#Harvard Theatre Collection

[publicdomainreview]

Ajeeb the Wonderful, a chess-playing automaton made in 1865. Famous opponents incl. Houdini and Roosevelt though, of course, Ajeeb had a little help from the human hidden inside him making the moves. More from the Harvard Theatre Collection here: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/cabinet-card-photographs-from-the-harvard-theatre-collection

[fiercynn]

palestinian poets: george abraham

george abraham (they/he/هو) is a palestinian american poet, performance arist, and writer who was born and raised on unceded timucuan lands (jacksonville, FL). their debut poetry collection birthright (button poetry) won the arab american book award and the big other book award, and was a lambda literary award finalist. he is also the author of the chapbooks al youm and the specimen's apology. their collaborations include co-editing a palestinian poetry anthology with noor hindi (haymarket books, 2025), and a performance art project titled EVE with fargo nissim tbakhi. 

they are a recipient of fellowships from kundiman, the arab american national museum, the boston foundation, the national performance network, and the MAP fund, and more. their writing has appeared in poetry magazine, the nation, the american poetry review, guernica, the baffler, the paris review, mizna, and many other journals and anthologies. a graduate of swarthmore college and harvard university, they have taught at emerson college, and are currently a litowitz MFA+MA candidate in poetry at northwestern university. he is also currently executive editor of the whiting award-winning journal mizna.

you can follow them on twitter @IntifadaBatata.

IF YOU READ JUST ONE POEM BY GEORGE ABRAHAM, MAKE IT THIS ONE

OTHER POEMS ONLINE THAT I LOVE BY GEORGE ABRAHAM

Field Notes on Terror & Beginnings at poetry daily

Love Letter to the Eve of the End of the World at the margins

Of Nation, at rusted radishes: beirut literary and art journal

Searching for a Palestinian After at the nation

Stage Directions for a Representation in which Eve and Adam travel through their first checkpoint at mosaic theatre company

the ghosts of the dead sea are rising at the drift

ars poetica in which every pronoun is FREE PALESTINE at the margins

“from UNIVERSAL THEORY IN WHICH EVERY FAILED ATTEMPT AT LOVE IS A SOULMATE FROM AN ALTERNATE TIMELINE” at fiyah literary magazine

Ode to My Swollen, Mono-Infected Spleen at brooklyn poets

The Olive Tree Speaks of Deforestation to my body at crabfat magazine

arab/queer vs. Imaginary at shade literary arts

self-portrait with second-degree sunburn at

[ summer / winter ] is the worst time to lose a [ country / lover ] at wildness

maqam of moonlight, for the wandering at the rumpus

against perturbation at the scores

apology, at cordite poetry review

i also adore this 2021 essay of abraham's at guernica magazine called teaching poetry in the palestinian apocalypse: towards a collective, lyric "i".

#poetry #george abraham #free palestine #palestinian poets series

[maraschino-girl]

➳❥ Patrick Bateman Misc. Headcanons !!

