The Old Manse Premiers:
Edgar A. Poe and Margaret Fuller: A Conversation
August 19, 7 pm
The year is 1845 and Margaret Fuller (1810-1850), portrayed by Jessa Piaia, and Edgar A. Poe (1809-1849), portrayed by Rob Velella, are at the height of their literary careers. The pair exchange gossip, talk about Transcendentalism, and discuss their recently published works, "Woman in the 19th Century" and “The Raven,” at Concord’s Old Manse. Presented as a dramatic reading, the program is part of the Margaret Fuller Bicentennial Celebration "Conversations Series,” and is appropriate for audiences age 10-adult. Poe and Fuller will converse for about 35 minutes, with an informal Q&A and refreshments to follow. Admission is $5 per person.
The premier performance of this new dramatic piece will take place under the Manse tent overlooking the Concord River. Bring your own blanket or lawn chairs, or arrive early with your own picnic to enjoy on the lawn. Light dessert will be served following the conversation, or visitors may choose to browse our air-conditioned bookstore and save 10 - 50% off during our storewide sale in honor of this event.
Special Margaret Fuller Tours of the Manse will be offered on August 19 at 4, 5, 6 and 8 pm. Tour this 1770’s home while learning about Fuller’s visits with Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne while they lived at The Manse in the 1840’s. Admission is $8. Trustees of Reservations Members $4. Reservations suggested. Call 978.369.3909.
Historic Background and Biography - Writer, intellect, and teacher, Margaret Fuller was the first editor of The Dial, the quarterly Newsletter of the Transcendentalists. After publishing Woman in the 19th Century and Summer on the Lakes in 1844, Horace Greeley hired her as editor and literary critic of his New York Daily Tribune. In 1846, Fuller embarked to Europe as the first female foreign correspondent of a daily newspaper. En route home four years later, she perished at sea in a shipwreck off Fire Island along with her husband Giovanni Ossoli and their son Angelo. A cenotaph commemorating her accomplishments stands at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Jessa Piaia studied performance at London’s Oval House Theatre. Her Women in History Programs depict the accomplishments, struggles, and contributions of American women (http://www.womeninhistoryprograms.com). Since 1985 she performs at educational institutions, museums, libraries, and cultural organizations throughout New England. Recipient of Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities grants, and from local arts lotteries, her many successes include "Meet Isabella Stewart Gardner: America’s First Patroness of the Arts," and "From Suffragist to Citizen: A Conversation with Susan B. Anthony & Eleanor Roosevelt."
Though known today mostly for his tales of the macabre and mystery, Edgar A. Poe was one of the most influential literary critics of his day. His editorial duties for The Southern Literary Messenger, Graham's Magazine, and the Broadway Journal brought him into contact with most of the literary figures of the period. Despite Poe’s popularity, he was never financially successful and died destitute and mysteriously in Baltimore at the age of 40.
Literary historian Rob Velella has lectured at historical sites, libraries, and colleges across the East Coast. Most recently he presented papers at the Poe Studies Association (2009) and the Hawthorne Society (2010), and served as guest curator for "Margaret Fuller: Woman of the Nineteenth Century" at Harvard's Houghton Library and as research associate for "The Raven in the Frog Pond: Edgar Allan Poe and Boston" for the Boston Public Library. As well as performing as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Nathaniel Hawthorne, Velella, also maintains the American Literary Blog www.americanliteraryblog.blogspot.com.
For more information, contact The Old Manse at 978.369.3909. Located at 269 Monument Street, Concord, MA. Visit our website www.oldmanse.org. Email oldmanse@ttor.org The Old Manse is a property of the Trustees of Reservations www.thetrustees.org.
This event is part of the Bicentennial’s Conversations Series, supported by a grant from Mass Humanities and modeled after the “Conversations” Margaret Fuller offered for women (and later men) in Boston in the late 1830s and early 1840s. The event is co-sponsored by the Margaret Fuller Bicentennial Committee and is part of a year-long series of events celebrating Margaret Fuller’s life and work. For a complete list of the other programs, please visit: www.margaretfuller.org. Last Updated (Tuesday, 10 August 2010 07:55)
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MEMORIAL SERVICE CELEBRATES LIFE OF MARGARET FULLER OSSOLI
Wreath Laying Ceremony at Mount Auburn Cemetery
Sunday July 18th, 2010, 12:30 P.M.
