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ricardotomasz · 1 year

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Such is life! Behold, a new Post published on Greater And Grander about John Heinsen, To Boldly Produce Where No One Has Produced Before; S2 E12

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John Heinsen, To Boldly Produce Where No One Has Produced Before; S2 E12

Producer John Heinsen focuses on the development of TV, film and multi-platform projects through his company Bunnygraph. He sits on the Executive Committee of the Producers Peer Group of the Television Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as the Influencer Advisory Board of Sparks & Honey (Omnicom). Previously John served as Vice President, New Media for the Producers Guild of America (PGA) and was founding Co-Chair of the Guild's VR Task Force and Mobile Committee. Originally from Chicago, he is a Graduate of the American Film Institute (AFI) Conservatory and the University of Arizona.

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christinaatsmith · 5 years

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The Great Outdoors

One of my favorite things about Smith is that we have so much beautiful green space. In addition to the Lyman Conservatory (pictured in my blog header), the entire campus is actually a botanical garden! Below are some of the photos I’ve taken of the photos I’ve taken so far.

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blackkudos · 6 years

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Regina Carter

Regina Carter (born August 6, 1966) is an American jazz violinist. She is the cousin of jazz saxophonist James Carter.

Early life

Carter was born in Detroit and was one of three children in her family.

She began piano lessons at the age of two after playing a melody by ear for her brother's piano teacher. After she deliberately played the wrong ending note at a concert, the piano teacher suggested she take up the violin. She suggested that the Suzuki Method was more conducive to her creativity. Carter's mother enrolled her at the Detroit Community Music School when she was four years old and she began studying the violin. She still studied the piano, as well as tap and ballet.

As a teenager, she played in the youth division of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. While at school, she was able to take master classes from Itzhak Perlman and Yehudi Menuhin.

Carter attended Cass Technical High School with a close friend, jazz singer Carla Cook, who introduced her to Ella Fitzgerald. In high school, Carter performed with the Detroit Civic Orchestra and played in a pop-funk group named Brainstorm. In addition to taking violin lessons, she also took viola, oboe, and choir lessons.

Carter was studying classical violin at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston when she decided to switch to jazz, but the school did not have that as a program. She transferred to Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. Here she studied jazz with Marcus Belgrave. Through Belgrave Carter was able to meet a lot of people active in the Detroit jazz scene, including Lyman Woodard. She graduated in 1985. After graduating, she taught strings in Detroit public schools. Needing a change of scene, she moved to Europe and spent two years in Germany. While making connections, she worked as a nanny for a German family and taught violin on a U.S. military base.

Career

Carter returned to the U.S. and first came into the spotlight as the violinist for the all female pop-jazz quintet Straight Ahead in 1987, with Cynthia Dewberry, Gailyn Mckinney, Eileen Orr, and Marion Hayden. In the early to mid-1990s, Branford Marsalis was quoted as saying, "They truly swing." They released a trio of albums on the Atlantic Jazz label including their self-titled debut, Body and Soul, andLook Straight Ahead. Carter went solo before the release of their third album, Dance of the Forest Rain, and established herself as a force in the jazz world on the violin. In 1991 she left the band and moved to New York City.

While in New York she was a relative unknown and undertook work accompanying performers such as Aretha Franklin, Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Billy Joel, and Dolly Parton. She also played with Max Roach and Oliver Lake, as well as being in the String Trio of New York. Carter worked on the albums Intermobility (1993), Octagon (1994), and Blues...? (1996) with the group.

While with the trio, she released her first solo CD, Regina Carter (1995). 1997 saw the release of her second solo album dedicated to her mother, entitled Something For Grace. She toured with Wynton Marsalis for the 1997 production Blood on the Fields. She then changed record companies, from Atlantic Records to Verve Music Group, which allowed her more artistic freedom and she releasedRhythms of the Heart (1999).

She released Motor City Moments in 2000, paying homage to her hometown.