✘ content warning: patrick being patrick !! ✘ 𖦹 had a morbidly obsessive interest in the human skin bound book, Des destinées de l'âme, in the Harvard University library. he couldn't read it, of course, but that didn't stop him from admiring it. 𖦹 he's extremely pissed he never had the chance to get into Studio 54 during its heyday. he tries for the successors, although they're not as iconic and void of all the genuine debauchery of the OG. 𖦹 adding onto the 'Kimball reflects light in his eyes' test theory, he also doesn't yawn when others do. slightly backed up by the novel only ever having him yawn first and never in response to others. 𖦹 he doesn't mention it, huge shocker, but we all know he loves the song 'Psycho Killer' by Talking Heads. 𖦹 watching Evil Dead 2 gave him some mighty fine inspiration for what to do with decapitated heads! 𖦹 movies he would adore: Slumber Party Massacre (1982), Videodrome (1983), Re-Animator (1985), Sorority House Massacre (1986), Prom Night (1980), Faces of Death (1978), Hud (1963), & Scarface (1983). 𖦹 he's the type to call a hue 'blood orange', 'evian blue', 'royal gold'--- you get the picture. 𖦹 favorite perfumes are fruity floral ones; especially cherry scents that have a sickening sweet aroma! akin to the high sweet scent of formaldehyde and rot! 𖦹 ate $2 pizza at a hole-in-the-wall during one of his 'episodes' and wanted to puke! just kidding, he did. nothing should ever have that much grease and marinara, goddammit! 𖦹 considering he's canonically a microwave cook, I'm sure he's destroyed any attempts of a romantic dinner in. a 'water caught on fire' kind of cook. 𖦹 his Aiwa stereo does have a turntable so I imagine he has a vast collection of vinyl records of not only his favourite albums but of classical music, film and musical soundtracks. 𖦹 had an incident at a drive-in theatre when he was in college. luckily it wasn't his car, and luckily it was some bookish bitch who wouldn't be missed! let's just say, she too, was gone with the wind. 𖦹 we already knew, but he's a massive voyeur. but expanding on that, I don't think he would mind watching certain men coughPrice bump uglies with a woman of his choice. this all due to his reactions and thoughts when watching his 'best friend' nearly have foreplay with his girlfriend right in the bedroom with him. 𖦹 y'know that porno that people joked about? the one where a woman calls out "Oh God! Oh God!" and the dude's like "There are no Gods here"? yeah, that's him.

𖦹 there's contradicting comments about how he was a child-- his mother states he was a nice boy, but that's a biased POV. regarding his confession about what he did to a maid on Christmas Eve at age 14, he definitely seemed like a creepy kid. y'know, those rich boys with the too gelled hair, big ol' eyes that stare right through you, and their lil pastel cardigan tied around their shoulders. he was like an oil painting whose eyes follow you everywhere you went. I don't see him as a 'I stuck the neighbours' dog's head on a stick' type, more of a 'I watch you sleep and shit talk you so everyone hates you' type !

#american psycho #patrick bateman #cherry-flavored #the perfume hc also inspired my fic tbh #headcanon #i have more but ill hold for now akdjsjdsdj #american psycho headcanon

[mikesq10]

My Top 50 Favorite Movies

2

21 (2008)

I like to use a moniker here: I have probably seen this movie 21 times. Dating back to 2008 in theatres to owning it on DVD and even purchasing it on my phone, 21 is accessible through many different formats. What makes this movie so good to me? It all starts with Ben Campbell, a Massachusetts native who is trying to get into Harvard Med but does not have the $300,000 to do so. Enter Micky Rosa (Kevin Spacey) who teaches Ben in one of his classes and sees a very smart young man and invites him to a secret card counting club. Reluctant at first, Ben is then convinced by an attractive sidekick Jill (Kate Bosworth) to join not only for the money though as well for the experience of a lifetime, going to Las Vegas every weekend to count cards for the table game Blackjack. It is up to Jim to stay focused, collect what he needs and get into Harvard Med. Easier said then done. A strong cast ensemble led by Spacey works wonders in this movie that is easily rewatchable and appealing to most crowds. There a few side plots also worth having your attention like Ben and his close friends in robotics, Jill and Ben's budding chemistry, and Micky's long history with the casinos in Vegas. 21 is such a good movie that it is over before you know it and I usually revisit this film once a year now and still pick up something new. Locked in at number two.

#21 #blackjack #casino #las vegas #jim sturgess #kevin spacey #kate bosworth #harvard #mit #med school #gambling

[4o77th]

you can't tell me there wasn't a drag show (or two, or a few) at the 4077th...like.

klinger's collection -- he sews and makes his own clothes sometimes so alterations and costume creation will be a cinch

everyone's musicality, comedy, and willingness to Ham It Up

gender definitions are already loose and malleable up in that bitch

same with sexuality

charles did the hasty pudding theatricals during his time at harvard (formed in 1795 and first performing in 1844, they're known for their crossdressing burlesque musicals)

during the second world war and the korean war, drag shows were common for soldiers for perform and drag entertainment/soldier shows were considered "a necessity, not a frill" by the national theatre conference

the patients can join in -- morale for all

nurses (and klinger) can help with makeup, how to walk in heels, etc

speaking of the nurses, drag kings. marlene dietrich morocco tease

#klinger can't participate if its competitive because he'd win by a landslide so he's a judge then #ooc.

