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these hats + girlpants or really big pants + purple or green emo hoodies with checks on them = chav.
it's like the word gezellig, or agape, or existentialism. it's like trying to describe A Fox In Socks. it takes awhile to get it.
Different positions on grave decoration... Important topic, as is a proper eulogy. #existentialism #jeanpaulsartre #feminism #simonedebeauvoir #montparnasse #cemetery #somegothshit via Instagram ift.tt/2pnolpd
movie still from
"pierrot le fou" (1965)
starring:
Jean-Paul Belmondo
&
Anne Karina
directed by:
Jean-Luc Godard
movie still from
"pierrot le fou" (1965)
starring:
Jean-Paul Belmondo
&
Anne Karina
directed by:
Jean-Luc Godard
We were talking together about existentialism when he went into deep thoughts and I took this picture.
German philosopher of the late 19th century, Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) boldly and daringly challenged the foundations of Christianity, traditional morality, and other prevalent social mores. He was at the forefront of the existentialism, perspectivism, and nihilism movements that emphasized the importance of human individuality and freedom; discovery of truth only in the context of our own perceptions and interpretations; and rejection of religious and moral doctrines.
A Queer, Dark Comedy with No Filter comes to Greater Manchester Fringe.
Tickets: greatermanchesterfringe.co.uk/events/it-is-what-it-is/
Interview: youtu.be/A5DuuRK6ulM?si=IB234q4_vTVDTKVq
Jumping from themes of sexuality and existentialism to chippies and vibrators, Cumbrian-born performer Kyra Scott takes the audience on a journey of emotions in this 30-minute one-woman show that guarantees tears and laughter.
The show follows Isobella, a foul-mouthed Northern lass tackling the hardships of being an 18-year-old in the 21st century. Faced with a sealed envelope, she battles with the decision of whether or not to open it, a decision which is sidetracked by an abundance of oversharing! Hilarious moments are countered with sincere and honest conversations about her struggles with mental health. In these moments the audience recognises Isobella’s confidence as a guise for her pain.
Writer and performer Kyra Scott, crafted Isobella’s candid character to tear down stereotypes and normalise stigmatised conversations. As a recent acting graduate, Kyra performed her debut show for the first time at 53two in May 2023 and has since performed it twice in Cumbria, selling out both shows. Taking “solo” to the next level, Kyra is not only the writer and performer but has produced the entire project and developed all technical aspects of the production.
“Amazing script, wonderfully performed, laughed and cried.” - Audience member May 2023.
“[Kyra] captivated the whole audience, left us wanting more!” - Audience member July 2023.
A Queer, Dark Comedy with No Filter comes to Greater Manchester Fringe.
Tickets: greatermanchesterfringe.co.uk/events/it-is-what-it-is/
Interview: youtu.be/A5DuuRK6ulM?si=IB234q4_vTVDTKVq
Jumping from themes of sexuality and existentialism to chippies and vibrators, Cumbrian-born performer Kyra Scott takes the audience on a journey of emotions in this 30-minute one-woman show that guarantees tears and laughter.
The show follows Isobella, a foul-mouthed Northern lass tackling the hardships of being an 18-year-old in the 21st century. Faced with a sealed envelope, she battles with the decision of whether or not to open it, a decision which is sidetracked by an abundance of oversharing! Hilarious moments are countered with sincere and honest conversations about her struggles with mental health. In these moments the audience recognises Isobella’s confidence as a guise for her pain.
Writer and performer Kyra Scott, crafted Isobella’s candid character to tear down stereotypes and normalise stigmatised conversations. As a recent acting graduate, Kyra performed her debut show for the first time at 53two in May 2023 and has since performed it twice in Cumbria, selling out both shows. Taking “solo” to the next level, Kyra is not only the writer and performer but has produced the entire project and developed all technical aspects of the production.
“Amazing script, wonderfully performed, laughed and cried.” - Audience member May 2023.
“[Kyra] captivated the whole audience, left us wanting more!” - Audience member July 2023.
My favourite - sponge cake with jam in the middle and icing on top... (He was going for baby pink, but got the ratio for food colouring to icing sugar a bit off. And somehow he wrote my nickname - Mai, backwards...). It was delicious. A delicious, bright pink, existential cake.
A Queer, Dark Comedy with No Filter comes to Greater Manchester Fringe.
