Sonia Sotomayor to Speak at AT&T Performing Arts Center
by Julie Musbach
- Aug 24, 2018
The AT&T Performing Arts Center and Interabang Books are pleased to announce an evening with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor at 6:30 p.m. Friday, September 7, 2018 at the Wyly Theatre in the downtown Dallas Arts District to celebrate the release of her two new children's books, TURNING PAGES: My Life Story (available in English and Spanish) and THE BELOVED WORLD OF SONIA SOTOMAYOR. This is a family-friendly event, children are welcome and encouraged to attend. Tickets will go on sale today at 10 a.m.
Brooklyn Public Library Announces Fall 2018 Season
by Stephi Wild
- Aug 23, 2018
Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) today announced its 2018 fall season, convening a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Pulitzer Prize-winning authors, scholars, activists, performers, and artists to discuss issues that are vital to communities in Brooklyn, New York City, and across the nation. Serving as a leader in redefining libraries as centers for ideas and explorations, BPL continues its commitment to providing access to educational, economic, and cultural enrichment opportunities of the highest quality, as well as building civic engagement and strengthening the fabric of communities through the nearly 65,000 free programs offered each year.
Illustrations By Lulu Delacre to Be Presented in Sonia Sotomayor's Life Story At Zimmerli This Fall
by Stephi Wild
- Jul 30, 2018
In conjunction with U. S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's first memoir for young people, the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers is pleased to announce the opening of The Art of Turning Pages: Illustrations by Lulu Delacre for Sonia Sotomayor's Life Story on September 15. Justice Sotomayor shares her inspiring story about growing up and her deep love of reading in Turning Pages: My Life Story, which will be published by Philomel Books on September 4, along with a Spanish version, Pasando paginas: La historia de mi vida. The exhibition features nearly 30 objects on loan from award-winning children's author and illustrator Lulu Delacre, including her oil and collage art, preparatory drawings, and research material, on public view for the first time. Bilingual labels, in English and Spanish, accompany the works. Ms. Delacre will speak at Art After Hours: First Tuesdays on October 2.
Meet Pulitzer Prize Winner Jennifer Egan at Writers On A NE Stage
by A.A. Cristi
- Jun 12, 2018
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan returns to The Music Hall as part of the Writers on a New England Stage series to talk about her New York Times bestseller, MANHATTAN BEACH, winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and named one of the best books of the year by NPR, Esquire, Vogue, The Washington Post, USA TODAY, and Time.
Writers on a New England Stage to Feature Pulitzer Prize Winner Jennifer Egan
by Julie Musbach
- May 23, 2018
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan returns to The Music Hall as part of the Writers on a New England Stage series Tuesday, June 26, to talk about her New York Times bestseller, MANHATTAN BEACH, winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, now available in paperback.
American Composers Orchestra Continues 40th Anniversary Season With DREAMSCAPES
by Stephi Wild
- Feb 26, 2018
American Composers Orchestra (ACO) continues its 2017-2018 season, under the leadership of Artistic Director Derek Bermel, Music Director George Manahan, and President Edward Yim, with Dreamscapes, on Friday, April 6, 2018 at 7:30pm at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall (57th St. and 7th Ave.).
GROWING UP GONZALES Begins Open-Ended Run Off-Broadway This Weekend
by BWW News Desk
- Jun 24, 2017
A friendly reminder that GROWING UP GONZALES, a touching family drama written and directed by Felix Rojas and performed by Andres' Chulisi' Rodriguez, opens Off-Broadway on June 24th at The Actors Temple Theater, 339 W. 47th Street New York NY 10036.
GROWING UP GONZALES Begins Open-Ended Run Off-Broadway This Weekend
by BWW News Desk
- Jun 19, 2017
A friendly reminder that GROWING UP GONZALES, a touching family drama written and directed by Felix Rojas and performed by Andres" Chulisi" Rodriguez, opens Off-Broadway on June 24th at The Actors Temple Theater, 339 W. 47th Street New York NY 10036.
PEN World Voices Festival Announces Masha Gessen Followed by Samantha Bee
by Julie Musbach
- Mar 9, 2017
PEN America has announced that leading Russian and American journalist and author Masha Gessen, will deliver the Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture, followed by a conversation with comedian and political commentator Samantha Bee on the closing night of the PEN World Voices Festival. This year the thirteenth annual Festival, taking place in New York from May 1-7, will address some of the vital issues of the Trump era, with a special focus on the fractious relationship between gender and power. At a moment of historic threats to freedom and truth, Ms. Gessen and Ms. Bee, both activists in their own rights, will speak to Gessen's experience with Russian censorship and suppression of dissent, and parallels between the current administration and other authoritarian regimes.
2017 PEN World Voices Festival Announces Programming
by BWW News Desk
- Feb 17, 2017
The thirteenth annual PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature will focus its lens on today's fractious relationship between gender and power. Taking place in New York City, May 1-7, 2017, the weeklong Festival will use literature and the arts to address how gender both enables and impairs full participation in politics and society.
Kepler's Books Launches New GiftLit Service
by Christina Mancuso
- Oct 7, 2015
Kepler's today announced its new GiftLit subscription service that makes it easy for customers to gift high-quality books from curated collections for all ages and types of readers. This unique service continues Kepler's tradition of bookstore innovation by taking the guesswork out of purchasing gifts for friends, family, and colleagues.
Martina Arroyo Receives 2013 Kennedy Center Honors on CBS-TV, 12/29
by Tyler Peterson
- Dec 23, 2013
In recognition of her outstanding lifetime contribution to American culture, Martina Arroyo was saluted as one of five recipients of this year's Kennedy Center Honors in a star-studded gala celebration held on December 8 that will be broadcast nationwide as a two-hour prime time special on CBS-TV this Sunday, December 29 at 9pm, ET/PT. Seated with President and Mrs. Obama at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, as well as with her fellow honorees (actress Shirley MacLaine and musicians Herbie Hancock, Billy Joel and Carlos Santana), the pre-eminent American soprano was introduced in a speech by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who also narrated a short video about Arroyo. She was then saluted by a musical tribute celebrating her legendary portrayal of the title role in Verdi's Aida. First, Maltese tenor Joseph Calleja performed Radames's aria 'Celeste Aida,' and soprano Sondra Radvanovsky sang Aida's aria 'O patria mia.' Then the two star singers were joined by graduates of the Martina Arroyo Foundation's programs-Ryan Speedo Green, Chantelle Grant, Robert Kerr, and Yuriy Yurchuk-as well as the Army Herald Trumpets and the U.S. Naval Academy Glee Club, to perform the opera's Act II finale.
'Her Beloved World': Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor Reflects on Living Well With Diabetes
by Robert Diamond
- Jul 14, 2013
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is extraordinary in more ways than one. For one thing, she heads to work each day with supplies that are familiar to people with diabetes: a meter, glucose tablets and insulin. The July issue of Diabetes Forecast, the Healthy Living Magazine of the American Diabetes Association, features a candid interview with this public servant, who proves that diabetes need not stand in the way of a person's dreams.
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