Six Decades of Nurturing Writers–and Counting

Posted on May 30, 2013 by silvermic

dan1Did you know that Los Angeles has an award-winning writers’ group that’s been in existence since the late 1940s?

Or that they have monthly speakers…publish an annual  anthology, featuring members’ work…and included a certain Mr. Ray Bradbury among their members and as a mentor, for many years?ildy1

Meet Southwest Manuscripters–who continue to encourage writers with two blogs, presentations on such topics as self-publishing and guest appearances by noted authors.

At the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, current anthology editor Dan Lambert and Executive Editor and Project Director Ildy Lee talked about their experiences with Southwest Manuscripters, their 2013 anthology When Words Collide, and the work each of them has published in this year’s edition!

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Native Voices’ New Dialogues

Posted on May 30, 2013 by silvermic
Jean Bruce Scott, Co-Founder and Producing Executive Director of Native Voices at the Autry Photo courtesy of Native Voices at the Autry.

Jean Bruce Scott, Co-Founder and Producing Executive Director of Native Voices at the Autry
Photo courtesy of Native Voices at the Autry.

This week marks an exciting annual event for Native Voices at the Autry.

Their fifteenth annual Playwrights’ Retreat culminates, on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, May 29-31, in their Festival of New Plays.   Each evening at 7:30, the troupe presents a public reading of one of three new plays by Native playwrights.  Admission’s  free, but reservations are suggested.

After the final reading in Los Angeles on Friday, Native Voices will also be presenting public readings of all three plays at the La Jolla Playhouse, Saturday and Sunday, June 1 and 2.

Native Voices Co-Founder and Producing Executive Director Jean Bruce Scott talked about the experience of producing the Playwrights’ Retreat and Festival of New Plays, and offered a preview of the three new scripts her troupe will be reading.

 

Native Voices at the Autry will give a free reading of Darrell Dennis’s Where Have All the Warriors Gone? on Friday night, May 31, at 7:30 at the Autry Museum’s Wells Fargo Theatre.   Their San Diego readings begin with a 2:00 p.m. matinee of Lori Favela’s The Healer’s Remains on Saturday, June 1, at La Jolla Playhouse’s “Seuss 2” Space.

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Jean Bruce Scott Interview, Part Two

Posted on May 30, 2013 by silvermic
Jean Bruce Scott, Co-Founder and Producing Executive Director of Native Voices at the Autry Photo courtesy of Native Voices at the Autry.

Jean Bruce Scott, Co-Founder and Producing Executive Director of Native Voices at the Autry
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Jean Bruce Scott Interview, Part Three

Posted on May 30, 2013 by silvermic
Playwright/Actor Darrell Dennis (Shuswap*), whose play, WHERE HAVE ALL THE WARRIORS GONE?, is one of the three plays selected for Native Voices at the Autry's Playwright's Workshop and Festival of New Plays Photograph courtesy of Joan Marcus, and used with permission.

Playwright/Actor Darrell Dennis (Shuswap*), whose play, WHERE HAVE ALL THE WARRIORS GONE?, is one of the three plays selected for Native Voices at the Autry’s Playwright’s Workshop and Festival of New Plays
Photograph courtesy of Joan Marcus, and used with permission.

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What Ducks Are Really Like

Posted on May 26, 2013 by silvermic

Carol Chrysong

People call Carol Chrysong “The Duck Lady”.

Carol founded Lucky Duck Rescue and Sanctuary in 1991.  To this day, her nonprofit is the only one in California that’s devoted to rescuing abandoned and abused domesticated ducks.

With Lucky Duck Rescue and Sanctuary, Carol’s mission is both reaccommodation of the ducks and re-education of the general public.    All too often, she says, misconceptions about tame ducks can lead to tragedy, and to a growing environmental problem.

For example, most people think a full-grown domesticated duck belongs in a pond somewhere.   And a number of elementary-school teachers still consider a mother duck and her brood to be great classroom pets.   Carol says both these ideas are a recipe for disaster. Continue reading →

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Carol Chrysong Interview, Part Two

Posted on May 26, 2013 by silvermic

Carol discusses the ways our elementary schools are contributing to the plight of tame ducks, and her current efforts to find sanctuary for the mother duck and brood that showed up unexpectedly at Killian Elementary School, in Rowland Heights.

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