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Read about Obi's experience participating in our international education retreat in Medellin, Colombia.
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"I found myself in a new environment, with unfamiliar people working on a short-term project, I could easily observe myself from a meta-level view. It made me reflect about the qualities and contribution I can bring to any given project and the way I get perceived. I noticed how I function in a new team and where there is potential to improve. This awareness is valuable for me, on a personal as well as on a practical level."
I am trying to plan this trip to Colombia wisely. And to do so I spoke to many experienced travelers, local Colombians and expats currently living in Colombia. That resulted in a lot of information about traveling in Colombia, safety in Colombia and other travel tips. The most important advice I received I want to share with you here.
Our perceptions don't often live in reality. Sometimes they do. I had a lot of perceptions about Medellin before I traveled there, admittedly, some from watching Netflix shows. When I arrived in Medellin, Ann, from Venture with Impact, met me with a warm smile and showed me a typical Colombian hangout in my new neighborhood….

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New to Calvary Worship Centre (CWC)?
Welcome! Whether you are new to Calvary or have been here a while, we want everyone's experience to be enjoyable. We would like to take the opportunity to let you know what to expect here and answer some frequently asked questions. If you do not find the information you're looking for or would like to speak to someone, please feel free to contact us using the form on the Contact Us page.
What Should I expect on a Sunday?
All are invited to join for Sunday pre-service prayer at 9:15am. Our main services begin with worship at 9:45am and 11:45am. As you enter the CWC parking lot you will find many stalls to choose from. Out of respect to the other businesses in the complex, we kindly ask that you do not park in stalls labelled "The Hive". As you enter the church you will be greeted by a Calvary member, and as you make your way to the sanctuary you will see a Welcome Desk which we encourage you to visit should you have any questions or need assistance. Upon entering the sanctuary you will receive a bulletin which will include a Sermon Notes insert for personal note taking, as well as other information about upcoming events. There are many seats to choose from, and we have Ushers to lead you to an available seat if you aren't sure where to sit.
Our praise and worship is Holy Spirit led and multicultural, so you may hear songs with parts sung in different languages!! If you want to worship with your own flag or want some extra room to dance, you are welcome to use the open space in front of the stage and worship freely there. We also have flags available for use at the left hand side by the front of the sanctuary. The Holy Spirit moves here, and you are encouraged to worship freely. Pastor Sam, our Senior Pastor, or one of the other pastors will share a message supported by Biblical scriptures that will have you laughing, shouting "Amen!", and feeling inspired to grow deeper in the Word of God and in relationship with God. Our services typically run for 75 minutes with an opportunity for you to give an offering financially or through your worship.
All first time visitors are encouraged to go to the Visitor's Centre on your way out of the sanctuary to receive a special gift. We also have a Bookstore and G.R.O.W. Group table at the back of the sanctuary that we encourage everyone to visit. G.R.O.W. Groups are a wonderful way to meet new people and grow together in a smaller group setting. We invite you to enjoy complimentary tea and coffee after the service in the foyer, and if you have any questions feel free to ask a member at the Welcome Desk who will be happy to assist you.
If you are wondering what to wear when coming to church on a Sunday, we encourage you to dress comfortably and modestly. As a church filled with people of different nations, you will see a variety of styles, but most people dress casually.
What about my kids?
Babies & Toddlers: Parents are welcome to sit in the Parent & Tots room anytime during the service. The room is located at the back of the sanctuary and there are TV's inside which allow you to stay connected with the service.
Ages 2-3: Parents are welcome to use the Nursery anytime during the service. The room can be accessed through the foyer by the Welcome Desk. This room also has TVs inside which allows you to stay connected with the service.
Ages 3-12: Children's Church is held upstairs in the KidsZone at 10:15am & 12:15pm. For questions about any of the above, please contact Vivesh at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Ages 13-18: GRC 180 Youth Service takes place in the Youth Room (in the foyer, opposite the Welcome Desk) at 10:15 am and 12:15 pm. Contact Taurean at firstname.lastname@example.com if you have any questions about the Youth Service.
What programs/activities do you offer during the week?
We have many different G.R.O.W. groups that meet throughout the week at the church and in other locations. There are groups for new believers, singles, young adults, women, men, seniors, bible study, different topics, and much more! We encourage you to join one and grow with others. You can browse and register here. We are a praying church and prayer is at the heart of everything we do. To help cultivate a life of prayer, there is a prayer meeting almost every day at the church in the Prayer Room.
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I'd like someone to pray for me.
We would love to pray with you and for you! You are welcome to ask for Prayer at any of the above prayer groups. We also have a ministry team available for individual prayer at the end of both Sunday services in the Ministry Room (right of the platform in the sanctuary). Should you require further prayer or seek deliverance, you can fill out a Connections Card and put it in the offering basket on Sunday, or call the church office to make an appointment with one of our Pastors.
How do I get there and where do I park?
We have a detailed map that can be viewed on the Contact Us page. We are located next door to the CDI College and SkyZone, just off the south exit of the Patullo Bridge. There is a large parking lot in the complex with many stalls to choose from, however, we ask that you do not park in stalls marked "The Hive" out of respect to the other businesses. The parking lot is monitored by Impark, but paying for parking is not required on Sundays, Mondays after 5pm, Fridays after 5pm and Saturdays after 10am. The church has FREE parking passes available for you during the week should you come during the day or evening, they can be found in the foyer at the Welcome Desk.
I'm not sure I'm ready for church yet.
We understand that for some, church can cause a certain measure of apprehension or even fear. Jesus lived the most amazing life and His message is powerful, practical, and revelationary, but this image is not always well portrayed in the media today. Calvary Worship Centre exists to communicate Christ to all nations in our immediate neighbourhood and beyond, equipping individuals for ministry in the church and the world. We are far from perfect, but we are committed to prayer, genuine fellowship, and committed in service to all ages from all walks of life. Sometimes life is difficult, even chaotic, but at Calvary we journey together as a community, as family, and we find encouragement, hope, strength, and life. If you are on a journey towards faith, whatever stage you are at, we invite you to join us to journey at your own pace.
