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<font size="2">�Hommage � Chagall� detail<br>
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<a href="Genevieve-Mousseaux.htm"><font size="2">Genevi�ve Mousseaux</font></a></span></td>
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<i><font style="font-size: 22pt">Sc�nes de la vie dans une autre langue</font></i><span style="font-size: 22pt"></font></span></span></a></p>
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<font size="2">Il n�y a pas question�le processus
d�apprendre une langue�il est p�nible! En
particulier lorsqu�on essaie d�apprendre � l��ge
d�adulte. Moi, je fais les b�tises tout le temps.</font></span></p>
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<font size="2">Voici un exemple. C��tait ma premi�re
semaine � Paris... <i>
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<a href="http://www.bluecatsandchartreusekittens.com/Le_d�ner_chez_Mme_de_la_Ferronni�re.htm">
<i><font style="font-size: 22pt">Sc�nes de la vie dans une autre langue
(2) </font></i></a></span></p>
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Le d�ner chez Mme. de la Ferronni�re</span></p>
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<b><font size="2">Apres deux jours pass�s au lit
dans un petit h�tel bien bon-march� dans un quartier
obscur de Paris (le seul que j�ai pu trouver pendant
ce p�riode en d�cembre des vacances de No�l)
r�cup�rant du d�calage horaire,</font></b><font size="2">
<b>j'ai essay� de me pr�parer psychologiquement pour
mon s�jour de dix jours dans la famille de Madame de
la Ferronni�re pour mon cours d'immersion totale en
fran�ais</b></font></span><b><span lang="FR" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Comic Sans MS"><font size="2">... <i>
<a href="http://www.bluecatsandchartreusekittens.com/Le_d�ner_chez_Mme_de_la_Ferronni�re.htm">continuez</a></i></font></span></b></p></td>
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<b><font face="Arial Narrow" size="1"><span lang="FR">Mais,
mon nom, c'est 'Duffy', pas 'Daffy</span></font><span lang="fr"><font size="1"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif">'</span></font></span></b></td>
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Incroyablement fatigu�e et d�sorient�e par le
d�calage horaire, je titubais dans ma chambre
d�h�tel en cherchant l�interrupteur. Je l�ai
trouv�, mais il me semblait qu�il ne marchait pas.
Dans mon �tat de fatigue, je manquais de volont� et
de confiance pour t�l�phoner � la r�ception et leur
expliquer le probl�me. La lumi�re dans la salle de
bain fonctionnait, et je pensais que peut-�tre que
�a suffirait.</span></font><b><span lang="FR" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Comic Sans MS"><font size="2">... <i>
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<span lang="fr">Sc�nes de la vie dans une autre langue (4)</span></a></span></p>
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<font size="2">Nous �tions assis dans l�appartement de Samia, la
voisine d�H�l�ne dans notre quartier pr�f�r�, La
Butte-aux-Cailles, � Paris. C��tait notre s�jour
d��t� annuel � ce merveilleux endroit, et Josh et
moi, nous �tions si contents de passer le soir avec
nos amis, H�l�ne, Patrick, Samia et sa fille. On
s�attendait � un bon repas de couscous que Samia et
sa fille pr�paraient. En fait, nos amis essayaient
de nous soulager avec ce repas� �a a �t� une semaine
difficile. Nous n�avions que deux semaines
pr�cieuses � Paris� (Le r�pit annuel et bref de
notre ville natale et habituelle, New-York)</font></span><b><span lang="FR" style="FONT-FAMILY: Comic Sans MS; LINE-HEIGHT: 107%; font-weight:700"><font size="2">�</font></span><span lang="FR" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Comic Sans MS"><font size="2">
<i>
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Baguettes United!</span></a></p>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">One of my
favorite sights in Paris is Parisians walking out of
bakeries or along the street, carrying nothing but a
single fresh baguette. I am always struck by how
each of these individuals has gone out for no other
reason than to buy just one loaf of bread,<i> la
baguette</i>, to accompany their breakfast, lunch,
or dinner. And this custom seems to be a common
denominator, cutting across different ages and
ethnic backgrounds: the young, the middle-aged, the
elderly, those who descend from Europe, Africa, Asia
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The "cocktail shaker dance" in La Roche</span></font></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial Narrow"><font size="1">Doing
the "cocktail shaker-dance", </font></span>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1417979697013_2995">also called �Le