[balanchine-ballet-master]

A new biography of Balanchine is coming out on November 1. Jennifer Homans, the author of Apollo's Angels, a history of ballet, and a former student at the School of American Ballet, is the author. Unlike previous biographers, she had full access to his papers. This (along with the photo, showing Balanchine in Tbilisi, Georgia) is an excerpt from an excerpt that was published in the September 12 issue of The New Yorker. It deals with Balanchine's visit to Georgia in 1962, when the New York City Ballet was on a tour of Russia. Who knew that Balanchine had a half-brother named Apollon?

[When Balanchine and NYCB arrived at the airport in Tbilisi], Andrei [his brother] was waiting, this time with family in tow. It was a looking-glass moment, the life he might have had. Suddenly, he was little Georgi, and he met the relatives he did not know: Andrei’s glamorous wife, their darkly handsome sons (one named after Balanchine), and their daughter, a dancer. There was also Apollon Balanchivadze, George’s half-brother from his father’s first marriage, whom he had known briefly as a child. Talking freely was difficult. They were shadowed, and at Andrei’s apartment George nervously pointed to the ceiling, indicating that everything was bugged and they couldn’t speak. Still, in snatches and pieces, he learned the story of his family’s sad fate. ...

The N.Y.C.B. performances were sold out, and on opening night the streets around the opera house were thick with crowds. A sea of people parted for Balanchine as he made his way into the theatre, as if he were some kind of Christ figure—or movie star. The police had been summoned, in anticipation of a crush of people pushing their way in, but the crowds were orderly and civil as, night after night, they pressed into the packed house. On the last night, after the final curtain fell, Balanchine stepped onto the apron of the stage to thank them all. Before the dancers boarded the train to Baku, they piled their extra tights, leotards, leg warmers, and pointe shoes into a bin and left them for the local dancers, who had none.

“Baku or bust”: for the company, Baku was a countdown. They marched through four days of performances, and on the final night a group of them stayed up until dawn dancing and playing strip poker with no heat and the hot-water faucets running full blast until the walls sweated. On December 2nd, the company packed into buses to the airport, then departed on a rickety plane for Moscow. It was snowing hard as they changed for a flight to Copenhagen, destination New York, and by this time the dancers were all chanting in unison: “Go, go, go, go!” As the jet lifted off the icy tarmac at Sheremetyevo [Airport], the exhausted company broke into cheers, relieved to, as one of the dancers later put it, “get the hell out of the U.S.S.R.” No one was more relieved than the gaunt Balanchine. “That’s not Russia,” he said. “That’s a completely different country, which happens to speak Russian.”

Mr. B: Balanchine's Twentieth Century by Jennifer Homans will be published (in the U.S.) by Random House on November 1, 2022. It is 784 pages and priced at $35 or $16.99 in Kindle format.

Photo: Harvard Theater Collection/Houghton Library/Harvard Univ./Barbara Horgan & the George Balanchine Trust/The New Yorker

#Balanchine #George Balanchine #New York City Ballet #NYCB #Georgia nation #Tbilisi #ballet #USSR #Balanchivadze family #1960s #Cold War

[relevant-catnik]

Paul Robeson as Othello

Paul Robeson was the first Black actor to play Othello on Broadway, and one of the first Black actors to take on the role, period.  (One notable early professional Othello would be Ira Aldridge's turn in 19th century London, but America was much more limited in opportunities for actors of color due to heaping piles of systemic, structural racism.) 

Here is the costume design for Paul Robeson as Othello, 1943, created by Robert Edmund Jones. (img courtesy Folger Shakespeare Library)

Paul Robeson first played Othello in London in 1930, and had expressed some trepidation about how the role would be received in America.  His West End performance received racially-based negative reviews, and his co-star, Peggy Ashcroft, received death threats for kissing a Black man on stage.  

