Blackfriars Theatre’s production of “Pretty Fire,” featuring a warm, open-hearted performance by Adryanna Elmendorf, runs through Nov. 7.
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Haudenosaunee filmmakers get their own festival
This April, the inaugural Haudenosaunee Filmmakers Festival will spotlight the work of filmmakers from the six nation confederacy.
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Hnossa’s storytelling brings folktales to life
Armed with little more than a mic, an amp, and a loop station, Hnossa project’s Didrik Söderström adapts and performs old stories in layered poetry, prose, and song. This week Hnossa will present its new work, “The Magician’s Cape,” at Writers & Books.
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Artist presents a personal connection to hard history
Like much of Europe, Corsicans took part in the immigration to the so-called “new world” in search of economic opportunities. Spain’s Cedula de Gracias of 1815 encouraged Spaniards and other Europeans to settle and populate the colonies of Cuba and Puerto Rico. In the 19th century, hundreds of families from Corsica (a Mediterranean island located […]
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Tell me a story
Rafe Martin creates entire worlds out of simple words, or, as he puts it, “sounds on air.” He’s not one to run around on stage during his storytelling performances, preferring to simply sit or stand in one place, using gestures or a change in tone to plant his audience — of children and adults — […]