Vacillon� is of Cuban origin. <br>
Le Vacillon is further developed by Antoine, whose great and
lively spirit spread the �cocktail shaker dance� all over
the French village of �La Roche�</span></font></b></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial Narrow"><font size="1"> <b>(left
to right) Florelle, artist and partner in the "cocktail
shaker dance", Antoine, writer, honored diplomat. Both
appear as characters in the award-winning story from<br>
<a href="http://www.literal-latte.com/1999/03/dining-in-french/">
Dining in French</a></b></font></span></td>
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<b><font size="1" face="Arial Narrow">The village of <br>
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<img border="0" src="La-Creuse-France.jpg" width="250" height="186"></font><b><font size="1" face="Arial Narrow"><br>
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<a href="http://www.bluecatsandchartreusekittens.com/La-Butte-aux-Cailles-Paris-of-Myth.htm">
La Butte-aux-Cailles, Paris of Myth</a></span></p>
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Paris-Mythique<br>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">In the magical
Paris quarter called La Butte-aux-Cailles
(pronounced 'La Boot-O-Kye"), visitors can feel
they've stumbled on a time portal to an earlier,
less hurried, more mythic Paris. A Paris of friendly
caf�s full of locals sipping cups of caf� noir and
writing in notebooks or talking to friends, owners
of bistros taking a break outside on the quarter's
winding streets to chat with shopkeepers and clients
alike</font><span lang="FR" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Comic Sans MS"><font size="2">...
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Miss.Tic: "Even stronger than desire is illusion"<br>
Photo by Patricia Lynne Duffy</font></b></td>
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<span style="font-family: Arial Narrow" lang="fr"><font size="2">
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.bigcitylit.com/spring2013/articles/articles.php?page=duffy">
nycBigCityLit.com: Miss.Tic: ParisStreetsToGalleryChic</a></font></span></p>
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Traces of synesthesia in Paris 2012</span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial Narrow"><span class="st">dans le caf</span></font><font size="2"><font face="Arial Narrow"><span lang="FR" style="line-height: 115%">�</span></font><b><span lang="FR" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Comic Sans MS">
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<span class="st"><br>
<a href="http://www.cityvox.fr/restaurants_paris/la-chaise-au-plafond_3455/Profil-Lieu">La Chaise au Plafond</a><em style="color: #000; font-style: normal">, Le
Marais, Paris</em></span></font></td>
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<span lang="ES" style="font-family: Comic Sans MS">
<font size="2">Recuerdo la
primera vez que yo estuve en Espa�a en el verano de 1982. Una de mis
alumnas en mi clase de ingl�s en la Universidad de Nueva York me
hab�a invitado a visitar el pa�s. Yo quer�a conocer mejor la cultura
espa�ola y aprender el espa�ol y mi alumna me dijo que yo podr�a
quedarme con sus amigos en Sevilla durante el verano. Podr�amos
hacer un intercambio: sus amigos quer�an aprender ingl�s, y yo
quer�a aprender espa�ol....<b><font color="#0000FF"><i><a href="http://www.bluecatsandchartreusekittens.com/Escenarios-de-la-Vida-en-Otra-Lengua.htm">leer
m�s</a></i></font></b></font></span></td>
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<b><font face="Arial Narrow" size="1" color="#555555">
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<b>
<font face="Arial Narrow" size="1" color="#555555"> </font></b><span style="font-size: 22pt; color: #0000FF"><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow">Artecitta:
Curso de Verano<br>
Synesthesia in the Sierra Nevadas<br>
</span></i></b></span><font size="5" color="#555555"><b>
<span style="font-family: Arial Narrow">Mecina,
<a href="http://www.turgranada.es/municipios/municipio.php?id_municipio=102&id_idioma=2">La Tah�</a>, La
Alpujarra, Granada, Andaluc�a, Spain, July 25-30, 2011</span></b></font></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center">
<img border="0" src="Mecina-La-Tah�-La-Alpujarra-Granada-Andaluc�a-Spain.jpg" width="125" height="93"><b><font face="Arial Narrow" size="1" color="#555555">
</font></b><br>
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<span lang="ES" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial Narrow">
<font size="2">
<img border="0" src="Synesthesia-in-the-Sierra-Nevadas.jpg" width="300" height="225"></font></span><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center">
