First of all, let me say ‘Thank You!’ for the compliment. We strive to design and produce the best marketing for all students and departments. We believe that any student (employee or otherwise) has the potential to create great design as long as they have the right skills and mindset! We also think encouragement and group critique goes a long way. We’re a pretty open bunch, and everyone in the office gives pointers and ideas when needed.
We hope that every customer feels comfortable enough to ask us about some of our individual talents and some of the resources of the office. We’re always willing to work with people with whatever they need and with any crazy idea they may have about marketing or design!
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Last week a crop of feisty and determined new Republicans came to work in Washington DC. They have big dreams… but so did many before them. Check out the cartoon above. It gives a slightly different take on the confidence exuded by the newly elected. How do you think the new Congress will fare? (Cartoon by KAL)
]]>Everyone knows about Fox news’ venomous relationship with President Obama and the Democrats.
It looks like the venom is spreading.
MSNBC has decided to declare war on the Republican party. As the GOP took control of the House of Representatives, some of the network’s commentators took the chance to lambast the new majority and vowed to continue to do so.
On Wednesday, Ed Schultz, host of the aptly titled The Ed Show, got visibly heated during his verbal attack on the party:
This is an ideological war. I say it on camera tonight here on MSNBC. I will fight these $*#@!^&% every night at 6 o’clock because I know what they’re up against. I know what they want to do. They want to take down American workers. They want to outsource jobs. They want to destroy the American dream. Concentrate the wealth to the top, and control minorities. That’s what they’re about.
Accompanying Schultz, The Rachel Maddow Show featured week long series of segments chastizing the new Republicans. One of Maddow’s favorite topics became two GOP congressmen who missed the official swearing in ceremony.
If the first week is any indication, the next two years will give the folks at MSNBC with plenty to fume about.
]]>Contact: Tom Moore
Director of Arts Management
410-455-3370
tmoore@umbc.edu
UMBC's Department of Theatre has been invited to present its production of Las Meninas by Lynn Nottage, directed by Eve Muson, at the 43rd Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF). The production was originally staged at UMBC in November, 2010.
The performance will take place at the KCACTF's Region 2 Festival on Wednesday, January 12th at 8 pm at Towson University's Stephens Hall Theater. Admission to the performance is open only to Festival registrants.
Started in 1969 by Roger L. Stevens, the Kennedy Center's founding chairman, the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival is a national theatre program involving 18,000 students from colleges and universities nationwide which has served as a catalyst in improving the quality of college theater in the United States. The KCACTF has grown into a network of more than 600 academic institutions throughout the country, where theater departments and student artists showcase their work and receive outside assessment by KCACTF respondents.
In January and February of each year, regional festivals showcase the finest of each region's entered productions and offer a variety of activities, including workshops, symposia, and regional-level award programs. Regional festival productions are judged by a panel of three judges selected by the Kennedy Center and the KCACTF national committee. These judges in consultation with the KCACTF artistic director select four to six of the best and most diverse regional festival productions to be showcased in the spring at the annual noncompetitive national festival at the Kennedy Center, at which six of UMBC's past productions have been staged.
Set in the glittering court of Louis XIV, Las Meninas tells the true story of the seduction of Queen Marie-Thérèse, and the consequences of her scandalous affair with Nabo Sensugali, her African servant. Irreverent and ironic, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage shines a fiercely imaginative beam on a fascinating but forgotten bit of history that reveals contemporary truths about the racial divide.
The production features choreography by Renée Brozic Barger, scenery and costumes by Elena Zlotescu, lighting and sound by Terry Cobb, dialect direction by Lynn Watson and dialect coaching by Natasha Staley.
Photo credit: Rich Riggins.
Online Resources
UMBC Department of Theatre: http://www.umbc.edu/theatre/
Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, Region 2: http://kcactf2.org/
Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival: http://www.kennedy-center.org/education/actf/
UMBC Arts & Culture Calendar: http://www.umbc.edu/arts