre over to the city.
In 2000, Waynesboro City Council created the Wayne Theatre Alliance and empowered the group to oversee the revitalization of the Wayne Theatre and with it downtown Waynesboro. In a few short months, the Wayne Theatre Alliance incorporated as a 501(c)3 non-profit and began the journey of making the Wayne not just a movie house, but a center for entertainment and conferences. The mission of the Wayne Theatre Alliance is to enhance the artistic, cultural, educational and economic life of Waynesboro and the surrounding area through the operation of the Wayne Theatre, production of cultural events and partnerships with local, regional and state organizations. From August 2011 to June 2014, the Wayne Theatre Alliance operated a temporary performance venue, WTA’s Gateway. With funding well underway, the focus has returned to the restoration of the Wayne Theatre with an opening date of spring 2016.
For More, Please Visit:
http://waynetheatre.org/
Directed by Jared P. Scott, The Age of Consequences will have its World Premiere at 2016 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival running April 28 - May 8 in the Special Presentations program.
The Hurt Locker meets An Inconvenient Truth, The Age of Consequences investigates the impacts of climate change, resource scarcity, migration, and conflict through the lens of US national security and global stability.
Whether a long-term vulnerability or sudden shock, the film unpacks how water and food shortages, extreme weather, drought, and sea-level rise function as accelerants of instability and catalysts for conflict.
Left unchecked, these threats and risks will continue to grow in scale and frequency, with grave implications for peace and security in the 21st century.
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Sophie Robinson is the Executive Producer and Director of Outreach for The Age of Consequences. Sophie is a former grassroots climate organizer who has changed paths to pursue filmmaking for social change. Sophie has Psychology and Environmental Science degrees from Williams College, and is currently working toward a Master’s degree in Sustainability and Environmental Management from Harvard.
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Film web site: theageofconsequences.com
Production company web site: pfpictures.com
FB: https://www.facebook.com/theageofconsequences/
Directed by Jared P. Scott, The Age of Consequences will have its World Premiere at 2016 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival running April 28 - May 8 in the Special Presentations program.
The Hurt Locker meets An Inconvenient Truth, The Age of Consequences investigates the impacts of climate change, resource scarcity, migration, and conflict through the lens of US national security and global stability.
Whether a long-term vulnerability or sudden shock, the film unpacks how water and food shortages, extreme weather, drought, and sea-level rise function as accelerants of instability and catalysts for conflict.
Left unchecked, these threats and risks will continue to grow in scale and frequency, with grave implications for peace and security in the 21st century.
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Sophie Robinson is the Executive Producer and Director of Outreach for The Age of Consequences. Sophie is a former grassroots climate organizer who has changed paths to pursue filmmaking for social change. Sophie has Psychology and Environmental Science degrees from Williams College, and is currently working toward a Master’s degree in Sustainability and Environmental Management from Harvard.
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Film web site: theageofconsequences.com
Production company web site: pfpictures.com
FB: https://www.facebook.com/theageofconsequences/
the bomb, created by Smriti Keshari and Eric Schlosser, is a groundbreaking multimedia installation that immerses you in the strange, compelling, and unsettling reality of nuclear weapons. The 55-minute film will be projected 360 degrees on massive floor to ceiling screens that surround the audience, as The Acid performs a live score in the center of the space.
the bomb will be performed on April 23 and 24 at Gotham Hall as part of the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, with shows at 7pm and 10pm both evenings. Tickets are available at www.Tribecafilm.com/festival. Also, on April 23, at the School of Visual Arts, the project’s creators and Michael Douglas, the Oscar-winning actor and non-proliferation advocate, will discuss how the less we talk about nuclear weapons, the more dangerous they become. The Tribeca Talk featuring Keshari, Schlosser, and Douglas starts at 5 pm.
