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- Temple Theaters Staged Tom Stoppard’s Rollicking “On the Razzle”
- Wireless Day at Temple University on Tuesday, February 28th
- March 5th SCT Brunch and Basketball Alumni Event
- PAB Sales Seminar, Student Center 200BC, on March 31
- Editing Workshop run by editors from The New York Times
- SCT and CLA Present Mediating Practices Conference
- SCT Presents the 2006 Diamond Screen Film Festival
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Temple photojournalism student Faye Murman's photograph "Close to Home" is a "very dreamy, pleasant image that creates a lot of wonder in the viewer," writes National Geographic illustrations editor Susan Welchman in the magazine's June 2006 issue.
The photo is on page 10 of the print edition and is available online here.
Donna Snow, associate professor of theater and head of the undergraduate and graduate acting programs, is a winner of one of this year’s Lindback Awards for Distinguished Teaching at Temple University.
Professor Snow, who joined the theater faculty in 1989, has redesigned the M.F.A. program in acting, increased performance opportunities for undergrads and introduced a course to prepare students for graduate school and their professional careers.
For more information, visit http://www.temple.edu/temple_times/4-20-06/snow.html.
Several SCT students were awarded first- and second-place honors in the 10th annual Pennsylvania Newspaper Association’s Scholastic and Collegiate Keystone Press Awards for their work on The Temple News.
The Temple award-winners included several students from the School of Communications and Theater:
First place, spot news: Alysha Brennan, Chris Stover, Christopher Wink, Chris Reber and Brandon Lausch
First place, public service: John Kopp Second place, feature story: Sammy Davis
Second place, personality profile: Ben Watanabe
Second place, sports story: John Kopp
Second place, sports photo: Steve Gengler
For more information, visit http://www.temple.edu/temple_times/4-6-06/keystone.htm.
PHILADELPHIA (DATE) -- “P. Baltimore” -- an hour-long documentary about a woman with a mental illness who spent seven years homeless on the streets of Philadelphia and emerged from her ordeal to advocate for other homeless people -- will premiere on Tuesday, September 19, 2006, at 3:30 p.m., at the Holiday Inn-Historic District, 400 Arch Street, Philadelphia.
The documentary will be followed at 4:30 p.m. by a panel featuring the film’s star, Patricia Baltimore, and its producer, Eran Preis. The panel will be moderated by Arthur C. Evans, director, Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Mental Retardation Services, who will announce a new Philadelphia initiative to help people with mental illnesses live successfully in the community.
The documentary follows Patricia Baltimore as she moves into a home and decides to help three homeless men find places of their own. They set out with great optimism, only to be confronted by bureaucratic barriers and their personal struggles to overcome the cycle of drugs and disability.
“You see a city where people are running in from the cold, running in from the violence,” said Patricia Baltimore. “It’s sad because we as homeless people had no place to run.”
The video’s producer, Eran Preis, previously an award-winning playwright and screenwriter in Israel, is an associate professor in the Department of Film and Media Arts at Temple University’s School of Communications and Theater. He co-wrote “Beyond the Walls,” which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1984. His feature-length video documentary “The Case of Jonathan Pollard” has been shown at numerous film festivals.
“ ‘P. Baltimore’ questions whether a home is a privilege or a right,” Preis said. “It asks whether homeless people have to prove their worthiness to get this very basic human need met, or is it their community’s responsibility to provide for weaker members?”
The premiere will kick off the first National State of the Knowledge Conference on Increasing Community Integration of Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities.
The three-day conference will be hosted by the UPenn Collaborative on Community Integration (http://www.UPennrrtc.org), which is funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. The conference will include the presentation of state-of-the-art research related to community integration of individuals with psychiatric disabilities and the discussion of policies and practices relevant to promoting community integration and facilitating recovery. Contact: Katy Kaplan, UPenn Collaborative on Community Integration of Individuals with Psychiatric Disabilities, 215-746-6713.
"When Tom Stoppard’s “On the Razzle” opens its Feb. 9–18 run at Temple University’s Tomlinson Theater, come prepared for farce of the finest order. And delight in the delicious language of this brilliantly written, award-winning comedy. It’s Stoppard’s adaptation of an 1842 farce by Viennese playwright Johann Nestroy that later inspired Thornton Wilder’s “Matchmaker,” which morphed into the musical “Hello, Dolly!” Stoppard’s “Razzle” returns to mid-19th century Vienna where Weinberl and Christopher, two rascally grocery clerks, escape their humdrum existence and sneak off for a day and night of high adventure in the city".