In December 2001, she played a concert in Genoa on Il Cannone Guarnerius, once owned and favoured by Niccolò Paganini, a violin that was made in 1743. The violin was bequeathed to Genoa after Paganini's death in 1840. The name of instrument is given because an "explosive" sound can be achieved. Carter was invited to play after the incidents of the September 11 attacks as a gesture of solidarity. She was both the first jazz musician and African American to play the instrument. She later recorded Paganini: After a Dream for Verve Records. The album featured classical works by Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy, and Cinema Paradiso by Ennio Morricone.

I'll Be Seeing You: A Sentimental Journey, Carter's sixth CD and was conceived as a tribute album to her late mother, which included some of her favorites as well as American standards from the 1920s-1940s. Some songs include "Blue Rose" (Duke Ellington), "Sentimental Journey" (Les Brown), "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" (Ella Fitzgerald), as well as "I'll Be Seeing You".

Active as an educator, mentor, and proponent of the Suzuki method, Carter has taught at numerous institutions, including at Berklee College of Music, and two appearances at Stanford Jazz Workshop.

She currently performs at the head of a quintet. In May 2006, she was touring with Mark Krose (clarinet), Xavier Davis (piano), Alvester Garnett (drums)(still with her in 2011), and Matt Parish (Upright bass).

Carter was awarded a MacArthur Fellows Program grant, also known as a "genius grant", in September 2006. The award includes a grant of $500,000 over five years, and the committee stated this about Carter:

Regina Carter is a master of improvisational jazz violin. Though her work draws upon a wide range of musical influences – including Motown, Afro-Cuban, Swing, Bebop, Folk, and World – she has crafted a signature voice and style....Carter's performances highlight the often overlooked potential of the jazz violin for its lyric, melodic, and percussive potential. Her early training as a classical musician is reflected in the fluidity, grace, and balance of her performance. Carter's repertoire retains a firm connection with the familiar while venturing in new, unexpected directions....Through artistry with an instrument that has been defined predominantly by the classical tradition, Carter is pioneering new possibilities for the violin and for jazz.

Carter married Alvester Garnett in Detroit, Michigan, on September 5, 2004. They knew each other because Garnett plays drums in her band.

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katherine-at-smith · 6 years

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I have the best job ever!

As I mentioned before, I’m working in Admissions giving tours this summer as well as working with College Relations doing social media work (such as writing this blog!) for most of the summer! I LOVE giving tours––telling prospective students and their families about why I love Smith and all of the amazing opportunities and resources here is so rewarding. Another great part of my job is taking pictures of fun places on campus. My coworker Minji is running the Smith College Instagram this summer (follow @smithcollege!! ), so when we’re not giving tours we go hang out and take pictures in amazing spots on campus. Here are some of the places we visited in the past week:

The boathouse and dock at Paradise Pond!

(photo id: brown boathouse to left and pond with trees in the background to the right, all underneath a blue sky with wispy clouds)

The Lyman Plant Conservatory!

(photo id: profile of me in a light blue romper holding my phone with a vague smile on my face, surrounded by and looking up at plants in our plant house!)

Beautifully decorated bathrooms in the downstairs of the Museum of Art!

(photo id: mirror selfie in a bathroom of me in a colorful dress in front of four blue sinks in a white counter and painted blue and white tiles above and around me)

(photo id: bathroom corner with a mirror and sinks to the right and painted blue tile wall to the left)

Stay tuned for more pretty pictures! Our campus is amazing, and I’m truly thriving!

-K

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smithbysmithies · 7 years

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Any tips to make my visit to Smith the best it can be?

Hello!

There are a lot of things to do when you visit Smith, and it really depends on how long you’ll be here! The most important one would be to take a tour from the admissions office by one of the students! Your tour guide will show you the main building in campus, give personal experiences, show their room, and answer questions personally. I would also look at the course catalog and see if there are any classes you’d like to sit in that day. Generally professors are very willing to have a prospie sit in, just email them beforehand! I also recommend doing an overnight if you have the time. That way you can really experience the Smith community! Besides that, a visit to the Smith College Museum of Art and the Lyman Plant Conservatory are always beautiful options.

Those are my recommendations, hope this helped!