“Half the population of the U.S. were not yet born or were children when the Cold War ended, so there is a profound lack of knowledge about nuclear weapons,” said Schlosser. “There are more than 15,000 of these weapons in the world right now, buried underground and out of sight. The danger never went away; the awareness of it did. We hope the bomb will introduce a new generation to the threat posed by nuclear weapons – a threat as urgent and existential as the one posed by climate change, but which gets little if any attention.”
the bomb, created by Smriti Keshari and Eric Schlosser, is a groundbreaking multimedia installation that immerses you in the strange, compelling, and unsettling reality of nuclear weapons. The 55-minute film will be projected 360 degrees on massive floor to ceiling screens that surround the audience, as The Acid performs a live score in the center of the space.
the bomb will be performed on April 23 and 24 at Gotham Hall as part of the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, with shows at 7pm and 10pm both evenings. Tickets are available at www.Tribecafilm.com/festival. Also, on April 23, at the School of Visual Arts, the project’s creators and Michael Douglas, the Oscar-winning actor and non-proliferation advocate, will discuss how the less we talk about nuclear weapons, the more dangerous they become. The Tribeca Talk featuring Keshari, Schlosser, and Douglas starts at 5 pm.
“Half the population of the U.S. were not yet born or were children when the Cold War ended, so there is a profound lack of knowledge about nuclear weapons,” said Schlosser. “There are more than 15,000 of these weapons in the world right now, buried underground and out of sight. The danger never went away; the awareness of it did. We hope the bomb will introduce a new generation to the threat posed by nuclear weapons – a threat as urgent and existential as the one posed by climate change, but which gets little if any attention.”
Gotham Award-winning web series Shugs & Fats, “the feminist hipster Muslim series you didn’t know you were waiting for” (The Forward), presents four new episodes from its yet unreleased Season 3 on Thursday, April 14 at 6pm at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York as part its N.O.W. (New Online Work) Program. The ticketed screening will be held for the public at the Regal Cinemas Battery Park Stadium 11. On April 15, the episodes will be available for viewing online at TribecaFilm.com
Shugs & Fats is a comedy web-series about two Hijabis on a quest to reconcile their long-held cultural beliefs with a new life in “liberated” Brooklyn. The web series won the 2015 Gotham Award for Best Breakthrough Series –Short Form.
Shugs & Fats navigates the absurdities of social conformity through the curious, loud-mouthed perspective of two veiled women. In the world of Brooklyn, where everything and anything is possible and permissible, Shugs (Nadia Manzoor) and Fats (Radhika Vaz) strive to find themselves by adopting the latest Western trends of self-expression and personal growth. In parsing the meaning of everything from Valentines Day to vibrators and feminists, Shugs & Fats is both a cultural commentary and slapstick comedy.
Fore More, Please Visit:
http://shugsandfats.tv/
Guy McPherson is an energetic speaker and talented moderator. He has been labeled an anarchist and eco-terrorist by senior members of the Obama administration. He readily pleads guilty to the former and probably also the latter, depending upon how it is defined.
McPherson has appeared before countless audiences to speak about the two primary consequences of our fossil-fuel addiction: global climate change and energy decline. Because these phenomena impact every aspect of life on Earth, his talks reach a wide variety of audiences such as universities, associations, nonprofits, and numerous educational and scientific symposia and conferences.
Guy is professor emeritus of natural resources and the environment at the University of Arizona, where he taught and conducted research for twenty award-winning years. His scholarly work, which has for many years focused on conservation of biological diversity, has produced more than a dozen book and hundreds of articles. He lives in an off-grid, straw-bale house where he puts into practice his lifelong interest in sustainable living by fully engaging with his rural human community.
For More:
http://guymcpherson.com/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyerZPyOwZdwRQtV66L6VTA
https://www.youtube.com/user/gmcphers0n
Marcello Rollando, The Reasonable Voice, is interviewed by Rosanna Tufts for "The Tufts Get Going'.
For More, Please Visit:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/perfectworldnetwork/2016/04/07/the-tufts-get-going-new-world-order
Career Opportunities in Organized Crime, the first ever feature-length film shot with 360-degree virtual reality cameras. The film, by first-time filmmaker Alex Oshmyansky and Akibimi Productions, LLC, is a "mocku-mentary" that follows the filming of a recruitment video for the Russian mafia.
