Love this guy...
The Plays from the Past:
http://www.nba.com/video/channels/top_plays/2010/03/26/20100321_curry_top10.nba/
E-NOTES: WHEN THE NEWS IS NOT ENOUGH. THE BLOG OF E. ETHELBERT MILLER
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
THE WARRIOR
STEPH CURRY is playing the best basketball in the playoffs right now.
Love this guy...
The Plays from the Past:
http://www.nba.com/video/channels/top_plays/2010/03/26/20100321_curry_top10.nba/
Love this guy...
The Plays from the Past:
http://www.nba.com/video/channels/top_plays/2010/03/26/20100321_curry_top10.nba/
Getting my Brown Butt in Gear.
Sterling Brown's birthday is tomorrow. He was born in 1901.
On my wall I keep a framed copy of Brown's tribute to me ( May 4, 1978) at Howard University.
His words encourage me to do the heavy-lifting - to aspire to be a strong man.
I've known Ma Rainey more than the Southern road but starting tomorrow I'm going to push all fear aside. It's time for Bert to do the Funky Butt.
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| Sterling A. Brown |
On my wall I keep a framed copy of Brown's tribute to me ( May 4, 1978) at Howard University.
His words encourage me to do the heavy-lifting - to aspire to be a strong man.
I've known Ma Rainey more than the Southern road but starting tomorrow I'm going to push all fear aside. It's time for Bert to do the Funky Butt.
Monday, April 29, 2013
Quote of the Day
War is being waged on us, and if we don't fight for our public spaces and civic freedoms and celebrations, we are going to lose them. So if this is a war, let it be a war, and let us not fight by restricting ourselves. Let us fight by doing what it takes to achieve victory.
- Noam Neusner
Forward newspaper, April 26, 2013
- Noam Neusner
Forward newspaper, April 26, 2013
LEISURE AND THE POPE
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| POPE FRANCIS |
I've been telling folks we need to move from our discussions about work to one that examines leisure.
Here is Pope Francis on this important topic:
Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport. But this is being destroyed, in large part, by the elimination of the Sabbath rest day. More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.
from POPE FRANCIS: HIS LIFE IN HIS OWN WORDS
Putnam: $24.95
JOB?
Dear friends,
Forgive the mass email –especially those of you who I wish
I were in touch with more often — but I would really appreciate it if
you could circulate the fact that my new employer, (6 months counts as
new in my life!), Public Campaign, has three job openings herein DC. We
are looking for a development associate (who will report to me), a
training director, and a legislative manager. This is a great place to
work and the staff works as a team, focused on building the movement to
make our elected officials beholden to ALL of their constituents, not
just the rich ones. We need strong, wise, energetic people and we'd love
to increase our staff diversity.
All of the job announcements and application instructions can be accessed here: http://www.publicampaign.org/jobs.
Many thanks in advance- and all best wishes,
Beth
Beth Schulman landline: 202.543.1211
For Immediate
Release
Contact: Emily
Morrison
mobile: 323-363-4404
Constellation Theatre Company
presents
Gilgamesh
Poetry byPulitzer Prize
Winner YusefKomunyakaa
Concept & Dramaturgy
byChad Gracia
Directed by Allison
Arkell Stockman
Live Music
performed by Helen Hayes Award Recipient Tom Teasley
May
2 – June 2, 2013
Press Opening: Saturday, May
4 at 8 pm
Pay-What-You-Can
Previews May 2 & 3 at 8:30 pm.
Gilgamesh – The Ancient Middle Eastern
Epic
Part
god and part man, King Gilgamesh is the ultimate warrior, a violent ruler of
the city of Urukwho enjoys virgin brides on their wedding nights. Part man and part animal, Enkidu is sent from
the gods to humble Gilgamesh. They are
perfect rivals and after combat they become best friends. Together Gilgamesh and Enkidu go to the
Forbidden Forest to conquer Humbaba, and Enkidu dies. Heartbroken, Gilgamesh vows to find an
antidote that will restore his soul mate to life. He embarks on an epic journey, encountering
Scorpion People and crossing The River of Death. Fear and love breed courage and compassion as
Gilgamesh struggles to accept mortality.
The
world’s oldest story, Gilgamesh originates in Mesopotamia (modern day
Iraq) where the historical king reigned in 2750 BCE. The legend was first captured in five
separate poems on cuneiform tablets in Sumerian around 2100 BCE, yet the full
story of The Epic of Gilgamesh was
recorded in Akkadian dating back to 1700 BCE.