Naomi ‘19

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westernmanews · 5 years

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There are just under three weeks left of winter, but you can head to Northampton for an early glimpse of spring.

The Botanic Garden of Smith College kicked off it's annual Spring Bulb Show Saturday at the Lyman Conservatory. The annual event features an array of blossoming flowers and is a tradition that dates back to the early 1900s.

One volunteer told 22News visitors' favorite part of the show is the explosion of color and of course the smells.

"People just want to get out of their houses and they want to be in a place where there's beautiful flowers and beautiful fragrances and just happy people," said Blanche Derby.

If you didn't get a chance to check out the Spring Bulb Show this weekend there's still plenty of time. The show will go on until 8 p.m. Sunday night and runs through March 17th.

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addierose444 · 1 year

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A Night at the Garden

A nice break from studying this week was attending an event at the Lyman plant house. As you may or may not know, Smith’s whole campus is a botanical garden! At this event, I got the chance to check out the Chrysanthemum Show, make tea, and hang out with friends.

The tea I made had ginger root, peppermint, and lemon peel. Additional activities included a scavenger hunt (with a raffle) and making body oils. This event was co-organized by the Community Health Organizers (CHOs) and the Botanic Garden Student Educators (BoGSEs).

Events at the plant house are always some of my favorites as they are great de-stressors. Last year around this time, I attended a similar event where we made terrariums, drank tea, and ate fancy cheeses. For more flower photos, consider checking out my post on the spring 2021 bulb show.

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mrmarshalbrown · 7 years

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Goulds, Florida. A mystifying place just south of Miami, Florida. It’s a mysterious place for the many people who drive past this small section of South Miami, between Cutler Bay and Homestead. Most drive right past or even through Goulds with no idea of the storied history that sits just off US1. One could even use the cliché that if you blink you might miss it. That would mean missing a dynamic city some residents call, “a diamond in the rough”.

The beginnings of Goulds is a story of resilience, hard work, and compassion. Founded around 1900, in those early years the town was known simply as “Goulds Siding”. The name was given to the area after railroad operator Lyman Gould opened a depot in the area of SW 216th Street. Mr. Gould also needed workers and set out to northern Florida to find them. Word of jobs in the south brought many who wanted a better life. Most were from farming backgrounds, and southern Dade County was rich with agriculture. “Back then once the farmers would harvest they would let us go through the fields and take what we liked, everyone ate, nobody went hungry in Goulds”, says life long resident Bettie Lee. There were many species of fruits and vegetables indigenous to the area. Packing houses began sprouting up along Old Dixie Highway to process watermelons, strawberries, and sugar cane among other things. The access that the railroad brought also meant an industrial boom for the area.

In steps Mr. William Randolph. Mr. Randolph was given over 100 acres of land near what is now the intersection of SW 216th Avenue. Randolph is recognized as one of the first black homesteaders in the area. He decided that with the land President William Taft had given him he would empower the blacks that were moving into the area. He either sold or gave away parcels of his land to the black people moving into the area from north Florida. In doing so he created what has grown to become the Goulds we now know. Many of the families that live in Goulds are decedents of those original farming pioneers.

“I’ve lived here now for seventy-six years” says Mrs. Gladys Lee-Briscoe

Next were Mr. Arthur and Polly Mays. Mr. and Mrs. Mays were proponents of education. During the early 1900’s it was necessary that black people create an educational system for the children that came along with their farming parents. The May’s started Mount Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church in 1914. The church served as an early school. Mrs. Mays even took on duties as a bus driver to bring children from as far away as Perrine and Homestead to Goulds Elementary and Junior High School, after the couple had purchased an old bread truck. In 1960 Pine Villa Elementary was built, and Mays Junior-Senior High school was established. For nine years it served as secondary education for the community’s children. In 1969 it became Mays Junior High School. Today the school which, bares the names of its founders, has become Arthur and Polly Mays Conservatory of the Arts.

