Experience Talks Online – Now Posted: Love Again

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Join us for Experience Talks Online, exclusive podcast interviews posted on our website. Carrying on the same tradition as our KPFK-FM/Pacifica Network syndicated radio show, the podcasts feature talented, creative people with experience worth talking about. Find our podcasts on the Listen Page of our website. They’ll post on an intermittent basis, so read this blog for updates about new podcasts as well as new Experience Talks radio shows. You can also like Experience Talks on Facebook and follow us on Twitter to get the latest news. Experience Talks and Experience Talks Online are produced by EngAGE, Inc.

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Experience Talks is pre-empted through the end of May, but we’ll have occasional podcasts for you during this hiatus. Just click the button to go to our Listen Page to hear this one!

 

NOW POSTED: LOVE AGAIN

Authors EVE PELL, KATHRYN ALICE, and happily married couple JOHN AND JANE HOLLAND talk with host ALICIA SEDWICK about the wisdom and delights of unexpected romance when older!

Eve Pell-2EVE PELL, the author of Love, Again – The Wisdom of Unexpected Romance, and the nationally acclaimed We Used to Own the Bronx, reported for three award-winning PBS documentaries and is an award-winning writer published in the San Francisco Chronicle, The Nation, Ms., Runners World, and other publications. She has been a staff reporter at the Center for Investigative Reporting, taught journalism at San Francisco State University and lectured at Stanford. Learn more at her website.

Kathryn Alice-2KATHRYN ALICE, RScP teaches and writes breakthrough material in the arenas of dating and love. Her approach stresses awareness and faith, and this positive, upbeat outlook has helped many singles enjoy their unattached status and thousands go on to find love. She was the author of the “Dating, Love & Soulmates” column for HOLISTIC LIVING MAGAZINE until the magazine’s closing. She has had many articles published. Kathryn served as the Director for The Agape Spiritual Center’s Crisis Support Team for six years, and Agape is where she is based. She is often published on subjects of love. She has built followings in several cities that include Atlanta, Charlotte, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Sacramento and San Diego. Find her book, Love Will Find You: 9 Magnets to Bring You and Your Soulmate Togetherhere. Learn more at www.KathrynAlice.com.

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JOHN and JANE HOLLAND have been happily married for six years.

 

 

 

 

 

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How Ramsey Lewis Found His Biggest Hit

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Fifty years ago this month, a waitress in a coffee shop in Washington, D.C., introduced Ramsey Lewis and his band to a song that would become their biggest hit: “I’m in with the In Crowd.” Read and listen to the story and song on NPR’s Jazz Night in America.

 

 

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Jules Feiffer’s Many Career Reiventions Continue

CREATIVE-ARTS“At age 86, Feiffer is into his umpteenth career. In the 1940s he drew comic strips. In the ’50s he started a four-decade run drawing a strip for The Village Voice. In 1961, he illustrated his friend Norton Juster’s story “The Phantom Tollbooth,” the first of several children’s books he has worked on. By the 1970s he had written a couple of novels and a few plays, some of which became movies — most famously “Carnal Knowledge.” Feiffer is now working in a genre that didn’t exist when he started out: the graphic novel.”

A show of Jules Feiffer’s art work opened April 23rd at the Adam Baumgold Gallery in New York, and a book of his collected works, Out of Line: The Art of Jules Feiffer, has just been published.

Read an interview with Feiffer in the New Yorker and read/listen to a story on NPR. See a slide show of cartoons, too!

 

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News from the Team: Amanda Talbot in NoHo Spotlight

Congratulations to talented Amanda Talbot for her great interview on NoHoArtsDistrict.com! Amanda is EngAGE’s Creative Programs Director at North Hollywood Senior Arts Colony. But she’s not only part of the EngAGE Team, she’s also part of  London Calling, a two-woman British improv team that includes British actress Leila Birch. Their next show is Thursday, May 21, at The Pikey in L.A., and will feature local actress/comedian and NoHo SAC resident, Carol Egen. Break a leg, Amanda!

 

 

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A Sample of Accomplished Women Artists Now in Their 80s and 90s

Artistic EquipmentFrom T Magazine in the New York Times: “A very small sampling of the female artists now in their 80s and 90s we should have known about decades ago.”  This is an important and fascinating article! The artists featured:

CARMEN HERRERA • AGNES DENES • DOROTHEA ROCKBURNE • MONIR SHAHROUDY FARMANFARMAIAN • LORRAINE O’GRADY • ETEL ADNAN • JOAN SEMMEL • FAITH RINGGOLD • JUDITH BERNSTEIN • MICHELLE STUART • ROSALYN DREXLER

 

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Tim Carpenter at Summit on Creative Aging in America

EngAGE Founder and Executive Director Tim Carpenter will present two talks at The Summit on Creative Aging in America: A Pre-Conference to the 2015 White House Conference on Aging on May 18th in Washington, D.C.

The purpose of the Summit is to gather recommendations for the field of creativity and aging. The Summit will bring together practitioners, policymakers, and researchers from the field to contribute to the larger White House Conference on Aging (WHCoA), which is tentatively scheduled for late July 2015. The Summit on Creative Aging in America will be co-hosted by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Center for Creative Aging (NCCA).

While the Summit is an invitation-only event, the public will have an opportunity to listen in and contribute to parts of the day’s conversation through a curated Twitter conversation. The general sessions will be webcast and highlights from the day will be featured. To participate in the conversation, please use the twitter hashtag #CreativeAgeSummit. Salient points will be pulled into the group’s discussion at various times throughout the day. For information on the timeline for these online conversations, please see the day’s agenda.

Learn more about the Summit here.

 

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Worth Repeating: Monuments Man Harry Ettlinger

“Worth Repeating” is a weekly feature on the EngAGE Blog that will bring you previous
posts that we think are still timely, interesting, or just plain fun! From 5/13/14:

WORTH-REPEATING

 

From the U.S. National Archives:

Harry Ettlinger, 88, is one of six surviving “Monuments Men,” whose art-saving exploits were recently featured in the film of the same title. A 19-year-old GI and a native German speaker, Ettlinger was part of the team that rescued a self-portrait of Rembrandt–a painting that was from his hometown of Karlsruhe, Germany. Ettlinger had never seen it when he lived there as a child–Jews were forbidden to enter the museum.

Ettlinger, along with author Robert Edsel, was a guest at the National Archives this afternoon to mark the donation of Hitler album number 6 to the National Archives.

This album was used by the Nazis to keep track of the art they stole, and was taken by an American soldier as a souvenir when he went into Hitler’s home in the Bavarian Alps. The soldier’s nephew inherited the album, but wasn’t aware of its significance until he met with Edsel, founder of the Monuments Men Foundation.

The National Archives also has custody of the 39 original albums discovered at the Castle of Neuschwanstein. The albums were used as evidence in the Nuremberg trials.

Read more about the Monuments Men here, and more about Harry Ettlinger here.

 

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