STAGED READING

Staged reading: professional actors reading student-created dramatic works, written by students ages 11-18 from the BAM/Usdan Center “Style and Substance” summer creating writing program.

FRIDAY JULY 26, 12 NOON
BAM FISHER (theater), 4th floor Hillman Space, 321 Ashland Place (around the corner from the main building of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, on Lafayette Avenue), Brooklyn, New York

The BAM Youth Summer Program is collaborating on a dramatic writing program, called “Style and Substance,” with Long Island’s Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts (www.usdan.com), the renowned summer arts day camp whose alumni include Natalie Portman, Mariah Carey and many other famous artists. The results, co-created by students in both programs this week, will be performed this Friday at the Hillman Space at the BAM Fisher, in a staged reading by professional actors (there may also be student participation).

The workshop has been taught by BAM’S Richard Hoehler, an award-winning playwright and workshop director for Random House Inc.’s Creative Writing Competition; and at Usdan by David Surface, founder of the WriteMind Workshop. Published essayist and fiction writer, and Writer-in-residence, Bronx High School for Writing and Communication Arts.

Contact: Reva Cooper, (718) 965-0486; revacooper@earthlink.net ###

MUSEUMS

Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County Upcoming Events
Welwyn Preserve, 100 Crescent Beach Road,
Glen Cove, New York 11542,
( 516) 571-8040 x107
www.holocaust-nassau.org

The museum presents a detailed and comprehensive chronicle of the Holocaust, and utilizes multimedia displays, artifacts, archival footage, testimonies from local Survivors and Liberators, and encompasses a special gallery for changing exhibits.

We offer a contextualized history to explain the 1930s increase of intolerance, the reduction of human rights, and the lack of intervention that enabled the persecution and mass murder of millions of Jews and others, including people with disabilities, Roma and Sinti (Gypsies), Jehovah’s Witnesses, Gays, and Polish intelligentsia.