Robeson rejected an offer to play Othello in 1937, choosing instead to sing at the front during the Spanish Civil War.  He came away from that experience convinced that Othello spoke to a racially divided nation at war.  “It is a tragedy of racial conflict.” he said in one radio interview.  “Othello in the Venice of that time was in practically the same position as a coloured man in America today.”

Despite the London experience, and Robeson’s concerns, he agreed to the 1943 Broadway production.  It would go on to be the longest-running Shakespeare play in the history of Broadway. (A record it still holds)

(Paul Robeson & Uta Hagan, courtesy of FSL)

Poster for the production, courtesy of Harvard Theatre Collection

#paul robeson #black history #theatre #theatre history #broadway #shakespeare #othello #history

[thejennyc]

Day 1 - Sessanta Mid West America Tour 2024

Canadian Rockies to WhiteFish, Montana

Day 1

Truly I would say that my vacation feeling started the night before on April eleventh.

Friends of mine who are well adept at being nomadic travellers, managed to hitch their way out to Canmore - the gods favored them with timing that lined up for us to be able to hang out before I left for a 3 weeks. We broke bread, ate cheese ( the saucy kind) and shared some homemade wine together. It is a blessing to see these wonderful people when we happen to be in the same area. I value greatly getting to be able to spend time with them.

But after socializing, it was time to finalize packing and try to sleep.

I always find it difficult to sleep the night before an adventure due to the energy of sheer excitement. I did manage to get a few hours in but my eagerness had me naturally bouncing out of bed at ungodly hours of the morning.

I use the extra time to treat myself to some self care at my second hand vanity (That I got for free - of course).

The day's agenda for my trip included a pit stop across the border to pick up a few supplies. Then, head to Whitefish to check in to Grouse Mountain Lodge.

And so the Adventure begins!

Grouse Mountain Lodge is part of the pursuit collection thus I saveth the moneyth a-la mouldy purse style.

Along the way the route through BC, in Radium, I saw a lot of big horn sheep. All I could think about was my sister when we were in the Yukon together and that she just really wanted to see one of those curly horned. It looks like She'll just have to sacrifice herself And enjoy some hot spring soaking in radium with me so that she can see some curly horn sheep up close.

I had thought that perchance I may have gotten a photo of them curly cues as I had set up my camera for a time lapse while driving out of Radium.

However of course the camera time lapse snapped intervals rather than video and so this was the best shot I have.

Lesson Learned to not timelapse but video instead.

I was really amused when hitting the border crossing for the United States at how many roaming wild turkeys there were....I wasn't expecting that.

My first stop was in Eureka, Montana to pick up some supplies.

I definitely could feel my muscles clenching over confederate flags being around..

I try to hope that the business i supported were not the ones hanging up that stuff as they share a building, but my intuition has sinking sentiments.

Onwards to Whitefish!

I arrive to the Hotel and check in.

I am blessed with what I see as a lucky room number! Good Juju awaits me on this trip!

Also, holy geez - It's April and it's already Banff Summer Weather here! I think I may have packed clothes that are too warm for this Trip.

No rest for the wicked; for Day 1 I booked myself a seven thirty ticket to a theatre performance put on by the Whitefish Theatre Company.

" Silent Sky - The True Story of Women Who Mapped the Stars."

" When Henrietta Leavitt begins work at the Harvard Observatory in the early 1900s, she is not allowed to touch a telescope or express an original idea. Instead, she joins a group of women “computers,” charting the stars for a renowned astronomer who calculates projects in “girl hours” and has no time for the women’s probing theories. As Henrietta, in her free time, attempts to measure the light and distance of stars, she must also take measure of her life on Earth, trying to balance her dedication to science with family obligations and the possibility of love. In this exquisite blend of science, history, family ties, and fragile love, Silent Sky follows the true story of a passionate young woman who must map her own passage through a society determined to keep a woman in her place."