According to Oshmyansky, "The film is a an experiment to see what kind of experience a feature-length virtual reality film would be. I'm obviously biased, but I think it turned out great. The film is a whole new kind of cinematic experience that hasn't existed before. We are thrilled to be able to present it at the South by Southwest VR/AR Experience Expo."
The film is set to be released to the general public this spring as an app available for download through smartphones, Samsung Gear VR, and the Oculus Rift VR Headset. Total run time is 82 mintues.
The big meat corporations issued an ultimatum to Japan this summer: either drop different tariffs on all agriculture products or you should be kicked out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The threat, coming from the dairy, pork, wheat and rice industries based in the U.S., represented the seriousness of what’s at stake for global agribusiness—and particularly the big meat corporations—in potentially the largest free trade agreement ever negotiated.
The TPP has been called "NAFTA on steroids" for good reason. It includes the NAFTA countries (U.S., Mexico and Canada), as well as nine other Pacific Rim countries (Japan, Vietnam, Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru and Singapore). For global agribusiness, most with operations and connections in multiple TPP countries, the goal is simple: lower tariffs and weaken regulations that support farmers, consumers and rural communities in order to increase exports and imports. As the global meat and dairy trade grows—and the percentage of U.S. production for export rises—the ongoing TPP negotiations have become even more critical to these corporations’ bottom line.
Remarkably, TPP continues to be negotiated in secret as if it were a private commercial agreement, with no effective means for the public to intervene in negotiations. And both the Obama Administration and many in Congress are pushing for fast track, which would allow the administration to complete the secret negotiations and then present the final deal to Congress for an up or down vote—no changes, no amendments. This undemocratic, secretive approach to trade policy is exactly what the global meat industry is banking on.
In this exposé, an intrepid group of Florida farmworkers battle to defeat the $4 trillion global supermarket industry through their ingenious Fair Food program, which partners with growers and retailers to improve working conditions for farm laborers in the United States.
There is more interest in food these days than ever, yet there is very little interest in the hands that pick it. Farmworkers, the foundation of our fresh food industry, are routinely abused and robbed of wages. In extreme cases they can be beaten, sexually harassed or even enslaved – all within the borders of the United States.
Food Chains reveals the human cost in our food supply and the complicity of large buyers of produce like fast food and supermarkets. Fast food is big, but supermarkets are bigger – earning $4 trillion globally. They have tremendous power over the agricultural system. Over the past 3 decades they have drained revenue from their supply chain leaving farmworkers in poverty and forced to work under subhuman conditions. Yet many take no responsibility for this.
The narrative of the film focuses on an intrepid and highly lauded group of tomato pickers from Southern Florida – the Coalition of Immokalee Workers or CIW – who are revolutionizing farm labor. Their story is one of hope and promise for the triumph of morality over corporate greed – to ensure a dignified life for farm workers and a more humane, transparent food chain.
Food Chains premiered at the 2014 Berlin Film Festival and screened subsequently at the Tribeca Film Festival and Guadalajara Film Festival. The film’s Executive Producers include Eva Longoria and Eric Schlosser.
For more, please visit:
http://www.foodchainsfilm.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XXEHZsAkR0
Referencing Homer’s Odyssey, NO WAKE is a mythic story of a widow whose grief is so enormous that she tries to abandon her child, and ends up causing a storm that tears their house from shore. As mother and child are cast adrift, they are faced with a series of challenges in order to survive. The play engages themes of responsibility, the paralysis of grief, the extent of denial, the challenge of empathy, creation & destruction, and our relationships with the other.
In addition, NO WAKE includes a dance installation piece that showcases a brigade of young dancers known as the Water Bearers, comprising over 30 middle-school aged girls, and created in collaboration with residents of Friendship Court. The Water Bearers will perform from roughly 7pm to 8pm as part of each NO WAKE performance.
The Public Artist program is The Bridge’s annual artist-in-residence program. The program provides financial, logistical, and organizational support for an artist to make a piece that directly impacts the Charlottesville community through its production and presentation.