<span lang="ES" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial Narrow">
<font size="2">Jose Antonio Feliz, Patricia Lynne Duffy,
Joshua B. Cohen, <b><a href="http://mjdecor.homestead.com/">Maria
</a></b></font></span>
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<span lang="ES" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial Narrow">
<font size="2"><b><a href="http://mjdecor.homestead.com/">Jos� de C�rdoba
Serrano</a></b>, <b><a href="http://tblayden.com/">Timothy
B. Layden</a></b>, Helena Melero <br>
Carrasco, <b>
<a href="http://investigacion.us.es/sisius/sis_showpub.php?idpers=15602">Javier Dominguez Mu�ino</a></b>, Victor Parra Ortiz</font></span></td>
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<b>
<font face="Arial Narrow" size="1" color="#555555">
<img border="0" src="Timothy-Layden-and-Patricia-Duffy-in-Taha-Andalusia-Spain.jpg" width="300" height="225"> </font></b><br>
<font size="2" face="Arial Narrow">Synesthesia in the Sierra
Nevadas: <br>
Pat Duffy reads from Blue Cats<br>
Tim Layden translates</font></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>
<span style="font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial Narrow; color: blue">
Towards a Science of Consciousness conference</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="5" color="#555555">
<span style="font-family: Arial Narrow">
<a href="http://www.su.se/english/">Stockholm University</a>,
Stockholm, Sweden, May 1-8, 2011</span></font></p>
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<b>
<font face="Arial Narrow" size="1" color="#555555"> <img border="0" src="Patricia-Duffy-reading-Blue-Cats-at-Stockholm-University.jpg" width="300" height="225"></font></b><br>
<span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial Narrow">
<font size="2">Pat reading from <i>Blue Cats</i> with
�Synesthesia Group� <br>
led by <b>
<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/contributors/maureen-seaberg.html">Maureen Seaberg</a></b> (center)</font></span></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center">
<b>
<font face="Arial Narrow" size="1" color="#555555"> <img border="0" src="Ice-Bar-Stockholm-Seden.jpg" width="300" height="225"></font></b><br>
<span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial Narrow; color: #555555">
<font size="2">A little �R&R� in the �<b><a href="http://www.nordicseahotel.se/en/The-hotel/Food-and-drink/ICEBAR-STOCKHOLM-by-ICEHOTEL/">Ice Bar</a></b>�, Stockholm:
<br>
Pat, Maureen, Erkan</font></span></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>
<span style="font-size: 22.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow; color: blue">
NYU Synesthesia Symposium and Dave Chalmers� Multi-sensory party</span></i></b></p>
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<span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial Narrow; color: #555555">
<a href="http://www.nyu.edu/">NYU</a>, November 20, 2010</span></p>
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</p>
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<b>
<font face="Arial Narrow" size="1" color="#555555"> </font></b><img border="0" src="synPartyChalmersMaureenCarolMe.JPG" width="180" height="239"><br>
<font face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><b>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Steen">Carol
Steen</a></b>, <b>
<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/author/maureen-seaberg/">
Maureen Seaberg</a></b>,</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" align="center">
<font face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><b>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Lynne_Duffy">
Pat Duffy</a></b>, <b><a href="http://consc.net/chalmers/">
Dave Chalmers</a></b> at</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center">
<font face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">
Dave�s Multi-Sensory Party</span></font></td>
<td style="padding: .75pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center">
<b>
<font face="Arial Narrow" size="1" color="#555555"> </font></b><img border="0" src="synSoxChalmers.JPG" width="250" height="187"><br>
<font face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt">
Dave Chalmers� multi-sensory socks</span></font></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>
<span style="font-size: 22.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow; color: blue">
</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>
<span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow";
color:blue">The Opening of the Poetry Door</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>
<span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow";
color:#555555">Openings took place on May 15 and June 18, 2010</span></b></p>
