Each spring and fall, the The Senior Center in Charlottesville’s Encore Players take to the stage to perform a series of one-act plays. This fall the group presented a series of six plays.
Jerry Granroth and Marge Haugan on the Senior Center stage.
A routine interview quickly gets off the rails in The Komodo Dragon. The play was introduced by Pat Cook.
The performance took place on Wednesday October 20, 2013 as a part of the Encore Player’s fall 2013 performance. This is the fifth of a six part Wednesday series on the Charlottesville Podcasting Network.
Cast: Marge Haugan and The Interviewer with Jerry Granroth as Dr. Daryl Dexter.
On the November 17th Wake Up Call, host Rick Moore talks with free lance journalists Hawes Spencer and Barbara Nordin about The story of Patrick Collins, a UVA student gone missing in 1986, The history and latest news on the case and also a look at the missing person stories of Alicia Showalter Reynolds and Katie Worsky.
Henry J. Abraham speaking at the Senior Center in Charlottesville Wednesday
What are our most important recent decisions? How would our founding fathers view them? What happens when a new Supreme Court justice needs to be appointed? Can a non-lawyer serve on the Supreme Court?
What differences have the current justices made individually? Or from a gender standpoint, since there are now four women members for the first time in history? Does race make a difference in decisions? Should we have more members of the Supreme Court, as Roosevelt attempted?
Henry J. Abraham, James Hart Professor of Government Emeritus at the University of Virginia, graduated from Kenyon College in 1948 with a bachelor’s degree in political science, first in his class, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his M.A. in public law and government from Columbia University in 1949, and received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1952, where he began his teaching career. In 1972 Dr. Abraham became a chaired professor in the Department of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia. In 1983 he was awarded the University’s most prestigious recognition, the Thomas Jefferson Award, and in 1993 he received the First Lifetime Achievement Award of the Organized Section on Law and Courts of the American Political Science Association. He retired from full-time teaching in 1997 after nearly a half-century in the classroom.
Henry and his wife Mildred, a rare books collector and bibliographer, live in Charlottesville. They have two sons and four grandchildren.
Mr. Abraham spoke at the Wednesday, November 13, 2013 meeting of the Senior Statesmen of Virginia. The meeting was held at the Senior Center in Charlottesville. Following the presentation, questions were taken from the audience. The program was moderated by SSV board member Charles Smith.
Each spring and fall, the The Senior Center in Charlottesville’s Encore Players take to the stage to perform a series of one-act plays. This fall the group presented a series of six plays.
From left to right: Alice Hennigan, Liz Evans, Susan Bremer and Jean Newland
on the Senior Center stage.
Four women compare their reminiscences The 50th Reunion. The play was introduced by Pat Cook.
The performance took place on Wednesday October 20, 2013 as a part of the Encore Player’s fall 2013 performance. This is the fourth of a six part Wednesday series on the Charlottesville Podcasting Network.
Cast: Alice Hennigan as Fran, Liz Evans as Nadine, Susan Bremer as Ada and Jean Newland as Evelyn.
On the second day of the 2013 Virginia Film Festival, podcaster Sean McCord sat down with special festival guests.
Along with childhood friends Andy Samberg and Akiva Schaffer, Taccone is one-third of the sketch comedy troupe The Lonely Island which has produced many of the SNL Digital Shorts. In 2010, he co-wrote and directed MacGruber, a parody of 80s action films in which Will Forte revived and expanded one of his enduring SNL characters. The two comedians talk about making the life journey from independent creative artists to Saturday Night Live and beyond.
On the second day of the 2013 Virginia Film Festival, podcaster Sean McCordspoke with documentary filmmaker Farihah Zaman who, along with her partner Jeff Reichert, directed Remote Area Medical, a look at the non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to providing free health care in remote areas. Originally formed in the 1980s to service third world countries, RAM has evolved to now offer much needed care to impoverished people within our own national borders.
Remote Area Medical screens Saturday November 9 at 3:00 PM in UVA’s Newcomb Hall Theater
On the November 10th edition of the Wake Up Call, host Rick Moore delves into post-election politics with Geoffrey Skelley, Media Relations Coordinator with the University of Virginia Center for Politics and Associate Editor for Sabato’s Crystal Ball. Rick and his guest cover the Governor’s race, demographics, third-parties, the 2016 Presidential election and more.
On day two of the Virginia Film Festival, podcaster Sean McCord spoke with Ben Nabors, director of William and the Windmill, his documentary about Willliam Kamkwamba, who as a 14 year old boy on his Malawi village, built a windmill to generate electricity for his family. Five years later, following a talk he gave at an African TED conference, William has become a media star and has to deal with the very modern problems of fame, isolation, and stress.
William and the Windmill screened on Saturday November 9 at 2:00 PM in UVA’s Culbreth Theater.
On day two of the Virginia Film Festival, podcaster Sean McCord talked with director Fredrik Bond and producer Ron Yerxa about their film, Charlie Countryman. Shia Lebouf plays the eponymous hero who finds himself abruptly orphaned and and traveling through Romania, guided by the spirit of his recently-passed mother, where he falls in love with a mysterious woman and is absorbed into the twisted maze of a criminal underground.
Charlie Countryman screened Friday November 8, at 8:30 PM in UVA’s Culbreth Theater.
At the 2013 Virginia Film Festival, podcaster Sean McCord spoke with Sean Gaston, director of Misa’s Fugue, a look at the tragic youth and artistic life of Holocaust survivor Frank (Misa) Grunwald, and how his story interweaves with the teenage artists who helped commit his story to film.
Misa’s Fugue screens Sunday November 10 at 1:15 PM at the Regal 3 Downtown.
At the 2013 Virginia Film Festival, podcaster Sean McCord chats with screenwriter Brian Weakland, a second-time winner of the Virginia Screenwriting Competition Brian was one of the three winners last year for his screenplay Klaus The Great and is a returning winner this year for Last Waltz of Vienna, his script about Sigmund Freud’s escape from Nazi-occupied Vienna. Brian talked about being the rewards and work of being an award-winning screenwriter living in Virginia.
The 2013 Virginia Screenwriting Competition awards are granted on Saturday November 9 at 6:00 PM in the Paramount Theater.
On the second day of the 2013 Virginia Film Festival, podcaster Sean McCord spoke with director Christopher Englese about Political Bodies, his documentary look at the laws that emerged from the 2012 Virginia legislative session that attempted to control reproductive choices and the response of the women who were literally willing to lay their bodies on the line to protect those rights.
Political Bodies screens on Saturday,November 9 at 1:00PM in the Regal 2 Downtown Mall.