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By the seventies the town had become a flourishing home to well over 7000 residents. Goulds had survived one of the worst hurricanes in American history in 1926 which left much of Dade County severely damaged. Goulds didn’t go without damage of its own, but it survived. Goulds had survived the racial turmoil of the sixties. It was beginning to see the decline of the packing houses that had brought so many of its first residents, yet it still survived. The agricultural industry jobs that many in the towns parents and grandparents had worked to feed and provide for their families were drying up. It was a tough time economically for Goulds but the fighting spirit of its residents was intact and thriving. Some of the toughest times the city would face were still ahead.

“If there was ever a place I can say that I’m proud to be from, that gave me an opportunity and gave me a start, it gave me an area of respect to my elders, to my neighborhood, to the grown folks in my community, to the families, the friends” – Keith “Master Blaster” Miller

A brother and sister (Stepheney and Brenda Lee) hang out at The Shack, a popular dance hall in the seventies. (Photo courtesy of Brenda Back)

The eighties brought along with them the rise of the crack epidemic as well as an influx of immigration that would put the city of Miami in a perilous situation. Drugs had always been a part of the city but it was mostly marijuana. In the early eighties a little known drug called crack cocaine made its way to the community. Violence began to rise, mothers and fathers became addicted, and children in the community suffered because of it. In 1981 the city found itself with an astronomical murder rate, a murder rate so high that by the summer the city had to rent refrigeration trucks to store the dead because the morgue could no longer hold the rising body count. People like Griselda Blanco were making millions of dollars off the sale of Columbian cocaine. That cocaine was making its way into Goulds with devastating effects. Another source of change came in the form of the Mariel Boat lift. Cuban dictator Fidel Castro opened the Cuban port and allowed anyone wishing to leave the communist country, which lies ninety miles off the coast of Florida, to leave. Both average hard-working Cubans and criminals released from Castro’s prison system boarded boats by the thousands and headed to South Florida. The rise in population made it even more difficult to sustain jobs in an already dwindling agricultural industry. All of these factors left the small community of Goulds at a crossroad.

The nineties brought even harder times. In 1992 Hurricane Andrew ripped through Miami. Goulds was one of the hardest hit areas. The category five storm obliterated an already fragile community. Homes, businesses, schools, churches, almost nothing was spared. The little city that fought through so much in the previous eighty years was again in a desperate struggle for its survival. This time it was fighting to maintain its identity. After the storm the city relocated many of its residents. Some chose to leave. Some were forced to leave due to circumstances, and people from all over the city were relocated to homes and housing projects like Chocolate City in Goulds. With the arrival of new residents came new issues. Gone were the long-lasting family ties that once held the community together. In their place came feuds between the old residents of Goulds and the newcomers to the area. Drug battles and gang wars became a very real danger. Even through all of this, Goulds survived.

Places In Goulds

Faces of Goulds

Today the city of Goulds is going through a renaissance. People like Ms. Latoya Byrd are attempting to change the narrative of Goulds being a rough and tumble town, with her news magazine Good News Goulds. Started in 2016, the magazine focuses on showcasing the positive things that are happening in the community. She says, “What’s needed is a change in climate in our conversation. Not just talking about the bad, which is there, but lets start showcasing the good and talking about the good. That’s what Good News Goulds is and that’s kind of how it was born”. Others like commissioner Dennis C. Moss see the development of Goulds economically as a viable way to ensure that the city doesn’t disappear. He, along with others, are spearheading a movement that could turn Goulds and surrounding areas into the third largest city in Miami-Dade county through incorporation. With the help of people like Ms. Latoya Byrd and Mr. Moss, the future of Goulds has the potential to be bright. If the past of the city of Goulds has already proven one thing, it is that this little enclave outside of Miami knows how to survive.

https://soundcloud.com/marshal-brown-764307634/interview-with-commissioner-moss

Stay up to date with new happenings in Goulds through Twitter by following #goulds and #GoodNewsGoulds.

Goulds: In a Changing South Florida, this Little City Lives On Goulds, Florida. A mystifying place just south of Miami, Florida. It’s a mysterious place for the many people who drive past this small section of South Miami, between…

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