Creative Expressions: When We Were Quarantined
Thursday, May 7th, 5pm
The SUNY Empire community has a rich and varied artist community. Come and meet our “artists in residence” and learn a little about their creative expressions, their process, and them! Our artists will also host a Q&A session following their presentations. If you missed our previous sessions or cannot make it to a session, all are recorded and the videos can be found at this link .
Creative Expressions are live at 5pm every Thursday in Zoom at this link .
Featured this week is “When We Were Quarantined”, a collaborative performance of reflective writing and music co-curated by college alumni Job Christenson and Bambi Everson, and theatre faculty Cindy Bates and Lucy Winner. The work includes material by faculty, students and alumni responding to this complex moment in our lives. The idea for the project was sparked in a Living Through COVID-19 (SUNY Empire Connects) writing session. Some material is drawn from that session while the rest was created in a subsequent writing workshop and further developed by the participants. We are happy to share this range of creative responses to the isolation, grief, hope and even humor of the pandemic.
Co-curators:
College alumni, Job Christenson and Bambi Everson
Theatre faculty, Cindy Bates and Lucy Winner
Performers:
Jeff Caldwell, Class of 2019
Alexander Carney, Class of 2003
Job Ethan Christenson, Class of 2018
Bernadette Drayton, Class of 2019
Bambi Everson, Class of 2016
Helene Galek
Lydia Gaston, Class of 2005
Elizabeth Quincy, post-degree ESC studies
Jacklyn Rosa, Class of 2017
Emily Strong, current student
Host:
Lisa D’Adamo-Weinstein
Program:
“A New Recipe” - Emily Strong
“Groundhog Day” - Jacklyn Rosa
“New Essentials in Grocery Shopping” - Lisa D’Adamo-Weinstein / Performed by Lydia Gaston
Smile - Charles Chaplin / Performed by Bernadette Drayton
“Covid & Coffee” - Alexander Carney
“Zoom” - Bambi Everson
“Rediscovering Rhianna in Dr. Rogers: A New Me in COVID-19.”
Rhianna Rogers / Performed by Bernadette Drayton
“The Big Slow” - Jeff Caldwell
Apartment Song - Written and Performed by Emily Strong
“A Rabbit in My Path” - Lucy Winner / Performed by Lydia Gaston
“Bellevue in the Face” - Alexander Carney
“Metallic Silver” - Bernadette Drayton
“Who Was That Masked Man?” - Bambi Everson
“Familiar” - Job Ethan Christenson
“It Still Holds Up” - Helene Galek
“Present Panic” - Lydia Gaston
“A Letter to My Daughter” - Cindy Bates / Performed by Jacklyn Rosa
No One Is Alone - Stephen Sondheim / Performed by Job Ethan Christenson
“Covid 19: Crisis Interupted” - Elizabeth Quincy
“Who Would I Tell?” - Lucy Winner / Performed by Emily Strong
“Watching the Wheels Go Round” - Jeff Caldwell
You’ll Never Walk Alone - Rogers & Hammerstein / Performed by Lydia Gaston
