The Calamari Sisters: A Recipe for Coping with the Coronavirus
Feeling trapped during the COVID-19 self-quarantine? Here's a pair of Italian Sisters, Delphine and Carmela, cooking up concoctions that will soothe your soul. Listen to their hilarious spin of how The Arts (and food) can cure what ails ya! The Calamari Sisters bill themselves as the only all-singing, all-dancing, all-cooking cooking show around. Delphine & Carmela Calamari are two plus size Italian sisters from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn that began touring the country in 2009 with their stage shows. Their irreverent comedy and outrageous kitchen antics have had people in stitches from California to Florida to Chicago to New York for the past decade. They are currently in lockdown together and are looking forward to being with a live audience again.Adopt A Nurse Campaign: Click on the linkVenmo: @Delphine-CalamariPaypal: Email us at CalamariCookware@gmail.com telling us how many nurses you want to "adopt" and we'll send you a PayPal request using that email address. FacebookInstagram: @thecalamarisisters Website: www.calamaricookware.com First Online With Fran's There's No Place Like Art podcasts are produced byMarch Hare Media + Wheatsheaf Studio Productions marchharemedia.com … [Read More...]
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Coping with Covid-19: Just Get Messy!
An interview with children’s author Rita Meade The impact of reading out loud books to kids is transformative in so many different ways. Children respond differently to the “messy message” and extrapolate solutions for Edward’s dilemma. Covid-19 has changed our lives forever; in fact, it could be devastating. But Rita Meade’s prescient message in her […]
COVID19 Can’t Stop The Arts!
Gary Morgenstein’s A TOMATO CAN’T GROW IN THE BRONX by BWW News DeskBroadwayWorld.comApr. 14, 2020 TweetShare While waiting for the post-COVID 19 premiere of their new funny drama about racial harmony A Black and White Cookie, Playwright Gary Morgenstein and Director Joan Kane are teaming up to present an exclusive live online reading of Morgenstein’s […]
Alexa: Play First Online!
First Online With Fran’s podcast There’s No Place Like Art is now live on Alexa!
Raising awareness of our civic responsibility: KILL SWITCH
Raising awareness of our civic responsibility is a mission of The Arts. Jaclyn S. Powell’s prescient screenplay KILL SWITCH is a story about a well-liked, but self-absorbed and politically ambivalent Manhattan doctor who becomes sucked into the politics of money when he discovers he’s unwittingly the heart of a government conspiracy to control health care […]
All About Image/We Are The Elite
Marcina Zaccaria’s All About Image/We Are The Elite Directed by Tony Tambasco A drama written in the present time, taking place in New York City and other parts of the U.S., All About Image/ We are the Elite is a journey of the people who make images. In the process of capturing and making […]
The First 100 Stories Campaign
First Online With Fran: The First 100 Stories Campaign National Arts in Education Week, September 8 -14. In July 2010, Congress designated the second week of September as National Arts In Education Week to promote and showcase the immense role arts education has in producing engaged, successful, and college and career-ready students. To that end, First Online with Fran is launching The First 100 Stories Campaign. The Arts continue to be cut from school curriculums across the nation. Despite arts advocacy groups’ efforts to prevent the decline of arts inclusion, the budgetary solution remains to be that the arts are perceived as extra-curricular and disposable. In Chris Cleave’s novel Little Bee, the central character decided to right a wrong by collecting stories: “One story makes you weak. But as soon as we have one-hundred stories, you will be strong.” Similarly, we can do the same for the Arts. Here’s how: Let’s hear it from you: Teachers! Students! Graduates! Parents! … Submit Your Testimonial...
