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Date Posted: 13:37:07 04/09/02 Tue
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's message, "Angela Townsend (Vassar!)" on 19:59:57 03/20/02 Wed
Hi, Angela!
Just touching base with you to see when we can possibly get together.
I'll be at Vassar this Friday night to see the Opera...will you be there as well?
My friend, Paul, is the set tech at Vassar - so we're going to lend support to him while watching a great show!
It'd be great if you wre going to be there too!
If you go, please let me know and we'll try & figure out where and how to meet there, at least briefly. Then, we'll need to get together soon to talk about the internship possibilities for this summer.
I'm also going to put our latest press release that we're sending out to the college department heads at the area colleges. Would you kindly pass it along to any department personnel at Vassar and see if they would be willing to entice any of their faculty and staff to attend or get involved in our upcoming production of 1975:The Underground Epic?
We are reserving block discounted seats for all area high schools and colleges for the Friday, May 31st, matinee (1pm) production, although they are certainly welcome to buy block discounted tickets on the Friday and Saturday evening performances as well...
OK - well, here's the press release, if you wouldn't mind either forwarding it along to those you think would be interested, or printing it out to post at the scool bulletin boards in relevant departments (art, music, dance, english, education, film, black studies, philosophy, women's studies, communications, etc...)
Please feel free to call me before Friday night's show if you're going so we can make arrangements...and THANKS a bunch!!!
I hope your semester is going very well and you're looking forward to a wonderful summer with PassionPlace, as we have tremendous summer projects upcoming!
Take care...
Sarah
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Hello, Francois!
I thought you might be interested in this press release on many levels... one, for your possible involvement in the production, as well as for your students! We are producing a wonderful writer, Aqiyl Thomas, and his spoken word poetry book, 1975:The Underground Epic, LIVE FOR THE STAGE in a multi media format! Please let me know what you think...
PassionPlace is finally ready to send the press release about our next full length theatrical production for the live stage! We're hoping to entice you to reintroduce PassionPlace back "onto the scene" for your students to enjoy the history and resurgence of one of the Hudson Valley's hottest and boldest production companies. First, the press release details, and should you find yourselves interested, please give me a call to discuss a more in-depth perspective on what we're doing, and why...
Please keep in mind that we have a ten year history to discuss, a current and phenomenal season lined up, and a five year plan to establish a permanent location and full arts complex. Plenty to talk about and alert your students- turn area student artists onto - and to entice a yearning audience/crowd desperately seeking fine, wise, thoughtful, proactive and caring entertainment.
PassionPlace Productions is a division of PassionPlace Theatre, Inc., a not-for-profit multi-media organization dedicated to bringing original live performances through integrated art forms (theatre, spoken word, music, film, dance, fine arts) in a collaborative effort to the community. Providing employment and resources to artists, Passionplace aims to save children (ages 3 to 103) through freedom and responsibility of art expression. By touring our productions, we share the artist's vision to other communities, while exploring those communities we visit.
Should you want me to forward any photographs of Aqiyl Thomas', the artist-in-residence, to post along with this release - please let me know & I'll get it right out to you!
**********PRESS RELEASE*************
PassionPlace Productions, Inc. presents Aqiyl Thomas' spoken word poetry book 1975:The Underground Epic in an integrated arts format, live for the stage. PassionPlace is producing this performance on a tri-city tour, starting in Woodstock at the Bearsville Theatre, Woodstock, NY, on May 31st & June 1st, then onto NYC on June 7th & 8th, and fnally in Buffalo, NY on June 14th and 15th, 2002.
For the Woodstock (Bearsville Theatre) performance, a Friday matinee show (1pm), May 31st, is available for all schools or organizations who wish to purchase block reservations. There will also be a Friday evening performance on May 31st and a Saturday evening performance on June 1st.
PassionPlace has been a not-for-profit theatre company based in the Hudson Valley since 1992, dedicated to producing great new works by great American writers, and for producing Bold Art thru Bold Performances.
PassionPlace has gained acclaim and accolades from all the area newspapers, won awards for Best Production, Best Actress and Best Actor, has produced and directed works for the Hudson Valley Film Festival and The Woodstock Film Festival, and have worked directly with such award winning playwrights as David Rabe and Frank D. Gilroy. PassionPlace has integrated it's local artists on projects with such established actors as Charles Durning, Dennis Farina, Dominic Chianese (both Jr. & Sr.), Christopher Noth, Dan Lauria, and others.
Having produced over 30 full length shows over the past ten years, PassionPlace has moved onto a multi-media, integrated arts format, involved in collaborative efforts by artists of various genres, including theatre, spoken word, live music, live dance, film imagery and fine arts.
1975:The Underground Epic will be a live performance of Aqiyl Thomas' spoken word poetry book incorporating all of these art forms, live for the stage, and presented to the audience in a dynamic, positive and universal (non-separatist) way.
PassionPlace's vision is to get Others' Visions Out There...and Aqiyl's vision, encompassing such elements as Love, Birth, Spirituality and Consciousness, will be brought to the forefront with a fervor!
Elijah Vanaver, of the Vanaver Dance Company, is Choreographer; Eric Crittenden of The Waz is Music Director, employing the wonderful talents of both Hudson Valley (Dean Jones, Irey Newkirk, Timoothy Merli (age 12), Julie Novak and others) & Buffalo musicians, Jazzopetry; Jeff Garbaz of www.garbaz.com is the Director of Photography (film imagery), employing the talents of both established and budding Hudson Valley filmographers; Fine artists of the Hudson Valley region will be featured within the imagery, such as Justin Love, Barry Miller, Rebecca Carter, Rhonda Ronan, and Pierre Riche; Edward T Felton and his wood working/percussive crew (Sound Sculpture) will provide a surprise; and Sarah Chianese, of PassionPlace, will direct the production. Aqiyl Thomas, Shawna Kent and Yohannes Shariff, all from Atlanta, GA, will be joining as the actors/spoken word artists.
A few excerpts from a review of Aqiyl's book by Michael D. Johnson:
"Few of us could ever ponder the idea that poetry would be so fresh, raw, dynamic, while at the same time giving us a tangible message to hold onto. The Underground Epic by Aqiyl Thomas does all this and much, much more. This collection of urban, dialectical poetry comes attached with real-life issues that everyone should read and pay attention to. I highly encourage all to get this work and read for yourselves the extreme value this book brings to humankind.
...I highly recommend this work to anyone and everyone. If you want to understand the mind of a young, modern, progressive African-American male, get the book. If you want to understand the ills that plague our society, get the book. If you want to get a taste of history that is not taught in today’s schools, get the book. Finally, if you want to be enlightened and energized, and thoroughly entertained, get the book."
Tickets are available by calling PassionPlace Productions at 914-388-4690. Block reservations for schools, and arts organizations are also available at a discounted rate.
One of PassionPlace's goals, saving children through the arts, invites an opportunity for area youth (VASSAR STUDENTS!!!) to attend this performance at discounted rates, with the intention of having those students who attend the show submit works of their own to create a similar production, using their written works, fine art images, dancing talents, musical talents, as well as any students interested in the technical aspects of production, for a production of THE 2002 EPIC to be produced later in the year.
Anyone wishing to be part of the PassionPlace Team, or who are interested in assisting in funding this performance, as well as the rest of the 2002-2003 season, please feel free to contact PassionPlace at (914)388-4690, or by e-mail at passionplaceproductions@hotmail.com
***********************END OF PRESS RELEASE****************
Sarah Chianese
Executive Director
PassionPlace Productions
"Bold Art thru Bold Performances"
(914)388-4690
www.passionplace.org
not-for-profit since 1992
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