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October 7, 2014
October 4, 2014
A Fall Evening with Local Authors at Waterbury, CT Barnes & Noble
What: A meet & greet style book signing.
When: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 from 6- 8:00 p.m.
Where: Barnes & Noble Booksellers
235 Union Street (Brass Mill Commons)
Waterbury, CT
Local authors and Barnes & Noble on Union Street have joined forces to showcase fiction and non-fiction authors from the surrounding communities. All of the authors’ books will be available for purchase that day. Featured authors are:
Tara Andrews, No Peanuts for Santa (children’s young readers)
C.C. Gross, Rising Up…from a Long Way Down (parenting & family challenges)
Christine Ieronimo, A Thirst for Home: A Story of Water across the World (children’s picture book)
Mary Donnarumma Sharnick, Thirst and Plagued (historical fiction)
Sean Stellato, No Backing Down: The Story of the 1994 Salem High School Football Team (regional sports)
Andy Thibault, more COOL JUSTICE (current affairs, media/journalism)
This event is featured during Barnes & Noble Waterbury’s Classroom & Homeschooler Educator Appreciation Week which runs from October 11-19, 2014. Educators will receive special discounts all week and be celebrated at the Classroom & Homeschooler Educator Appreciation Reception on Friday October 17 from 3-7pm.
Contact: Robin Masiewicz - Assistant Store Manager, at 203 759-7125 or crm2893@bn.com for additional information on this and other Barnes & Noble events.
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7th edition Dr. Joe Haiti Ebook LIVE
“I was privileged to work in Port au Prince with Dr. Joe in the 1980s. He cared for the dying with compassion and kindness. He brought comfort to God’s poorest and most broken. His prose really captures the Haitian scene. A good man.”
- Jeremiah J. Lowney, DDR, MS, MPH, Foundation President, Haitian Health Foundation, Jeremie, Haiti.
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October 3, 2014
WATR interview 'more COOL JUSTICE' 10-3-14 #JusticeforJane #WarrenReport #ShowalterHitAndRun #NewIcebox books #FOI #MaryBadaracco #BillySmolinski #FamousDoucheBagCase #Haiti advancing Hickory Stick appearance ...
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Kris Allen- Turnaround
Jen Allen- My Silent Love (part 2)
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Judy Dworin Performance Project traces paths into and out of prison
Announcement
“In My Shoes” Opens 25th Anniversary Season
of Judy Dworin Performance Project
Monday, December 8, 7:30 p.m., at Hartford Stage
Wally Lamb Introduces This New Work
About Incarcerated Women
Hartford, Conn. (October 2, 2014)—Judy Dworin Performance Project opens its 25th anniversary season with “In My Shoes,” to be performed on one night only at Hartford Stage (50 Church Street) on Monday, December 8, at 7:30 p.m. (with a snow date of December 15).
Bringing the authentic voices and real-life experiences of women from prison to the stage, this spirited, soul-searching performance piece asks, “What would it be like to be in my shoes?” With startling clarity and compassion, “In My Shoes” examines choices and twists of fate that lead to incarceration. It also tells of perseverance and hope, atonement and redemption found in walks during “time in;” the pathways out of prison; and what it means to be truly free.
“In My Shoes” integrates movement, spoken word and song and is performed with warmth and wit by six women who have reentered Connecticut communities from York Correctional Institution. Two are members of Women on Our Own, a singing-spoken word group that electrified audiences at the 2013 Hartford appearance of Piper Kerman (author of “Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison,” inspiration of the popular Netflix series). All of these women are sojourners towards new, rewarding lives. They are joined by the Ensemble of the Judy Dworin Performance Project, which has won multiple awards in its 25 year history.
Few have had the opportunity to see the work that Judy Dworin Performance Project develops with women inside the York prison compound in Niantic. Governor Dannel P. Malloy did last summer, and said to those serving time, “In your writings, in your speech, in your dance, in your overall performance—you reflect the humanity that is within each of you and within a broader society… Congratulations on your success in this performance.”
A post-performance talk led by Dworin with the performers will invite audience questions and discussion of criminal and social justice, strengths-based intervention programs in penitentiaries, and the role of the arts as agents of change.
Introducing the show is guest Wally Lamb, the best-selling novelist who, like Dworin and her teaching artists, is an instructor at York Correctional Institution. He says Dworin’s work “excites, moves, and educates audiences, and enhances the public’s understanding of the complicated equation of crime and punishment in America.”
Dworin’s dance-theater works are known for compelling social commentary and warm humanism. Cutting across boundaries of gender, geography, and governmental decree, she testifies for those whose voices have been stilled or muted by history and social injustice. While presenting challenging and difficult questions, her dance-theater works convey inspiring stories of perseverance, transcendence, and hope.
General admission to “In My Shoes” is $25, for seniors and “Let’s Go Arts” members $15, and for students with ID $10. A pre-performance reception starting at 5:30 p.m. features a meet-and-greet with author Wally Lamb. Only 100 tickets for this event, including hors d’oeuvres, beer and wine, and reserved seating for the performance, are available for $75 per person. To purchase tickets, visit judydworin.org or call (860) 527-9800.
Contacts:
Susan Hood, srhhartford@gmail.com, 860-869-2129
Tracey Mozdzierz, tracey@judydworin.org, 860-527-9800
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October 2, 2014
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Brodah & Sistas gettin way cool
Iyaba Ibo Mandingo, the poet / painter/ actor / & my brodah, feelin it.
Sister Francine & Sister Carol, Enfield Montessori School, leisure reading session 10-1-14.
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September 30, 2014
Who's our man in Haiti, with a Sister and a baby?
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This baby was diagnosed with kwashiorkhor, a form of severe malnutrition. The child's skin color had lightened as a result of anemia.
This young girl, diagnosed with tuberculosis, showed some improvement after treatment.
Among the serious diseases treated by Dr. Joe Bentivegna was leprosy.
This baby was diagnosed with hydrocephalus, known as "water on the brain."
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