Theater Upcoming Events
Dear Evan Hansen
EISENHOWER THEATER
Aug. 30-Sep. 25, 2022
Dear Evan Hansen is a deeply personal and profoundly contemporary musical about life and the way we live it. The New York Times calls it "a breathtaking knockout of a musical."
Recommended for age 12 and up
Bluey's Big Play
EISENHOWER THEATER
Nov. 22-27, 2022
When Dad feels like a little bit of Sunday afternoon time out，Bluey and Bingo have other plans! Join them as they pull out all of the games and cleverness to get Dad off that bean bag. Blueys Big Play is a new theatrical adaptation of the Emmy Award-winning children's television series, with an original story by Bluey creator Joe Brumm, and new music by Bluey composer Joff Bush.
Suitable and enjoyable for all ages.
Shear Madness
THEATERLAB
Oct. 4，2022-Oct. 1，2023
Set in present-day Georgetown, Shear Madness is an interactive comedy that engages audiences as armchair detectives to help solve the murder of a famous concert pianist who lives above the Shear Madness hairstyling salon(沙龙).
Performance Timing: 2 hours, with one short break.
No Excuses, No Limits
FAMILY THEATER
Jan. 13-15, 2023
Inspired by this international all-star breakdance crew of seven of the world's best differently-abled dancers, No Excuses, No Limits takes audiences on a journey of each dancer's story through dance, music, audience interaction, and a gained understanding of the limitless possibilities that any person can hold.
Most enjoyed by ages 7+.
Len Collingwood, a clinical nurse specialist, retired on his 65th birthday. He told his wife, Sally, he would" start out as an adventure cyclist. "
Four months later, he set off on a 13, 000 km cycle ride from Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia to Edinburgh, much of it roughly shadowing Marco Polo's Silk Road. No sooner had he started out than a snowstorm hit. He hid in his tent, wearing every item of clothing he had packed. At -18C it was too cold to go outside to cook. He survived the next 48 hours by eating a massive bag of chocolates.
So it is a surprise to hear Collingwood say that he has never feared for his life. "Never. There's always something to be curious about," he says.
In 2018, he rode from Edinburgh to Istanbul to earn a place in Guinness World Records. "There are very few records a man over 60 can break," he says. During the trip, he got a dozen flat tyres. But he fixed each one. "I've always been serious about purpose. If something is to be done, it is to be done properly. People go forwards and people go backwards. The difficult bit is managing the times when people go backwards," he says. "Don't let the moment ruin the whole thing. "
He turns 71 this year. He is about to begin the 1, 407 km trip to John O' Groats. It sounds tough but he insists "it's just a matter of spinning(转)the wheels." Still, they don't spin on their own. His daughter --a yoga teacher-- has suggested weights to maintain muscle mass. His son, a cyclist, keeps him up to speed on the latest technology.
Collingwood is planning new rides in France next year, and beyond that hopes "to spread my wings further. There is peace on a bicycle," he says. "The joy is the actual doing of the activity. Going further means you're just doing more of something you enjoy."
Panama is a nation full of colorful imagery. But perhaps the most symbolic example of its liveliness is a traditional dress known as a mola.
For centuries, the Guna, a native group living in Panama and parts of neighboring Colombia, have been creating the colorful clothing. A mola, which translates to "shirt" in the Guna language, is a piece of traditional dress typically worn by women and known for its bright colors and complicated designs.
While there's no exact record of when the first mola was made, many historians believe that the colorful custom came from a different form of art that was common within the Guna community: body painting. "At one time, the Guna people used body painting to keep away bad spirits, "says Yanelis Ledezma, a tour guide at the Museo de la Mola (MUMO) in Panama City. "Ladies would draw symbols and signs on the bodies of their family members. Eventually, these same patterns were applied to molas. "
Ledezma estimates that creating a mola can take anywhere from 60 to 80 hours of labor to sew(缝). To create each dress, women and girls use a technique called reverse appliqué, which involves mixing two or more fabrics(织物) of different colors and sewing them together. The more fabrics used, the more complex the final piece. Often, the base fabric of a piece is black to help emphasize the other colors and make them stand out on the finished dress.
The art of creating a mola is something that's handed down from one generation of Guna women to the next. "It takes a lot of time to make a mola," Ledezma says. "Ladies will visualize the finished mola in their mind and create everything by hand without using any sort of patterns. They visually know where to put each piece of fabric, and the result is a beautiful piece of art. To this day, the mola is more than a piece of clothing; it's an important part of being part of the Guna community. "
The word "robot" was coined in 1920 by the Czech writer Karel Capek. In Rossum's Universal Robots Capek imagined artificial, fully functional servants. For most of their history, however, robots have been stupid mechanical devices, sitting out of sight in factories.
Things are starting to change, however. Robots have benefited from rapid innovations in smartphones, which brought cheap cameras and sensors, fast wireless communications and powerful, smaller computer chips. More recent advances in machine learning have added software to make robots better informed about their surroundings and equipped them to make wiser decisions. Robots are becoming so advanced as to be used for everyday life and in the coming years, will increasingly work in supermarkets, clinics, social care and much more.
They could not be coming at a better time. Many industries are facing a shortage of labour –the demand for workers has recovered much faster than expected from COVID-19 and some people have left the workforce, particularly in America. Goods delivery has grown rapidly thanks to the growth of e-commerce. Robots are now picking items off shelves and helping people pack a rising number of boxes.
And yet many people fear that robots will destroy jobs. In fact, concerns about mass unemployment are overblown. The evidence suggests robots will be damaging at first but ultimately beneficial for labour markets. Japan and South Korea have the highest level of robot usage but very strong workforces. A Yale University study that looked at Japanese manufacturing between 1978 and 2017 found that an increase of one robot unit per 1, 000 workers boosted a company's employment by 2. 2%. Research from the Bank of Korea found that robotisation moved jobs away from manufacturing into other sectors, but that there was no decrease in overall vacancies(空缺).