Tickets are $18. Seniors, students, and Temple employees and alumni pay $13, and Temple students are free with TUid and confirmation card.
Read the article at: http://www.temple.edu/news_media/hg0601_188.html
Tuesday, February 28 10am-12pm FREE
Tuttleman Hall, Room 105Over the next two years, Philadelphia is scheduled to be home to the world’s largest wireless Internet network, encompassing approximately 135 square miles of metropolitan area, and reaching more than 1.5 million people.
This symposium at Temple University outlines the scope of the Wireless Philadelphia project as envisioned by the people who crafted it, and innovative possibilities in the realm of the wireless domain.
Panelists:
Dianah Neff, Chief Technology Officer of the City of Philadelphia.
Dr. Munir Mandviwalla, author of the business plan for Wireless Philadelphia.
MLaura Forlano, member, Board of Directors, NYC Wireless, an organization dedicated to innovative uses of wireless networks.
Gali Einev, head of interactive research at NBC Universal.
MSteve Bull, CEO Cutlass. Commissioned by The New-York Historical Society to produce the cell phone tour of Lower Manhattan in support of their “Slavery in New York” exhibit, sponsored by Verizon.
Sunday, March 5th 2006
Brunch at Annenberg Hall from 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Temple vs. Fordham Basketball Game at 12:00 p.m.Tickets for brunch and game: $25 for adults and $10 for children
Tickets for brunch only: $10 each
RSVP by February 24
Contact Rachel Lippoff at rachel.lippoff@temple.edu or 215-204-9307.
Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters
Seminar: Sales and Creative Commercial AdvertisingFriday, March 31, 2006
9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Student Center, Room 200BCTemple University’s School of Communications and Theater will welcome the Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters to Main Campus for a Sales Seminar on March 31, 2006. The Sales and Creative Commercial Advertising seminar will be held in the University’s Student Activity Center, and Dan O’Day, radio’s commercial copywriting guru, will be the featured speaker.
He will present specific principles for creating commercials that work. Students and faculty are invited to register for this complimentary seminar by emailing their names and departments to itsct@temple.edu.
Editors from The New York Times will be running this editing workshop.
Saturday, March 25
Annenberg Hall 3, from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Temple University's main campus.It is open to anyone with a genuine interest in copy editing. This is a hands-on program with plenty of opportunity to work with some of the Times' top editors. Annenberg Hall is at 13th and Diamond streets, one block east of Broad Street. Address questions to trayes@temple.edu or snett77@temple.edu.
The Temple chapter of NABJ is supporting this event in cooperation with the Department of Journalism.
New directions in visual anthropology and cross-cultural mediamaking
April 11-14, 2006
This weeklong festival at Temple University asks “What’s next?” in the arts and praxis of cultural representation. The festival includes screenings, lectures, and a daylong symposium of scholars and mediamakers. The event is free and open to the public.
For more information, visit:
http://astro.temple.edu/~rcoover/MediatingPractices.html
MURL Building Blocks is one of 10 innovative community news experiments to receive 2006 funding from New Voices, a project of J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism. Building Blocks, which was selected from 185 applicants, will partner Temple journalism students with residents of an under-covered Philadelphia neighborhood and public broadcaster WHYY-TV to push hyperlocal newscasts.
MURL is the cornerstone of the Journalism Department's mission to better tell stories in the under-covered and under-served neighborhoods of Philadelphia and to educate students for careers in journalism across media platforms.
For more information on MURL, visit http://www.temple.edu/murl/
- SCT Presents the 2006 Diamond Screen Film Festival
Friday, May 12 and Saturday, May 13
7:00 p.m.–9:30 p.m
The 2006 Diamond Screen Film Festival, which showcases the year’s most creative and outstanding student films from the Film and Media Arts Department, will be held in The Reel, Student Center Cinema, located in the Student Center Annex at 13th Street and Montgomery Avenue on Temple University’s Main Campus. The annual Festival screens animation, experimental, documentary, and narrative fiction film and video from both undergraduate and graduate students.
Donna Snow, a Temple theater professor and voice expert, and Robert Sataloff, a noted otolaryngologist and Temple adjunct clinical professor of otolaryngology, discussed the voice and people who would like to change aspects of their speaking voice. Hear the archive of the interview at:
http://www.whyy.org/rameta/RT/2005/RT20050823_20_2.ram narrative fiction.