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June 29, 2017 - Aspen, Colorado, USA: Aspen Institute Ideas Festival:
438 - Pandemics and the Existential Threat to Global Security (Priority)
Ron Klain, Lisa Monaco, Nancy Sullivan
Moderator: Tommy Vietor
St. Regis Hotel Ballroom
5:30 - 6:30 pm
Photo by Ian Wagreich
June 29, 2017 - Aspen, Colorado, USA: Aspen Institute Ideas Festival:
438 - Pandemics and the Existential Threat to Global Security (Priority)
Ron Klain, Lisa Monaco, Nancy Sullivan
Moderator: Tommy Vietor
St. Regis Hotel Ballroom
5:30 - 6:30 pm
Photo by Ian Wagreich
An experimental surrealist film which explores the themes of sexuality, identity, psychology and existence. Following a young man's metamorphoses from complete lack of personality through a phase of gender confusion and a burst of mental activity and the settling of the mind which forms into something completely different from the exterior self only to witter.
With this project I was inspired both by the possibility of challenging myself technically with the task of connecting different images and forms (animation, acting and still images) with symbolic meaning and by a conjunction of modern popular culture (queer cinema, art cinema, sexual liberation, etc) with psychological and existential issues (how do we become who we are and who are we really).
Minerva Stage is proud to present Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett’s 20th Century masterpiece about the desolation of humanity and the existential hope that drives life forward. Directed by Berkshire-based Edward Cating, this production features local actors Eric K. Auld, Ed Drummond, Bruce T. MacDonald, Edward Cating, Keith Weil, and Sam Cabot. Performances are Thursdays, December 2nd and 9th at 7PM, Fridays and Saturdays, December 3rd, 4th, 10th and 11th at 8PM, and Sunday, December 12th at 3PM. All performances will be held at the Minerva Arts Center, located on 1288 Massachusetts Avenue in North Adams, MA. General admission is $15, students and seniors are $10, and children 12 and under are free. To reserve tickets, visit www.MinervaArtsCenter.org or call the Minerva Arts Center at (413) 346-4502. For any questions or concerns, please e-mail MinervaArtsCenter@gmail.com.Minerva Stage is proud to present Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett’s 20th Century masterpiece about the desolation of humanity and the existential hope that drives life forward. Directed by Berkshire-based Edward Cating, this production features local actors Eric K. Auld, Ed Drummond, Bruce T. MacDonald, Edward Cating, Keith Weil, and Sam Cabot. Performances are Thursdays, December 2nd and 9th at 7PM, Fridays and Saturdays, December 3rd, 4th, 10th and 11th at 8PM, and Sunday, December 12th at 3PM. All performances will be held at the Minerva Arts Center, located on 1288 Massachusetts Avenue in North Adams, MA. General admission is $15, students and seniors are $10, and children 12 and under are free. To reserve tickets, visit www.MinervaArtsCenter.org or call the Minerva Arts Center at (413) 346-4502. For any questions or concerns, please e-mail MinervaArtsCenter@gmail.com.
June 29, 2017 - Aspen, Colorado, USA: Aspen Institute Ideas Festival:
438 - Pandemics and the Existential Threat to Global Security (Priority)
Ron Klain, Lisa Monaco, Nancy Sullivan
Moderator: Tommy Vietor
St. Regis Hotel Ballroom
5:30 - 6:30 pm
Photo by Ian Wagreich
June 29, 2017 - Aspen, Colorado, USA: Aspen Institute Ideas Festival:
438 - Pandemics and the Existential Threat to Global Security (Priority)
Ron Klain, Lisa Monaco, Nancy Sullivan
Moderator: Tommy Vietor
St. Regis Hotel Ballroom
5:30 - 6:30 pm
Photo by Ian Wagreich
Arrêt brief à Cambria pour un cappuccino. En flash-back, nous venons de visiter le Hearst Castle et nous allons maintenant à Solvang, puis à Santa Barbara.
Brief stop in Cambria for a cappuccino. For a recap, we just visited the Hearst Castle and we're now going to Solvang and then to Santa Barbara.
