On Monday, August 23 actor/director Herb Newsome will be speaking at Kendal.
Newsome directed and played several roles in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, as part of Kate Farrington’s recent theater course.
He will discuss the state of theater today - specifically as it relates to black writers, actors, and directors.
Mr. Newsome’s presentation will be via Zoom at 7:30 pm.
On Monday evening at 7:30 pm via Zoom, the Kendal Education Committee will sponsor a lecture by Dr. Marian E. Dunn on “Sexuality across the Lifespan”
What do we mean by “a sexual relationship” -- with a partner or partners, with ourselves, or in our fantasies? Here at Kendal, many of us are in transitional generations -- we think a great deal has changed but has it?
Kendal resident Marian Dunn’s talk will focus on some of the relational, social, and physiological factors that change our sexuality as we age. She will share some of her 50 years of study and clinical and personal observation that shape her thinking…and she will welcome your thoughts.
Clinical Associate Professor Emerita and former Director, Center for Human Sexuality, Department of Psychiatry, at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, Marian received her Ph.D. in sexology from the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco. She also holds an MSW degree from Adelphi University School of Social Work. She continues to see clients today.
The Trips Committee announced a new adventure scheduled for Wednesday, September 1, to the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut.
There is a choice of five exhibitions of 21st-century art:
Frank Stella, “Stars,” sculpture outdoor installation;
Lucia Hierro, “Marginal Costs,” a room-scaled mural, monumental sculpture, and dimensional collages by a Dominican American New Yorker;
Hugo McCloud, “from where I stand,” 35 paintings using non-art mediums that show his views on race, class, and unfairness;
Tim Prentice, “After the Mobile,” the field of motion in sculpture with underlying patterns allowing for variation within limits;
Clarity Haynes, “Collective Transmission”;
Also two pink paintings of birth Altar and Altar for Femme Joy, symbolizing a feminist tribute; and a two-acre sculpture garden.
Masks are required. The museum is fully accessible.
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Wait-listed Trips
Wednesday, August 18, Washington’s Headquarters, Newburgh
Wednesday, October 6, Hudson River Cruise
A sign-up sheet for the October 6 trip will be put in the Trips Book after the August 11 cruise. Please don’t sign up for the October 6 cruise on the August 11 sheet.
The Movie Committee Presents:
WHEN: Sunday August 15 at 3:00 pm
WHERE: the GATHERING ROOM
WHAT: Award-winning NOMADLAND
Following the closure of a gypsum mine in the rural Nevada town she calls home, Fern packs her van and sets off on the road. Along the way, she meets other nomads amidst the vast, sometimes breathtaking landscape of the American West.
Cast:
Frances McDormand, David Strathairn
Director: Chloé Zhao
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The Movie Committee needs help and is looking for an Assistant.
Call Roberta P. or Annette if you know how to play DVDs in the GR and will be attending on
Sunday. This is only our second time, and we would appreciate some assistance.
Saturday’s Opera presentation at Kendal in the Gathering Room will be Jules Massenet’s Thaïs. It will take place on August 14, at 1:00 pm.
The principal singers are Renee Fleming and Thomas Hampson in a December 2008 performance at the Metropolitan Opera.
Jésus Lopez-Cobos conducts.
What’s it all about? Well, the monk Athanaël tries to convert the courtesan and dancer Thaïs to Christian life in the Egyptian desert outside Alexandria.
Does he succeed? You have to attend to find out and as a “added extra” you get some great music and singing.
KoH TV Channel 970, Kendal’s in-house channel, continues its excellent programming:
Round-the-Clock: Rue des Artistes “Fabulous Fibers” (beautiful art by Kendal residents)
3:00 pm Monday-Friday, August 2-6: The Kendal Forum - Human Resources, July 21
Weekend: The Great Tours: Essential Italy
Saturday, August 7, 3:00 pm:
Lecture 11: The Pantheon to Campo dei Fiori
Lecture 12: Piazza Farnese to the Ara Pacis
Sunday, August 8, 2:00 pm:
Lecture 13: Piazza del Popolo to San Clemente
Lecture 14: The Vatican and St. Peter’s Basilica
4:30 pm: Concert: The Frisson Ensemble
Art, travel, and music. What more could you ask?
SATURDAY OPERA at Kendal
Charles Gounod’s Faust will be screened in the Gathering Room on Saturday, August 7, at 1:00 pm.
The principal singers are Jonas Kaufmann, Marina Poplavskaya and René Pape in a Metropolitan Opera production from 2011.
The conductor is Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
P.S. …and you don’t have to go by van. Elevator travel and a few steps will do the trick.
The Trips Committee has chosen the following four Met Opera HD Live performances for Saturday matinees, with van transportation:
October 9 -Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov with René Pape as Boris.
October 23 -Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones, the opening night new production and first opera by a Black composer at the Met, with Angel Blue, Latonia Moore and Will Liverman in the lead roles.
March 12 - Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos with the young and hot new star Lise Davidsen as Ariadne; also with legendary baritone Thomas Allen.
May 21- Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor with a new production starring Nadine Sierra as Lucia and Javier Camarena as Edgardo
Since the 2019-2020 Kendal HD Live performances were fully booked within 45 minutes, and an unusual number of residents chose four operas, we are trying something new this year in order to spread the tickets around.
Residents will only be able to sign up initially for two operas for the 2021-2022 season. If space is still available, additional sign-ups for operas and/or wait lists will be permitted in a few days.
All operas will take place at City Center Cinema in White Plains.
We are running this announcement now to give you plenty of time to select your choices. At this point we don’t know when tickets will go on sale, the costs, or whether we can get a second van as we did in 2019 for some operas. There has also been a question as to whether the Met would really open this September.
The Kendal schedule is on the Trips bulletin board and in the Trips Book. The full schedule of all 10 Met Opera HD Live operas is in the back of the Trips Book under Opera.
CALLING ALL MOVIE LOVERS
Are you interested in joining the Movie Committee, helping to choose films to show on 970 and also being responsible for playing the DVDs for some Gathering Room showings?
We are starting to show the occasional Sunday afternoon film, and if we have more members we will be able to show more films in the GR, evenings and Sunday afternoons. (We will teach you how to show the DVDs.)
Interested? Contact Roberta or Annette.
The Movie Committee:
Annette Leyden
Roberta Poupon
Lailani Moody
Sara Cook
On August 2nd, Kendal will present a talk at 7:30 pm via Zoom.
The speaker will be Dr. Lisa Anderson, who will speak on “The Middle East and North Africa in 2021”
Dr. Anderson will provide a tour d’horizon of the Middle East and North Africa, touching on both long-term trends and more recent developments, from the cooling of the UAE-Qatar conflict and the signing of the Abraham Accords to some of the challenges the Biden Administration is likely to face in the coming years.
Currently Special Lecturer and James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations Emerita at the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs, Dr. Anderson served as Provost and then President of the American University in Cairo from 2008-2016. She was dean of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia from 1997-2007.
On the Columbia faculty since 1986, she has also taught at Princeton and Harvard. Her scholarly research has included work on state formation in the Middle East and North Africa; regime change and democratization in developing countries; and social science, academic research, and public policy both in the U.S. and around the world.
A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations, Dr. Anderson is a trustee of the Aga Khan University, Tufts University, and the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin.
All are welcome to join us at 7:30 pm on Aug 2, via Zoom, for this timely discussion.
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