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</p>
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<b>
<font face="Arial" size="1" color="#555555">Photo by George Spanos</font><font face="Arial Narrow" size="1" color="#555555"> </font></b><img border="0" src="Poetry-Door-Opening.jpg" width="300" height="226"><br>
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow">Opening
of the Poetry Door: <br>
author <b><a href="http://www.katherinevaz.com/">Katherine Vaz</a></b> with Pat Duffy and friends</span></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center">
<b>
<font face="Arial" size="1" color="#555555">Photo by Deborah
Fairchild</font><font face="Arial Narrow" size="1" color="#555555"> </font></b>
<img border="0" src="RedWineRoomDeb.bmp" width="304" height="226"><br>
<font face="Arial Narrow" size="2">Party guests in the<br>
Red Wine Room</font></td>
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<font size = 1> </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><i>
<font face="Arial Narrow" size="2">See <b>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/spannedy#p/a/u/0/YJOF4tjjLV8">
video clips</a></b> by George Spanos of Opening of the Poetry Door
parties</font></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><i>
<font face="Arial Narrow" size="2">Read poem "<b><a href="The-Poetry-Door-by-Laura-Glenn.htm">The
Poetry Door</a></b>" by
<a href="http://www.foothillspublishing.com/2008/id72.htm">Laura
Glenn</a></font></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow; color: #333333">
..more painted poetry by artist
<a href="http://www.cueartfoundation.org/mark-turgeon.html">Mark
Turgeon</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>
<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow; color: #333333">
First� at the Bowery Poetry Club, you saw</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>
<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow; color: #333333">
the �Poetry Steps� </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>
<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow; color: #333333">
Then� up at Bob Holman�s fabulous loft you saw�</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>
<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow; color: #333333">
the Poetry Floor</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>
<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow; color: #333333">
..and now�in the heart of Chelsea, it�s�</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>
<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow; color: #333333">
the Poetry Door!</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>
<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow; color: #333333">
Another original work of painted poetry </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>
<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow; color: #333333">
by Mark Turgeon</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<font face="Arial Narrow"><b>See the list of the
<a href="poetry-door-poets.htm">Poetry Door Poets</a></b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
<i>
<span style="font-size: 22.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow; color: blue">
Paintings 2006�2009, by David Hockney</span></i></p>
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<font color="#0000FF">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Times New Roman"><br>
</span></font>
<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow; color: #555555">
<a href="http://www.pacewildenstein.com/">Pace-Wildenstein</a>, 532
West 25 Street, October 28, 2009</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow">
<img border="0" src="ArthurByHockney.jpg" width="100" height="204"><br>
Portrait of Arthur Lambert by David Hockney</span></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center">
<img border="0" src="HockneyNewLandscape.jpg" width="250" height="146"><i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow"> </span></i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow"><br>
Hockney painting his Yorkshire branches </span></td>
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<p align="center" style="text-align: center">
<img border="0" src="PaceWildenstein.jpg" width="150" height="215"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow"><br>
Entrance to party at Pace Wildenstein </span></td>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow; color: #555555">
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="justify">
<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow; color: #555555">
</span>
<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow; color: #555555">
Josh and I got to meet <b><a href="http://www.davidhockney.com/">