This later Old Babylonian version is the basis for Komunyakaa and
Gracia’s script. Interest in Gilgamesh intensified when a Victorian
British translator named George Smith recognized the story of a great flood
sent by the gods and the parallel between the Noah of the Bible and the
Babylonian character Utnapishtam. A
contemporary translator of the epic, Steven Mitchell, speaks to its universal
power, “In giving voice to grief and the fear of death, perhaps more powerfully
than any book written after it, in portraying love and vulnerability and the
quest for wisdom, it has become a personal testimony for millions of readers in
dozens of languages.”
Constellation
is presenting the first fully realized production of this verse play, a collaboration between Pulitzer Prize
Winning Poet YusefKomunyakaa and dramaturge Chad Gracia. Over the course of a year, Komunyakaa created
dialogue for the structure and outline Gracia first proposed. Together they developed characters, scenes
and a dramatic arc while polishing language and imagery. Constellation is bringing the script to life
with the company’s signature style of merging visual spectacle, heightened
movement and live music in order to transport the audience to a different time
and place.
Gilgamesh’sstellar acting ensemble is led by Joel David Santner*in the
title role. Santner was recently seen in Signature Theatre’s R & J, and has performed with
Shakespeare Theatre Company, Folger Theatre, The Kennedy Center and Taffety
Punk. Enkidu is portrayed by Andreu
Honeycutt who starred as Rama in Constellation’s The Ramayana, which was revived due to popular demand. The cast includes Constellation favorites: Charlotte
Akin,Katy Carkuff,Ashley Ivey,Emma Crane Jaster and Jim Jorgensen. Nora Achrati and Manu Kumasi are joining the
company for the first time.
The
talented design team includesResident Designers Kendra Rai, who
won the 2012 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Costume Design for The Green Bird, and Composer/ Musician
Tom Teasley, who received the 2010 and 2011 Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding
Sound Design for Crazyface and The Ramayana. Scenic Designer Ethan Sinnottand Lighting
Designer Klyph Stanford make their Constellation debuts. Matthew McGee is designing puppets while
Casey Kaleba and Emma Crane Jaster collaborate on choreography.
WHO: Constellation Theatre Company
WHAT: Gilgamesh. Poetryby
YusefKomunyakaa.Concept & Dramaturgy byChad Gracia.
Directed by Allison Arkell Stockman
WHERE: Source Theatre 1835 14th St. NW
WHEN: May 2 – June 2, 2013. Thursdays,
Fridays & Saturdays at 8 pm. Sundays
at 2 pm.
Additional Shows: Sat. May 18 and25, and June
1 at 2:00 pm, Sun.May 26 at 7:30 pm & Mon.May 27 at 8:00 pm.
PRESS
OPENING: Saturday, May 4 at 8 pm.
Pay-What-You-Can
Previews: May
2 & 3 at 8:30 pm.
Post Show Talkbacks (2):
Sunday, May 12 &19 after 2pm performance.
Sign-Interpreted
Performance (1): Sunday May 19 at 2 pm
OTHER: Audiences aged 10 and up. We ask that
a parent or guardian accompany any child under 13.
CONTACT: 202-204-7741 or marketing@ConstellationTheatre.org
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GILGAMESH: FACT SHEET
Play:Gilgamesh
Poetry by YusefKomunyakaa
Concept
& Dramaturgy byChad Gracia
Director AllisonArkell Stockman
Blurb: Part
god and part man, King Gilgamesh journeys to the ends of the earth on his epic
quest for immortality.
Ensemble:
Joel
David Santner*, Andreu Honeycutt*, Nora Achrati, Charlotte Akin, Katy Carkuff,
Ashley Ivey, Emma
Crane Jaster, Jim Jorgensen, Manu Kumasi
*Member, Actors’ Equity Association
Design and Production: KendraiRai (Costumes), Ethan Sinnott (Scenic Designer), Klyph
Stanford (Lighting Designer), Tom Teasley(Composer/ Musician), Casey Kaleba
(Fight Choreographer), Emma Crane Jaster (Choreographer), Matthew McGee (Puppet
Designer),Cheryl Gnerlich (Stage Manager), Rebecca
Dieffenbach(Props Designer), Katrina
Clark, (Interpreter), Jefferson Farber (Dramaturg), Gwen Grastorf (Assistant
Director/Movement Coach).
Pay-What-You-Can Previews (2): May 2 & 3 at 8:30 pm
Post Show Talkbacks (2): Sunday May 12 & 19 after 2pm performance.