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Public colleges and universities in Oregon allow you to study areas such as health, science, technology, and more that inspire a great deal of exploration, environmentalism, and imagination, and could be the first step in your journey to a new career. Some college students feel that the educational opportunities and academic freedom they experience are a direct result of the lush and nurturing environment in which Oregon's regal forests grow. Serve to say that it is difficult to have a really bad day in a place where so many people are happy and flourishing.
The Oregon University System is comprised of seven universities. Higher education in Oregon can be found in one of its nine four-year public universities, 53 community and technical colleges, and 30 private colleges and universities. Most colleges and universities in Oregon are considered small to midsize, and only three are large research universities.
Oregon's State Board of Higher Education is the governing board responsible for ensuring that the state's higher education is of high quality and meeting the needs of Oregon's citizens.
Of the public colleges and universities in Oregon, the most popular and the most expensive public school in Oregon is the University of Oregon.
Both Oregon State University, Corvallis and University of Oregon in Eugene are ranked among the colleges in the West, but the latter also made US News & World Report's list of best colleges.
The state of Oregon offers you an array of distance learning programs and online colleges to enroll in if you are interested in continuing education. Oregon ranks 19th out of the 50 states in percentage of people with a bachelor's degree. Continue this tradition of higher education by finding the program and area of study right for you.
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Unique property situated on the east coast of Ibiza, with castle character near the beautiful beach of Es Figueral.
There is a main house that hosts 7 bedrooms and 6 bathrooms, an entertainment room, two different living rooms, a big wine cellar, few terraces with spectacular views towards the sea, an interior and an exterior kitchen, a bbq area, and a guest toilet, all distributed on 4 floors that are accesible trough an elevator.
On the property there is a separate guest house with 2 double bedrooms and 2 en-suite bathrooms. A second guest house with one bedroom and one bathroom. Also there are different terraces with sea view, a sauna with a small pool, a second exterior kitchen with bbq area, an authentic pizza oven, various storage rooms, with a lot of potential for further development.
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One of the easiest ways to cook a roast (Round, Eye of Round, Rump or Cross Rib) is in the slow cooker! The low heat over a prolonged period of time makes the beef tender and 'fall apart'.
Even easier than cooking a roast in the slow cooker? Cooking a roast from FROZEN in the slow cooker. The easiest way to do this is over night from 9pm - 9am. 12 hours to slow cook makes the perfect roast for pulling!
What you need:
1 Mitchell Bros. Roast - Frozen
1 can of beer (or cup of wine)
A slow cooker
Unwrap frozen roast and place in the slow cooker
Pour the one can of beer or cup of wine into the slow cooker
Place on low heat
Let cook for 12hrs (easiest way to do this is overnight 9pm - 9am)
Once your 12 hrs is up, take roast out of slow cooker and shred with a fork.
Sive the fat out of the juices in the slow cooker and place the pulled beef back into slow cooker to keep on warm or to serve!
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THE MANOR is part of the ANTENNA DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL. Antenna Documentary Festival is back for another year with a program bigger and better than ever. The festival was a huge success in 2012 with over 5000 people attending. Now in its third year the annual festival will take place in Sydney from 2nd to 7th October, it screens at the CHAUVEL, THE ART GALLERY and BERKELOUW BOOKS. You can get all the information you need from HERE and now enjoy our review of THE MANOR, kindly reviewed, by Salty Kernel, Dara Shashoua.
You have to wonder why people decide to make a documentary about their family. Why would you put them on display for public scrutiny? Why show all of their problems in such a public way?
I went into watching The Manor, thinking that it was going to be a fly on the wall docco showing a family run strip club. Unfortunately it was the story of an egomaniacal obese patriarch who refuses to better himself and inflicts his own baggage onto everyone else around him.
Honestly, this doco was less about The Manor and more about the Cohen family. There was no hero, there was no emotion. It was a family in crisis and yet no one really wanted to do much. Shawney the oldest son and film maker did try to help but it felt strained and emotionless.
Rodney, the father is a 400 pound Israeli immigrant, who after 14 different jobs decides to buy a strip club. That was 30 years ago, and his family have paid the ultimate price. Being obese apparently makes him unhappy and he tells everyone that he can't even put his own socks on. He blames his weight on the fact that he grew up in a very poor household and swore to himself that he would never go hungry again. And he didn't. Ever. In fact, every time we see him he is shovelling food into his mouth. Half way through the film he pays $16,000 for gastric banding surgery so that he can lose some weight. Unfortunately, as with anything in life you actually have to stick at it so that he can keep losing weight. We watch him shovel more food into his mouth.
On the flip side, his wife Brenda is an 89 pound anorexic who looks like she would blow away. Clearly the strip club and her relationship with her husband is to blame for her emaciated frame. To see them together is almost comical, the morbidly obese man with his painfully thin anorexic wife who is constantly preparing food for the family but refuses to sit down and eat. The only moment of emotion in the film was when she was talking to Shawney about her disease and confesses that maybe she just wants to die.
The younger brother Sammy manages the club five nights a week and pretty much loves it. Loves the lifestyle and we see him purchasing a new car and vacillates between the top of the Jaguar and a Range Rover. The Range Rover wins. He is dating one of the strippers who is ironically a nutritionist as well.
Shawney, the protagonist, older brother and director of the film seems to be void of any emotions.. His narration is deadpan, he sees his father's faults but doesn't stand up to him, even when asking him to pay for treatment for his mother he only gets a little angry with his father for refusing to pay. He interacts with the strippers but they seem to walk all over him as well.
Overall, I wanted to turn this film off but I held out hoping that there would be something else. Something that would make me root for someone or something in the family, but there wasn't. At the end you just ask, What was the point? Shawney had clearly spent about 2 years filming and yet the film just seems to be a sad sad story about his family and the price that they have paid by owning a strip club for 30 years. I do wonder what they all think watching the film and how they are going since then.
The tagline for the film is 'an intimate portrait of people struggling to call themselves a family'.
Yep. That about sums it up.


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Boxcar Dan and the Vagabonds
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Adam Gallant (Sound Recordist)
Hell of a Venue
Devil in Disguise?
