REMINDER: The first draft of your research paper is due on Monday, April 7th

Basic Guidelines
· Paper and margins: Use standard 8.5” X 11” paper with margins of 1” on all sides.
· Spacing: Double-space every line, including references.
· Heading: At the top left-hand corner of the first page, type your name, your instructor’s name, the course name, and the date.
· Title: Place the title of your paper below your heading, centered on the page. Capitalize the first word and all principal words. Do not underline.
· Page numbering: On all pages, including the first page, type your last name and the page number in the upper right-hand corner, .5” from the top of the page. (On MS Word, this is referred to as a “header.”)

Using Quotations
· Four lines or fewer: Include the lines within the text, surrounded by double-quotation marks.
· More than four lines: Set the quotation off from the main text in indented block form (1” from the left margin of the text), without quotation marks.

Citing Your Sources
For every quotation, paraphrase, or summary of others’ words and ideas in the text of your paper, indicate the author and page number of the source you are working from in a parenthetical note immediately following the reference.

(For detailed instructions on how to create in-text citations, see the MLA Style sheet at the back of your course reader.)

List of Works Cited
· Every work that you cite parenthetically within the text of your paper should also appear in your list of works cited.
· Start this list on a new page at the end of your paper, with the title “Works Cited” centered 1” below the top of the page.
· Align the first line of each entry flush with the left margin of the page. Indent each subsequent line of each entry .5” from the left margin (known as “hanging indent” format).
· Alphabetize the Works Cited list by author’s last name. For works that do not have a listed author, alphabetize by title, ignoring “A,” “An,” or “The.”

(For detailed instructions on how to create the list of Works Cited, see the MLA Style sheet at the back of your course reader.)

4 Performances of VIRTUAL SOLITAIRE

A invitation from solo performer Dawson Nichols to attend his show, VIRTUAL SOLITAIRE:

Hello all. I wanted you to know that I will be performing my play, Virtual Solitaire, starting next Friday. There are only 4 performances in Seattle before I take the show up to Bellingham. The performances will be at North Seattle Community College and will all be pay-what-you-can with all proceeds going to student scholarships.

This is an original work which has toured across the US, Canada, and Australia, winning awards at a number of international theater festivals. I do hope you’ll come. I know it’s a little crass, but in case it’ll help convince you to come, I include sample press beneath the graphic, below. For maps and directions to the theater, please see http://www.northseattle.edu/maps/.

4 Performances Only!
April 4, 5, 11, and 12 @ 7:30 pm
Stage One Theater
North Seattle Community College

Sample Press
“A truly brilliant play. . . by turns hilarious, terrifying and thought-provoking. Jaw-droppingly good.” – The Winnipeg Sun
“A work of tremendous imagination formed by edgy, poetic writing and acted with awesome skill.” - The Saskatoon StarPhoenix
“A brilliant affirmation that a lone actor can populate a whole theatrical world. Nichols is to virtual-speak what David Mamet is to real estate sharks.” - The Edmonton Journal
“Takes The Matrix to the feet of David Cronenberg” The Australian
“Reminiscent of a William Gibson Novel” - The Victoria Times-Colonist
“A combination of Max Headroom and poet Matthew Arnold” - The Winnipeg Sun
“So beautifully written and performed that it should stand as a blueprint for any solo artist.” - Vancouver Sun
“Confirms Dawson Nichols’ total mastery of the one-man show.” - The Sunday Mail, Australia
“A nimble theatrical gamester!” - The Seattle Times
“A shaman-like performance.” - The Seattle PI
“Intelligent, thought-provoking” - The Adelaide ‘Tizer, Australia
“Nothing short of dazzling” - Georgia Straight, Vancouver
“Comical, moving and sinister” – The Sunday Mail, Australia
“A virtuoso combination of uncanny physicality and cerebral whimsy” - Victoria News
“More vigor than a barrel of Viagra” - Monday Magazine, Victoria
“Nichols again pushes the envelope of the one-man show in an intriguing direction. Leave the vid-screen behind tonight and take a real trip.” - The Seattle Weekly
“Theatre at its best! Bravo!” - InSight, Seattle
“This show fits into that rare category of 100% successful.” - KSER Radio, Seattle
“Dawson Nichols is fast becoming THE KING of the one man show.” - Talent B.C.

Friday Field Study: Jack Straw Productions

Jack Straw Productions (JSP) is the Northwest's only non-profit multidisciplinary audio arts center. A community-based resource since 1962, we provide a production facility that is unlike any other in the region for local artists who work creatively with sound. Jack Straw focuses on annual artist residencies through our Artist Support Program, our Writers Program, and our Gallery Residency Program; art and technology education for all ages; arts heritage partnerships; and radio production. Our full-service recording studio is also available for a range of arts projects.

Mission

Jack Straw Productions exists to foster the communication of arts, ideas, and information to diverse audiences through audio media. We provide creation and production opportunities in audio media, including radio, theater, film, video, music, and literature.Dedicated to the production and presentation of all forms of audio art, Jack Straw Productions

1) produces high quality, innovative audio presentations;

2) commissions independent artists of all disciplines to create sound and audio productions;

3) provides arts and technology education programs for youth and adults;

4) collaborates with arts and heritage organizations to integrate sound and music into their programs; and

5) presents audio productions through events, exhibits, radio, film and the internet.