Jennifer Hoyt Tidwell, the 2016 Public Artist, is a Charlottesville performance artist best known for her collaborative work with theatre company Performers Exchange Project (PEP), which co-produced the 2006 A Charlottesville Wunderkammer and 2007’s SHENTAI at the IX Building. In 2008 she co-founded the Charlottesville Lady Arm Wrestlers (CLAW). In addition, Jennifer is an accomplished playwright, and the instigator of a host of other creative projects.
Career Opportunities in Organized Crime, the first ever feature-length film shot with 360-degree virtual reality cameras, is set to premiere at the VR/AR Experience Expo at SXSW in Austin, Texas. The film will be presented from March 16th – March 18th.
The film, by first-time filmmaker Alex Oshmyansky and Akibimi Productions, LLC, is a "mocku-mentary" that follows the filming of a recruitment video for the Russian mafia.
According to Oshmyansky, "The film is a an experiment to see what kind of experience a feature-length virtual reality film would be. I'm obviously biased, but I think it turned out great. The film is a whole new kind of cinematic experience that hasn't existed before. We are thrilled to be able to present it at the South by Southwest VR/AR Experience Expo."
The film is set to be released to the general public this spring as an app available for download through smartphones, Samsung Gear VR, and the Oculus Rift VR Headset. Total run time is 82 mintues.
To schedule a time-slot to view the film at the festival, registration is available at www.mafiacareers.com. The website also contains a behind-the-scenes, in-progress cut of the first scene of the movie. Film developments can also be followed on Facebook at www.mafiacareersfacebook.com. On twitter @mafiacareers
Buckingham County, located in the heart of central Virginia, was established in 1761. Since Buckingham County's formation, African Americans have contributed to the history and legacy of the county and were the majority of its population from 1810 to 1910. Former residents include Frank Moss, a Reconstruction lawmaker, and Carter Godwin Woodson, noted African-American educator and "the Father of Black History."
Charles W. White Sr. is the editor and publisher of the regional African-American newspaper, The Informant. He is a retired history teacher and the president of the Buckingham County Afro American Life and History Society.
In his debut novel SLOP – The Wild Boar Nation (November 2013), Bishop creatively warns readers of the growing dangers of intolerance and extremism here in America. In SLOP’s sequel, Dr. Carson’s outlandish concerns about anarchy become reality. While polls open and voting takes place—terrorism erupts on Election Day 2016 as an ingenious plot carried out by conservative sympathizers rocks the nation. Branded within as the Collateralized Right Wing Fringe (CRWF), the clandestine organization's revolutionary tactics enable Republicans to increase their congressional majorities and easily win the Presidency. Upon inauguration elected officials issue:
Touted as “The Contract with America 2.0,” bond issuers authoritatively pledge to observe a fundamental set of ultra-conservative social, economic, geopolitical and religious doctrines. Riding the wave of conservatism, investors pile on sending the bond’s price soaring to extreme levels—resulting in negative bond yields. Deflation sets in and GDP plummets. Pollution, unemployment and budget deficits skyrocket. Due to political infighting, over ninety million citizens and counting become medically uninsured. Those not conforming to Christian values are openly discriminated against. Corporate corruption becomes commonplace while millions of illegal aliens flee incarceration. Undeterred, leaders double down in their policy initiatives believing upon maturity The Republican Bond will yield positive returns. When a world-wide flu pandemic brings the U.S. healthcare system to its knees, leftist radicals yield to their own extremism. Anarchy follows, resulting in the blackest of all black swan events; an “American Spring.”
For More, Please Visit:
http://www.keithbishopbooks.com/#!the-republican-bond/ekdi8
Dr. Martin has served in a variety of roles in support of diversity and equity at the University of Virginia, including as assistant dean in the School of Medicine, and as assistant and associate vice president in the UVA Office of Diversity. In 2011, Dr. Martin was appointed Vice President and Chief Officer for Diversity and Equity at UVA.
Dr. Martin established the Emergency Medicine Center for Education, Research and Technology (EMCERT) and the Life-Saving Techniques course for medical students at UVA, using computerized human patient simulation. He has published widely in the medical literature and contributed chapters to textbooks in his area of expertise. He was recently selected as one of “the top 100 most influential black graduates of NC State University,” and in 2007 was appointed by Governor Tim Kaine to serve on the Secure Commonwealth Panel and as vice chair of the Virginia Tech Incident Review Panel.
