Arts - period ended 9.15.2006

Arts/Theater/Meetinghouse/Orwell and the Fringe/stv.tv/London/England/UK/12-Sep-06//... s omnipresent relevance, Oceania won’t be too much of a stretch of the imagination when Edward’s Theatre Company brings 1984 to the Quaker Meeting House. ...

Arts/Photography/Mosedale Friends Meeting/Hoyle, Mike/Contrast: Mike Hoyle’s exhibition moves between the Yorkshire .../News & Star/London/England/UK/2-Sep-06//However Mike, whose work is on exhibition at the Mosedale Quaker Meeting House until tomorrow, has fought to overcome the handicaps of his injuries, which include short term memory and lack of concentration .

In his “Wider Visions” exhibition, Yorkshire-born Mike has created a series of images using various techniques including montage and has paired them with captions from Quaker “Advices and Queries” and “Quaker Faith and Practice". The result is a very personal view, sometimes unexpected, sometimes taking viewers by surprise.

“Photography is my life and I live to work,” he said. “Photographs produce meaning. You have to make your life speak.” ...

Arts/Music/Social Activism/Raitt, Bonnie/A message in her music/San Diego Union Tribune/San Diego/CA/USA/7-Sep-06//Born into a Quaker family, Bonnie Raitt has been a devoted social activist since even before she released her bluesy, self-titled debut album in 1971. ...

Arts/Film/Back Creek Friends Church/Dean, James/Hometown Spotlight/American Profile/Nashville/TN/USA/11-Sep-06//.. one for kids, another for adults), watch the James Dean Rod Run of vintage cars, attend a memorial service at the Back Creek Friends Meeting Quaker church that ...

Arts/Film///"Friendly Persuassion," "The Harder They Come," "The Life Aquatic .../Times Herald-Record/Goshen/NY/USA/9-Sep-06//... The Birdwells are a Quaker family living a blissful life of pacifism. But the year is 1862, and America is fighting its Civil War all around them. ...