Al Baldwin (Red)
Vagabonds on Break
Jason Directs Bartender
Heidi Grant (Bartender), Jason Rogerson (Writer/Director)
Filming Barfly
Robbin Ward (Barfly), Jeff Wheaton (Director of Photography)
Out at the Church
Vagabond Line-Up
BDatV Crew
Setting Up
Kinley Dowling (Production Assistant), Kelly Caseley (Wardrobe), Bryde MacLean (Production Coordinator), Ryan McCarvill (Personal Assistant)
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For old-school Roman cuisine, these places are in top form. At the tourist-free end of Trastevere, Ristorante la Tavernaccia da Bruno (Via G. Da Castelbolognese; 63; 39-06-581-2792) serves all your classic dishes but also has great ravioli and vignarola. Call for reservations; the secret has long been long out.
In Testaccio, the city's capital of traditional Roman trattorias, the locals-only attitude has been replaced with a cool-kid chill. But neither were in evidence at Piatto Romano (Via G. B. Bodoni, 62; 39-06-6401-4447), where the service was warm and the food top notch.
For more sophisticated, or at least different, fare, head north to Marzapane (Via Velletri, 39; 39-06-6478-1692), where the young Spanish chef has wowed city foodies. Make reservations way in advance. If the restaurant is booked, try your luck at the nearby Pro Loco (Via Bergamo 18; 39-06-841-4136), which is more casual, but also excellent.
At Retrobottega (Via della Stelletta, 4; 39-06-6813-6310), watch chefs meticulously craft inventive dishes in an open kitchen. The restaurant is serious about its food and "it place" vibe.
San Saba is a quiet part of town, but Saba Caffè e Cucina (Via di S. Saba, 32; 39-06-8775-3176) pulses with life. Go for an unexpectedly excellent lunch on a Sunday where tables of families mix with the fashionable folks who have perfected the long, lingering afternoon.
There is no end to the places to pop into for a glass of wine after a long day of sightseeing, or doing nothing.
In the Ghetto, Beppe E I Suoi Formaggi (Via Santa Maria del Pianto, 9a/11; 39-06-6819-2210) gives a healthy pour to accompany a rich selection of homemade cheeses.
Enoteca il Goccetto (Via dei Banchi Vecchi, 14; 39-06-686-4268) is a venerable standby for wine, cheese and prosciutto but also for its scene of beautiful, mysteriously employed people who emit just the right amount of louche.
To appreciate Rome's origins and past glory, not just the pre-economic-crisis years, a trip up the Palatine Hill, even more than the Roman Forum below, is necessary.
The past is everywhere in Rome, but there is evidence of the future, too. The Macro Museum of Contemporary Art (Via Nizza, 138; 39-06-0608) has intriguing exhibitions, but has also breathed new life into a formerly stuffy neighborhood.
The past and the present meet at Hotel Lunetta (Piazza del Paradiso, 68; 39-06-6839-5056) in the center of Rome, where guests can book time in a basement spa with hydromassage and water blades, sauna and massage rooms, all while looking through the glass walls at the remains of the Theater of Pompey.


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3: Shipwrecks and Ruins
This week, we talk about Hubert Robert's The Shipwreck, accession number 1927.34 at the Worcester Art Museum.
The music in this episode is all French and period and appears in the show as follows:
Overture from Les deux aveugles de Tolède (1805) by Etienne Nicolas Méhul
Adagio in C Major from 3 Sonatas, Op.3, (1795) by Hyacinthe Jadin
Concerto à cinque in E minor, PB 441, (1732) by Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
Romance: Quand le bien-aimé reviendra (1786) by Nicolas Dalayrac
Diane et Actéon by Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
Suite in A minor, RCT 5 (1723) by Jean-Philippe Rameau (The first instance is performed by Gabriel Antonio Hernandez Romero, and the second by Peter Bradley-Fulgoni.)
Our show art was made by V Silverman. Our theme music was recorded and engineered by Casey Dawson.
Our special thanks this week goes out to Professor Leila Philip, at the College of the Holy Cross, who has inexhaustibly supported this project from the very beginning and has fought and pushed for me to produce it. She also read a very, very early version of this piece you heard today before either of us knew that it was going to be an audio story, and her notes, as they always are, were incredibly helpful.
The Episode:
Today, we're back at the Worcester Art Museum. Go to the mosaic court and head up to the second floor. Once you can see the giant mural above the mosaic on the northern wall, head to the back corner, away from the woman with the glass on her ear. In this corner, you'll see two doors, and while we'll certainly go through the one on the left in a later episode, today I want you to head into the door on your right. In front of you should be two sisters looking on at the last few moves of a game of chess, and a couple arm in arm, going for a stroll towards the chess game, he with his hat and her with her parasol. (He's almost got the checkmate). If you look on the opposite end of the room from where you came in, you should see a giant painting, where the top of the canvas is not squared off, but arched. And while that is somewhat curious, we'll have to move beyond that, because there is something even more curious about this painting. Today, we're looking at Worcester Art Museum, Accession Number 1927.34, Hubert Robert's The Shipwreck.
Now, if you have spent any time walking through the European wing, I am almost certain that you have been stopped by this piece. Almost every time I visit the museum, (and I visit quite a lot) I find myself sitting on the bench in this room, looking up at The Shipwreck. In fact, it's majesty is so clear, I have had to think long and hard about whether or not to even write this story. If you haven't yet, just sit here, and look up at the waves crashing on the shore, the people fleeing the wreckage, the city-folk running to the cliffs to look on, and all underneath a brilliant sky that sings of the hope of the calm after the storm to the viewer. All this on a brilliantly arched canvas, which is the kind of mysterious delight that needs no further investigation. We can simply look in awe at its remarkable shape, wonder, and be content. There is so much being accomplished by this master painter in this masterpiece that needs so little explanation. The canvas, in this case, truly does speak for itself. But, there is one story about this painting, one little rip in the jeans that I want to stick my finger into a spread open wider. Because, while I am of the opinion that there is no problem with this painting, there is a problem with its story.
Its painter was a man who called himself Hubert Robert, a man of two first names and very little respect for the pronunciation of the T's on the ends of either one of them. (You hold the T's for added panache.) He was born in Paris in 1733, what then certainly seemed like an auspicious time for a young painter, but now, with hindsight, is a rather inauspicious time to be a young Frenchman. Before the end of his life, Robert would be imprisoned during the Revolution, released just before the fall of Robespierre, and only barely make it out with his head. A clerical error sent another man to the guillotine in his stead. But before all that, and before his time as one of the committee members of new museum in Paris, the Palais du Louvre, and before he died of a stroke just a month short of his 75th birthday, Hubert Robert was fresh out of schooling with the Jesuits, and had just spent a few years working with a sculptor, who turned his attention towards painting, when he took a fateful trip to Italy, as many 21-year-olds are want to do.