David Hockney</a></b>, our magnificent contemporary painter that I
wrote about in <i>Blue Cats</i>. (I wrote about those red tree
trunks and blue leaves he painted his stage sets for the
Metropolitan Opera (because reds and blues were the colors
synesthete-Hockney (yes, <i>synesthete</i>-Hockney) "heard" in the
music of Ravel.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow; color: #555555">
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="justify">
<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial Narrow; color: #555555">
</span>
<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow; color: #555555">
The meeting with D.H. was at the private party that preceded the
opening of his first New York exhibition in 12 years�of the
Yorkshire landscapes he�s been painting since moving back to
England. I will never forget all that pinkish light in the gallery
space (or was that my own synesthetic reaction?) And those paintings
of the hawthorn, oh the hawthorn�you can just feel those branches
brushing against your skin when you look at those paintings. </span>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="justify">
<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow; color: #555555">
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="justify">
<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial Narrow; color: #555555">
</span>
<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow; color: #555555">
I told D. H. that, and he smiled in a friendly way, but I fear he
did not hear a word I said as there was much ambient noise and my
voice was high and shy (I was meeting David Hockney, after all!) and
D.H. has lost much of his hearing over the years. We were introduced
by my kind friend Arthur Lambert, whom David Hockney did a
(six-foot!) portrait of many years ago (see above). How <i>does</i>
he capture that �Arthur-ness� of Arthur? How does he capture the
feel of the hawthorn? The colors of Ravel� s music? Oh, the mystery
of Hockney�s eye and art.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="justify">
<font color="#0000FF">
<span style="font-size: 22pt; font-family: Arial Narrow">
<a><i>Visions:
</i></a></span>
<font style="font-size: 22pt; font-style: italic" face="Arial Narrow">
<a>The World
Journal of Illustrated Poetry</a></font></font><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow";
color:blue"> celebrates its 30<sup>th</sup> anniversary </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="justify"><br>
<font color="#555555">
<b><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow">The
Players, 16 Gramercy Park South, September 22, 2009</span></b></font></p>
<table border="0" width="100%" id="table5">
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow; color: #555555">
Photos by Jennifer Ale</span></p>
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<p align="justify">
<img border="0" src="VisionsBradley.jpg" width="118" height="166">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow">
In celebration mode</span></td>
<td align="center">
<p align="justify">
<img border="0" src="VisionsGroupEllenFirst.JPG" width="221" height="166">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow">
<i>Visions International </i>readers at <b>The
Players</b></span></td>
<td>
<p align="justify">
<img border="0" src="VisionsRec.JPG" width="221" height="166">
<font size="2" face="Arial Narrow">Visions reception</font></td>
<td align="center">
<p align="justify">
<img border="0" src="VisionsBrad.jpg" width="124" height="166">
<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow">
Brad Strahan, founder</span></td>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow">
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="justify">
<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial Narrow"><b>
<font color="#555555">
�Elegant�, �intimate� and �soulful� describe this celebration at the
historic</font> <i><a href="http://www.theplayersnyc.org/members/">Players
Club</a></i> </b><font color="#555555">(originally founded by Mark Twain and other 19th
century artists) <b>on Gramercy Park.</b></font> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="justify">
<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial Narrow"> <font color="#555555">The
f�te honored </font>
<a href="http://www.pw.org/content/bradley_r_strahan_2">Bradley
Strahan</a><font color="#555555">, founder of</font>
<a href="http://www.blackbuzzardpress.com/home.html"><i>Visions:
</i></a></span>
<font style="font-size: 16pt; font-style: italic" face="Arial Narrow">
<a href="http://www.blackbuzzardpress.com/home.html">The World
Journal of Illustrated Poetry</a></font><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial Narrow"><font color="#555555"><i>.