Dr. Martin served for 12 years as a board member of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine(SAEM), and is a past president of both SAEM and the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors. In 1994, he received the Joseph F. Waeckerle Founder’s Award from the national Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association. He is a 2008 recipient of the SAEM Diversity Interest Group Leadership Award, named the Marcus L. Martin Leadership Award in his honor. He also received, in 2008, a “Citizen of the Year” award for the state of Virginia from Omega Psi Phi fraternity.
Dr. Martin and his wife, Donna, have four adult children — three of them graduates of UVA.
Peter Thompson has served as Executive Director of the Senior Center since 1999. The Senior Center positively impacts our community by creating opportunities for healthy aging through over 100 programs and scores of partnerships. The Center received the Pinnacle Award as America’s premier community center for all aspects of senior wellness in 2009 as well as numerous local and state awards. It is also the first national accredited center in Virginia and Peter serves as an accreditation peer reviewer and standards trainer.
Peter received his B.A. in History from UVA and his MPA with a concentration in nonprofit management from VCU. Recent community service includes serving on the Board of Directors of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UVA, Madison House, National Institute of Senior Centers, Chamber of Commerce, and the Center for Nonprofit Excellence. He recently served on the Virginia Department on Aging’s planning committee for our next four-year state plan on aging. He currently serves on the Livable for a Lifetime and Habitat for Humanity Southwood Community redevelopment committees.
Julia Wade is one of those rare and gifted crossover vocalists who can handle both worlds (Classical and Pop) with great style and grace. On top of it all, she is a singer who has the ability to get deeply into the lyric and magically inspire the audience.
Peter Link is probably best known for his work as a composer/lyricist. His CD, Thru Me, is a compilation of some of his favorite songs that he has written throughout his long and varied career. His Ode To Joy album is a mostly instrumental and personal statement on the joys of life. He has also produced and orchestrated for many of the Watchfire artists: Julia Wade, Mindy Jostyn, Jenny Burton, Tom Tipton, Osceola Davis, and Bobby Stanton, to name a few.
For More, Please Visit:
http://www.watchfiremusic.com/artist.php?arid=7
http://www.watchfiremusic.com/artist.php?arid=2
Executive Director at the IX Art Park, Brian Wimer is an award-winning filmmaker. In 2012, Wimer initiated Project Gait-Way, the design competition for the Belmont Bridge replacement. Wimer was also a journalist for National Geographic and a NYC ad creative, regrettably known best for his Taco Bell Chihuahua TV ads.
For More:
http://www.ixartpark.com/
Clair Myers, PhD, is Executive Director of the Wayne Theatre Alliance in Waynesboro, Virginia.
On January 18, 1926, Cols. Carl Loth and James Patterson opened the doors on Waynesboro’s first vaudeville/silent movie theatre. Its neo-classical façade, fashionable interior, and mighty organ were the wonders of the day. Seeking to take advantage of the post-war boom, the management gutted and expanded the original auditorium in 1949, effectively doubling the seating. Along with a new concession/lounge area and bathrooms the Wayne continued as the entertainment center for the community. In 1980, a fire began in the concession area and travelled upward into the balcony. The conflagration allowed the owners to remodel the auditorium and divide it into two theatres. Twenty years later the management decided to withdraw from the Waynesboro entertainment market and turned the Wayne Theatre over to the city.
In 2000, Waynesboro City Council created the Wayne Theatre Alliance and empowered the group to oversee the revitalization of the Wayne Theatre and with it downtown Waynesboro. In a few short months, the Wayne Theatre Alliance incorporated as a 501(c)3 non-profit and began the journey of making the Wayne not just a movie house, but a center for entertainment and conferences. The mission of the Wayne Theatre Alliance is to enhance the artistic, cultural, educational and economic life of Waynesboro and the surrounding area through the operation of the Wayne Theatre, production of cultural events and partnerships with local, regional and state organizations. With funding well underway, the focus has returned to the restoration of the Wayne Theatre with an opening date of spring 2016.
