Film
Bill 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.
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.
read moreIlisa Rosal: A Lifetime in Flamenco
ILISA ROSAL is a professional Flamenco Dancer, Choreographer, Artistic Director, and Founder of Ballet Flamenco La Rosa (BFLR), an International professional company dedicated to Flamenco as an ever-evolving art form.
read moreStéphane Denève: The Second Artistic Director of the New World Symphony
STÉPHANE DENÈVE is the new Artistic Director of the New World Symphony, Music Director of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and will also be Principal Guest Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic.
read moreSoprano Cecilia Violetta López
CECILIA VIOLETTA LÓPEZ was named one of “Idaho’s Top 10 Most Influential Women of the Century” by “USA Today” and one of opera’s “25 Rising Stars” by “Opera News.”
read moreThe Artist’s Family
The Elman family — Raymond, Lee, Evan, Chloé, and Adélie Houle-LaChance — have participated in art communities from Provincetown to Miami to Vancouver.
read moreU.S. Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz
STANLEY KUNITZ (1905-2006) became the tenth Poet Laureate of the United States in the autumn of 2000. Kunitz was ninety-five years old at the time, still actively publishing and promoting poetry to new generations of readers.
read moreA Family of Artists
FRANCIS OLSCHAFSKIE has been a practicing artist for over twenty-five years. He has exhibited nationally and internationally. He is also one of the pioneers of the computer graphics industry.
ANNA POOR grew up surrounded by writers and visual artists. She is the niece of the painter Anne Poor, and she is the granddaughter of the artist Henry Varnum Poor, a founder of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
MONA POOR-OLSCHAFSKIE is a lifetime artist and the co-owner of Fin Du Monde restaurant in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in printmaking.
A Family of Writers
PETER ALSON’s is the author of seven books, including the novel, “The Only Way To Play It,” and the memoirs, “Take Me to the River” and “The Vig.”
ALICE O’NEILL is a screenwriter who wrote for “Billions” on Showtime for three seasons, and has created and developed series for ABC Signature, Freeform, and Paramount Television.
EDEN ALSON is the 17 year-old author of 2 novels. Her first novel, “The Novice Twins,” was published when she was in 8th grade. Her second novel, “Far From Here,” was published in 2023.
Lawrence Wright: Master Storyteller
LAWRENCE WRIGHT is an author, screenwriter, playwright, and staff writer for The New Yorker magazine since 1992.
He is the author of 15 books. His book “The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11” (Knopf, 2006), has been translated into 25 languages and won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. It was made into a series for Hulu in 2018, starring Jeff Daniels, Alec Baldwin, and Tahar Rahim. He also wrote the screenplay for the film “The Siege,” starring Denzel Washington, Annette Benning, and Bruce Willis.
