Best Arts 2017: Smile Politely
A huge thank you to Rebecca Knaur for the shout out in Smile Politely. I love this arts community! Best Arts 2017: Smile Politely
River of Hope: Save a Place. Change Your Life.
I worked with Prairie Rivers Network (PRN) interviewing some of the founders of PRN who opposed "...the construction of the Oakley Reservoir on the Sangamon River near Monticello. This is the location of Allerton Park, a locally cherished natural area; Oakley Reservoir would have put tens of thousand of acres of Allerton Park underwater. This group of concerned and dedicated citizens, calling itself the Committee on Allerton Park (COAP), successfully halted the Oakley Reservoir." The documentary "River of Hope: Save a…
The Water Project
PRN Day at Allerton Protecting Our Land, Water, and Wildlife: a 50th Anniversary Celebration of Stewardship Join us at the Allerton Music Barn in Monticello for the PRN Day at Allerton! In 1967, a walk in the Allerton woods sparked a stewardship campaign to save the Sangamon River from a proposed dam. Fifty years of stewardship later, PRN board, staff, members, and friends are celebrating the protection of the river and these beautiful woods. Join us for a day of…
Where the Arts Meet Physics
I am auditing the class "Where the Arts Meet Physics" taught by physics professor Smitha Vishveshwara. We are moving toward an exhibit of our projects to be hosted at Krannert Art Museum April 13-20, 2017. The universe is an extraordinary place. At the cosmic scale, the universe expands, galaxies form and swirl around their centers, stars ignite into being and undergo fiery deaths, massive objects set off gravitational ripples in space-time. At the planetary scale, Newtonian mechanics dictates the path…
Sleep Deprivation Chamber
Sleep Deprivation Chamber by Adam P. and Adrienne Kennedy The Station Theatre March 23 - April 8 All performances at 8pm THE PLAY In this autobiographical drama, a broken taillight leads to the brutal beating of a highly educated, middle-class black man by a policeman in suburban Virginia. The Kennedys interweave the trial of the victimized son (accused of assaulting the offending officer) with the mother’s poignant letters in his defense and her remembrances of growing up in the 1940s,…
He Follows: Fall Play Workshop
HE FOLLOWS by Sofia Fey a play in one-act We take a journey with Tsuki, a girl plagued with a cartoon-like demon (Hiru), who tries to control her. Will he succeed?