THE NEW HARMONY PROJECT
SERVING WRITERS. CELEBRATING THE HUMAN SPIRIT.
CONFERENCE
The 2008 New Harmony Project dates are May 17th through May 31st.
In an unrecognizable foreign country, Palmer, an American photographer, discovers and photographs a woodcutter as he commits a brutal and ritualistic suicide. Years later, now famous from the success of this disturbing photograph, Palmer returns to give the picture to the woodcutter’s widow. It is only then that Palmer begins to understand that this 2- dimensional image is part of a much larger story that concerns not only the dead woodcutter, but her own conflicted sense of self.
Nashville, Tennessee, 1959. Three Fisk University students, Will, Joanne and Mark, are just beginning their training in “non-violent protest.” Their ultimate ambition: to desegregate all of Nashville. This bluesy, coming-of-age musical focuses on these three students—two African American and one white—as they face their fears, attractions, struggles and triumphs on a journey that is set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow South and the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement, .
Although post-war Chicago is exploding in an economic boom, the Cavanaugh family is just scrapping by; and on top of that, the Chicago White Sox have just lost the 1959 World Series. Des and Fanny, smart and college-educated, but with four daughters and another on the way to raise and educate, are having a tough time of it. The bills are over-due, school tuition is late, and Des, an alcoholic, thinks nothing of spending half his paycheck buying rounds for his buddies at the local tavern. Explore this dark comedy about learning, loving, losing and leaving home, as the Cavanaughs' struggle to find the true meaning of family.
A hand loom weaver by trade, Sir William McGonagall, the Bard of Dundee, is the worst poet of the English language. The Real McGonagall recounts an evening recital of the master’s poems in a Hell’s Kitchen saloon. Sir William reconsiders his entire body of work, determined to find one verse, one line, one phrase that is somehow remotely touched by divinity. He finds nothing but despair. And yet stubbornly, even heroically, he endures. Is he aware of his own absurdity, somehow in on the joke? Or is the joke on us? Because artistic expression is always shadowed by vanity; there is, perhaps, a touch of McGonagall in all of us.
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THE NEW HARMONY PROJECT
SERVING WRITERS. CELEBRATING THE HUMAN SPIRIT.