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Oct, 18th
2009 |
Back
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hey everyone! I am back after a much needed break to deal with my personal problems (depression, bereavement etc). Updates will resume soon!
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Feb, 3rd
2009 |
Diversity series announces Matlin coming to town
Posted by in Uncategorized on Feb 3rd, 2009 | |
Former Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy and actress Marlee Matlin will take part in Evansville’s Celebration of Diversity Distinguished Lecture Series.
Dungy’s lecture is scheduled for 7 p.m. March 16 at The Centre. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. Matlin’s lecture is scheduled for Oct. 13, also at The Centre.
The lectures are free, but tickets are required. Tickets for Dungy’s lecture will be available beginning at 10 a.m. Feb. 21 at The Centre box office. Each person can request up to four tickets, and the requests must be made in person at the box office. Group tickets will not be distributed. Tickets and seats also are available upon request for anyone who needs special accommodation, according to a news release from Mayor Jonathan Weinzapfel’s office. Read the rest of this entry »
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Jan, 22nd
2009 |
Marlee Matlin visits rehearsal at the Phoenix
Posted by in Uncategorized on Jan 22nd, 2009 | |
When Oscar-winning actress Marlee Matlin comes to town, she gets around.
A former contestant on “Dancing With the Stars,” Matlin was in Indianapolis last week with the television show’s national tour, which included a performance Jan. 15 at Conseco Fieldhouse.
While in the Circle City, Matlin — who stayed at the Conrad Indianapolis — dropped by the Phoenix Theatre for a rehearsal of “Love Person” and posed for pictures with fans.
Matlin, who is deaf and won an Academy Award for her role in “Children of a Lesser God,” ended up at the Phoenix because she knows Tami Lee Santimyer — who also is deaf and plays a deaf woman in “Love Person,” which runs through Jan. 31.
Santimyer starred in a 2007 Kennedy Center production of “Nobody’s Perfect,” based on a book by Matlin and Doug Cooney.
Matlin apparently got someone to call the Phoenix on Jan. 14, inquiring about the show for “Dancing With the Stars” cast members. But the caller didn’t tell the Phoenix’s producing director Bryan Fonseca, who answered the theater’s phone, that it was Matlin who was asking.
“I didn’t know who she was talking about,” said Fonseca. “It could have been roadies.”
There wasn’t a public performance that night, so Fonseca, who directed “Love Person,” invited them over to watch the rehearsal.
A day later, Matlin encountered more Hoosiers after the Conseco show. Jeff Maess, executive director of the Pike Performing Arts Center, got a picture of himself with Matlin. He said his students plan performances of “Nobody’s Perfect” next year.
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Oct, 1st
2008 |
Jefferson State hosts diversity conference
Posted by in Uncategorized on Oct 1st, 2008 | |
The Alabama Community College System Human Resources Management Association (ACCSHRMA) will host its seventh annual Diversity Conference, October 2-3, at Jefferson State Community College’s Shelby-Hoover Campus.
The theme of this year’s ACCSHRMA conference is “The Power of Diversity.”
Academy Award-winning actress Marlee Matlin, Tim Allston of Allston Communications and Dr. Shelly Stewart, founder and president of The Mattie C. Stewart Foundation will serve as the keynote speakers at the general sessions. The two-day conference will include an extensive range of diversity-related topics presented by educators, human resource professionals and other experts on this topic.
ACCSHRMA developed its annual diversity conference to accomplish its goals of developing and promoting more efficient practices in the human resources management of Alabama’s two-year colleges. The conference is open to educational, community, business, and industry representatives committed to achieving and maintaining workforce diversity.
For more information, see conference agenda or contact Vicki Strength at (334) 242-2993 or email strength@dpe.edu.
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