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acting student photo Philadelphia Cultural Forum: The Acting Experience - Part Two
Hosted by Dr. Gina Masucci MacKenzie, Ph.D., assistant professor, English at Community College of Philadelphia.
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acting student photo Philadelphia Cultural Forum: The Acting Experience - Part Three
Hosted by Gina Masucci MacKenzie, Ph.D., assistant professor, English at Community College of Philadelphia.
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Kirsten Quinn photo Philadelphia Cultural Forum: George Anastasia
Gina Mackenzie, Ph.D., assistant professor, English at Community College of Philadelphia, host of the Philadelphia Cultural Forum, interviews George Anastasia, correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer, and author of several books concerning organized crime.
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Kirsten Quinn photo Philadelphia Cultural Forum: Audition Workshop
Host, Gina Masucci MacKenzie, Ph.D., assistant professor, English at Community College of Philadelphia, discusses with Kirsten Quinn, assistant professor, English at Community College of Philadelphia, how a young actor should prepare for an audition. Danielle Rae Bradley, a student actor, performs an audition monologue.
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dance photo Philadelphia Cultural Forum: The Blind Faith Dance Project
Host, Gina MacKenzie, Ph.D., assistant professor, English at Community College of Philadelphia interviews the dancers from The Blind Faith Project who perform excerpts from their 2009 Philadelphia Fringe Festival performance.
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dance photo Philadelphia Cultural Forum: Lorene Carey
Host, Gina MacKenzie, Ph.D., assistant professor, English at Community College of Philadelphia interviews author Lorene Cary. Ms. Cary reads from her latest works and discusses her role as director of the Art Sanctuary.
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dance photo Philadelphia Cultural Forum: CCP Vocal Ensemble
Gina Mackenzie, Ph.D., assistant professor, English at Community College of Philadelphia, introduces Robert Ross, assistant professor, Music and Head, Department of Music at Community College of Philadelphia, who directs the CCP Vocal Ensemble performing in the CCPTV studio.
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Quinn Eli photo Philadelphia Cultural Forum: Quinn D. Eli, Playwright - Part 1
Host, Gina Masucci MacKenzie, Ph.D., assistant professor, English at Community College of Philadelphia, interviews Quinn Eli, assistant professor, English at Community College of Philadelphia, about his latest work, "The Sex-Tape Play", which is performed by local actor Alayna Sands.
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Quinn Eli photo Philadelphia Cultural Forum: Quinn D. Eli, Playwright - Part 2
Host, Gina Masucci MacKenzie, Ph.D., assistant professor, English at Community College of Philadelphia, interviews Quinn Eli, assistant professor, English at Community College of Philadelphia, about his award winning play, "My Name is Bess." Scenes from the play are performed by local actors, Joe, O'Brien and Angela Smith.
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Gilberto Gonzalez photo Philadelphia Cultural Forum: Dennis Gingell
Gina Mackenzie, Ph.D., assistant professor, English at Community College of Philadelphia,, host of the Philadelphia Cultural Forum, interviews Community College of Philadelphia photographer Dennis Gingell. Mr. Gingell shows his work.
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Gilberto Gonzalez photo Philadelphia Cultural Forum: Gilberto Gonzalez
Gina Mackenzie, Ph.D., assistant professor of English at Community College of Philadelphia interviews Gilberto Gonzalez, senior graphic designer at Community College of Philadelphia. Gilberto discusses and reads from his published memoir Three Rings.
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Joseph Kenyon photo Philadelphia Cultural Forum: Halloween Special
Gina Mackenzie, Ph.D., assistant professor of English at Community College of Philadelphia hosts Alexander Bove, assistant professor, English at Community College of Philadelphia, Joseph Kenyon, assistant professor, English at Community College of Philadelphia and Kirsten Quinn, assistant professor of English at Community College of Philadelphia reading selections of autumnal and gothic literature.
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choir photo Philadelphia Cultural Forum: Holiday Choral Show
Gina Mackenzie, Ph.D., assistant professor, English at Community College of Philadelphia hosts a special holiday edition of the Philadelphia Cultural Forum with the Community College of Philadelphia's Music Department's Vocal Ensemble performing selections from their choral repertoire.
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Lawrence Mackenzie photo Philadelphia Cultural Forum: Nate House
Gina Mackenzie, Ph.D., assistant professor, English at Community College of Philadelphia, interviews Nate House, assistant professor, English at Community College of Philadelphia, about his work as a writer.
