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Sister Cities and Cinematique have teamed up once again to bring you a delightful evening (and raise a little money for Sister Cities) on Friday June 3. We’ll be sponsoring the opening night of Potiche, a French film starring Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu. Remember that you can order food from Ivy Lane Bistro and a drink, have a glass of wine while you watch this sophisticated romantic comedy. The film starts at 7:30, and the theatre is on Beach Street, two blocks south of International Speedway Boulevard.
Sister Cities is pleased to sponsor the film “Potiche” which will be shown at the Cinematique Theater on Beach Street, Daytona Beach. The film will be shown June 3-16, 2011. The special fundraiser evening for Sister Cities is June 3, the opening night of the film. “Potiche” is rated (R) and runs 1 hour and 43 minutes. It is a French film with English subtitles. General admission for the film is $9, and the start time for the movie is 7:30 P.M. The following is a synopsis of the film, “Potiche”: Set in 1977 in a provincial French town, “Potiche” is a free adaptation of the 1970s eponymous hit comic play. Catherine Deneuve is Suzanne Pujol, a submissive ‘trophy housewife’ (or “potiche”,) who steps in to manage the umbrella factory run by her wealthy and tyrannical husband (Fabrice Luchini) after the workers go on strike and take him hostage. To everyone’s surprise, Suzanne proves herself a competent and assertive woman of action. Gerard Depardieu plays a former union leader and Suzanne’s ex-beau who still holds a flame for her. Please join us on June 3, opening night, to support Sister Cities as we present “Potiche”. Dixie Blake, President Sister Cities Association of Volusia Cinematique Theater phone: (386) 252-3118 and website: cinematique.org
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Sister Cities Needs a Publicist and a Young-Artists Coordinator.
Last year’s publicist, Mary Mittelhaeuser, became so well known that she is now in a demanding full-time job and is unable to continue with us.
We have a detailed task list which should make it seamless for a new person to take over. If you would like to beef up your resume or perform public service for the community in return for a small stipend, you may be interested in this position.
Basics include the ability to write succinctly following a prescribed format to send out monthly press releases and attending monthly board meetings at 5:30 pm on the Second Wednesday of each month, as well as some coordination of the young artist competition. The position starts November 13, 2010.
Please contact:
Mary Lou Deeley
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Sister Cities Members and Friends, Our Sister Cities Association will host a French dinner on November 3, 2010, at 6 P.M. at Cafe 101, Daytona State College Hosseini Center. The students in the Hospitality Management Program at Daytona State College, under the direction of Chef David, will prepare and serve the dinner. The cost of the dinner is $25.00 per person. Our scholarship fund will benefit, as all profits will be used to assist local Volusia County students in their pursuit of higher education. A raffle will also be included in the evening's activities. Members of Sisiter Cities will prepare several baskets which will be auctioned, as well as a poster by the artist Erwin Dazelle, from our sister city in Bayonne, France. Members who would like to contribute any items for the baskets, plese bring them to the October meeting at Daytona State College. If you would like to join us for the dinner, please send a check to Sister Cities, P.O. Box 2507, Daytona Beach, FL 32115. You may also pay at the October meeting and make your reservation that way. We hope you will join us and bring a friend! It will be a delightful evening, delicious food with menu selections that include French items as well as others, and benefit our scholarship fund. Dixie Blake President, Volusia County Sister Cities Association |
Poetry Slam more of a Jamby Marylou Deeley The poets told us, after a lovely morning of cerebral camaraderie focusing on Steffen Mittelhaeuser’s intellectual photos of our sister city, Campeche, that the slam was more gentle than most. Could it have been the fabulous gallery setting at The Gateway Center for the Arts where the curators Bill Moran and Diane Miller had hung the stunning photos to great advantage? The walls of gold and ceiling of lavender may make one feel angelic. Or could it have been the instructions by the mediator, Mary Lou Deeley, to “Check your egos at the door because all is fair in love and war, ...and this is both.”? The sound system was generously provided by Freddie Booth of The Live Poets’ Society and there were three distinguished judges, all members of Sister Cities: 1. Dr. Reinhold Schlieper, Embry-Riddle Humanities Professor 2. Dr. Stephen Caldwell Wright, founder of The Gwendolyn Brooks Writers’ Association of Florida, Inc. 3. Daniel Pels, of The Live Poet’s Society, author of Untying Woodknots . Sixteen poets registered in advance for the event. The judges and bystanders were astounded at how good the poetry written in only five concentrated minutes turned out. We are hoping to publish the slam version and a polished version along with the Mittelhaeuser photos. Each poet present was allowed to read one poem to the collected audience. M.L. could not find her timer so she was very thankful when Dr. Annye Refoe volunteered to check the timing. Mary McBride, Ty Hargrove, and Angelika Schlieper jumped in to keep the photos under wraps until timing began. Ellen Nielsen and Jack Moeller, able contestants themselves, came early and set up the coffee bar in the entry. Angie and Reinhold Schlieper waited in the Dunkin Donuts line to provide sugary treats and most all of the poets hauled in materials from my car to help make the event a success. then they hauled them back out. President Dixie Blake, good natured leader that she is, joined in the slam and wrote a charming poem herself and delivered it in her own inimitable fashion. That means, I loved it!! Results and poems will be ready for you all as soon as is practicable. The large photo show has to be taken down first and prepared for other venues. Soon we will let you know about the winners.
