Trinity Conference Center co-director is featured playwright in Strawberry One-Act Festival
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"Holier Ground," the one-act play by Jonathan M. Denn, co-director of Trinity Church Wall Street’s Trinity Conference Center and the Clergy Leadership Project in Cornwall, Connecticut, will be presented tonight and February 2 at 7:00 p.m. at the Baruch Performing Arts Center/Bernie West Theatre, in New York City, in round one of the Strawberry One-Act Festival.
Denn is one of four dramatists whose work was selected for the Festival where the audience and the theatre’s judges, cast their votes to select the best play of the season.
"Holier Ground" tells the story of how a newly completed security barrier separates a heart-broken Palestinian girl from the Jewish boy she loves-a desperate dream of hope.
Denn describes his interest in playwrighting "as a spiritual practice."
If selected, "Holier Ground" would continue on to the semi-finals February 10 and 11 at 7:00 and 9:00 p.m. and possibly move on to the finals February 19 and 20 at 3:00 p.m.
Tickets for tonight, tomorrow and the semi-finals are $15. Tickets for the finals are $25 and will include a reception. For more information call 646.623.3488 or visit http://www.therianttheatre.com/
Trinity’s 2004-2005 Music and Arts Series continues with Quinn
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The free 2004 -- 2005 Music and Arts Series continues at Trinity Episcopal Church, in Hartford, Connecticut, on February 4, at 7:30 p.m. with Iain Quinn.
Quinn, who has served as Trinity's director of music since 1998, will be resigning from his position this month to serve as director of music at St. John’s Cathedral in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This will be one of his final performances at the church. Quinn also serves as an examiner for the Royal School of Church Music and a faculty member of the Church Music Institute at the University of Hartford.
The concert will include works of J.S. Bach, S.I. Taneyev, Shostakovich, Franck, Grainger, Glazonov, and the Sonata for Organ, Opus 165 by Wilfred Josephs, written for and dedicated to Quinn.
A free-will offering will be taken at the concert to benefit the Trinity Choristers' 2006 trip to England.
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