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Lawrence Mackenzie photo Philadelphia Cultural Forum: Lawrence Mackenzie
Host, Gina Masucci Mackenzie, Ph.D., assistant professor, English at Community College of Philadelphia, interviews Lawrence Mackenzie, professor, English at Community College of Philadelphia, about his work as a writer.
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Lawrence Mackenzie photo Philadelphia Cultural Forum: Jeff Mark
Host, Gina Mackenzie, Ph.D., assistant professor, English at Community College of Philadelphia, interviews Jeff Mark, instructor, English at Community College of Philadelphia, and author.
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Choir photo Philadelphia Cultural Forum: Music Concert Featuring Works by Claudio Monteverdi and Randall Thompson
A Music Concert featuring the Community College of Philadelphia Vocal Ensemble and the Rutgers University Singers, Camden Campus. Performances include Intonatio (from Vesperae della Beata Virginae, 1610) by Claudio Monteverdi, R. A. M. Ross, conductor, Community College of Philadelphia and The Last Words of David (1949), Randall Thompson, conducted by Dr. Julia Zavadsky, Rutgers University.
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Clarinet Soloist photo Philadelphia Cultural Forum: Music Concert Featuring Works by Claudio Monteverdi and Randall Thompson
A Music Concert given by the Music department of the Community College of Philadelphia, R.A.M. Ross conducting and featuring the Orchestra Society of Philadelphia. The works featured are Toccata (from Orfeo), 1607, by Claudio Monteverdi; Five Variants of Dives & Lazarus, 1939, by Ralph Vaughn Williams and Concerto in A for Clarinet & Orchestra, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joshua Kovach, clarinet.
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Terry Peterson & Christopher Feiro photo Philadelphia Cultural Forum: Terry Peterson
Christopher Feiro, assistant professor and department head, Art at Community College of Philadelphia, interviews Terry Peterson, assistant professor, Art at Comunity College of Philadelphia, about his recent book art production. Terry shows examples and talks about his work.
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Laura Shay photo Philadelphia Cultural Forum: Laura Shay
Host, Gina Masucci MacKenzie, Ph.D., assistant professor, English at Community College of Philadelphia, interviews singer, songwriter Laura Shay. The artist entertains us with three of the songs from her recently released CD.
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Stephanie Scordia photo Philadelphia Cultural Forum: Stephanie Scordia
Gina Mackenzie, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, Community College of Philadelphia interviews Stephanie Scordia, instructor of English, Community College of Philadelphia. Stephanie discusses her writing experience as a reporter and her current fiction writing activities.
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dance photo Philadelphia Cultural Forum: The Soloist
How Steve Lopez's book The Soloist impacts our classroom and our communities. A discussion with Julie Odell, assistant professor of English at Community College of Philadelphia and Gregory Williams a Community College of Philadelphia student with cello performances by Faith Watson, assistant professor, English at Community College of Philadelphia, hosted by Gina Mackenzie, Ph.D., assistant professor, English at Community College of Philadelphia.
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Barbara Spadaro photo Philadelphia Cultural Forum: Barbara Spadaro
Gina Mackenzie, Ph.D., assistant professor, English at Community College of Philadelphia interviews Barbara Spadaro, assistant professor, English at Community College of Philadelphia about her visual art work which was exhibited at Philadelphia's Highwire Gallery.
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Elaine Terranova photo Philadelphia Cultural Forum: Elaine Terranova
Gina Mackenzie, Ph.D., assistant professor, English at Community College of Philadelphia, host of the Philadelphia Cultural Forum, discusses poetry with Community College of Philadelphia English Instructor and Pulitzer Prize nominee Elaine Terranova. Elaine reads some poetry from her most recent book.
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dance photo Philadelphia Cultural Forum: Paolo Vairo
Community College of Philadelphia assistant professor of Music, Robert Ross, discusses a Mozart concerto with pianist Paolo Vairo. The performance of the the concerto in its entirety follows the discussion.
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dance photo Philadelphia Cultural Forum: Simone Zelitch
Gina Mackenzie, Ph.D., assistant professor, English at Community College of Philadelphia interviews Simone Zelitch, assistant professor, English and director of the Creative Writing Program at Community College of Philadelphia. Simone discusses her three published novels and reads from her new novel.
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