Rhode Island's Department of Health has a very informative website that can help Rhode Islanders manage their health. From lists of public flu clinics to a survey/rating of nursing homes, they've compiled very useful info. Of course, if you are feeling poorly, it won't help you get your health back, and their website won't give you health insurance if you have none, but it's nice to know that the government is working for you, even if it's providing information!

DANCE YOUR PASSION WITH DELILAH

Tiverton, RI -- October 13-15, 2003

Delilah

Barbara Derecktor Donahue

Delilah will be coming to do a mini-festival of bellydance in Tiverton RI. Delilah has been a bellydancer for 30 years, and is currently doing a Gypsy Caravan tour down the Easten Seaboard. She'll be in Tiverton Rhode Island from the 13nth to the 15nth, she'll be giving workshops, performances, a bellydancing bazaar, and much more! This is a unique opportunity to study with a visionary belly dancer.


The festival will be hosted in Tiverton by Barbara Derecktor Donahue, "The Dancing Spirit" of Tiverton. Barbara is also a dancer and bellydance teacher. (and a friend of mine!)

To find out more about Delilah, check out Visionarydance.com


To find out more about the Festival in Tiverton, check out The Dancing Spirit Event page.

RECALL ARNOLD NOW!

The movement has already started!





Fortunately, in Rhode Island, the governor can only be recalled for gross malfeasance. So, Don Bosquet will probably not be governor anytime soon! (Sorry Don!)

Rhode Island Recycles!

The Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation is the state environmental agency dedicated to providing the public with environmentally sound programs and facilities to manage solid waste. The agency funds and manages the state's recycling program, and owns and operates the Central Landfill and Materials Recycling Facility in Johnston, Rhode Island. Created by the Rhode Island General Assembly in 1974 as the Rhode Island Solid Waste Management Corporation, the corporation changed its name in August, 1996. Although not a department of the state government, RIRRC is a public corporation and a component of the State of Rhode Island for financial reporting purposes. To be financially self-sufficient, the agency earns revenue through the sale of recyclable products, methane gas royalties and fees for its services.

ACTION SPEAKS

It's time once again for the annual panel discussions fostered by AS220, the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities, and host Marc Joel Levitt. Every Tuesday from Oct 7-Nov 11 from 5:30-7pm at the AS220 Cafe Insightful and interesting panelists engage in discourse (along with audience participation). Admission is 100% free!

This year it's Under-Appreciated Days That Changed America.
OCT 7: POSTWAR U.S. OCCUPATION OF JAPAN, 1946

Can Democracy be "Imposed"?
Guests are William Martel, John Dower, and Neta Crawford


OCT 14: IMMIGRANT & NATIONALITY ACT, 1965

American's "Complexion" Changed Forever
Guests are David Cicciline, Robert Lee, Ronald Fernandez
NOTE: At URI'S PAFF Auditorium at 7 PM, 80 Washington St, Providence


OCT 21: NATIVE AMERICAN GAMING LAW, 1988

A Chance To Take A Chance
Guests are Jackson Lears, Tom Acevedo, and Christine Reilly


OCT 28: PORT HURON STATEMENT WRITTEN, 1962
Students for a Democratic Society Created-1960's Student Radicalism has its "Constitution"
Guests are Paul Buhle, Bernardine Dohrn, Thomas Frank


NOV 4: SACCO & VANZETTI ARRESTED! 1920

Terrorism, Racial Profiling, and Restrictions on Personal Liberties
Guests are David kaiser, Patricia Williams, TBA


NOV 11: UGA COINS THE TERM "GRAFFITI ARTISTS" 1973

"It's Our City and We'll Paint Where We Want To."
Guests are TBA, Providence Police Dept, Ivor Miller, Angel Garcia.

NOTE: Between 4 and 5 pm, the Rhode Island Debate League will hold a debate featuring accomplished high school debaters entitled "Spray This! The Ethics of Graffiti."

FESTIVAL BALLET'S CARMEN

Carmen VMA Arts & Cultural Center Friday, October 3, 2003 @ 7:30 PM Saturday, October 4, 2003 @ 7:30 PM Sunday, October 5, 2003 @ 2:30 PM Purchase Tickets Online

A thrilling production by one of the most talented young choreographers in the country. Boston Ballet’s Viktor Plotnikov has created a bold, new full-length production of Carmen for Festival Ballet Providence. Set to Bizet’s compelling score, this Carmen is a contemporary ballet that conveys the impassioned story through Mr. Plotnikov’s powerfully expressive dance vocabulary, and his "very distinctive voice".

For ticket information, please contact Festival Ballet Providence at 401.353.1129.

During the week of September 29th, the VMA Arts & Cultural Center Box Office will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. to sell tickets to all of Festival Ballet Providence's VMA productions. On Friday, the box office will be open from noon until 8 p.m.; on Saturday from Noon to 8 p.m.; and on Sunday from Noon to 3 p.m. The VMA Box Office telephone number is 401.272.4VMA.

INCARCERATION AND PERFORMANCE

"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison."
-- Henry David Thoreau

"Performance as an artistic 'genre' is a constant state of crisis, and is therefore an ideal medium for articulating a time of permanent crisis such as ours."
-- Guillermo Gomez-Pena

"Performance is about presence, not representation; it is not a mirror, but the actual moment in which the mirror is shattered…. We experience life, therefore we perform-or rather we perform as we live, love, travel and suffer. "
-- Guillermo Gomez-Pena

Currently over 2.5 million people are held in prison or detention in the United States, with over 3,000 on death row. The United States has the highest incarceration and execution rates among industrialized nations. Varied responses to the expanding penal sites and carceral practices have sparked new forms of research, education, and analysis, art and performance, and narrative-all interrogating the meanings of democracy and captivity.

The 2003-2004 Wayland Faculty Seminar "Incarceration, Narrative and Performance" provides an interdisciplinary examination of "incarceration studies" (history, sociology, criminology, community health, and political science); narrative (memoirs, political manifestoes, literature on ethnicity, race, gender, and captivity); and performance studies (theatre, communication, visual art). Through the humanities, arts and social sciences we explore captivity, community, and democracy in the prison state.


Today at 4 pm, Robert Varea, co-founder of the Soapstone Theatre Company will speak at Rites and Reasons Theatre about his work with prisoners.


Find out more about Varea's work


Find out more about the Wayland Faculty Seminar

I'm working on a new show currently, so I'm raising some money for the show through merchandising. If you like the shirt, buy one! All of the proceeds go towards the building costs of the show, which will premiere in Spring of 2004.



The shirts and merchandise are available through CafePress.com If you want to design and sell your own shirts, feel free to do so-- it's basically free! (Please use my userid mrpunch as a referrer-- I get some kind of credit for it!)