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ANNA CHRISTIE
- Project
ID # 31329
| Project Type |
Live Event
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Submission Type |
Open Call
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| Location |
Madison, WI |
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Equity
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| Rate/Pay |
$495.00 per week
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Release Date |
04-21-06
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| Audition Date |
12-31-69
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Submission Deadline |
06-01-06
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| Shoot Date |
12-31-69
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| Casting Category |
Theatre - Equity (Union)
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| Market(s) |
Milwaukee, WI |
Preparation
Please prepare one contemporary monologue and one monologue from an American classic -- no more than 2 minutes each.
NOTE: ALL TALENT UNDER THE AGE OF 18 MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY A PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN AT ALL TIMES
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Seeking 20 talent(s) for this role
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Male actors, all ages and ethnicities
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Searchable talent specs:
Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 65 |
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Seeking 20 talent(s) for this role
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Female actors, all ages and ethnicities
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Age: from 18 to 65 |
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Black Panther rally scenes and civil rights marches are captured by photojournalists such as Gordon Parks and Robert L Smithsonian Looks at Black Photography
Nov 27, 12:01 PM EST
ATLANTA (AP) â€â€? In the early days of the Civil Rights movement, photojournalist Moneta Sleet Jr
Few know that Sleet was the only photographer given that kind of access to King, says Daniel Hoover, exhibitions manager at the center, where the exhibit has been on display for two months; attendance has reached nearly 12,500
"Photography always runs the line of being a document and also being art," Hoover said Washington on his last Southern tour, and Jules Lion, who in 1840 introduced daguerreotypes in New Orleans just one year after the process of producing images on iodized copper was invented , where it originated at the Smithsonian's Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture "
The Atlanta History Center is the fourth host to show the exhibit in its entirety, but the first in the South
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Slavery thrived in 1840, so innovators tried to counter the existing, offensive caricatures , and he documented life in African-American communities," Hoover said, pointing to early 19th- and 20th-century images of newlywed couples, businessmen and family portraits
But it was a black and white photograph of Coretta Scott King, head held high at her husband's funeral, and her 5-year-old daughter looking directly into the camera, that won Sleet the Pulitzer Prize in 1968 and made him the first black journalist to earn the award in feature photography There are also portraits of King, writer and activist Alice Walker and Atlanta Daily World newspaper publisher and founder, C
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The final thematic section, "A History Deconstructed," features mixed media works by contemporary artists who incorporate digital technology and text to redefine themselves and society
When it opened in 2000, the estimated value of the exhibition was $581,085, officials said
Divided into three sections, the show features more than 300 images by 120 black photographers, from the early 19th century to present as a document of something but also a personal expression of ideas
A few steps away are life-sized color photographs of children jumping double-Dutch and a pigtailed girl holding a Barbie doll next to her face Scott, looking over pages in his office , and Haggins photo of a young Muhammad Ali flanked by fans â€â€? Malcolm X laughs in the background edu
"Not only is it about activism in the communities, but how people are acting," Hoover said "This exhibit, in all three parts, really exposes how photography can exist in a parallel New lighting techniques and equipment gave photographers more freedom to use narrative and metaphor in their composition
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Visitors initially walk through a historical timeline, "The First 100 Years: 1842-1942," with rare gelatin silver prints, tintypes and ambrotypes by pioneers in the medium such as Augustus Washington, James Presley (J Jones, Atlanta History Center director of exhibitions and collections
"Atlanta was developing a middle-class, an upper-middle class, an upper class African-American community before a lot of other cities were in the South," Jones said C C Hoover, who assembled the display in Atlanta, said he understood the need to challenge the status quo Haggins in the "Art and Activism" section â€â€? the exhibition's second component took hundreds of pictures while covering a then-unknown minister, the Rev However, its importance surpasses monetary value, says Habeebah Muhammad of the Anacostia Museum and Center P
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1 They were living, they were working, they were in their communities
"Their photographs visually realized the dreams and desires of their individual communities, which included a spirit of transformation," curator and historian Deborah Willis explains on the exhibit's Web site , beginning Jan atlantahistorycenter An unexpected moment: Ethiopian ruler Haile Selassie seen feeding birds near a fountain The African-American Museum in Philadelphia was recently added to feature the full exhibit in 2004 Around another corner of the section are scenes of jazz musicians and poets, churchgoers and laborers, poverty and prosperity "This range really exemplifies some of the things we don't necessarily associate with African-Americans in this time The exhibit showcases works like James VanDerZee's Harlem of the 1930s, A Her research also led to a companion book, "Reflections in Black Bedou's gelatin silver prints of Booker T C com
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The portrait is part of a comprehensive traveling exhibition, "Reflections in Black: Smithsonian African-American Photography," on view at the Atlanta History Center through Dec
This section shifts from the posed and sometimes static scenes of the introductory portion
"The significance is obvious because of the extensive research (done by Willis) in black photography and the magnitude and extension of the timeline," she said ) Ball and Daniel Freeman