Sign-Interpreted Performance (1): Sunday May 19 at 2 pm
Press Night: Saturday, May 4 at 8 pm
Performance Schedule: May 2 – June 2 with shows on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at
8 pm and Sundays at 2 pm.
Additional Shows: Saturdays
May 18, 25 and June 1 at 2:00 pm, Sunday, May 26 at 7:30
pm and Monday, June 27 at 8pm.
Constellation Theatre Company Mission:
Constellation Theatre Company’s mission is to spark the
curiosity and imagination of the people of Greater Washington, DC by bringing
stories to life from all over the world. Visual spectacle, music and movement
unite with an exuberant acting ensemble to create an exhilarating entertainment
experience.
Ticket Prices:
$25 - $45
Location: Source Theatre at
1835 14th St. NW on the corner of T St.
Two blocks from
the U St./ Cardozo Metro. On-street
parking.
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IS THIS ANOTHER BLUE MONDAY?
It's never tomorrow it's always yesterday or today.
I joined Goodreads and now I'm reading Melville's Moby-Dick. What an awesome app. Book community -one book at a time. Will use it to access those classics - those texts people are always making reference to. What about Douglass, Wright and Baldwin? There goes Ethelbert reading race into apps. So DuBois of him.
So you want to go to war again?
Syria seems seductive. Chemical war sounds like something the food industry would warn us about.
My mother always believed the government was testing something in the New York subways.
All his life my father had a bad cough. Where did it come from? Working in the post-office or riding those underground trains? No one was serious back then are we more Syria today?
Send in the drones?
Why are we always ending one war and starting another? Is that North Korea in my soup?
2013 is shaping up to be one of those years where the last two digits seem to be wearing a ball and chain. How unlucky can a year be? This is where Janis Joplin walks in...
Well, Mother's Day will be here soon. I need to get the Earth and Mother Nature a card.
Maybe read "Ecology" by Ernesto Cardenal to some virgin maiden leaving for the coast.
I joined Goodreads and now I'm reading Melville's Moby-Dick. What an awesome app. Book community -one book at a time. Will use it to access those classics - those texts people are always making reference to. What about Douglass, Wright and Baldwin? There goes Ethelbert reading race into apps. So DuBois of him.
So you want to go to war again?
Syria seems seductive. Chemical war sounds like something the food industry would warn us about.
My mother always believed the government was testing something in the New York subways.
All his life my father had a bad cough. Where did it come from? Working in the post-office or riding those underground trains? No one was serious back then are we more Syria today?
Send in the drones?
Why are we always ending one war and starting another? Is that North Korea in my soup?
2013 is shaping up to be one of those years where the last two digits seem to be wearing a ball and chain. How unlucky can a year be? This is where Janis Joplin walks in...
Well, Mother's Day will be here soon. I need to get the Earth and Mother Nature a card.
Maybe read "Ecology" by Ernesto Cardenal to some virgin maiden leaving for the coast.
Sunday, April 28, 2013
WRITERS BRING THEIR BATS TO BENNINGTON
Around the country writers are getting bats and gloves ready for the 8th Anniversary of The Miller Classic (June 16th). This is the softball game I sponsor at the Bennington Writing Seminars (Vermont). It features the poets against those feared fiction writers. In the past the winners won books of poetry selected from the Bennington bookstore. This June folks will be playing for "the shirt."
All eyes will be on slugging Jia Oak Baker.
The sweet Miller Classic T-shirts were designed by Cameron Jones (Tampa, Florida).
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| Ethelbert and Jia Oak Baker |
Susannah Heschel
I received a note today from beloved friend Susannah Heschel. She will be in DC this June to give a talk at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. See information below.
Monday, June 10, 7–8:30 p.m.
2013 Monna and Otto Weinmann
Annual Lecture
Jewish-Christian Dialogue in the
Postwar Era: The American Distinction
Helena Rubinstein Auditorium
INFORMATION ABOUT SUSANNAH HESCHEL:
When Love Is Like Death
I love you again (today)
not like any other day but
today, when nothing is going
right and someone said loving
you was wrong. But why today?
There are Fridays and weekends
when things seem to end. Yes -
such is life but what is love?
What continues from me to you?
What survives even death? Is it
yesterday or today?
- E. Ethelbert Miller
I love you again (today)
not like any other day but
today, when nothing is going
right and someone said loving
you was wrong. But why today?
There are Fridays and weekends
when things seem to end. Yes -
such is life but what is love?
What continues from me to you?
What survives even death? Is it
yesterday or today?
- E. Ethelbert Miller
Saturday, April 27, 2013
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