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Jan Lisa Huttner getting ready with IWA President D. Clancy.
Program Coordinator Lisa Schoenberger waiting for the crowd to arrive.
Huge thanks to Amanda Loos for taking pix in a very dark room!
29.Mar.09 
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Award-winning filmmaker Nancy Savoca
greets the crowd at the 5th annual Chicago WITASWAN program
(held on the 2nd annual International SWAN Day).
On left: Nancy’s husband Rich Guay & their son Bobby.
Huge thanks to Brad, Claire, & everyone @ the Kerasotes City North Theatre.
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Jan introducing special guests Nancy Savoca & Rich Guay.
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Pix of sponsor reps welcoming the Saturday crowd.
From left: D. Clancy (IWA), Linda Grossman (Metropolitan Chgo ORT), Suzanne Hanney (IWPA), & Lori Switzer (Chicago Branch AAUW).
Post-screening reception.
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Was Georges Bizet’s tempestuous heroine “Carmen” a Converso? She’s always referred to as “a gypsy,” but there’s room for doubt. Bizet’s music teacher and father-in-law was Fromental Halévy (composer of the opera La Juive), and Ludovic Halévy, Bizet’s brother-in-law, wrote Carmen’s libretto (in collaboration with Henri Meilhac). Furthermore Carmen is set in Seville, the Spanish home of a prominent Jewish community from Biblical times right up to the point of expulsion in 1492.
These thoughts ran through my head as I watched Nancy Turano’s multifaceted ballet Carmen Act 1, brilliantly performed by
Nancy Turano is the Artistic Director of the New Jersey Dance Theatre Ensemble (NJDTE), & she has promised to let me know the next time she comes to Chicago so I can tell all of you J
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My third annual Women’s History Month program @
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SWAN Day Back-Up Plan: The second International SWAN Day is this Saturday (3/28). If you haven’t made specific plans yet, consider celebrating with your friends @ a local screening of SUNSHINE CLEANING. SUNSHINE CLEANING is already playing in most major cities in the USA & will open in even more theatres on Friday 3/27. Click HERE for complete details. Click HERE for a list of more local SWAN Day options this weekend.
Support Women Artists Now!!!
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There is no reason NOT to celebrate the second International SWAN Day this weekend!!! If you can’t find any local events that suit you & you can’t find a local screening of SUNSHINE CLEANING nearby, then rent or buy one of these wonderful DVDs (recently released in the past few months):
CADILLAC RECORDS; ELEGY; FROZEN RIVER; KIT KITTREDGE;
UNDER THE SAME MOON; & YENTL (25th Anniversary Edition)
Remember: WITASWAN encourages women (& big-hearted men)
everywhere to use the power of the purse to create cultural change.
Support Women Artists Now!!!
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Click HERE to download my FWA review as a pdf.
News Flash: Houses do not clean themselves!!! In Megan Holley’s brilliant original screenplay, the Lorkowski sisters discover that domestic labor, while always druggery, can also become a pathway to professional opportunity & self-esteem. Jan loves this film; Rich also found it touching & quirky (even tho he thought it wrapped a bit too neatly at the end). See SUNSHINE CLEANING: Highly recommended by Jan & also recommended by Rich. Click HERE to read our FF2 haiku. Click HERE to read Jan’s full FWA review with excerpts from interview with screenwriter Megan Holley.
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February 19: Leading the IWA Film Discussion Group conversation about THE VISITOR. Click here to read my chat with Hiam Abbass (the wonderful actress who plays “Mouna”). IWA stands for “International Women Associates,” a wonderful Chicago group of which I am a proud member!
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