Tickets: greatermanchesterfringe.co.uk/events/it-is-what-it-is/
Interview: youtu.be/A5DuuRK6ulM?si=IB234q4_vTVDTKVq
Jumping from themes of sexuality and existentialism to chippies and vibrators, Cumbrian-born performer Kyra Scott takes the audience on a journey of emotions in this 30-minute one-woman show that guarantees tears and laughter.
The show follows Isobella, a foul-mouthed Northern lass tackling the hardships of being an 18-year-old in the 21st century. Faced with a sealed envelope, she battles with the decision of whether or not to open it, a decision which is sidetracked by an abundance of oversharing! Hilarious moments are countered with sincere and honest conversations about her struggles with mental health. In these moments the audience recognises Isobella’s confidence as a guise for her pain.
Writer and performer Kyra Scott, crafted Isobella’s candid character to tear down stereotypes and normalise stigmatised conversations. As a recent acting graduate, Kyra performed her debut show for the first time at 53two in May 2023 and has since performed it twice in Cumbria, selling out both shows. Taking “solo” to the next level, Kyra is not only the writer and performer but has produced the entire project and developed all technical aspects of the production.
“Amazing script, wonderfully performed, laughed and cried.” - Audience member May 2023.
“[Kyra] captivated the whole audience, left us wanting more!” - Audience member July 2023.
movie still from
"pierrot le fou" (1965)
starring:
Jean-Paul Belmondo
&
Anne Karina
directed by:
Jean-Luc Godard
A security guard continues to patrol a building even after its occupants have disappeared, because his job is the only thing that ever gave his existence purpose.
movie still from
"pierrot le fou" (1965)
starring:
Jean-Paul Belmondo
&
Anne Karina
directed by:
Jean-Luc Godard
Gisèle Schenirer: from Alexandria to Auckland
by Simone Schenirer
Identity for Gisèle, like many Jews was not straightforward. She was an Italian Jew, born Gisèle Riches in Alexandria, Egypt, in May 1919. Her first language being French, she was educated at the French Lycée.
Her Mother Fortunée Cohen was born in Mansoura, Egypt, with British Citizenship. Her father, Raffaello Riches was a citizen of Livorno, Italy. Gisèle grew up speaking and hearing, French, Italian, English and Arabic. The family of three girls, Renée, Gabrielle and Gisèle and one boy, Max, who died young at 28, grew up in an assimilated Jewish household. The went to Synagogue on holy days and Gisele taught at the Jewish school when she finished her Baccalaureate. This was to be the start of a long and deeply satisfying career for her.
Gisèle’s favourite subject at school was philosophy and many years later when she was on sabbatical in Paris we lunched with her old philosophy professor, Jean Beaufret, who was influential in the reception of Martin Heidegger's work in France, and had taught her in Alexandria and introduced her to Existentialism.
Gisèle always maintained that between the two world wars, Alexandria was a cosmopolitan and tolerant city with Jews, Arabs, Muslims, Christians and Copts all able to practise their religion. It was a multicultural city with distinct French, English, Italian, and Greek areas, schools, businesses and organizations. With the rise of Arab nationalism, foreigners became less welcome and Jews found themselves losing opportunities for social and business advancement. Gisele’s eldest sister met and married a NZ soldier in Alexandria during the war and he helped my grandmother, Gisele and Gabrielle (Gaby) immigrate to NZ. Raffaello had passed away.
Gisele arrived in New Zealand in around 1947/48. Her first job was in New Plymouth teaching French at New Plymouth Girls’ High. When my grandmother Fortunée (Fofi) was asked how she liked living in New Zealand she would say, ‘it is a very beautiful cemetery’, a reflection of the cultural shock and isolation she and my mother experienced.
In 1950 they moved to Mount Eden in Auckland where Gisèle took a position teaching French at Epsom Girls’ Grammar, which she held until 1958. The move to Auckland gave her and the family the opportunity to meet and become a part of the Auckland Hebrew Congregation. Rabbi Astor was the rabbi at that time and I remember his kindness and generosity to our family. He bequeathed my grandmother a prayer book which I still have and gave me the last Gefilte fish ball from his own table at a bar mitzvah after I had made short work of all others in the room.
