http://williamaveryhudson.blogsome.com A unified vision for health, art, and social progress. New collaborations for humane economic growth, sound environmental stewardship, and promotion of health and creativity. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:44:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The blog is on hiatus, while moving to a new Linux-based server… http://williamaveryhudson.blogsome.com/2009/11/21/on-hiatus/ 2009 DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL 24-27 September John Ryan Theater at WHITE WAVE, 25 Jay Street This looks good! Here’s tonight’s schedule. Friday, September 25, 7:00-10:00 PM Lucie Baker Slow Burn Renegade Performance Group (Andre Zachery) En Medias Res I-danse Transplant I Danielle Russo Dance Company la femme silencieuse Hee Ra Yoo Fade (introspection) stephanie blackmon woodbeck | Labor Force Dances So…come here ... http://williamaveryhudson.blogsome.com/2009/09/25/2009-dumbo-dance-festival/ Wordless Music Meets Miller Theatre Festival Miller Theatre at Columbia University Saturday 12 September 2009 Jacob Cooper - Stabat Mater Dolorosa, for string quartet, two vocalists, and film (2009) JACK Quartet Mellissa Hughes, soprano Abigail Nims, mezzo-soprano I’ve been carrying the program for this final performance in the WMMMT Festival around with me for several days, processing ... http://williamaveryhudson.blogsome.com/2009/09/23/jacob-coopers-stabat-mater-dolorosa/ 2009/2010 Season Opening - New Chamber Ballet City Center Studio 4, New York Friday 11 September 2009 I’ve seen this group for three seasons now, and they are evergreen. Miro Magloire’s New Chamber Ballet unites (usually) modern classical music with modern classical ballet with deep knowledge and complete fluency. Chamber musicians and dancers ... http://williamaveryhudson.blogsome.com/2009/09/15/new-chamber-ballet-season-opening/ New York just keeps getting better… 11 September Preview - Monet’s Water Lilies Museum of Modern Art www.moma.org Season Opening - New Chamber Ballet City Center Studios newchamberballet.com 12 September Wordless Music Meets Miller Theatre Festival - JACK Quartet Miller Theatre at Columbia University 15 September Exhibition Opening & Artist Reception: A Tibetan Pilgrim: Photos by Tenzing Paljor Tibet House Event page 16 September Screening - ... http://williamaveryhudson.blogsome.com/2009/09/14/where-is-avery-2009-fall-season-nyc/ New York Film Festival Alice Tully Hall, Walter Reade Theater 25 Sept - 11 October Once again, this finely curated festival makes it hard to do anything else for seventeen days running. Just trying to see the movies currently without U.S. distribution is a rewarding challenge. Here’s my aspirational list: 36 Vues du Pic ... http://williamaveryhudson.blogsome.com/2009/09/08/nyff-first-cut/ Always interesting to see what people like: #1: Shingai Shoniwa at Siren Music Festival Shingai Shoniwa of Noisettes at Siren Music Festival, Coney Island, NYC (2007) #2: Upper Broadway, NYC Vanishing New York: Bookstores. Two more wonderful independent bookstores bite the dust. And the storefronts remain vacant for months on end. Who wins? #3: Frank ... http://williamaveryhudson.blogsome.com/2009/09/06/top-ten-flickr-photos/ Malhotra D. Without conditions. Foreign Affairs. September/October 2009: 84-90 Free summary. The current (and critically important) Climate Countdown issue of Foreign Affairs also contains a brief and thoughtful essay by Deepak Malhotra of Harvard Business School, on the contentious issue of discarding preconditions before negotiating with enemies. One quote: “Governments not only impose preconditions ... http://williamaveryhudson.blogsome.com/2009/09/05/talking-to-the-enemy/ Just got back from a week-long visit to University of Toronto and environs. A good city. One caution - these are not pure vegan eateries, so purists will need to search onward. I’m not even a vegetarian yet! Fresh 326 Bloor Street West (and other locations) freshrestaurants.ca Sampled: Blue Thrill, Deluxe Burger w/Sweet Fries, Thai ... http://williamaveryhudson.blogsome.com/2009/09/02/vegan-friendly-toronto/ William Bartram Travels and Other Writings Library of America; 1996 William Bartram (1739-1823), artist, naturalist, “philosophical pilgrim”, traveled through Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas in the years immediately preceding the American Revolution, describing the landscape, flora, fauna, and people of the region. What a man - free of religious and racial bigotry, modestly courageous ... http://williamaveryhudson.blogsome.com/2009/08/17/william-bartram-on-cherokee-dances/