</i>For 30 years, poet Strahan has been committed to gathering a
range of the world�s poetry � work in English and in English
translation that hails from countries including Croatia, Hungary,
Iceland, Macedonia, Pakistan, the US, to name a few. Poet and
artist</font> <a href="http://www.atelierae.com/Artist_Peckham.php">
Ellen Peckham</a> <font color="#555555">read her work, as did <i>Visions</i>
contributors including</font>
<a href="http://www.susannarich.com/index.php">Susanna Rich</a>
<font color="#555555">and Brad Strahan himself.</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="justify">
<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial Narrow"> <font color="#555555"> I
don�t write poetry but I was thrilled to read translations of poems
by</font> <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drago_�tambuk">Drago
Stambuk</a></b><font color="#555555">, </font> </span>
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial Narrow; color: #555555">
Croatian Ambassador to Japan and a leading poet in Croatia.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="justify">
<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial Narrow">
<font color="#555555"> </font> </span>
<i>
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow; color: #555555">
Visions</span></i><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow; color: #555555">
has also published work of leading poets </span>
<font color="#555555">
<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow">Ai,
Andrei Codrescu, James Dickey, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jack Gilbert,
Allen Ginsberg, Linda Gregg, Marilyn Hacker, Ted Hughes, Sharon
Olds, Naomi Shihab-Nye and Louis Simpson</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="justify">
<font color="#555555">
<span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Arial Narrow"> And at
<i>The Players</i> post-poetry reception, poets, visual artists, UN
staffers, and friends mingled---the company, wine and sesame tuna
hors d�oeuvres were �poetry� themselves.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="justify"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="justify">
<span style="font-size: 22.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow; color: #0000FF">
<font style="font-size: 22pt; font-weight:700">Jakob Montrasio's 11-foot skyscraper photos at the "China
Prophecy: Shanghai" show</font></span></p>
<p align="justify"></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="justify">
<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow; color: navy; font-weight:700">
<a href="http://www.skyscraper.org/home.htm" target="_blank">The Skyscraper Museum</a></span><font color="#555555"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-weight:700">, 39 Battery Place, through Winter 2010<br>
</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="justify">
<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow; color: #555555">
</span><font color="#555555"><b>
<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow">Could
Shanghai replace New York as the 'world city' of the 21<sup>st</sup>
century?</span></b></font><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow"><font color="#555555">
That is the question this exhibit of 11-foot skyscraper photos,
models, and videos asks. With a population of 18 million and
growing, 'vertical cities' of skyscrapers could be Shanghai's
population salvation, and a model for China's -- and the world's --
growing urban centers. Of note in this exhibition are</font> <b>
<a href="http://jakob.montrasio.net/" target="_blank">Jakob Montrasio</a></b><font color="#555555">'s 11-foot skyscraper photos of Shanghai's towering towers
(at 128 stories, the 'under-construction' 'Shanghai Tower' will
surpass New York's 102-story Empire State Building). Also catch Montrasio's 20-minute Shanghai video and glide through the
illuminated walkways of China's ancient city of the future.</font></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy"> </span></p>
<span style="font-size: 22pt; font-weight:700; font-family:Arial Narrow; color:#0000FF">Goldberg Haas' Dances for a Variable Population</span><p align="justify"></p>
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Downtown Dance Festival, Chase Plaza, NY August 21, 2009<br>
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<font color="#555555"> </font> <b>
<font color="#555555">This group did it again! Choreographer
</font>
<a href="http://www.naomigoldberghaas.com" target="_blank">Naomi Goldberg Haas</a>
<font color="#555555">has
assembled a company with dancers of different shapes, sizes, and
ages (ranging from early 20's to late 70's).</font></b><font color="#555555"> Haas works with the
movement styles of her diverse dancer-types -- to make wonderful
exhilarating works like <i>Fanfare</i>.</font></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow"> At
the end of the show, the audience was invited on stage to join in.</span></font></p>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow">
Everybody: the short, the tall, the old, the young, the cool, the
clumsy. </span></font></p>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow">Vivent
les differences!</span></font></p>
