“Native Voices” Sharing History

Randy Reinholz, co-founder and Artistic Director, Native Voices (Photograph courtesy of Danielle Klebanow and used with permission.)

Randy Reinholz, co-founder and Artistic Director, Native Voices
(Photograph courtesy of Danielle Klebanow and used with permission.)

Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure is a dark, earthy comedy.

Native Voices co-founder and Artistic Director Randy Reinholz has re-imagined it–by creating a new play based on Native American history.  His new work, Measure for Measure: An Indian Boarding School Comedy takes a look at some tough issues without getting heavy-handed.

Prior to the presentation of his new play in Native Voices‘ “First Look” series, Randy talked about his work, the history behind the script and the techniques he uses to educate his audiences while keeping them engaged.

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Randy Reinholz Interview, Part Two

Native Voices co-founder and Artistic Director Randy Reinholz discusses the ways his new play, Measure for Measure: An Indian Boarding-School Comedy, updates the Shakespearean comedy.

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Randy Reinholz Interview, Part Three

Native Voices co-founder and Artistic Director Randy Reinholz offers a preview of Native Voices’ Third Annual Short Play Festival, and discusses some of the ways the U.S. justice system is based on Native American law.

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Beckoning “Horizons”

renee4This week is it.

Next Saturday, November 23rd, Pasadena City College’s first-ever “TED Talks” are happening in Arcadia.

So, what is TED?  Very simply, the acronym stands for “Technology, Entertainment and Design”–and TED is a nonprofit organization, which licenses independently-organized events all over the world.  These programs focus on “ideas worth spreading” and generally involve luminaries giving “the talk of their lives”–in eighteen minutes or less–on an idea that could change the world.

“TEDxPCC” will be themed “Expanding Horizons of Understanding”.  In another first, this is one of the first “TED” events to be organized by students.  Co-organizers Renee Shaw and Eric Espinosa have been planning and coordinating “TEDxPCC” since last spring semester.

Renee talked about the final preparations for “TEDxPCC”, the program’s three tracks and some of the presenters who will be onsite that day in Arcadia High School’s Performing Arts Center.

“TEDxPCC” registration begins at 9:30 a.m., Saturday, November 23rd at Arcadia High School, and the first session starts at 11:00 a.m.   Some tickets are still available; while student-discount tickets have sold out twice so far, “TEDxPCC”‘s Facebook page says they will be releasing “a couple more” at the discounted rate.

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Renee Shaw Interview, Part Two

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Renee Shaw Interview, Part Three

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