I have to say that I am so glad that I attended this opening night!

I haven't been in a small intimate theatre like that in a very long time. It brought me a lot of sentimental value & nostalgia.

Handmade sets, proximity to the stage, actually painted scenes! At my ownArts institution, a lot of theatre work is being pushed into 3d printing, collapsible sets, or no set or painting at all ; entirely 3d mapping projection. While those in and of themselves have their own values and merits for labour, I really value seeing those old school art forms still existing in theatres. That eople still get to work in those other domains. I know all of it comes down ultimately to money. But they are certainly different feeling qualities to them all.

Honestly, this show was extremely well written. Not just myself, but the whole audience laughed a lot. I was moved to tears several times not just from laughing so much but also because of the deep emotions that were brought up in me. (And you know I hate being emotional public.) Uncontainable public emotions are truthfully one of my gauges for exceptionality in a work. To me, something is so good that I cannot keep my emotions from spilling outward.

I wrote most of this day out by voice to text because the show ran till 10pm. By the time I got back and cleaned up, admittedly, I was very tuckered.

Let's look forward to tomorrows adventures!

P.S I know some of you are thinking "Jen, how dare you travel alone and film and take pictures simultaneously." I'm here to affirm to you that I'm driving and my camera is on the dash or some other location in the car, hands off, recording while I am driving. I am NOT distracted driving. I edit out me being parked to setup an angle to record.

[livsunit2fashionportfolio]

The Metropolitan Museum of Art – Synopsis & Customer Profile Board

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is having an exhibition for all things 1920s, with the market level being Avant-Garde there is no limitations. 

The most extravagant collection the Met has seen, following the theme of next year “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” including everything surrounding the 1920s: nightlife, jazz, cocktail bars, feathers, glitter, sequins, art deco, New York. 

Due to the Met Gala being one of the most prestigious events of the year, the lead up to the First Monday in May is so important. This collection will be exhibited in the lead up to the event, as the Metropoliton Mueseum use very high profile, expensive brands such as: Chanel, Dior, Louis Vuitton; there will be high expectations of the collection and the designs will have to meet every desire they have.

The collection shouldn’t be simple, everyday occaision wear, the more over-the-top the better! The extravagance of the event should reflect in the designs, using not only fashion during the 1920s era as inspiration but also using key, important objects of the decade that dislays the lifestyle at that time. Such as: jazz instruments, cocktail glasses, transport, architecture (espectially art deco), theatre and even literature.  

New York and the nightlife and lifestyle of the era should be a focus due to the location of the Met Museum being in New York.

Harvard Referencing:

The Met. (2000). The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [Online]. The Met. Available at: https://www.metmuseum.org [Accessed 16 January 2024].

[skreddy]

A Comprehensive Guide: List of Scopus Journals for Academic Research

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Applied Energy

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Journal of Organizational Behavior

Social Science & Medicine

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

Political Geography

Education for Sustainable Development

Health and Medicine:

The Lancet

Annals of Internal Medicine

Of Clinical Oncology

Nature Reviews Disease Primers

Vaccine

Business and Economics:

Journal of Business Research

Harvard Business Review

Journal of Financial Economics

Management Science

Journal of Marketing

Arts and Humanities:

Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

Theatre Research International

Art History

Cultural Studies

Language and Literature

Engineering:

Engineering Structures

Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments

Environmental Science:

Environmental Science and Technology

Journal of Environmental Sciences

Environmental Pollution

Water Research

Ecology Letters

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Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications

Advances in Computational Mathematics

Mathematical Reviews

Linear Algebra and its Applications

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Conclusion:

This article has presented a comprehensive guide listing notable List of Scopus Journals indexed in Scopus across diverse academic fields. Access to these journals is vital for researchers, scholars, and students seeking reliable and credible sources for their academic pursuits. It's important to explore and utilize these journals to enhance the quality and rigor of academic research.