And as 21-year-olds are want to do, Hubert Robert fell in love. Not with people, though that may or may not have occurred, the records are unclear. What is clear is that he fell madly in love with the city of Rome, with its ruins, and its temples, and its amphitheaters, and its colonnade. When Robert visited these scenes, they were all overgrown with plant life that had been there for centuries, seeds carried over by the animals that were imported into the Colosseum. And a few years later, along with Jean Honore Fragonard, he took a trip through Southern Italy on a drawing expedition. And this, this fateful trip, began Robert's lifelong obsession with painting Italian ruins.
We call this kind of landscape painting a capriccio, an architectural fantasy. These paintings bring together Roman, Greek, and sometimes Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern ruins, often times not in their precise locations. For example, Robert once painted the Colosseum and the Pantheon right across the street from each other, when in fact there is really a mile in between them. But the key of the capriccio is that the architecture is the primary focus, and the human figures if there are any, take a secondary role in the subject of the painting. This puts these capriccio in an interesting place in the history of art in France. In Robert's time, the main movement was Rococo, art which focused on people, class, and emotion. On the other end of Robert's life, came the Neoclassical period, which depicted the ways of the ancients with a focus on the classical ideas of balance and order. Robert falls perfectly in between these two, and his capriccio landscapes help to show us the transition between these movements. In fact, Robert was so well known for his capriccio landscapes, that he got a nickname, Robert des Ruins, or Robert of the Ruins. (Which is not bad as far as nicknames go.)
But if you're looking at the same piece I am, you may now start to see the small hole I referred to earlier, the question burning at the center of the piece. This isn't a capriccio landscape. In fact, it's one of the very few Robert paintings that aren't a capriccio landscape. Sure, the city up on the cliff side is a sort of ruin. But the architecture is not the subject of this painting. However, before we can figure out what is the subject of this painting, there is one more man that I would like you to meet. A rococo painter, and a contemporary of both Fragonard and Robert. This man is Claude-Joseph Vernet. (He also has little respect for the T at the end, which once again, is held for added panache.)
Vernet is the other artist in this story, sometimes friend, sometimes rival, as good contemporaries often are. He was a little bit older than Robert. He made his "as 21-year-old's often do" trip to Rome in the year of Robert's birth, but instead of falling in love with the ruins, he fell in love with the sea. He studied from the great maritime painters, and, like Robert, choose a subject matter for his painting that would define his career. He was not a frequent painter of capriccio. He was a frequent painter of naval landscapes, always with the subject balancing somewhere between the natural beauty and power of the sea, and the ship that is doing it's best to navigate it. And this is in a time before TV, so to heighten the drama of looking at a painting of a ship in the sea, the ship didn't always make it. Hence, some have called him Vernet des Naufrages, Vernet of the Shipwrecks. (Ok, no one actually called him that. I came up with that nickname for him just now. But I think it's pretty good.)
There is a really famous Vernet down in the National Gallery in DC, but if you're looking for a Vernet at the WAM, the closest you're going to get is this Robert painting in front of you. Because, we know that this painting was painted sometime in the last decade of Vernet's life, or perhaps, in the year just after his passing, before the revolution and the head loss and the fall of Robespierre. And in that decade, Robert took up his rival-friend's subject, and painted the shipwreck in front of you. And that, that is the question, at the heart of this painting- why did he do it? Why did Robert abandon the capriccio to paint in the style of Vernet? Was it homage? Or was it superiority?
Perhaps they are one and the same. Let see if the painting can help us sort this out.
Imagine first that it is the homage. The eyes are whipped about by the tempest, the boat tilting into the waves that hold her aloft, and crash against the immovable dark cliffs, the only thing not in motion. The towns folk, descending from their cliffside seat, look upon, as a family, maybe survivors, maybe just more townsfolk, race along the beach. (With so much despair.) The eldest daughter reaches back to the townsfolk. (With so much hope.) It is only then that we see the hand that the father is reaching for, jutting from the shadowy brine. (With not much hope at all.) Robert is telling a story, like Vernet, like the Rococo painters he grew up with, focused on the drama and the temporality of the human condition. He calls us to imagine what it is like to be the people in the town, and the daughter, and the father, and the hand that has no more purpose in life than to reach. He gives us a brief window into each one's world, and helps us to know better who we are through the process. And so Robert says to Vernet, "How brilliantly you tell a story, and capture emotion in the motion of the eye, and make the painting hope and fear at once."
There is always something beneath the surface.
But now onto the second; the superiority. Sure, the lower half of the painting contains story, intrigue, the typicalities of a Vernet, of every single Vernet. But above, above it all is a city, abandoned, cast against an engrossing sky, with a cut of blue and a dash of sunlight. The family that stand on the beach are but tiny figures to the wave that looms above them. (Ready to consume.) The people of the town are insignificant specks, able to affect nothing. (Shadows engulfed in shadow.) Even the ship, the other abandoned human creation, we know will soon be lost to depths below. (Swallowed up by the sea.) The only thing that survives is the nature, ever present, and the city, ever crumbling; the only thing not in motion. Robert is making a statement, like he always did, like the Neoclassicists who came just after him, expressing the balance of nature and mankind, the beauty in both, but the eternality of nature's glory and the crumbling nature of man. And so Robert says to Vernet, "How foolish are those who flock to watch the shipwrecks time and time again, the fate of every ship that has ever been, when there is true beauty and intrigue to behold up here."
There is always something above the surface.
These are the two narratives we might read in this canvas, and I think the canvas speaks both with equal volume. Perhaps there is some capriccio out there painted by Vernet that could help us round out our story, but I'll leave that to the Vernet scholars. Still, we cannot know for sure if either one holds any truth. We can only gaze upon that marvelous sky, and that terrible scene, and imagine our painter, who had painted so many paintings of ruins before, take a break from his routine style, to take up the style of a colleague. Be it as a friend, or as a rival, or maybe just as a colleague, maybe that's all it was, I am personally glad that Hubert Robert came to paint this arched-canvas. And I am glad that it hangs here in the Worcester Art Museum. And I am especially glad that even though it is a beautiful masterpiece, even though I could look upon this piece for hours and become lost in all it has to offer, I am glad that even here there is something to make the viewer stop, and question, and wonder.