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<span style="font-size: 22pt; font-weight:700; font-family:Arial Narrow; color:#0000FF">Caecilia Tripp's New York film</span><p align="justify"></p>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow; color: #0000FF; font-weight:700">
<a href="http://www.bowerypoetry.com/" target="_blank">Bowery Poetry Club</a> </span>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-weight:700">
screening/reception, July 21, 2009<br>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow">
<font color="#555555"> <b>A
"Euro magic-realist" view of downtown New York with repeated scenes
� la Gertrude Stein.</b> Though the repetition can get to you,
Parisian filmmaker</font>
<a href="http://www.galerie-maisonneuve.com/tripp/tripp_making-of-americans.html" target="_blank">Caecilia Tripp</a><font color="#555555">'s work lingers in the mind�with
luminous scenes of Washington Square Park nighttime and Chelsea
daytime.</font></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 22pt; font-weight:700; font-family:Arial Narrow; color:#0000FF">Bob Holman's Poetry Floor</span><p align="justify"></p>
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<b>
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<span style="font-family: Arial Narrow">"</span></font><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow; ">Hollywood Poetry" after-party May 10, 2009<br>
</span></b></font></p>
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<font color="#555555">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow">
</span></font><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow">
<font color="#555555">I
am jealous of</font> <a href="http://www.bobholman.com/" target="_blank">Bob Holman</a><font color="#555555">'s Poetry floor up in his
one-of-a-kind loft. Lines of
the world's greatest poetry (from Rimbaud to Dickinson to Whitman,
plus so many more�and in many, many languages).</font></span></b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow"><font color="#555555">
The fab floor was painted by artist</font>
<a href="http://www.cueartfoundation.org/mark-turgeon.html" target="_blank">Mark
Turgeon</a><font color="#555555">. Now I want a Poetry floor too. I love the way something as
'up-in-the-clouds' as poetry�becomes part of the solid foundation
that holds us up! (in Bob's loft anyway). And at the "Hollywood
Poetry" after-party, the loft's poetry floor held up the likes of celeb-poets Patricia Clarkson, Michael O'Keefe, Sapphire, Amber Tamblyn, Claire Daines, and more. Bravo Bob!</font></span></p>
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<font color="#0000FF">
<span style="font-size: 22pt; font-weight:700">Jonas Mekas and Cecilia Vicu�a dance at the UN</span></font></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-weight:700">
UN Correspondents Association Clubroom, February 21, 2009<br>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow">
<font color="#555555"> </font> <b>
<font color="#555555">Legendary avant-garde filmmaker</font> <a href="http://jonasmekas.com/" target="_blank">Jonas Mekas</a>
<font color="#555555">and multi-lingual poet</font>
<a href="http://www.ceciliavicuna.org/en_exhibition.htm" target="_blank">Cecilia Vicu�a</a>
<font color="#555555">danced in celebration of International Mother
Language Day (February 21) at the</font>
<a href="http://www.unca.com/" target="_blank">United Nations Correspondents
Association</a> <font color="#555555">Clubroom.</font></b><font color="#555555"> Both gave readings and talks at
this benefit to promote literacy projects (co-sponsored by the UN
Language and Communications Programme). Jonas Mekas spoke lovingly of Lithuanian, his
native tongue and of his struggles to communicate in other
languages. Said Mekas, "Always it was a struggle. I spoke the wrong
dialect, my accent was too heavy. 'We don't understand. What are you
trying to say?' were the words I heard most often from other people.
Then I discovered the language of cinema and said, 'Finally, a
universal language that the whole world will understand.' But then
people watched my films and said, 'We don't understand. What are you
trying to say?' "</font></span></p>
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<img border="0" src="Filmmaker-Jonas-Mekas-and-poet-Cecilia-Vicu�a.jpg" width="400" height="265"></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#555555"><b><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow">
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas and poet Cecilia Vicu�a</span></b></font></p>
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<font color="#555555">
<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: Arial"> </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#555555"><b><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow">"Being" is a compound of three forms:
"to grow", "to set in motion"</span></b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#555555"><b><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow">And
"yes it may be so."</span></b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#555555"><b><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow">"To
be not an <i>estar</i>, but a way of being." � </span>
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow">Cecilia
Vicu�a</span><span style="font-family: Arial Narrow">, </span><i>
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Arial Narrow">Instan</span></i></b></font></p>
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