Film
Beverly & Anders Gyllenhaal: For the Birds
Retired from long careers in journalism, BEVERLY & ANDERS GYLLENHAAL have been documenting vanishing populations of birds since 2010, producing the website https://flyinglessons.us/ and authoring the book “A Wing and a Prayer: The Race to Save Our Vanishing Birds.”
read moreDavid Rosenberg: Playwright, Actor
DAVID ROSENBERG is a New York City-based actor and playwright, most recently in the Broadway cast of Death of a Salesman. He graduated with his MFA from The Juilliard School in 2019. He was born and raised in Miami.
read moreJudy Rakowsky: Journalist, Author
JUDY RAKOWSKY is the author of the critically acclaimed narrative nonfiction book “Jews in the Garden.” A career journalist, she spent decades on deadline as an award-winning reporter and editor at the Boston Globe, People Magazine, the Providence Journal, and other outlets.
read moreLimmie Pulliam: From Kennett to The Met
Operatic tenor LIMMIE PULLIAM grew up the son of a preacher in the small town of Kennett, Missouri (pop. 11,000), which has proven to be a fertile environment for other musical talent such as Sheryl Crow. In January and February, 2024 Pulliam will be performing the lead role of Canio in “Pagliacci” for the Florida Grand Opera.
read moreBrad Rothschild: Making Movies that Matter
Director/Producer BRAD ROTHSCHILD is an award winning producer and writer with both a creative and a business background. His most recent documentary film, “Rabbi on the Block,” will be screened at the Miami Jewish Film Festival on 1/18/24.
read moreRatcliffe Art + Design Incubator Asks ArtSpeak, “What’s New?”
EVERY MONDAY we will publish a new conversation between Margarita Salas-Amaro (producer of “Tech Conversations”)and Raymond Elman (founding editor-in-chief of “ArtSpeak”) regarding insightful new videos interviews with prominent people in the arts across all art disciplines, which will be published on the ArtSpeak website in the weeks to come.
read moreNeil Leach: Adding AI to Architecture
NEIL LEACH is an architect, curator, educator, and writer, who has written two books about the impact of Artificial Intelligence on architecture.
read moreThe Unique Art of Roz Chast
ROZ CHAST’s work has appeared in numerous magazines through the years, including the Village Voice, National Lampoon, Scientific American, Harvard Business Review, Redbook and Mother Jones, but she is most closely associated with THE NEW YORKER.
read moreJerry Markowitz: Teenager at the Hampton House
The parents of JERRY MARKOWITZ owned and operated the Hampton House in Brownsville during its heyday – when major international talent like Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Cab Calloway, and Sammy Davis Jr used to stay and perform there; as well as major athletes like Jackie Robinson, Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown, and Althea Gibson; and activists like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X.
read moreBill Littlefield: It’s Not Just a Game.
BILL LITTLEFIELD (b.1948) served as the host of National Public Radio and WBUR’s Only A Game program from its inception in 1993 until July 2018. He covered a wide range of mainstream as well as offbeat sports events from the United States and around the world. Since 2018 he has been working with the Emerson Prison Initiative, teaching incarcerated men at MCI-Concord.
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