There is always something.


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There's a bit of a food-and-nutrition theme happening on the blog this year. 2016 is International Year of the Pulse and I've been cooking with lots of different pulses and legumes, and researching their health impacts.
Split peas ain't sexy. They don't really feature in gourmet magazines, or in the health blogs either. But they should!
Here are the stats: each 100g of dried peas contains 25g protein and 26g fibre!
25g is the ideal amount of protein to consume with each meal (I'll cover this in a future post!) and the fact is, Australians (and pretty much everyone else) is not consuming anywhere near the amounts of fibre we need for good health. Men should be consuming at least 38g/day and women should be consuming at least 28g/day to reduce heart disease risk.
Split peas don't need to be soaked like other legumes, so they are great if you can't plan ahead. Just throw them into the pot and start cooking!
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From all accounts, District Conference was a success. Attendees heard sessions on Rotary service, the Rotary Foundation, Visioning, Polio Plus, and reports on international humanitarian projects. It seemed that everyone had a favorite session. One Rotarian observed that she had not heard such a thorough explanation of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, while another person marveled at the outstanding international projects underway in the District. Still another person was persuaded to push his club to hold another visioning session this year. Attendees heard presentations from visiting Rotarians Brent Rosenthal from Columbus, OH and Elizabeth Usovicz of Kansas City as well as persuasive speakers from District 6080. Youth Exchange, RYLA, Interact clubs and Rotaract clubs were also featured. Special thanks goes to all those who led sessions and those were involved in planning and assisting at the Conference.
Announcements from District Governor Melvin Platt
I want to urge you to attend the District Conference and to encourage his/her club members to attend the District Conference on October 28-29 at the Lodge of Four Seasons in Lake Ozark. We have an outstanding conference agenda planned that will be both informative and inspiring. Club officers, members of the Board, committee chairs, and past presidents are among those who should be attending the District Conference. Every club should be sending four to eight club members to the Conference. A copy of the agenda for the conference will be distributed soon. The deadline for registering for the Conference and for obtaining lodging at the Lodge of Four Seasons is October 20. All lodging reservations made after October 20 will not qualify for the Conference rate. I am also writing to announce the selection of Jacqueline Howard of the Pulaski County Rotary Club as the new District Governor Nominee Designate by the Governor Nomination Committee. That committee is comprised of three Past District Governors and two Immediate Past Presidents of clubs chosen by random. Jackie will be the District Governor during the 2020-21 Rotary year. Jackie is currently serving as the District Visioning Chair. I hope that many of you will want to send notes of congratulations to her. Jeffrey Long of the Branson-Hollister Rotary Club has been appointed to succeed Wade Robson who has moved to Bentonville, AR to accept a promotion in his bank. Jeff will serve the four Branson areas clubs. Assistant Governors may wish to send him a welcoming message. …
June 2017 Rotary District 6080 Newsletter
Notes from the Governor
It is with a tremendous amount of emotion that I write my last Governor notes. I feel a bit like a marathon runner who has been on a record pace, but only by seconds. The finish line is so close there is nothing left in reserve and yet finishing the race at this record pace is the difference between success and failure. This has been the experience of a lifetime. Being Governor has shaped my life in ways that I have yet to even appreciate, and I owe all of you a debt of gratitude. I have had the privilege of seeing things and gaining perspective that only a few have been afforded.
I wish I had the words to give you the perspective that I have been afforded by serving you this year. It is truly humbling to see how many of you tirelessly go about the work of Rotary while people like me go around and take the bows for all your hard work. Words can't express how grateful I am for your service and your generosity. Please know that what you are doing matters. If the world is going to be a better place tomorrow, it will be because you made that happen.
I am so proud to be part of a District that doesn't just excel in the local mission of Rotary, you are making a huge difference in the international mission of Rotary as well. So much so that we have run out of money to do global grants. We now have global grants that are waiting to be funded. However, there is more good news, we are on the verge of a record breaking year for Foundation and Polio Plus giving, but only if we finish strong. The ability to fund all our local and global grants with Foundation dollars is hanging in the balance. It's all coming down to the last few days of the year. Let's finish this year like we started it. "Let's do this."
David Bixler
April 2017 Rotary District 6080 Newsletter
Notes from the Governor
It's here all ready the final quarter of the Rotary year. All those things you promised yourself in June of last year that you were going to accomplish in the 2016-17 Rotary year are either done or waiting to be completed before the ball drops on June 30 at midnight. There are less than ten weeks left in the 2016-17 Rotary year. As I'm looking at my own list of things I wanted to accomplish this year, I'm beginning to realize that I'm long on list and short on time. Doing some prioritizing seems to be in order.
My list of goals certainly contains things that are a higher priority than others. The important goals, however, always seem to be the most time consuming. As I prioritize, I'm looking for some lowhanging fruitthese items that with a little effort could make me feel better by getting a few things crossed off my list. Getting bogged down in a big daunting project has a way of undermining my enthusiasm.
Elephants are best eaten one bite at a time, and I certainly have more than one elephant on my list. I'm using every available resource to finish this year strong and get as many of my Rotary goals completed as possible. Don't hesitate to use the resources that are available to you in the District as well. Even the Governor is willing to help. I, of all people, have a vested interest in helping you have the best Rotary year you and your club have ever had. So when it comes to eating your Rotary elephant, pass the salt and let's do this together.
David Bixler
March 2017 Rotary District 6080 Newsletter
5 Reasons to join Rotary.
1. Increase your social capital. Ever heard the phrase it's not what you know it's who you know. Rotary can have a huge impact on how many people you know.
2. World perspective. Rotary is a great place to find out why your community does or doesn't need something as well as an opportunity to gain insight on what's happening in the rest of the world.
3. Community involvement. As rewarding as it is to do things in the community, it's even more rewarding to do them shoulder to shoulder with friends. What would be a tall order for one person to accomplish can often be done by a Rotary club in hours.
4. Global community involvement. There is nothing like seeing a need in another country and being able to say, "We should do something about that problem," and know that you have the resources of your club, your District, and the Foun-dation at your finger tips.