For More, Please Visit:
http://waynetheatre.org/inside-the-wta/wayne-theatre-specs/
Celeste Drake is the Trade & Globalization Policy Specialist at the AFL-CIO, a job she boils down two main goals: 1) try to improve U.S. trade policy so it doesn’t undercut democracy, gut the American manufacturing sector, and send more U.S. jobs overseas; and 2) try to improve labor rights globally so that empowered workers can race to the top instead of allowing global corporations to force a race to the bottom.
Celeste has testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, various House Subcommittees, the International Trade Commission, and the Executive Branch’s Trade Policy Staff Committee.
Prior to joining the AFL-CIO, Celeste served as Legislative Director for Congresswoman Linda T. Sánchez (D-CA), Legislative Counsel for Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Clerk for the Honorable David R. Thompson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, and Economics and World History teacher at Granite Hills High School in El Cajon, CA. She has a J.D., an M.P.P., and a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles.
For More, Please Visit:
http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/(author)/Celeste%20Drake
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/celeste-drake/
Cassidy McMillan is an award-winning filmmaker who is currently directing and producing the critically acclaimed feature documentary on bullying, youth suicide, and a precedent setting court case on bullying, BULLIES AND FRIENDS. The documentary, which has been noted as an educational resource by the United Nations Association and academic organizations, is currently being prepped for worldwide release on DVD and TV. Cassidy McMillan made the film when she learned that teens were committing suicide due to bullying. She set out to make a difference with a film that presents solutions to bullying to teens and schools, and could serve as a learning tool in schools and communities.
Cassidy is also an actress in theater, film, television, and voice-overs and recently starred in a four week southern California production of the Tony Award-winning play "God of Carnage". Other acting roles in theater plays and musicals include "Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat", "Noises Off!", "Oliver", "Good Morning Miss Vickers". She's also produced and stage managed theater productions. She's a Member of the Screen Actors Guild, SAG-AFTRA, and has worked on productions for the Discovery Channel, AMC, Warner Bros. and additional shows and films.
More Information and Contact information can be found at www.CassidyMcMillan.com and www.BulliesAndFriends.com
You can Follow Cassidy on Twitter @CassidyMcM and "Like" BULLIES AND FRIENDS FILM on Facebook at www.facebook.com/BulliesAndFriendsFilm
Senator George Barker has been a founder of several groups and chaired numerous organizations, often building consensus on solutions for difficult problems. George's excellent work has not gone unnoticed, as he has received many awards, including Fairfax County Citizen of the Year and Lord Fairfax.
George earned two degrees from Harvard University, receiving undergraduate honors in Economics and Public Health and a master's in Health Policy and Management.
For 30 years, George has worked for Northern Virginia’s regional health planning agency, the Health Systems Agency of Northern Virginia. George has worked to contain skyrocketing health care costs, promote quality of care, and ensure access to medical care for all Northern Virginians. He also has consulted on education and services for the disabled.
Today’s episode will also feature Dorothy McAuliffe, First Lady of the Commonwealth. Dorothy has dedicated her efforts to eliminating childhood hunger and improving access to Virginia’s fresh, locally grown agricultural products for all our citizens. She has identified food security and nutrition as key elements necessary for educational success and building healthy communities.
For More, Please Visit:
http://www.vasenatedems.com/senators/george-barker
http://apps.lis.virginia.gov/sfb1/Senate/senatorwebprofile.aspx?id=215
http://www.vasenatedems.com/senators/george-barker
Casting director/producer Erica Arvold, CSA, recently cast AMC’s Turn, National Geographic’s Killing Kennedy, and is producing the feature film Chesapeake. She was nominated for CSA’s Artios Award for the location casting of Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln. She served as casting director for Ridley & Tony Scott’s Killing Lincoln, Hallmark Movie Channel’s Lake Effects, and cast and associate produced Wish You Well, a feature film written by novelist David Baldacci. She also cast Big Stone Gap and produced Eric Hurt’s indie psychological thriller House Hunting. Over the past 25 years, Erica has contributed and participated in the making of over 120 films and 75 television projects. In 2012, Arvold was honored by the Commonwealth of Virginia’s FLITE Foundation for her contribution to economic development in the state.
