May 21 Broadway Bound student-dancers perform ‘Fabulous Feet’ By Kathleen McCleery The National Dance Institute of New Mexico helps students make big strides in and out of the classroom. The program makes the case that exposure to dance, music and other artistic expressions can improve student achievement. Watch a performance of… Continue reading
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May 20 Watch Graduate students encourage poetry through community service By PBS News Hour Master of Fine Arts students at Antioch University in Los Angeles are required to do community service to enhance the “writing life” of others. As part of our series Where Poetry Lives, poet laureate Natasha Trethewey joins Jeffrey Brown to… Continue watching
May 20 Walt Disney’s original pitch for Disneyland released By Justin Scuiletti "In these pages is proffered a glimpse into this great adventure ... a preview of what the visitor will find in DISNEYLAND." Those words, written by Walt Disney, adorn the first page of a pitch to gain funding for his… Continue reading
May 20 Led Zeppelin accused of plagiarism, 40 years after the release of ‘Stairway to Heaven’ By Colleen Shalby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd8AVbwB_6E The band Spirit claims that Led Zeppelin stole an instrumental piece of music from their single “Taurus” and used it for the opening of “Stairway to Heaven. More than 40 years after Led Zeppelin released their “Stairway to Heaven”… Continue reading
May 20 Poet Gina Loring on lost potential of LA’s incarcerated youth By Mary Jo Brooks "It's not just about the work on the page, it's about where you put your feet when you get out of bed in the morning." That was the mantra of Eloise Klein Healy when she created the graduate writing program… Continue reading
May 20 Watch Poet Gina Loring considers lost potential of LA’s incarcerated youth By PBS News Hour Continue watching
May 20 First Lady Michelle Obama promotes arts education program with White House talent show By Darlene Superville, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Count on singing and dancing, maybe even a few magic tricks, when the curtain goes up Tuesday on the very first White House talent show. Continue reading
May 19 Watch Former Burmese movie star finds leading role as activist By PBS News Hour In the 1980s and '90s, Kyaw Thu was one of Myanmar's leading film stars, appearing in more than 200 movies. He was so popular that the military government cast him in several propaganda films. But when he turned down a… Continue watching
May 19 Weekly Poem: W. S. Di Piero uses language to create ’emotional immediacy’ By Victoria Fleischer W. S. Di Piero never wants to hear again that his poems are intense. “You get tired of hearing certain things if they get said so many times about the kind of work you do. I don’t write poems that… Continue reading