5.Personal growth and development. Rotary will constantly challenge you with opportunities to be a leader, stretch yourself outside your comfort zone, and do something you didn't even know you were capable of doing.
Who do you know that might find one or more of these reasons compelling enough to join Rotary?
David Bixler
February 2017 Rotary District 6080 Newsletter
Someone asked me the other day, "Why did you join Rotary." I wanted to be able to say that I had this altruistic idea of helping make the world a better place, but the truth is that I joined Rotary to make connections with other people, hoping those connections would lead to a more successful business. Low and behold it worked. However, it took a whole lot longer than I was planning on—fifteen years longer to be exact.
January 2017 Rotary District 6080 Newsletter
Let the New Year's resolutions begin. Whatever the good intentions last year, now is the time we all start fresh, highly motivated and ready to make a difference. I am certainly no exception. We are half way through this Rotary year. The first half I must say I feel pretty good about, but there is plenty more to be done and resting on what has already been done is not on my list of resolutions. My list goes something like this: I hope you are thinking about your list and what matters to you this year. There is never a better time to take a moment to be thankful for all our blessings and to do a little soul searching for what matters most to us. Don't discount the power of writing down your goals. There is something about putting them on paper that makes a difference. Oh and by the way, if you really want to make sure you get your goals accomplished, tell someone your goals who will hold you accountable. In closing, let me just say thanks for helping me have a successful year by holding me accountable. David Bixler
December 2016 Rotary District 6080 Newsletter
Wow, where has this year gone? It's that time of year when we all look back and reflect on the year and eval-uate all the things that went well and those things that didn't go as well as we had hoped. While we are making these mental lists we begin to recognize all the things and people that have blessed us. At the top of my list of blessings are all my fellow Rotarians with whom I have had the privilege of working this year. I have been able to see and experi-ence things that I would not have been able to see and experience without be-ing in this position. I have met people that I wouldn't have met and renewed friendships that I wouldn't have even thought about renewing. Best of all, I have spent time listening to Rotarians talk about what they are doing to make this world a better place. I wish I could take all of you with me so that you could hear all the stories about how Rotary has enriched one Rotarian after another. Time and time again the reoccurring theme in the stories I'm told is that the initial goal when they set out was to bless someone else and the end result is that they were the ones who were blessed the most. The take away is that if you are feeling down and out, need a lift, or just need to feel good about something, the sure-fire solution is to do something for someone else. If …
November 2016 Rotary District 6080 Newsletter
November is Foundation month and our Foundation is about to celebrate its 100-year anniversary. What an amazing tool we have at our finger tips. With all of us contributing a few hundred dollars a year, we can truly make the world a better place. I personally don't have the resources to send a Vocational Training Team half way around the world or the $40,000 it takes to fund a scholarship or even the money to save families who are living off the garbage piles in Ethiopia. With the Foundation, I can not only do one of those projects, I can even be a part of them all at the same time in the same year. When you see a need and you want to help, you don't have to walk on by because you don't have the resources. You have the Foundation behind you. So dream big, follow your heart, and know that all of us together have your back. A little bit from all of us every year is all it takes. Where else can you turn $10,000 into $35,000? Just as an example, if your club or group of clubs can raise $10,000 for a project, that $10,000 is matched by the District with funds from the Foundation dollar for dollar so your $10,000 just became $20,000. Then the Foundation will match the money from the District dollar for dollar so $20,000 becomes $30,000. But we're not done yet. The Founda-tion will then match the clubs original $10,000 .$50 cents on the dollar …
October 2016 Rotary District 6080 Newsletter
We are finishing the quarter strong. There is so much going on in this Dis-trict. Our Youth Exchange is under way, RYLA is working on having two sessions this year, ShowMe Rotary is hard at work planning President Elect and Secretary Elect Training. District Conference is weeks away. Clubs like Branson-Hollister are celebrating mile-stone anniversaries. Global grant ap-plications are being written at unprec-edented levels. Fund raisers are hap-pening everywhere as clubs fund all kinds of projects. I really thought I had a good idea what was going on in our District. I'm find-ing out that I didn't have a clue how much we are doing and yet I haven't' met anyone yet that doesn't want to do even more. What an amazing organization we be-long to that not only provide a vehicle for us to use our talents to help oth-ers, but also provides an opportunity to develop talents that some of us never new we had. The cool thing about giving back is that the more you are willing to give the more blessings and personal growth you will receive. The end result is we want to do more.
September 2016 Rotary District 6080 Newsletter
We are nearing the end of the first quarter of our Rotary year. The energy level is high, and the commitment is strong. Foundation giving is off to a good start. So far we are ahead of last year's record-breaking year. We still have a long way to go, but it's exciting to see everyone renew and even expand their com-mitment to what makes us such a special organization. Our Foundation allows the vision of one person to become a reality. Polio Plus giving is off to a great start as well. It's critical that we continue our support of our #1 project. With 14 cases in Pakistan, 8 in Afghanistan and 3 new cases in Borno, Nigeria we are not only working against a virus, we are also working against tremendous unrest and violence in the remaining affected areas. It's truly exciting to travel the District and see the impact of our Foundation as clubs begin to use their District Simplified Grants and work on global grants. There are at least 4 groups of clubs working on global grants. The District matches club contributions $1 for $1 until the global District Designated Funds are depleted for the year. District Designated Funds (DDF) are distributed on a first-come first-serve basis. Grant applications must be completed, approved and club funding must be in place in order to be eligible for available DDF. Any grants not funded this year are certainly eligi-ble for funding next year, so keep up the great work. There are all kinds of …
August 2016 Rotary District 6080 Newsletter
Out new Rotary year with the theme of Rotary Serving Humanity is well under way. I have spent the better part of the month of July on the road visiting clubs. I thought I knew a little about Rotary or at least our District. Man, was I wrong. I am truly over-whelmed by all the things the clubs in this District are doing. We have small clubs doing big projects. Large clubs are doing monster projects. Then there are all the projects that clubs, both large and small, are doing that almost go unnoticed because they will never hit the 6 pm news or the newspaper. How-ever, they make an enormous difference in the lives of a small group of people. Oftentimes, these projects are the most rewarding because if not for a Rotarian's intervention, the situation would be hopeless. Giving hope to the hopeless is what Rotarians are all about. So we quietly go about the business of miracles. I am truly humbled to be part of such an amazing group of Rotarians. Keep up the good work. Humanity needs you.