Hyderabad, Telangana

#research #papers #publish

[greensparty]

Preview: 2023 Boston Underground Film Festival

From Wed. March 22 to Sun. March 26, the Boston Underground Film Festival takes over Harvard Square at The Brattle Theatre (Cambridge, MA). The fest is in its 23rd edition and it is a celebration of bizarre, weird and alt cinema!

Here at Green’s Party, I’ve been lucky enough to cover the festival since 2016 (the fest took off in 2020 and 2021, and I was unable to attend 2022). Here are some of the highlights of this year’s BUFF:

Wed. March 22:

Opening Night film is Jeffrey A. Brown’s The Unheard, which is going to be on Shudder later this month. The film finds a young deaf woman undergoing experimental treatment to regain her hearing. Recovering at her family’s beach home, she fears she is not alone - all while uncovering family secrets and experiencing psychological strife and auditory hallucinations. It was filmed in Massachusetts and it was written by Michael and Shawn Rasmussen (full disclosure: the writing duo are friends of mine). Then it’s Nightsiren from Slovakia. The trailer is pure WTFery!

Thurs. March 23:

BUFF doesn’t screen nearly as many documentaries as narrative films, but the ones they do are quite noteworthy. The doc Stand By For Failure: A Documentary about Negativeland looks at the experimental Bay area music group Negativeland. Then it’s back to narrative films with the sci-fi Spaghetti Junction, about a teen discovering a mysterious place in the woods. From France, the Canne Film Festival hit Smoking Causes Coughing is a wild bonkers super hero film about the dangers of smoking.

Fri. March 24:

First up is The Dunwich Horrors, a collection of short films about New England. Massachusetts certainly has its history with horror stories, but there’s other states like VT and ME represented here as well. This is usually one of my favorite short collections at the fest and among the shorts is Skin & Bone (full disclosure: director Eli Powers is a friend I worked with on a film previously). Then it’s another doc Mister Organ, the new one from David Farrier, director of Tickled. This one looks at the secrets behind a a man at a small antique shop in New Zealand. From U.K. Enys Men is a throwback to 70s horror on an uninhabited island off the Cornish coast.

Sat. March 25:

A matinee screening of Moon Garden, about a little girl who falls into a coma and finds herself in a strange new world. One of my favorite shorts programs at BUFF is Sound + Vision, a collection of music videos that push the envelope. Then it’s Butter My Noodle, a collection of comedy short films. Among them is High Moon, directed by my buddy Kevin J. James (director of Not For Resale). From Germany, Piaffe is about a woman who fills in for her sister as a foley artist and grows a horse’s tail. Not a typo! Then it’s the Sundance hit Divinity, which boasts star power of Stephen Dorf and Scott Bakula as well as producer Steven Soderbergh.

Sun. March 26:

First up is Survival is Insufficient, a collection of shorts including CONTENT: The Lo-Fi Man co-directed by BUFF alumni / my friend Brian Lonano (read my interview with him at BUFF 2018 here) and It Takes a Village co-written and co-starring SNL’s Sarah Sherman. Then it’s Destination, a collection of animated shorts that are not suitable for children. Then it’s the festival hit How to Blow Up a Pipeline, a crime thriller about a group of environmental activists who plan a disruption of an oil pipeline. The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster is about a brilliant teenage girl who tries to bring back her recently murdered brother from the dead. And finally the Closing Night Film is Rebel from Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, the Belgium filmmakers known for Bad Boys for Life and Ms. Marvel. This film focuses on a Muslim family torn apart over the future of its youngest member in Belgium. 

For info on this year’s #BUFF23: https://bostonunderground.org/

Stay tuned to Green’s Party for my coverage of this year’s fest!

#boston underground film festival #BUFF23 #the unheard #nightsiren #the rasmussen brothers #stand by for failure #spaghetti junction #smoking causes coughing #skin and bone #mister organ #enys men #moon garden #piaffe #divinity #how to blow up a pipeline #the angry black girl and her monster #rebel #film festival #film geek

[rocklandhistoryblog]

#ICYMI The new episode of Crossroads of Rockland History is now available for streaming. Listen at the link below or on all major podcast platforms!