Cambridge, MA, June 25, 2010 – A commemoration of the life and legacy of author, reformer and Transcendentalist, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, takes place Sunday July 18th at Mount Auburn Cemetery, 580 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge MA. Actors will appear in costume to pay tribute to this significant woman. The doors of Mount Auburn’s Bigelow Chapel will open for a reception at 12:30. Bree Harvey, Director of Education and Visitor Services for the cemetery, will welcome guests promptly at 1:00 P.M. Rev. Rosemarie Smurzynski will lead the Memorial Service and Eric Huenneke will provide the music. After the service, participants will walk to the Fuller family lot for a wreath-laying ceremony at 2:00 PM.
In a brief forty years, Margaret Fuller left a dramatic and lasting legacy. She died tragically when the ship carrying her, her husband, and their young son, sank off the coast of New York’s Fire Island. Though a memorial in her memory was erected in the Fuller family lot at the cemetery, historical evidence suggests that a memorial service to celebrate her life was never held. The July 18th celebration will allow people to pay a much belated tribute to this groundbreaking icon.
The actors participating in the program are as follows: Jessa Piaia as Margaret Fuller, Wendell Refior as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rob Velella as James Freeman Clarke, Dorothy Emerson as Elizabeth Peabody, Richard Smith as Henry David Thoreau, and Deborah Goss as Julia Ward Howe.
This event is part of the Bicentennial’s Conversations Series, supported by a grant from Mass Humanities and modeled after the “Conversations” Margaret Fuller offered for women (and later men) in Boston in the late 1830s and early 1840s. The event is co-sponsored by the Margaret Fuller Bicentennial Committee and the Friends of Mount Auburn and is part of a year-long series of events celebrating Margaret Fuller’s life and work. This event is FREE and open to the public.
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PRESS CONTACT: Beckie Hunter
tel: 617 669 4387
email: info@theatreatfirst.org
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THEATRE@FIRST REVIVES THE MARGARET GHOST
Witty, romantic play celebrates Margaret Fuller Bicentennial
Theatre@First presents a one-weekend revival of the successful 2006 production of local playwright Carole Braverman’s The Margaret Ghost, in honor of the 200th anniversary of main character Margaret Fuller’s birth. Performances June 17-20, 2010 in the beautiful new theatre at The First Church in Belmont, 404 Concord Ave., Belmont, MA. Tickets are available through www.theatreafirst.org.
On June 19th at 6:30pm the public is invited to a special Gala Performance. A wine reception will be followed by a conversation with playwright Carole Braverman and director Elizabeth Hunter in the tradition of Margaret Fuller’s Conversations for the Women of Boston. The performance starts at 8pm and both of these talented women will be available during intermissions to answer questions. After the show, the audience will have the opportunity to meet the actors portraying Fuller and her contemporaries, including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
The Margaret Ghost is a witty, engaging look at the struggles of a woman too intelligent to fit into the narrow role of a nineteenth-century woman, and too passionate to settle for less than the full human experience. From the parlors of Cambridge to the streets of Rome, The Margaret Ghost follows Fuller as she searches for truth, beauty and love amid the tides of history.
Carole Braverman’s plays have been produced in New York, London, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and various other venues. The Yiddish Trojan Woman won London Weekend Television’s “Plays on Stage” award and has been published by Dramatists Play Service, and in anthology. The Margaret Ghost was originally produced by the Berkeley Repertory Theater, where Braverman was Playwright in Residence from 1983–85. In addition to writing plays, Braverman taught English at Phillips Academy in Andover for 27 years.
Theatre@First is Somerville’s largest community theatre and has filled a vital role in the vibrant Davis Square arts community since its founding in 2003. For more information about Theatre@First visit www.theatreatfirst.org.
The Margaret Ghost is just one of a year-long series of events celebrating the Margaret Fuller Bicentennial. For a full listing of events visit www.margaretfuller.org.