June 2016 Rotary District 6080 Newsletter
Welcome to Rotary District 6080 Newsletter, Issue 12 This year's theme is Be a Gift to the World. Read about the interesting and varied activities of some of the clubs in District 6080. Please send me articles about YOUR club activities. If their is a deadline for your project or event we will print the article for up to three months in advance so that everyone is aware of it. I must receive your article by the 20th of the month for it to appear in the following month's Newsletter. Dick Mazanec Rotary District 6080 Secretary firstname.lastname@example.com
May 2016 Rotary District 6080 Newsletter
Welcome to Rotary District 6080 Newsletter, Issue 11 This year's theme is Be a Gift to the World. Read about the interesting and varied activities of some of the clubs in District 6080. Please send me articles about YOUR club activities. If their is a deadline for your project or event we will print the article for up to three months in advance so that everyone is aware of it. I must receive your article by the 20th of the month for it to appear in the following month's Newsletter. Dick Mazanec Rotary District 6080 Secretary firstname.lastname@example.com
April 2016 Rotary District 6080 Newsletter
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Kings Were Never Gone
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Short Story by: D. Thurmond, aka, JEF
Phil Townsman is sitting behind a large maple desk in an office way too small for a desk that size.
There are books and binders piled everywhere. The bookshelves are packed with loose papers, more binders, and old newspapers; with a few period magazines stuffed here and there.
Phil is talking on his secured Land-line to someone named George, the last name is unknown.
"Hi George, it's me, Phil. The report is complete and the outcome is not what we expected at all.
No, no one has seen the entire report until yesterday. I'm the only one that has seen it in its entirety, and I've been going over it ever sense.
Yes, I had different teams working on various sections, as we agreed. No one team knew that they were working on only one section of an entire report, nor did they know that any other teams were involved. They all have been told that what they were part of was some sort of historical study.
Yes, every team is in a different location, many in different states from one another. So the chances of them connecting the dots are slim to nil.
Sure, I can give you a quick rundown, but I'm going to bring the report to you tomorrow, personally.
Well, this whole democracy thing was a joke right from the beginning. What has been going on, and I'm talking right from the beginning, is a manipulation of power using the democratic system to disguise flagrant capitalistic king-ships.
We never left the old system; we just called everyone by new names. That was during the beginning of the colonies and leading to the industrial revolution.
When industrialization began, the railroads, coal, oil, steel, that is when a new line of kings appeared, with dukes and earls galore.
They waged war against one another, often to the detriment of the populous. The pawns were expendable, just like always.
The appearance of the unions only added additional kings to the realm, but they were kings that produced some good side effects for the populace in general.
No, that didn't happen, as we thought that it might. Instead, all the kings got richer, but some aligned themselves with some very unsavory dukes and earls, so to speak.
By the end of WW-II certain kings were making most of their money in banking, insurance, oil, and manufacturing. And much of the manufacturing was military related, so they sought ways to keep that in play; thus their political will was expressed in the wars in Korea and Vietnam.
No, that was not what they did.
Their financial and political will was so entrenched in the Mafia, in our government, especially in the FBI, the CIA. Even in states and federal courts, they were able to do anything they saw fit to achieve their goals, even murders.
It didn't matter whether it was a mobster or a head of state; if they were bad for business then they had to go.
People who did what they wanted got to stay; otherwise they changed things to their liking.
Kennedy was going to move the US out of Vietnam, but military spending, to defend it, was much to their liking; they had made heavy investments and they needed time to recoup their investment, so Kennedy had to go, as did his brother.
Then came the digital age and they no longer needed to kill anyone, they could simply fix an election to get what they wanted.
They do have a problem that they don't seem to be able to fix; impulsive voters have caused a disruptive force. They control the hierarchy of one party here in the states, but not the loyalty of the voters. Their greed has set the masses against them, even though the masses don't know who they are against. Now these kings are stuck between a rock and a hard place, with only two options.
No, not those kings, those are more like generals.
If the one wins the election, then they will try to keep that president as ineffective as possible, for another four years. And they will use their media to blame the stagnant government on the policies of that President.
But if the other candidate wins, they will use him as a dupe, someone to point the finger at if and when things go wrong. They will always be able to say, ("That was not our man in the White House, and it was not our fault.").
Yes, the later is easier for their agenda and they can get things done faster. That is why they are using every resource, Wiki-leaks, supposed Russian Hackers, even individuals and clusters within the FBI; to make sure the later happens.
No, no one except for you and I will have seen this until you make your presentation to Congress, a copy to the press will follow, I'm sure.
OK George, I will see you about noon tomorrow."... Click.
"Hi, I am FBI Agent Alex Carmel. Are you Sergeant Trent?"
"Yes I am. I called you because I thought that your people would want to handle this investigation, being the victim was part of your agency. His name was..."
Agent Carmel cut Sergeant Trent off and said, "Yes, I know, Philip Townsman, FBI Special Investigations Unit. Was this a targeted shooting?"
Sergeant Trent replied, "Don't know for sure, one shot to the head, but the mess that the room is in says that there may have been a struggle.
The alarm system is another matter, very high tech stuff, but it was somehow compromised, or the victim let the shooter in. Whoever came in here didn't want money or things to hock. We know that they took a laptop that was on the desk, and possibly a stack of papers, the blood-spatter and a disconnected cord tells us that."
Carmel questioned, "Have there been any resent armed burglaries in the surrounding neighborhoods?"
Just one residence last month, that was over on Hanover Drive. But that guy didn't do this. The home owner over on Hanover shot him with a double-barreled shotgun, both rounds; --- ouch." Trent said with a smile.
"Was Townsman married?" asked Sergeant Trent.
"Yes, his wife is in Huston attending a convention. She is a sales rep for a pharmaceutical company. She has been notified," Agent Carmel replied.
Then the good Sergeant stated, "Well, Agent Carmel, I see your people have arrived so I'll be pulling my people out now. Here is my card should you have any further questions, and I'll fax you my report, a-sap."
With that said, Sergeant Trent began rounding up his team
FBI Agent Alex Carmel pulled his phone from his jacket and dialed. "Hello George, this is Carmel."
