SURPRISE WAS MY TEACHER
Memories of a Television Producer/Director Who Came of Age During Television’s Adolescence
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As both a producer and director\, Merrill Brockway pioneered dance on television on the Emmy Award-winning PBS series\, Dance in America. Through this series and CBS’ Camera 3\, Brockway brought the performing arts to the “vast wasteland” of television in its early years. Working with the greatest artists of the day\, including Pierre Boulez\, George Balanchine\, Martha Graham\, Eugene Ormandy\, Stella Adler\, Agnes de Mille\, Ruby Dee\, Merce Cunningham and others\, Mr. Brockway brought high art into the homes of the average American.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T031628Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100425T200000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100425T230000Z UID:http://www.collectedworksbookstore.com/event/new-mexico-poetry-review-readings-poets URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.collectedworksbookstore.com/event/new-mexico-poetry-review-readings-poets SUMMARY:New Mexico Poetry Review - Readings by the Poets DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T031628Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100501T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100501T020000Z UID:http://www.collectedworksbookstore.com/event/evening-readings-pam-houston-dana-levin-carolina-monsavais-sara-marie-ortiz-luci-tapahonso-and URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.collectedworksbookstore.com/event/evening-readings-pam-houston-dana-levin-carolina-monsavais-sara-marie-ortiz-luci-tapahonso-and SUMMARY:An Evening of Readings by Pam Houston\, Dana Levin\, Carolina Monsavais\, Sara Marie Ortiz\, Luci Tapahonso and Summer Wood DESCRIPTION:The reading will celebrate the tenth anniversary of A Room of Her Own Foundation\, whose mission is to provide financial and artistic support to women writers in the form of workshops\, conferences\, the biennial $50\,000 Gift of Freedom Award\, the Orlando book and To The Lighthouse writing prizes\, and the Ghost Ranch Summer Writers' Retreat.
Our goal is to raise funds for scholarships to send a Hispanic and a Native American woman to the 2011 summer retreat.
Join us for a lively raffle of wine\, chocolate\, books\, art\, jewelry and more! We’ll also have gourmet refreshments and book signing by the authors.Suggested donation $10-$20
For further information please contact Barbara Rockman\, 992-3553 or Collected Works Bookstore\, 988-4226.
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END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T031628Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100504T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100504T020000Z UID:http://www.collectedworksbookstore.com/event/kay-taylor-burnett-no-odes-widows URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.collectedworksbookstore.com/event/kay-taylor-burnett-no-odes-widows SUMMARY:Kay Taylor Burnett - No Odes to Widows DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T031628Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100505T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100505T020000Z UID:http://www.collectedworksbookstore.com/event/jimmy-santiago-baca-stories-edge URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.collectedworksbookstore.com/event/jimmy-santiago-baca-stories-edge SUMMARY:Jimmy Santiago Baca - Stories from the Edge DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T031628Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100508T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100508T020000Z UID:http://www.collectedworksbookstore.com/event/hampton-sides-hellhound-his-trail-stalking-martin-luther-king-jr-and-international-hunt-his-as URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.collectedworksbookstore.com/event/hampton-sides-hellhound-his-trail-stalking-martin-luther-king-jr-and-international-hunt-his-as SUMMARY:Hampton Sides - Hellhound on His Trail\: The Stalking of Martin Luther King\, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin DESCRIPTION:From the acclaimed bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers and Blood and Thunder\, a taut\, intense narrative about the assassination of Martin Luther King\, Jr.\, and the largest manhunt in American history.
On April 23\, 1967\, Prisoner #416J\, an inmate at the notorious Missouri State Penitentiary\, escaped in a breadbox. Fashioning himself Eric Galt\, this nondescript thief and con man—whose real name was James Earl Ray—drifted through the South\, into Mexico\, and then Los Angeles\, where he was galvanized by George Wallace’s racist presidential campaign.
On February 1\, 1968\, two Memphis garbage men were crushed to death in their hydraulic truck\, provoking the exclusively African American workforce to go on strike. Hoping to resuscitate his faltering crusade\, King joined the sanitation workers’ cause\, but their march down Beale Street\, the historic avenue of the blues\, turned violent. Humiliated\, King fatefully vowed to return to Memphis in April.
With relentless storytelling drive\, Sides follows Galt and King as they crisscross the country\, one stalking the other\, until the crushing moment at the Lorraine Motel when the drifter catches up with his prey. Against the backdrop of the resulting nationwide riots and the pathos of King’s funeral\, Sides gives us a riveting cross-cut narrative of the assassin’s flight and the sixty-five-day search that led investigators to Canada\, Portugal\, and England—a massive manhunt ironically led by Hoover’s FBI.
Magnificent in scope\, drawing on a wealth of previously unpublished material\, this nonfiction thriller illuminates one of the darkest hours in American life—an example of how history is so often a matter of the petty bringing down the great.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T031628Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100509T000000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100509T020000Z UID:http://www.collectedworksbookstore.com/event/art-opening-3-centuries-japanese-woodblock-prints URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.collectedworksbookstore.com/event/art-opening-3-centuries-japanese-woodblock-prints SUMMARY:Art Opening - 3 Centuries of Japanese Woodblock Prints DESCRIPTION:n/a END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120523T031628Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100509T220000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20100510T000000Z UID:http://www.collectedworksbookstore.com/event/rita-feinstein-reading-fundraiser URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.collectedworksbookstore.com/event/rita-feinstein-reading-fundraiser SUMMARY:Rita Feinstein - Reading & Fundraiser DESCRIPTION:Rita Feinstein\, a 17 year-old student at Santa Fe Community College\,
will read from her fiction portfolio. Feinstein is a 2010 National Award
winner of a Scholastic Art &\; Writing Award. She will be an honoree
at an Awards Ceremony at Carnegie Hall on June 9th. Feinstein's writing
was chosen from over 165\,000 entries. Join us at Collected Works to hear
her read from her work. Feinstein is also seeking donations to help
fund her trip to New York for the Awards Ceremony.