For More, Please Visit:
http://arvoldcasting.com/
Dorothy McAuliffe, as First Lady of the Commonwealt, has dedicated her efforts to eliminating childhood hunger and improving access to Virginia’s fresh, locally grown agricultural products for all our citizens. She has identified food security and nutrition as key elements necessary for educational success and building healthy communities.
Cassidy McMillan is the award-winning director, producer and writer of 'Bullies and Friends'. She is a recognized speaker and media contributor on bullying prevention. She is also an actress with the Screen Actors Guild. You can find her on twitter @cassidymcm
Kimberly Davis is the author of "A Brother's Secret," and the CEO of "Untapped Voices." Untapped Voices was established as a platform for people with voices in writing, poetry, dance, or comedy. The goal is to help people use their voice to make choices that will impact their lives as well as the lives of others. The program was founded by Kim Davis as a way to give back to the youth, ex-offenders, and juveniles.
Andrea Miller, Executive Director and IT Director, was the Democratic Nominee in 2008 for House of Representatives in the Virginia 4th District. Running on a Medicare for All and clean energy platform, Andrea was endorsed by PDA, California Nurses and The Sierra Club. Prior to running for office, Andrea was a part of Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s presidential campaign, first as Statewide Coordinator for Virginia and subsequently as Regional Coordinator.
Welcome to our Reasonable Voice Christmas Special, featuring four incredible women.
Dorothy McAuliffe, as First Lady of the Commonwealt, has dedicated her efforts to eliminating childhood hunger and improving access to Virginia’s fresh, locally grown agricultural products for all our citizens. She has identified food security and nutrition as key elements necessary for educational success and building healthy communities.
Cassidy McMillan is the award-winning director, producer and writer of 'Bullies and Friends'. She is a recognized speaker and media contributor on bullying prevention. She is also an actress with the Screen Actors Guild. You can find her on twitter @cassidymcm
Kimberly Davis is the author of "A Brother's Secret," and the CEO of "Untapped Voices." Untapped Voices was established as a platform for people with voices in writing, poetry, dance, or comedy. The goal is to help people use their voice to make choices that will impact their lives as well as the lives of others. The program was founded by Kim Davis as a way to give back to the youth, ex-offenders, and juveniles.
Andrea Miller, Executive Director and IT Director, was the Democratic Nominee in 2008 for House of Representatives in the Virginia 4th District. Running on a Medicare for All and clean energy platform, Andrea was endorsed by PDA, California Nurses and The Sierra Club. Prior to running for office, Andrea was a part of Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s presidential campaign, first as Statewide Coordinator for Virginia and subsequently as Regional Coordinator.
Our TRV Christmas Special will end with a story by Marcello Rollando, “When Time Was of No Consequence”.
JULIET RACOOSIN, born in Plymouth, Devon UK. performed as a singer/musician/actor professionally (and worldwide) for 13 years, based out of London. Married for 23 yrs, 2 kids and 2 dogs. Her mentor and fellow talent agent, who recently passed at age 81, inspired her to put all her experiences to good use and that's why HARRIS (in honor of her mother) Talent Agency was born.
Fore More, Please See:
http://www.harristalentagency.com/
Dr. Rogers is the Chief Knowledge Officer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. He received a Ph.D. from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations focusing on the role of cooperation in high tech firms. In the early 1980s he performed five years of international relief work in Southern Lebanon. Prior to returning to academic work at Cornell, Dr. Rogers operated a private consulting business focused on knowledge workers and intelligent enterprise. His research applies game theory to human behavior in organizations. He has consulted with a number of organizations on building conceptual transparency, learning, and leveraging collective knowledge. He teaches an MBA course at the top-ranked Indian School of Business on Managing Complexity. He has conducted numerous executive education sessions on conceptual thinking helping managers to ‘see’ their own decision-making models.