"Yes, he was shot sometime last night, they took the laptop and possibly paper copies. They will probably destroy them; I doubt that they would want them accessible to anyone.
Yes, I'll keep a tight lid on this. Talk to you soon," and with that Agent Carmel ended his phone conversation.
(Six weeks later.)
"Hi, here is your mail sir; oh, and this little package arrived for you too," was the remark from the mail-room lady.
"Thanks, Demi. I'm sorry; you're not Demi, are you?" Gene replied.
"No sir, I'm Norma, Demi called in sick so I'm just filling in for a few days."
"Well it's nice to meet you Norma," Gene replied.
As soon as Norma left the room, Gene quickly opened the package and plugged its content, a Flash-drive, into his Lap-top. After a few minutes of viewing, he dialed his cell phone, "It arrived just as He said it would; within weeks of his death.
Yes, I'll have it posted on social media and send copies out to all the news agencies; talk to you later Boss.
Suddenly Gene slumped forward, blood streaming from his forehead.
Norma slipped the small caliber hand-gun, complete with silencer, back into a compartment of her mail cart. She approached Gene's desk and removed the flash-drive from his Lap-top. At that point she checked Gene's pulse being very careful not to touch anything else.
Afterward, Norma re-entered the hallway and screamed!
People came running as Norma, in a state of sobbing hysteria, pointed toward Gene's office. "I think he is dead," Norma cried, and I saw a man running toward the elevator, he had a gun.
By the time the police arrived Norma was long gone
In a car several miles from the newspaper building, Norma stops the car in a drugstore parking lot and turned the engine off.
Soon she is dialing her cell phone. "Yes Ambassador, I have the Flash-drive. Those stupid American did not expand their surveillance, and the report was about to be published in the media. There was no other way; I had to take drastic action. Yes, thank you Sir, I will see to it that it is destroy...
Norma glances in her rearview mirror and sees herself, with a laser light on her forehead. She started to move but it was too late.
Two men approach and open the door, after retrieving the Flash-drive they toss an object into the car and walk away. Within a couple of minutes the car was engulfed in flames.
"I'm afraid the situation is out of control, there are people dropping like flies all over town," said Agent Alex Carmel. Then he continued, "Yes Sir, Townsman must have had an accomplice, in fact, he may have had many. And there is no telling how many copies he made of that Report or who he sent them to. All it will take is one copy to get to some blogger somewhere, and then all hell will break loose.
Yes sir, it would be a good time to start throwing some of the lesser kings under the bus so the others can say they were duped by them. Meanwhile I'll have this copy of the Report edited and released to the media.
I know George; I will have you review it before we release it. No, we don't want the wrong kings getting their heads chopped off.
At that very moment Bloggers in Italy, Spain, Iraq, Russia, and the USA posted the Report, in its entirety.
Alas, the kings in the shadows, the handful that have been running the whole show right from the beginnings, they were never discovered; they were not in the report.
The report revealed the visible Kings, sometimes called (Front Men), and they were prosecuted. And of course, some got off on technicalities, others received light sentences, and one was set up to take the fall for all the others, they say he killed himself.
Yes, all is right in the kingdoms again, and there is no threat to the natural order of things.
D. Thurmond / JEF --- 11-05-2016
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by Como. William, editor, Peggy Lee, Harvey Korman, Clark Gable, Robert Drivas, et al.
New York: Dance Magazine, 1974. Magazine. 100p. including covers 8.5x11 inches, articles, features, reviews, listings, illustrated with b&w photos and ads, semi-glossy entertainment magazine in lightly-worn stapled pictorial wraps. Peggy Lee, Harvey Korman, Clark Gable, Robert Drivas. Reworking of "Ballroom Dance Magazine" and "Dance Magazine" A magazine of arts, stage, dance and music that bridged the gap between gay and straight readers in the 1970s-80s. (Inventory #: 239120)


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Joan Eardley: A Private View premiered at Modern Two, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh and then toured UK regional art galleries and arts centres in May/June 2017.
Joan Eardley: A Private View was written by Anna Carlisle for Heroica Theatre Company. The 2017 production was directed by Marilyn Imrie, and Alexandra Mathie played the role of Joan Eardley.
About the play
Anna Carlisle's ground-breaking new play celebrated a gifted life stopped in its prime and offered audiences an opportunity to spend time in the company of a great painter as she made her way through a life of joys, frustrations, disappointments and triumphs. In this compelling and moving promenade production, audiences came to understand what it was that fired Joan Eardley: they heard the voices of her cherished Samson children of Glasgow and the compelling 'music' of the Catterline storms. It was as if they were almost standing in the waves and cornfields with Joan, and they were able to experience for themselves the overwhelming impact of her finished works.
Joan's touching life unfolded before people's eyes entailing story, music and, in several venues, authentic Eardley works. The guiding intention of the production was to bring Joan Eardley and her overwhelming body and nature of work to the notice of people in both Scotland and England – the latter, in particular, knowing of her – if at all – far less well than the Scots.
And Joan – played by Alexandra Mathie – was not alone: as well as having the audiences alongside her, she also had with her her steadfast friends from her working life: Margot Sandeman, Angus Neil and Lil Neilson, all painters themselves, and Audrey Walker, Joan's key mentor and a successful photographer in her own right. All the characters who enriched Joan's life were beautifully played by Ashley Smith and John Kielty; audiences were carried through the life of Joan accompanied by the stirring music of Pippa Murphy and the evocative design of Claire Halleran. The play was magically directed by Marilyn Imrie.
Cast and Company
Written by Anna Carlisle
Directed by Marilyn Imrie
Alexandra Mathie
John Kielty
Ashley Smith
Creative team
Production manager – Katie Hutcheson
Stage manager – Rachael Miller
Designer – Claire Halleran
Sound designer – Pippa Murphy
Choreographer – Janice Parker
Dialect coach – Carol Ann Crawford
Communications – Matthew Keys and Rachel Tansey
A special thank you to
Simon Donaldson, Louise Ludgate and Gabriel Quigley who performed in the September 2015 and May 2016 development workshops in Edinburgh.
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"By scraping away the layers of this complex and fiercely talented individual, the audience is given a fleeting glimpse into her inner life. It made me weep – and that was a good thing.".
Jan Patience, Herald Scotland
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