____________________________

Episode originally aired on Monday, June 20, 2022, at 9:30am, on WRCR 1700AM

We turned our attention to the life and legacy of Millia Davenport. David Bisaha, Assistant Professor of Theater at SUNY Binghamton joined host Clare Sheridan to discuss this remarkable and trailblazing woman who lived most of her life in Rockland County. Among her many contributions include writing the definitive book of theatrical costume history, The Book of Costume. Published in 1948, it remains the gold standard. (Royalties from the book were donated to the New City Library.)

Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on March 31, 1895, to Charles B. and Gertrude Crotty Davenport, Millia Davenport lived in New City for more than 70 years. Her father and mother were biology teachers at Harvard and Radcliffe, respectively. They were genetic researchers and helped establish the Station for Experimental Evolution of the Carnegie Institute of Washington in Cold Spring Harbor, NY.

After attending Barnard and Parsons, Millia Davenport created artwork for and edited The Quill, a literary magazine. Later, she became one of the first female scenic design painters in America. She worked as a costume designer for a number of Broadway theater companies, including Maxwell Anderson's Playwrights Company and Orson Welles's Mercury Theater.

In 1981, she received an honorary doctorate in fine arts from the Parsons School of Design in Manhattan the same year that she received the highest honor given by the United States Institute for Theatre Technology for a lifetime of distinguished contribution to the performing arts. In 1991 the Costume Society of America established the Millia Davenport Publication Award recognizing excellence in costume scholarship.

Davenport died in 1992.

David Bisaha is a scholar and practitioner who studies performance design, theatrical space and architecture, and the history of theatrical creativity. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theater at SUNY Binghamton. He specializes in the history of scenic design in the United States, mostly in the first half of the twentieth century, and in the more recent history of immersive and participatory performance. His other research interests include theatre historiography, cognitive sciences and performance, directing theory, and memory studies.

Bisaha’s current book project, American Scenic Design and Freelance Professionalism, is a cultural labor history of scenic designers and designing in the United States. At Binghamton, Bisaha teaches theater and performance history, dramaturgy, and theater theory in the MA and BA programs. He is the Curator of the Theatre Collection of the Department of Theatre, and is affiliate faculty and a steering committee member of the Material and Visual Worlds Transdisciplinary Area of Excellence (TAE). The Millia Davenport papers are housed there.

***

Crossroads of Rockland History, a program of the Historical Society of Rockland County, airs on the third Monday of each month at 9:30 am, right after the morning show, on WRCR Radio 1700 AM and www.WRCR.com. Join host Clare Sheridan as we explore, celebrate, and learn about our local history, with different topics and guest speakers every month. We are pleased to announce that we have begun loading our archived podcasts to all major Podcast platforms.

The Historical Society of Rockland County is a nonprofit educational institution and principal repository for original documents and artifacts relating to Rockland County. Its headquarters are a four-acre site featuring a history museum and the 1832 Jacob Blauvelt House in New City, New York.

www.RocklandHistory.org

#rocklandhistory #womenshistory #nyshistory #millia davenport #bookofcostume #costume design #set design #south mountain road #SoundCloud

[settledsunshine]

ZADIE SMITH

born in 1975

Novelist, essayist, and short-story writer

Smith began taking writing seriously at university, where she studied English Literature at King’s College, Cambridge. Her first published works were in 1996 and 1997 which consisted of two short stories published as part of a collective in The Mays Literary Anthology, which is an annual anthology of writings by students of both Oxford and Cambridge. 

During her final year at university, Smith finished what would become her debut novel, White Teeth (published in 2000), which was a critical success, became an instant best-seller and earning numerous awards.

Her follow up novel, The Autograph Man (2002), met less critical acclaim upon its release, it was nevertheless successful commercially. 

Smith then travelled to the US and began work on some essays as part of Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advance Study whilst also working on her third novel, On Beauty (2005), which won multiple awards.

Smith taught fiction at the Columbia University School of the Arts, and in 2010, she was hired at New York University where she continues to teach fiction.

