Jan and her daughter decide to make a trip to the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History in New Haven, CT to sketch some of the exotic a objects in the collections.

Rose Planetarium, Museum of Natural History, New York, NY Part 2 of 3

David Cale performs ‘The History of Kisses’ at Kansas City Repertory Theatre October 21-November 27. Visit www.kcrep.org to order tickets! We’re also on Facebook www.facebook.com/kcrep

Oral history interview with Holocaust survivor Sam Schryver. Schryver was born in Amsterdam in 1922. Immediately after the Germans invaded, he joined the Dutch resistance; his main activities were providing other people with ration cards and assisting them in other ways. Schryver had several close calls with the Nazis while in the resistance, on one occasion escaping from an interrogation. In 1943 he went to The Hague, where he, his sister, and another girl were in hiding until January 1945, when they were finally captured and sent to Westerbork. On April 11, 1945, after hearing artillery fire from the approaching Allies, Schryver escaped from the camp and reached the 6th Canadian Infantry Brigade, where he convinced their commander, Jean Victor Allard, not to bombard the camp. After the war, Schryver worked for a Jewish organization that was trying to reunite hidden children with their families. In 2000, he was knighted by the Queen of Holland for his part in saving the prisoners at Westerbork. He is a frequent speaker at the Florida Holocaust Museum and at local schools.

University of South Florida Department of Communication professor, Dr. Carolyn Ellis, interviews Holocaust survivor Mr. Jerry Rawicki on July 1, 2009 at the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. Video produced by USF Tampa Library Special and Digital Collections.

THEATER HISTORY and WHY this video of the AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ (FINALE) is significant: Produced by Founder Mark Wilson, staged in about 5 days for a total of 5 performances, this was the first African-American production and performance EVER in the “quaint village” of Blowing Rock, where population was scarcely diverse in the 1980′s. This was also the same year the musical was a Revival on Broadway, garnering a Tony Award Nomination, having won Best Musical exactly 10 years earlier (with Nell Carter, another 6 degree Nell connection – find the others.) Controversial in 1988? The performers would agree the significance of their presence within that context can not be overstated. The atmosphere wasn’t quite as warm outside the theatre for these hot performers. The tiny spot on Terry’s dress is from the tears of “Black & Blue” they’d just sung…to a standing ovation. This production of AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ features Loren Dean Harper, Keith Roberts, Judy Young, Denise Gray and Terry Denise Henry…along with the great stride piano player of Blowing Rock, Blake Pace performing: appropriately for Mark, “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love”, for the town “It’s A Sin To Tell A Lie”, and for the lucky few in this historic event for Blowing Rock, Fats’ “Honeysuckle Band” finale… The little company worked on overdrive, sleeping 3 hours a night to get the show ready. They were ragged by this closing night performance – but still on their feet! And so was the crowd. And if these “blues …

This is a five part series of the History of the Ballet San Jose dance company.

The Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, the region’s largest cultural organization and known worldwide for it’s vast art, scientific collections and scientific research, recently launched a rebranding of two of their four museums, the Carnegie Museums of Art and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Wall-to-Wall Studios was hired by The Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh to design a new identity and explore how it might work within the overall marketing efforts. The rebranding collaboration included the development of positioning and personality statements, followed by the design of the logos, business system and brand guidelines. When looking at the logo component of the rebrand, we pursued a mark that could capture a sense of play, of wonder, of inventiveness, of surprise, something that could express the vast variety found within the collections of the two museums. So the logo has a way of appearing different in various occasions, or even with in the same presentation. The logo itself becomes a canvas, vessel for this expression, and a central character within the marketing collateral. The empty “C” is an invitation for the audience to imagine the possibilities of what could be there. The simplicity of the shape encourages endless and easy variations.