History

The Jack Straw Foundation was founded in 1962 by a group of educators, artists, and journalists with the goal of starting KRAB-FM, one of the first non-commercial radio stations in the country. The station's main purpose was to be a forum for the discussion and presentation of science, arts and public affairs programs. KRAB was formed at a time of progressing technology, when relatively few FM receivers existed and community radio was unheard of. The first day KRAB was on the air, its transmitter blew up and was rebuilt. Broadcasting from locales ranging from an old donut shop to an abandoned firehouse, KRAB struggled and thrived for twenty-two years. Its signature was unique and audacious programming. The Jack Straw Foundation also started KBOO in Portland, Oregon and KSER-FM in Lynnwood, Washington and assisted in the development of KDNA in Granger, Washington.When KRAB's frequency was sold in 1984, the Foundation continued to produce and present innovative and neglected sonic arts. In 1989 Jack Straw moved into its current facility on Roosevelt Way.

The Jack Straw Foundation was named after a leader of the English Peasant Revolt of 1381. These insurgent peasants traveled throughout southern England, gathering followers, opening prisons, killing lawyers and telling stories.

Jack Straw Productions' Programs for Artists

Jack Straw Productions' Artist Support Program was started in 1994 to support Northwest artists working creatively with sound. Today the program has expanded to include the Jack Straw Writers Program and the Jack Straw New Media Gallery.

The Artist Support Program has been assisting artists working creatively with sound since 1994. Artists of every genre and style have been represented, including writers, choreographers, multidisciplinary artists, theatre sound designers, radio producers, film makers, visual artists, and musicians and composers of all types. Every year, up to eight artists are awarded twenty hours of studio recording and production time with a Jack Straw engineer. An additional eight to ten artists receive matching awards for studio time as part of our Artist Assistance Program.

The Jack Straw Writers Program was established in 1997, and to date, the program has included more than 140 Pacific Northwest writers who represent a diverse range of literary genres.The purpose of the Jack Straw Writers Program is to introduce local writers to the medium of recorded audio; to encourage the creation of new literary work; and to present the writer and their work in live readings, in a published anthology, on the web, and on broadcast radio. Each year an invited curator selects 12 writers from a large pool of applicants. Participating writers receive training in vocal presentation, performance, and microphone technique to prepare them for studio recording and live recording at public readings. Their recorded readings and interviews with the curator are then used to produce features on our web site, for radio broadcast, and for internet podcasts.

Jack Straw New Media Gallery offers established and emerging artists of all disciplines the opportunity to create and present work involving sound and technology, with the option of integrating any combination of other disciplines including visual and/or performance art. Up to 3 artists/artist teams are commissioned to create new works that include sound as a major component.

Artists are encouraged to experiment and expand the artistic scope of their work by working with new technologies and artists from other disciplines. During the residency, artists work with a staff audio engineer to produce their work. Installations will be exhibited for up to 3 months and each installation will be accompanied by a reception and outreach programs.

WIRES
Eight-channel sound installation for tin cans, piezo loudspeakers, and steel wires

by Jason Kahn

January 31-March 28, 2008

Jack Straw Productions presents Wires, an eight-channel sound installation for tin cans, piezo loudspeakers, and steel wires, by Zürich-based sound artist Jason Kahn at the Jack Straw New Media Gallery from January 31-March 28, 2008.Wires, seeks to heighten the visitor's perception of space through sound intervention within the gallery environment. Walking through the installation space, visitors pass through shifting sound fields delineated by the vibrating wires. The sounds themselves will be difficult to localize but the sense of the room slowly "stretching" through the singing wires will be immediately apparent as one moves about the gallery space. Wires is Kahn's first exhibition in Seattle.

Jason Kahn is a sound and visual artist based in Zürich, Switzerland. His work includes sound installation, performance and composition.

Read Chris DeLaurenti's review of Wires in the The Stranger.

Upcoming Poetry Events

There are a few poetry events coming up... You don't even have to leave your house for the first one:

"Art Zone In Studio with Nancy Guppy," is a brand-new weekly 30-minute TV show on the Seattle Channel (22 if you have Comcast cable). Art Zone is 100% devoted to celebrating and promoting the local art scene. Each new episode will premiere at 8:00 on Thursday nights, with a repeat airing later that evening, and two more airings each on Friday and Saturday night. The show will also stream on line: www.seattlechannel.org/artzone Nancy does a great job with the show and it's a terrific introduction to local artists and arts events.

Poet Lucille Clifton will read at Intiman Theatre for the Seattle Arts and Lectures Poetry Series, April 7 at 7:30 p.m. Here's a site where you can get a taste of her extraordinary work, http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=1304 Tickets and more information at www.lectures.org.

On April 24 at 7pm, local poet Elizabeth Austen will be reading at Cheap Wine and Poetry with Rebecca Louden, Cody Walker and Roberto Ascalon. http://www.cheapwineandpoetry.com/

The annual Burning Word Festival on Whidbey Island is April 26 -- a full day of readings, workshops and, of course, great pie from Greenbank Farms... More info at http://www.washingtonpoets.org/burning_word.php

The Skagit River Poetry Festival returns this May 16 and 17. If you miss Ms. Clifton at SAL, she'll also be the headliner at the Skagit River festival, along with a terrific roster of local and national poets. It's definitely worth the drive to beautiful La Connor: www.skagitriverpoetry.org

Frye Art Museum recruiting for improvisational work

Would you like to take part in a daylong performance piece with renowned artist Oliver Herring?

The Frye Art Museum is recruiting 35 participants for Herring's improvisational work "Task," to be staged at the Seattle Central Library on June 28. The idea goes something like this: Herring assigns tasks to a diverse range of individuals, and they perform the tasks in front of an audience. After this initial performance, participants will write down their own tasks for others to complete. For more information and an application go to fryemuseum.org/task. Deadline to apply is April 1.