Gisèle moved on to a role as Senior Headmistress at Pakaranga College and began studying for her Bachelor of Arts at Auckland University. Around this time, my parents were introduced by Leo and Anne Philips and they married in 1961. My father, (a Galician Jew born in Munich), had been living in Melbourne. It took a good few years for Gisèle to realise that while he was most definitely the marrying kind, (she was number 5), and that he was terrible at it. I was unplanned, (but I like to think a ‘delightful surprise’), as Gisèle was 45 and my father 50. I was delivered by Dr Bernard Shieff in the Mater Maternity Hospital in Epsom 11 October 1963. They divorced in 1970.
It was at this time, while still living in the country as Howick was then, Gisèle started to teach at Auckland University while finishing her BA. She taught French language, literature and philosophy, specialising in the Existentialism of Simone de Beauvoir, Sartre and Camus. Gisèle remained there until she retired in 1984 and it was for her the happiest time of her life as she loved teaching the subjects she remained passionate about and was stimulated by being around young people.
Many of her ex-students stayed in touch long after university as she had become a mentor and confidant to many. During this time I remember Gisèle being actively involved in B’nai B’rith, Auckland Jewish Students, and Hillel. She was also actively involved in assisting Jews from Russia settle in Auckland. Some like Hannah Brodksy became good friends and Gisèle supported Hannah in applying to teach Russian at the University of Auckland which she did. Gisèle’s generosity and open home were legendary.
The families I remember my mother socialising with and being supported by over the years were: the Klissers; Hinda and John Goldwater; the Shenkins; Stones; Bermans; Benskys; Bems; Ruth and Harry Black; Alice Strauss; the Krukzieners; Narevs; Rosses; Aufrichts; and Leo and Anne Philips, (no hard feelings), among others. Henry and Hilda Kulka were especially close. Henry, an established international architect, (and my godfather), designed our home in Howick. There is a wonderful Marti Friedlander photo of mum and Henry with the rest of the family at the Kulka-designed home in Maskell Street, St Heliers in 1964.
Gisele’s retirement was full of painting, University of the Third Age, (she loved a captive audience), and lunches and dinners with friends. She remained intellectually interested in the world until dementia set in. She was a complex and charming person, of another age and another time. She was intellectually rigorous, had zero tolerance for those who weren’t, but also displayed great compassion and generosity for the less privileged. Her choosing to have a Jewish funeral was the start of my journey to claim my birth right and discover the kindness and strength of the Jewish community in New Zealand.
About Simone Schenirer:
I am Gisèle’s only child. I am an Italian language teacher living in Queenstown with my husband Gavin and our two Burmese cats. As observed by a dear friend who knew Gisèle well, I, like my mother, am an excellent cook and a terrible driver.
www.jewishlives.nz/our-people/gisle-schenirer-from-alexan...
Plot 15: Giséle Schenirer (93) 2017
Plot 16: Fortunée Riches (91) 17/12/1986 – Widow
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FORTUNÉE RICHES
Jan 1895 - Dec 1986
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GISÉLE SCHENIRER
(née Riches)
12 May 1919 - 30 April 2017
Loving Mother of Simone
A long life well lived, full of humour and generosity
Naguib Mahfouz (1911 – 2006), was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers of Arabic literature, along with Tawfiq el-Hakim, to explore themes of existentialism.[1] He published over 50 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie scripts, and five plays over a 70-year career. Many of his works have been made into Egyptian and foreign films.
Mark Huot will cover App Integration with ExpressionEngine at Engine Summit 2. Moments of existentialism may vary.
Our best photos from the 2019 Denver Film Festival. Here: "Escape from Godot." Escape-room antics meet iconic existentialism in this absurd, theatrical, interactive play puzzle. The show brings audiences into the middle of a production of "Waiting for Godot" – you know, the important one about our meaningless trudge from cradle and to grave. And everything is going wrong. You have 60 minutes unravel the clues and set the play straight again. This fun group activity allows for eight people at a time. All photos by John Moore for the DCPA NewsCenter.
Soren Kierkegaard cards w/ vanilla or black envelopes, your choice. Nothing says "I feel you" quite like these. Sympathy, Philosophy major (oops!), Existentialist? These are for you. Blank on reverse. Write at your own free will. Because sepia and black are far too obvious, these cards are in provincial pink and sage.