The deepest, most fundamental question, positioned at the foundation of everything we do, think and desire in our lives is: "What is the meaning of life?" Most people bury this question under a lifelong search for pleasures and comforts through food, sex, family, money, honor, control and knowledge. However, the question about the meaning and point in life always awaits us. It usually reels its face in life's most desperate moments. The fact that online searches increased for "what is the meaning of life" during the times of the 2008 financial crash, and the 2011 Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street protests shows how when crisis strikes, when the status quo is breached with disorder and imbalance, then more people find themselves opening up to answers to this most existential, foundational question to our very being. The wisdom of Kabbalah was made for answering the question about the meaning of life. Using its methodology, we can discover the eternal world where we sense harmony, tranquility and perfection, a world hidden from our five inborn senses that holds the answer to the age-old question about the meaning of life.
Samuel Beckett was an influential Irish playwright, novelist and poet. Renowned for his minimalist style and existential themes, Beckett revolutionised modern theatre with groundbreaking works like Waiting for Godot and Endgame. www.theirishnation.com/samuel-beckett
53two was grown from acting school Manchester Actors' Platform, MAP. The school was established to provide affordable, professional services for actors after so many of these were unobtainable, inaccessible or unaffordable. After producing our first show under the banner MAP Productions in 2016, a whole new tier of the company was born. www.53two.com
Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic experiences of life, often coupled with black comedy and nonsense. His work became increasingly minimalist as his career progressed, involving more aesthetic and linguistic experimentation, with techniques of stream of consciousness repetition and self-reference. He is considered one of the last modernist writers, and one of the key figures in what Martin Esslin called the Theatre of the Absurd. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Beckett
June 29, 2017 - Aspen, Colorado, USA: Aspen Institute Ideas Festival:
438 - Pandemics and the Existential Threat to Global Security (Priority)
Ron Klain, Lisa Monaco, Nancy Sullivan
Moderator: Tommy Vietor
St. Regis Hotel Ballroom
5:30 - 6:30 pm
Photo by Ian Wagreich
Walking on foot brings you down to the very stark, naked core of existence. We travel too much in airplanes and cars. It’s an existential quality that we are losing. It’s almost like a credo of religion that we should walk.
There is, of course, something inherently romantic—if not heroic—about the extreme solitary explorer enveloped by nature. The very image of Herzog on foot recalls the iconic 19th-century paintings of Caspar David Friedrich, especially his Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, with its lone figure staring out at the wide vista above the clouds.
'Truth itself wanders through the forests,' Herzog writes near the end. Yet here he embroiders his memories for effect: The vast swath of geography between Munich and Paris is littered with industrial towns and cities.
Once he comes out on the other end, traversing the deforested Champs-Élysées (“We were close to what they call the breath of danger”), Herzog emerges victorious.
― Of Walking in Ice: (Munich-Paris, 23 November–14 December 1974)
by Werner Herzog
A sculpture depicting the despair of an office-worker whose job consumes his life and person. The woman was guiding a walking tour of Gottingen; she was quite excellent, with a droll sense of humor and a deep knowledge of local history.
Gottingen, Lower Saxony (19 May, 2018)
Liz, thank you!!!! I love these little cranes! they have sparkled a waterfall of creative thought for me today, pulled me out of my doldrums, engendered philosophical questioning and I'm sure will give birth to more and more as the days flow on.
The red bird sees,
as in a mirror, as through
a doorway
another part of being ...
sees it's own spirit, forming
like lava, like earth, it's soul
grows from a molten core
of life and love and
existence.... red:
the color of blood, of
a hummingbird's breast, of
sunset
Red,
the color
of a thought behind the urge and pull
of love ....
when two separate beings -- or
two parts of one being -- come together,
melding and
melting in love
Flew in, soaring
on angled wings, settled here
to watch and ponder the sensual
liquid light melting like red-gold-feeling,
leaning in,
wanting to become One
with the Other,
the Beloved
-- MS
This series of paper crane images are for Liz's (Eshu's) amazing Paper Crane Project. Please check it out -- it's going to be something even more wonderful as more and more people receive their cranes, made by Liz, and share what their cranes are doing once out of the package!