When a young Eva Kollisch arrives as a refugee in New York in 1940, she finds a community among socialists who share her values and idealism. She soon discovers ‘the cause’ isn’t as idyllic as it seems. Little does she know this is the beginning of a lifelong commitment to activism and her determination to create radical change in ways that include belonging, love and one's full self. In addition to Eva Kollisch’s memoirs Girl in Movement (2000) and The Ground Under My Feet (2014), LBI’s collections include an oral history interview with Eva conducted in 2014 and the papers of Eva’s mother, poet Margarete Kolllisch, which document Eva’s childhood experience on the Kindertransport. Learn more at www.lbi.org/kollisch . Exile is a production of the Leo Baeck Institute , New York | Berlin and Antica Productions . It’s narrated by Mandy Patinkin. Executive Producers include Katrina Onstad, Stuart Coxe, and Bernie Blum. Senior Producer is Debbie Pacheco. Associate Producers are Hailey Choi and Emily Morantz. Research and translation by Isabella Kempf. Sound design and audio mix by Philip Wilson, with help from Cameron McIver. Theme music by Oliver Wickham. Voice acting by Natalia Bushnik. Special thanks to the Kollisch family for the use of Eva’s two memoirs, “Girl in Movement” and “The Ground Under My Feet”, the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College and their “Voices of Feminism Oral History Project”, and Soundtrack New York.…
Why do stand up when you can sit down? Not live, but recorded in my closet. This is SIT DOWN, STAND UP.
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a comedy show that combines laughs with learning about the craft of comedy. Watch sets from some of the best comedians in Boston, and then pick their brains about their joke writing and artistic process!
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Supermarkets, movie theaters, restaurants....dogs are appearing in public like never before. WOOF WOOF GTFO of Starbucks with your pooch.
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Are you there God? Its me, Hannah, and I'm about to poop my pants at Ralphs.
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As the wise Cesar Millan has made clear so many times, "The dog is never the problem, its the owner." And kids are basically dogs, so woof woof, parent your kid or GTFO.
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notes: explicit contentShow Date: Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014Guests:Dan Boulger (Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Comedy Central, and winner of the Boston Comedy Festival)Kofi Thomas (Winner of the 2013 Out of Bounds Comedy Festival, 2013 Comic in Residence at the Comedy Studio, and Boston Comedy Festival)Dana Cairns (Boston Comedy Festival, C…
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