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Thursday, June 17, 8pm
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Friday, June 18, 8pm
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GALA - Saturday, June 19, 6:30pm reception; 8pm performance
MATINEE - Sunday, June 20, 3pm
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The First Church in Belmont, UU
4040 Concord Ave, Belmont, MA
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In conjunction with our current exhibition, Woman in the 21st Century: Margaret Fuller, and the Sacred Marriage, the Pierre Menard Gallery is pleased to announce:
A Conversation between Kate Millett and Curator Lisa Paul Streitfeld:The Sacred Marriage in the American Canon,
Saturday, June 5th, 4pm
Author and artist Kate Millett who became world famous 1971 with the publication of Sexual Politics, will discuss the “Boston Marriage” and its relationship to the development of the American canon and the “sacred marriage” mythology ruling the integration of gender opposites in her art.
Fuller’s trademarked “Conversations” will be revived in the gallery as a method of chronicling the historicity and living presence of this 21st century icon.
Schedule of “Conversations” with Curator Lisa Paul Streitfeld:
Friday, June 11, 7pm, Jessica Lipnack: The Sacred Marriage in the 1960s
Saturday, June 12, 4pm, Elinor W. Gadon: The Sacred Marriage in Antiquity
Saturday, June 19, 4pm, Aldo Tambellini: The Sacred Marriage in the 21st Century
Sunday, June 20, 2pm, Collaborative Performance Painting by Michael Manning and
Mark Wiener. Performance will be broadcasted live on YouStream.
Closing Event:
Saturday, June 05, 4pm, Kate Millett: The Sacred Marriage in the American Canon
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Woman in the 21st Century: Margaret Fuller and the Sacred Marriage
The Pierre Menard Gallery
May 23rd –June 20th, 2010
Opening Reception: Sunday, May 23rd, 2010, 6:00pm
Pierre Menard Gallery is pleased to announce Woman in the 21st Century: Margaret Fuller and the Sacred Marriage, a groundbreaking multimedia group exhibition held in conjunction with the Margaret Fuller Bicentennial.
The exhibition runs from May 23rd – June 20th with a reception and celebration of Fuller’s 200th birthday on Sunday, May 23, at 6:00 pm, including a Mask Tale Performance by Suzanne Benton.
What does the female prototype of the 21st century look like? What are her characteristics? How will we recognize her presence in our lives?
Woman in the 21st Century: Margaret Fuller and the Sacred Marriage seeks to answer these questions as it explores the coding and iconography surrounding the re-emergence of the “sacred marriage” (hieros gamos) archetype foreseen by Margaret Fuller in Woman in the Nineteenth Century. “This exhibition is a culmination of a decade spent chronicling a new movement,” says curator Lisa Paul Streitfeld, a former newspaper critic. “I want to share with the public my surprise and delight of Margaret Fuller’s genius in placing the “sacred marriage” archetype into the American canon. She broke through the barriers of time in order to make an empowering mythology real for women.”
Fuller’s trademarked "Conversations" will be revived in the gallery as a method of chronicling the historicity and living presence of this 21st century icon:
June 05, 4pm; Kate Millett The Sacred Marriage in the American Canon
June 11, 7pm; Jessica Lipnack: The Sacred Marriage in the 1960s
June 12, 4pm; Elinor W. Gadon The Sacred Marriage in Antiquity
June 19, 4pm; Aldo Tambellini: The Sacred Marriage in the 21st Century
There will be a Collaborative Performance Painting at the closing reception on June 20, from 2 – 5 pm.
The exhibition will include 32 artists covering a full range of media: Carl Apfelschnitt, Josef Astor, Vincent Baldassano, Suzanne Benton, Dianne Bowen, Dove Bradshaw, Laurel Jay Carpenter, Walter M. Crump, Linda DiGusta, Rikki Ducornet, Harlan E. Gruber, Heide Hatry, Selma Karaca, Renee Kahn, Marni Kotak, Yuliya Lanina, Michael Manning, Kate Millett, Richard Move, Francine McGivern, Aaron Olshan, Tanya Ragir, Grace Roselli, Daniel Rothbart, Carolee Schneemann, Nancy Spero, Tatyana Stepanova, Aldo Tambellini, Marina Tsesarskaya, May Wilson, Martha Wilson and Mark Wiener.
Pierre Menard Gallery 10 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 617-868-2033 pierre@pierremenardgallery www.pierremenardgallery.com
Gallery Director: Andrea Kalinowski
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