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Close to Closing Brought out the French
Our Close to Closing party to celebrate the success of our “ Campeche : Volusia’s Sister City ” Photography Show at the Gateway Center for the Arts was well attended by many who traveled to France with Dixie and Ron Blake this past summer. Old friends Myra Blackburn, Fran and Paul Walker, Farouk Assad, and Barbara Eveleigh graced us with their presence. The Orlando Sentinel once again named our program “Today’s Best Bet” in their “Regional Report” for August 27, 2010. The Blakes presided over a party that included guests of all ages, the curators Bill Moran and Diane Miller, the Gateway Director Sandra Wilson, and Gateway member Bill Layne playing acoustic guitar and singing a delightfully lyrical song about Campeche. Theresa Pavell interviewed him for an article. Mary Lou Deeley told the visitors a little bit about the clothing and the various photographic themes and photographers. Photographer Nancy Jo Brown who accompanied us to the 150th Anniversary of the Instituto last winter was present with her camera and everyone was pleased to see her again and congratulate her on her portraits and other images. JD Rouse was our event photographer looking a lot like a model with camera and her pictures will be shared later on. Dixie Blake read and interpreted some fascinating Spanish poetry and told the group about our mission and upcoming activities. Sister Cities Board members provided wine and cheese, Ron Blake moved the chairs, and Pat Ruehl helped to set up. Marsha Lewis brought a huge bowl of mixed m and m’s. As usual, the Blakes and M.L. cleaned up, Ron took out the garbage and we readied the gallery for the next day’s Poetry Slam. We hope you can join us at our next event. |
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Sister Cities Discount for the Maya at the Playa Conference will expire on August 31. This is $90 compared to the full price of $125. Go to www.mayaattheplaya.com Maya at the Playa: Thursday September 30, 2010-Sunday October 3, 2010
Our young schoolman neighbor Mat Saunders once again has all of Flagler County public and private behind him as he organizes the fourth annual Maya at the Playa Conference under the auspices of the Archeological Institute of America the American Foreign Academic Research Association and the Sister Cities Association of Volusia County, Inc. Dr. Armando Anaya, one of our partners from The University of Campeche, is prominently featured this year in two important sessions which are abstracted here. The public is invited.
Jaina: The Portal to the Underworld Dr. Armando Anaya Hernandez Universidad Autonoma de Campeche Jaina is an artificial Island off the coast of Campeche . It has acquired a well deserved fame because of the hundreds of exquisite figurines that have been recovered from the site. Throughout time archaeologists have proposed that Jaina was a major ceremonial center and a port of trade. However, in this lecture I will present a series of hypotheses that reconsider fundamental aspects regarding the creation, function, and geographical location of Jaina during pre-Columbian times. Recent review of burial contexts and the number of individuals interred in them shows that the vast majority documented to date is infants and children placed in a fetal position, within large unslipped jars or alone and with few grave goods. These contexts tend to be found in terrain-leveling platform fill, low platforms, and in close proximity to the ballcourt. While other authors have emphasized the nature of a high pressure demographical situation for the pre-Columbian residents there and in other surrounding areas within the Yucatan Peninsula as an answer to this problem, it would be a worthwhile endeavor to consider another interpretation which revolves around a mythical theme frequently found in Maya iconography. If this be the case, then the myth or a version of this could have been restaged during specific annual time frames through ritual infant sacrifice at Jaina. Including information from urban design elements and the surrounding natural and cultural environments to the former helps better explain the ideological reason for building an island in this definitive place, instead of other former functional interpretations to date. Friday at 5:45-6:30PM
The Spiritual Conquest at the Yucatan and Florida Peninsulas : A Comparison of Native Cultural Resilience Under the Franciscan Social Engineering Program Armando Anaya Hernandez Universidad Autonoma de Campeche At the beginning of the sixteenth century the Franciscan mendicant order was the largest and most vigorous order in Spain . This implies that the order was nourished by hundreds of youths that were willing to abandon the pleasures of earthly life precisely in the exciting years that followed the discovery of the New World . What motivation would a Spanish youth have to join the Franciscan order? Why did the Franciscans succeed in their evangelization efforts in the New World , where other regular and secular priests failed? And most importantly, how did native populations of the Yucatan and Florida peninsulas react to these efforts? In this workshop we will review the philosophical underpinnings of the Franciscan order, their religious zeal, and their superb social engineering program that they developed in order to carry out what in the surface seemed as the successful conversion of the natives, with special interest on the covert efforts of the natives to maintain their religious practices.
For information go to the website of the conference www.mayaattheplaya.com or contact Mat Saunders by phone (386) 986-9888 or mat.saunders@gmail.com For more information about the Volusia County involvement or photos from last year email mdeeley@peoplepc.com or (386) 677-6931
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