As is to be expected, some people will be on the losing end of change even as robots make society as a whole better off, so firms and governments should ecognize the value of retraining and lifelong learning. As jobs change, workers should be helped to acquire new skills, including how to work with and manage the robots that will increasingly be their workmates.
How to develop personal responsibility
Responsibility makes a man. It plays a significant role in the satisfaction you get from your personal and professional life. . These five strategies will help you start being responsible today.
1 Be self-aware.
Whenever you want to make excuses for your behavior, step back and evaluate your emotions from a sensible place. Whether at work or in your personal life, be willing to step up and take on your duty, even if you are afraid of what will happen if things go wrong.
2 Turn your "shoulds" into "musts".
. Start with turning your "shoulds" into "musts." Our lives are filled with things we "should" do. To turn these goals into" musts, "connect them to your purpose in life. Understand that they are essential to your happiness. Make a promise to yourself to live with no regrets.
3 Set goals.
Setting goals (even small ones) and achieving them allows you to demonstrate that you can hold yourself responsible. .
4 Watch your words.
Everyone has an inner monolog(独白) that affects the way we interact with the world. That little voice turns into the behaviors we engage in and the words we choose to speak. . Next time something goes wrong, notice how you react.
5 .
Ask a friend to keep you answer for certain goals; this can be especially helpful if you share a common goal. For example, if you're both training to run a race, set up check-ins to see how the other is doing
A. Transform your way of thinking.
B. Conduct emotional evaluation.
C. Have a responsible partner.
D. However, many people struggle with it.
E. When you complete goals, take time to celebrate in your own way.
F. Change your thoughts and think about how to improve yourself.
G. The ability to stop any negative self-talk is important to positively engaging with others.
When I was in my early teens, I read Ernest Hemingway's "The Snows of Kilimanjaro". Reading it for the first time gave me a strong 1 to see this noteworthy mountain 2.
Later in my early twenties, I 3 a man who had been to Kenya. He saw and described Kilimanjaro as a mountain standing by itself in the middle of the African plain, 4 by ice on its peak. This 5 my desire to see the mountain with my own eyes, and perhaps even climb it.
In my thirties, I travelled to Havana, Cuba and spent some time 6 the home of Ernest Hemingway. After this trip, I 7 I was going to climb Kilimanjaro.
Vancouver to Africa is a great distance, so I decided to put some add-ons to my planned 8. The first would be an adventure across the Sahara Desert, 9 by travelling up the source of the Nile. It would finish at my 10 goal of Kilimanjaro. This would be a journey to 11: to cross the world's greatest desert, 12 the river that moves through one of the origin of civilization, and climb the tallest mountain in Africa.
After ending the journey, I wrote a novel which 13 this trip, sharing how much I enjoyed each moment of it, and how 14 each day became on its own.
This remarkable journey will be 15 in my heart.
Chinese landscape painting can be considered one of the (high) forms of expression in ancient Chinese art. The Chinese term for "landscape" is made up of two characters (mean) mountains and water. It is linked with the philosophy of Daoism, which (highlight) harmony with the natural world. Besides, balance of yin and yang is essential in the design of the landscape painting.
When Chinese landscape painters work on their paintings, they do not attempt (present) an image of what they have seen in nature, but what they have thought about nature. It is not important whether the painted colors and shapes look (exact) like the real object; the purpose is to catch, on paper, a (n) (combine) of inner reality and wholeness. Chinese landscape painters use the same materials and essential techniques calligraphers, and their works are judged by the same criteria. Chinese landscape painting involves a complicated set of (requirement) for balance, composition, and form. Chinese elemental theory, includes five elements representing various parts of the natural world, is used to determine the use of colors and the placement of elements in the paintings.
How to Reduce Mental Internal Friction
Recently our class had a hot debate on how to reduce mental internal Friction such as anxiety, depression and self-doubt.
"Be quiet." No one actually ever said that to me - in fact, it was usually the opposite "Speak up." "What did you say?" "I couldn't understand you." But every time someone told me to be louder, to be clearer, I wanted to shut my mouth and never open it again.
Years of living with a lisp(口齿不清) had taught me that it was better to say nothing than to speak and risk being misunderstood, leading to embarrassment and awkwardness. As a result of my silence, I felt distanced from most of my peers, having only a few people I felt were friends. "Kathryn? Oh, she's quiet." That's what most people would say when they thought of me. "Quiet" might as well have been part of my name. I was okay with that. I didn't need to be heard.
September of last year that all changed.
I started my first day of creative writing class with Ms. Haist. She is one of those teachers you don't feel frightened to approach; you know she will help you if you need it. I had expected to fill out plot diagrams and learn the proper way to punctuate dialogue. However, every day we would be given a different writing prompt(提示词) and then, if we wished, we could share what we had written with the class. I remember sitting and listening to others read their work, and I distinctly remember thinking: That will never be me. I'll never have the courage to do that.
Then, one day in October, I was really pleased with what I had written, so pleased that I wanted to share. I remember my heart pounding in my chest as I raised my hand to read, and those urgent little voices in my mind listing all the reasons why it wasn't a good idea: They won't understand you. You have a lisp, remember? Besides, your writing isn't that good. Be quiet. Be quiet. I was about to withdraw my hand when I met Ms. Haist's encouraging eyes.
注意：
1. 续写词数应为150左右；
2. 请按如下格式在相应位置作答。
I swallowed the voices down and let my real voice come out.
……
Soon I was reading out loud nearly every day.