Bombs, war, angry bearded men, shrouded sobbing women, shattered cities: this is Iraq as seen through the eyes of the western media these days. These images are juxtaposed with those from the fifties and seventies: films with frivolous music, unveiled women who study, elegantly dressed men in Bagdad, a modern city. How did it come to this? In this riveting and timely documentary, author and director Samir tells the compelling story of his globalized middle-class Iraqi family who are scattered all over the world. Shuttling between Auckland, Moscow, Paris, London, Zurich, Buffalo, and Iraq, Samir presents a moving homage to the frustrated democratic dreams of a people successively plagued by dictatorship, war, and foreign occupation.
Weaving together the ironic, wistful, and witty testimonies of Samir's relatives with rare documents from private and state archives, THE IRAQI ODYSSEY is a riveting epic that creates a genuine people's history of Iraq.
IRAQI ODYSSEY is the Swiss entry for this year’s Academy Awards. It has been awarded the best Asian Film Award and the NETPAC award at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival and the Panorama Audience Award at the Berlin International Film Festival. The film was also an official selection at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.
Typecast Films will release filmmaker Samir’s epic documentary IRAQI ODYSSEY in New York at the IFC Center and Los Angeles at the Laemmle Music Hall on November 27 before expanding to cities nationwide in the New Year.
Bombs, war, angry bearded men, shrouded sobbing women, shattered cities: this is Iraq as seen through the eyes of the western media these days. These images are juxtaposed with those from the fifties and seventies: films with frivolous music, unveiled women who study, elegantly dressed men in Bagdad, a modern city. How did it come to this? In this riveting and timely documentary, author and director Samir tells the compelling story of his globalized middle-class Iraqi family who are scattered all over the world. Shuttling between Auckland, Moscow, Paris, London, Zurich, Buffalo, and Iraq, Samir presents a moving homage to the frustrated democratic dreams of a people successively plagued by dictatorship, war, and foreign occupation.
Weaving together the ironic, wistful, and witty testimonies of Samir's relatives with rare documents from private and state archives, THE IRAQI ODYSSEY is a riveting epic that creates a genuine people's history of Iraq.
IRAQI ODYSSEY is the Swiss entry for this year’s Academy Awards. It has been awarded the best Asian Film Award and the NETPAC award at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival and the Panorama Audience Award at the Berlin International Film Festival. The film was also an official selection at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.
Typecast Films will release filmmaker Samir’s epic documentary IRAQI ODYSSEY in New York at the IFC Center and Los Angeles at the Laemmle Music Hall on November 27 before expanding to cities nationwide in the New Year.
Virginia Film Festival officials recently announced what attendees and special guests of the Festival saw all weekend long – that by every possible measure, the 28th Annual VFF was an unqualified success.
The Virginia Film Festival is presented by the University of Virginia and the Office of the Provost and Vice Provost for the Arts.
The 2015 Virginia Film Festival welcomed Hollywood heavy hitters like Meg Ryan and Oliver Stone, famed film historian and critic Leonard Maltin, history-making writer and activist Larry Kramer, rising stars like Israel Broussard and Maddie Hasson, and more than 100 filmmakers covering territory from right here in Virginia to points all across the globe.
Record numbers of film fans streamed into theaters across Charlottesville throughout the four-day festival to take in more than 130 films and special events in what was one of the VFF’s deepest and most diverse programs in its 28-year history.
“This was, in every way, an extraordinary year for us,” said VFF Director and U.Va. Vice Provost for the Arts Jody Kielbasa. “Each year as we go through the process of putting together our program, we are inspired to raise the bar for what we know is one of the most engaged and enthusiastic film festival audiences in America. The way our patrons came out to support this program this year is truly remarkable, humbling, and gratifying. “
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Kent C. Williamson is the founder of Paladin Pictures, Inc. (aka Paladin Media Group), a film and video production company in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is also the founder of the Community Films Foundation, a non-profit that connects filmmakers with mission organizations who need help telling the stories, and earless rabbit, the online television network for Charlottesville. Kent produced and co-directed the non-controversial feature film When Love Walks In, directed the highly-controversial documentary Rebellion of Thought, and the extremely-controversial documentary Stained Glass Rainbows. He lives with his bride and six kids along the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.