Celebrities select their six favorite media selections (a movie, song, a book, poem, TV show, podcast) to get them through the pandemic and whatever else is to come.
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Celebrities select their six favorite media selections (a movie, song, a book, poem, TV show, podcast) to get them through the pandemic and whatever else is to come.
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August 19, 2020
Stella Duffy-Part Two -Stella's Media Choices
<p>In this episode Stella talks about her tastes in TV, Cinema, Arts, Podcasts ans Music</p> <p><strong>TV</strong>: Hill Street Blues: One of the first ensemble productions. Innovative and highly diverse cast. Came out in 1981. Great scripts. Runner Up: West Wing.</p> <p>Movies: Moana, Reminds her of growing up in New Zealand, Runner Up All about Eve–some of the best lines in cinema.</p> <p><strong>Novels:</strong></p> <p>Russell Hoban, Ridley Walker</p> <p>Pedra Chodron, When Things Fall Apart</p> <p><strong>Poems</strong>: Emily Dickinson, Because I Could not Stop for Death,</p> <p><strong>Album</strong>:</p> <p>David Bowie, Honky Dory, particularly Is there Life on Mars?</p> <p>Comforting tunes, Fleetwood Mac, Rumors, particularly Don’t Stop Thinking about Tomorrow, Regina Spektor, Eva Cassidy.</p> <p><strong>Performances:</strong></p> <p>All female production of A Merchant of Venice</p> <p>Mathew Bourne, New Adventures, production of Red Shoes.</p> <p><strong>Podcasts</strong>:</p> <p>The Jungian Life, Podcast</p> <p>On Being, Krista Tippett</p> <p><strong>Classic Myth</strong></p> <p>Orpheus</p>
July 31, 2020
First part of a two part Interview with Stella Duffy OBE-Co-Founder of Fun Palaces
<h1><strong>Welcome back to the first part of a two part conversation with Novelist, Short story writer, Director, Actor, all round creative Stella Duffy. In the first part we talk generally about her experiences of lock down and her speculations about the future of the arts. We also discuss her Fun Palaces project. In the second part we explore her tastes in media at this current time. </strong></h1> <p>I look forward to you all enjoying this marvelous conversation with a fully engaged artist. </p> <p><img alt="profileimage" src="https://www.thesoandsoartsclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/stella-duffy.jpg" width="300" height="269"></p> <p>Stella Duffy is a writer and performer born in London who spent her childhood in New Zealand before returning to the UK. She has written plays, and novels and directs.</p> <p>Stella Duffy has written fourteen novels including her latest, London Lies Beneath which Virago will publish in November 2015. The Room of Lost Things and State of Happinesswere both long-listed for the Orange Prize. She has written ten plays and over fifty short stories, including several for BBC Radio 4. Her collected stories are published by Salt inEverything is Moving, Everything is Joined. She won the CWA Short Story Dagger in 2002 (Martha Grace) and 2013 (Come Away With Me), and Stonewall Writer of the Year in 2008 (The Room of Lost Things) and 2010 (Theodora). HBO have optioned her two Theodora novels for a TV series. She wrote and presented the BBC4 documentary How to Write a Mills and Boon and has reviewed for The Review Show (BBC2), Front Row(BBCRadio4) and written articles for most major newspapers in the UK. In addition to her writing work she is a theatre director and performer.</p> <p><strong>Stella is also the co-founder of Fun Palaces</strong> -- an annual, free, nationwide celebration of culture at the heart of community, using arts, science, craft, tech, digital, heritage and sports activities as a catalyst for community engagement. This takes place over the first weekend in October every year. Fun Palaces are community events, created by and for local people. They are held in a variety of locations, ranging from libraries, shopping centres, schools, parks, village squares, community halls, swimming pools, etc. The original (never built) Fun Palace was the brainchild of celebrated theatre director <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Littlewood" title="Joan Littlewood">Joan Littlewood</a> and architect <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedric_Price" title="Cedric Price">Cedric Price</a>. Their never-realized vision was re-interpreted for the 21st century with the Fun Palaces campaign for cultural democracy, with community-led events in many locations. The first weekend of action took place in 2014, with 138 Fun Palaces taking place across the UK and internationally and in 2015 the number rose to 142, 292 Fun Palaces in 2016, and 362 in 2017.</p> <p><br></p>
June 30, 2020
Interview with Joan Wickersham
<h2><br></h2> <p>Joan Wickersham's most recent book of fiction is The News from Spain (Knopf). Her memoir The Suicide Index (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) was a National Book Award Finalist. She is also the author of a novel, The Paper Anniversary (Viking).</p> <p>Her fiction has appeared in magazines including Agni, One Story, Glimmer Train, The Hudson Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, and Story, and has been published in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. Her op-ed column runs regularly in The Boston Globe. She has published essays and reviews in The Los Angeles Times and The International Herald Tribune; and has read her work on National Public Radio’s “On Point” and “Morning Edition.” She also writes frequently about architecture, including “The Lurker,” a column she created for Architecture Boston magazine.</p> <p>She has received the Ploughshares Cohen Award for Best Short Story and has been awarded grants by the National Endowment for the Arts, The American-Scandinavian Foundation, The Massachusetts Cultural Council, the MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo. She has taught at Harvard, Emerson, the University of Massachusetts (Boston), and the Bennington Writing Seminars. Joan graduated from Yale with a degree in art history. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.</p> <figure><img alt="Wickersham color.jpg" src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a621a7cd0f685560d6563f/1504124924161-FYADB1JPC42MNG72GMVH/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kG1ldzojpHLAK7pdLFBEu9N7gQa3H78H3Y0txjaiv_0fDoOvxcdMmMKkDsyUqMSsMWxHk725yiiHCCLfrh8O1z4YTzHvnKhyp6Da-NYroOW3ZGjoBKy3azqku80C789l0hveExjbswnAj1UrRPScjfCJzp1bpq3G9xfncZNUVUoHbCl5Slz5dLVueegMKFhwBQ/Wickersham+color.jpg?format=500w" width="500" height="660"/></figure>
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