Her fourth novel, NW, was published in 2012 and earned multiple awards. This was later adapted into a film that aired on BBC Two in 2016.

Her fifth novel, Swing Time (2016), reflects her adolescent interest in tap dancing and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

Grand Union (2019) is her first published collection of short stories.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Smith released a personal essay collection, Intimations (2020) in which the royalties were donated to the New York’s emergency relief fund.

In 2021, her debut play The Wife of Willesden began in London at the Kiln Theatre.

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[didoofcarthage]

Photograph of Lubov Tchernicheva as Echo in Narcisse

c. 1923

gelatin silver print

Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton LIbrary

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[hotporridgepot]

Some Trent Crimm (The Independent) headcanons to fill the void

- When he started his job and made more of a public name for himself, he was looked down on for wearing jeans and graphic T-shirts all the time so in protest he just shoved a clashing blazer on top. The first few outfits were clunky and horrible with all the awful late 90s trimmings you can imagine, but over the years the look matured like a fine wine.

- Speaking of fine wines, he really wants to be a foodie and give wine weird descriptors like "woolly" or "angular notes of sage", but most of all he just wishes he could escape the snobby journalism events and grab a pint.

- But that doesn't mean he's easy about everything. No, Trent Crimm has his own personal brand of snobbery: musical theatre. Big West End snob. Like full-blown, vinyl collection, musicals-after-1965-arent-real-musicals snob.

- Even though he loves theatre, he will genuinely turn down tickets if he found out that the choreographer for the show once worked on a random, short-lived, 2007 revival of Flower Drum Song that left him underwhelmed.

- He's a terrible singer, though.

- As well as vinyls, he seems like the kind of person whose entire house looks like the office of a senior Harvard classics professor. Huge wooden oak tables, big globes, more books than he has the eyes for.

- He's not at all like a Harvard professor though, nor would he like to be. Oxford? Cambridge? Nah. Trent went to York.

- Sorry, but he's a Waitrose guy. He claims it's because it's just the nearest supermarket to his house, but this dude is middle class as fuck.

- Unironically watches Rick and Morty and a ton of other adultswim cartoons.

- He always has music playing. While he's really meticulous and thorough when it comes to getting the information to do his job, the actual doing of his job looks more like a frazzled grey lion's mane darting about in a sea of papers, half-distracted by the news while something loud and gritty plays in the background. Motorhead or Zeppelin, maybe.

- Surprisingly up-to-date with memes. He claims it's because he can't help it, because of his job he's exposed to them all the time, but in reality he finds all that obscure bass-boost dank meme stuff of the late 2010s absolutely hilarious.

- As an extension to the last one, he's obsessed with TikTok.

- His middle name is Xavier.

- Big Sagittarius energy. That's all.

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[matchamorphosis]

‧₊˚➛ 𝐀𝐏𝐇𝐑𝐎𝐃𝐈𝐓𝐄’𝐒 𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐓𝐄

━━━━━‧₊˚➛ Follow this thrilling series featuring y/n l/n and her boyfriend, Hayden Hutchinson through the eyes of a video camera. Watch as their relationship blossoms and the porn tapes hidden in their bedroom shelves grow in quantity and quality.

pairing ‧₊˚➛ hayden hutchinson (harvard hottie) x woc!reader

disclaimers ‧₊˚➛ 18+ content, read my statement here. this series has explicit content (smut) in every chapter so I do not feel comfortable for minors interacting with my work. respect my wishes, happy reading to those who follow and respect my rules.

‧₊˚➛ COLLECTION ONE

TAPE ONE ➛ smile for the video camera.

TAPE TWO ➛ kiss me through the screen. — premiering on Jan 18th at a theatre near you!

TAPE THREE ➛ our panasonic paradise.

TAPE FOUR ➛ pink diamond in the dark.

TAPE FIVE ➛ 3, 2, 1… and we’re live.

TAPE SIX ➛ my own michelangelo.

TAPE SEVEN ➛ collection finale.

COLLECTION TWO

undecided.

m.masterlist. · library acc. · my taglist.

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