[act-ma] 4/11th “A Spring Murmuration of Poets” with Poets' Theatre
Charlie Welch
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Subject: REMINDER: CCB THIS SUNDAY-April 11th at 11AM: “A Spring
Murmuration of Poets” with Poets' Theatre
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2021 22:59:29 +0000
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REMINDER: CCB THIS SUNDAY-April 11th at 11AM: “A Spring Murmuration of
Poets” with Poets' Theatre
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*CCB SUNDAYS & More*
*April 11th 2021 - 11 AM *(EST)
"A Spring Murmuration of Poets"
with Poets' Theatre
*Sunday, April 11th at 11 AM:*
*“A Spring Murmuration of Poets”*
*with Poets' Theatre*
*• POETS' THEATRE* was founded in Cambridge in 1950 by a bunch of young
poets who became famous later such as John Ashbery, Richard Wilbur,
Frank O’Hara, Richard Eberhart, Alison Lurie. The first staged reading
of Dylan Thomas’ A CHILD’S CHRISTMAS IN WALES was a Poets’ Theatre
production. Their Palmer St. theatre burned up in 1968 and so the PT
remained invisible until a “wake” to remember it was held at the JFK
Library in 1989 but the wake became a rebirth, and for the next dozen
years the PT produced numerous events.
*AMANDA SHEA*is a noted Spoken Word poet from Boston. She has performed
at the MFA, the ICA and the Gardner Museum, as well as acting in the
Poets' Theatre production of The Boston Abolitionists at the Boston
Athenaeum and UMass/Boston. She also curated and performed in "Other
Voices in the Room," the Poets' Theatre's celebration of the best Spoken
Word poets in Boston. She also served as an official host for the 2018
and 2019 Boston Art & Music Soul Festival and the Arts Equity Summit.
*DAVID GULLETTE***is Literary Director of the Poets' Theatre. His most
recent book of poetry is Questionable Shapes. Two of his scripts have
been presented in recent years by the Poets' Theatre: The Boston
Abolitionists, and Four Generations of the Adams Family. He is currently
at work on "Gaspar's Decision," a play based on his book about a
Catholic Spanish missionary and poet who took up arms and joined the
Sandinista insurrection against the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua.
*MARTHA COLLINS*is the author of many books of poetry, the most recent
being Because What Else Could I Do which won the 2020 Poetry Society of
America’s William Carlos Williams Award
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A staged version of her long narrative poem, Blue Front about a 1909
lynching in Cairo Illinois was performed by The Poets' Theatre.
*LLOYD SCHWARTZ*is Poet Laureate of Somerville. His most recent book
is Who's on First? New and Selected Poems. He won a Pulitzer Prize for
his music criticism, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Schwartz served as
co-editor of an edition of the collected works of Elizabeth Bishop
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the Library of America, entitled Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and
Letters (2008) and edited the centennial edition of Elizabeth Bishop's
Prose for Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2011). He adapted his first book of
poems, These People for the stage; it became a Poets' Theatre production.
*FRED MARCHANT* is the founding director of the Suffolk University
Poetry Center and the author of five books of poetry, the most recent of
which is Said Not Said. He has co-translated (with Nguyen Ba Chung) work
by Tran Dang Khoa and Vo Que, among others. Poems from his own first
book, Tipping Point (winner of the 1993 Washington Prize) were part of
The Poets' Theatre's dramatic presentation of Writing Between the
Lines, an anthology of writings by Vietnamese and American authors
connected to the Vietnam War. Performed at Suffolk University, the cast
of that production included the late and great Grace Paley.
*ANI GJIKA*studied at Simmons University and Boston University (in the
MFA program where her teachers included Rosanna Warren, Robert Pinsky
and Louise Gluck). Her first book of poems, /Bread on Running
Waters/ was published by Fenway Press, and her translation of/ Negative
Space/ by leading Albanian poet Luljeta Lleshanaku was published by New
Directions. She has been a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize, and
the PEN Literary Award. She has taught at Grub Street and UMass Framingham.
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*Sunday, April 18th at 11 AM: *
*"Deadly Secrets, Corporate Corruption
and One Man's Search for Justice"*
*with Carey Gillam*
Investigative journalist Carey Gillam will discuss her new book and
research that has revealed how Monsanto spent decades hiding the
cancer-causing dangers of its weed killing products and the story of Lee
Johnson's fight both to survive cancer and hold Monsanto accountable.
Though doctors told Johnson his cancer would kill him years ago, he is
"striving and thriving" and working to warn others about harms
associated with pesticides and plans to join in the presentation.
*Music by Jay Mankita*
*Sunday, April 25th at 11 AM:*
*“Conscience of the Radical: **Scott & Helen Nearing's 20th Century
**Odysseus**”*
*with Greg Joly*
This talk will explore Scott's role in the birth of Academic Freedom for
educators, his 1919 Federal Sedition trial for anti-war writings, and
his progressive stance on economics, social justice and Black lives.
Also covered will be how Scott & Helen integrated their
ecologically-based homesteading and maple syrup business with their
intellectual pursuits and social activism.
*Music by Dean Stevens & Rob Flax*
*Sunday, May 2nd at 11 AM: *
*“Encore: The Red & Green of May Day"*
*with Judith Woodruff*
An encore presentation of the origins of May Day celebration: May Day
is recognized around the world as a holiday of celebration and
appreciation of working people. Originally it was a springtime fertility
festival whose origins go back far into the ancient world. It is known
for its May poles, dances, floral wreaths, fertility rites, and general
rejoicing along with days off from work. This program will explore how
May Day came to be the working class holiday by 1894; a remembrance of
the Haymarket martyrs' struggle for the eight hour day; and is now a day
of world wide working class demonstrations with efforts to make it a
legal American holiday, as it is in most of the countries of the world.
*Music by David Rovics*
*Sunday, May 9th at 11 AM:*
*“Storytellers for a Small Planet”*
*with Andy Davis, Judith Black and Jackson Gillman*
This talk will explore Scott's role in the birth of Acedemic Freedom for
educators, his 1919 Federal Sedition trial for anti-war writings, and
his progressive stance on economics, social justice and Black lives.
Also covered will be how Scott & Helen intregrated their
ecologically-based homesteading and maple syrup business with their
intellectual pursuits and social activism.
*Sunday, May 16th at 11 AM: *
*“Reinventing how we tackle Hunger"*
*with Katie Martin*
COVID has increased food insecurity and exposed systemic inequalities.
Learn about a new book that provides inspiration and action steps for
reinventing how we tackle hunger in the U.S. The key is shifting our
focus from a lack of food to strategies that build empathy, equity, and
political will.
*Music by CommUnity Voices*
*Sunday, May 23rd at 11 AM:*
*“The Sweet Chariot Music & Arts Festival”*
The Sweet Chariot Music and Arts Festival is a wild gaggle of
songwriters, musicians, divas and divos, poets storytellers and artists
who meet for a week each summer on an island off the Maine Coast and
deliver three nights of inspiration to a rapt audience in the funkiest
hall you’ve ever stepped into. They’ve been doing this for over 30
years, and keep coming back for more, except when a virus requires an
involuntary sabbatical. Now they’re rarin’ to go, and will give you a
sneak preview, in celebration of one of their member’s birthday (Dean),
and in fond memory our beloved Kathleen Dinan. Join us!
*Music by Eric Kilburn, Lisa Redfern, Dean Stevens, Ritt Henn, Beth
Falcone, Daisy and Stan, Geoff Kaufman, Suzy Williams, John and Rachel
Nicholas, David Dodson, Mary Kate Small*, and many more.... in other
words way too many to fit in one service, but who even cares??
*Sunday, May 30th at 11 AM: *
*“Film: Child's Play"*
*with Michael Sheridan*
Four children in Sialkot, Pakistan, introduce us to their daily lives
and tell us why they work stitching soccer balls. The film argues that
to eliminate child labor, viable economic options must be created so
that parents can afford not to have their children work. Produced for
Save the Children Fund-UK and shown at the United Nation's International
Conference on Child Labor and at the British Sports Apparel Industry's
annual conference. The film helped change policy and raised 1.2 million
dollars for Save the Children's Sialkot program.
*Sunday, June 6th at 11 AM:*
*“Exonerating Ethel”*
*with Jennifer Meeropol*
Jenn Meeropol discusses the successes and lessons learned from the 2016
campaign to exonerate her grandmother, Ethel Rosenberg. In 1951, at the
height of the McCarthy era, Ethel was convicted of “conspiracy to commit
espionage” alongside her husband Julius in a trial that would come to
symbolize "Red Scare" hysteria and the U.S.’s willingness to commit
injustice in the name of national security. As we mark the 70th
anniversary of the conviction, Jenn shares what comes next for the
exonerate campaign, including the exciting possibility of a relaunch
effort in the months to come, and why it still matters today.
*Music by CommUnity Voices*
*Sunday, June 13th at 11 AM: *
*“Centroamericanos Speak:
On Migration and Struggle"*
*with Members of the Central American News*
• Melissa Vida is a freelance journalist and filmmaker from Belgian and
Salvadoran descent. Melissa has had her work published in The New York
Times, Foreign Policy, World Politics Review and America Magazine and
has been hired by the Katholieke Universiteit van Leuven (KUL) to
produce a documentary on St. Oscar Romero's legacy in El Salvador. She
is also the founder and editor of the weekly newsletter Central American
News, which is followed by 500+ journalists, researchers and public
officials. She hones a bird's-eye view on Central America as a region
and specializes in El Salvador, for which she works as a consultant for
government institutions.
*Music by CommUnity Voices*
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