Stacey Deutsch Shoer (Class 1985)
Stacey will be honored at Temple Beth Am Women of Valor Luncheon on Wednesday, April 30, 2008. Temple Beth Am is celebrating “generations of women volunteer leaders who possess the qualities of taking action, giving to others, leading by example, and nurturing the future. These outstanding individuals have left their mark throughout this campus and have helped define the clear vision for our future and deserving community.” The keynote speaker is Adrienne Arsht. For more information please go to, Temple Beth Am.
Sheldon Deckelbaum (Class 1976)
Sheldon is directing the commissioned production of 1000 Homosexuals* at the Arsht Center April 10-13, 2008 - He just relocated back to South Florida (accepted a faculty appointment at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton). For more information please go online
http://www.carnivalcenter.org/tickets/tickets/production.aspx?performanceNumber=2445
*1000 Homosexuals will run April 10 through April 13. The play tells the story of Anita Bryant’s 1977 crusade against gay civil rights
Stephanie Ansin (Class 1990)
Stephanie, Artistic Director of The PlayGround Theatre’s The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party will open the bold new adaptation of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The play will be performed from March 29-April 13 at The PlayGround Theatre 9806 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami Shores; April 18-20 at the Colony Theater, 1040 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach. For more information please go online www.theplaygroundtheatre.com
Jeremy Haft (Class of 1988)
Has a new book out All the Tea in China. Jeremy will be reading and signing his book at Books & Books in Miami on March 9, 2008. Jeremy is a pioneer of China’s burgeoning marketplace and is the founder of BChinaB Inc., a contract manufacturing and logistics firm leveraging a network of more than eight thousand privately owned small and midsized factories in China. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
The China Business Network: http://thechinabusinessnetwork.com/China-Book-Authors/All-The-Tea-In-China.html
Leading Authorities - http://www.leadingauthorities.com/24362/Jeremy_Haft.htm
800CEORead - http://800ceoread.com/products/?ISBN=9781591841593
Brenden Marino Carbonell (Class 2003)
Brenden won First Prize for his Yale senior thesis in the Jorge Perez Lopez Student Prize Competition of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE). On March 13, 2008 Brenden will present his essay in New York City at The Graduate Center City University of New York (CUNY) during “A Changing Cuba in a Changing World” international conference. For additional information please go online http://www.cubasymposium.org/
Brenden is currently pursuing a JD/MA in partnership with the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Wharton Business School’s Lauder Institute. The master’s program in international studies offers advanced applied language studies. Brenden’s language concentration will be Russian.
Spencer Green (Class 1984)
Most recently, Spencer co-wrote the book and lyrics for “BUKOWSICAL!”, a musical about the infamous and besotted poet/writer Charles Bukowski, which won Outstanding Musical at last year's New York International Fringe Festival. Here is the "Bukowsical" promo on "Youtube."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G_u3WNpDew
Shelby “Chip” Highsmith (Class 1992)
Chip is “making some ripples in the amateur journalism world.” In the first week of January, Chip was in Des Moines, IA, providing live and YouTube video coverage of the caucuses for the Huffington Post through their "Off the Bus" citizen journalism project; that got written up over at Wired.com at
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/01/welcome-to-the.html
Then onto MTV News. He was selected to cover Georgia for their Choose or Lose '08 Street Team, which, in departure from past election years when full- time MTV News employees covered politics at the national level,
consists this year of 51 citizen journalists (many with no formal training in the field) assigned to cover youth issues in a way that bridges the local and national. The official release is at
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1576844/20071219/id_0.jhtml
Debra Braman Wechsler (Class of 1978)
Debra and Jeffrey Wechsler delight in their art-filled home. The Wechlser’s art collection includes a “vegetative sculpture of misshapen mélange of Day-Glo blues, pinks, and greens” from fellow RE alum, Cristina Lei Rodriguez ’92. http://www.miamiherald.com/274/story/336261.html
Rebeca Raney (Class of 1999)
Rebeca Raney’s “Body Library” Images show exhibiting at Monya Rowe Gallery.
Here is a link to some images from her show. The show will be up through January 5, 2008.
Jason Freeman (Class 1995)
Jason’s new piece was commissioned by Carnival Center and will premier next week. The full details of the show are below. Jason received a doctorate from Columbia University and is now on the music technology faculty at Georgia Tech in Atlanta.
Flock - contemporary music, Produced by iSAW - Additional support for Flock has been provided by the Funding Arts Network, Inc., Georgia Tech Foundation and the GVU Center at Georgia Tech.
December 6, 7, 8 @ 8 p.m.
December 7 @ 10 a.m.
December 8 @ 2 p.m.
In Flock, you, the members of the audience, will play a central role in creating a groundbreaking world premiere event, along with computers, electronic transmitters, and a quartet of saxophones, that coolest of all cool musical instruments. A "Miami Made" Carnival Center commission, Flock is designed by composer Jason Freeman to make new connections between composers, performers, and audiences, while the piece takes off in a new direction every night, each time a new flock of spectators becomes part of the three-way collaboration. This is your chance to participate in the process of making art; you will be amazed at how entertaining that can be.
Studio Theater
Generously underwritten by Mitchell & Elizabeth A. Taylor (12/7, evening performance); Ms. Dale Moses; Mr. and Mrs. Hebert A. Tobin (12/8, evening performance).
Press release about him and upcoming performances - PDF File
Links: http://music.columbia.edu/~jason/flock/
Cristina Lei Rodriguez (Class 1992)
Cristina’s sculpture was commissioned by Vizcaya’s Contemporary Arts Project, which began in 2006 and engages local as well as national leading artists in producing works of art inspired by Vizcaya.
"Rodriguez reinterprets topiaries found in Vizcaya’s formal gardens to create an eight-foot-tall sculpture for the Tea Room. Using inexpensive materials such as plastic and artificial plants to achieve a sense of beauty and grandeur, Rodriguez paradoxically mirrors Vizcaya founder James Deering’s vision through a twenty-first-century lens, referencing the struggle between natural elements and human intervention and the dynamic process of growth and decay." http://www.vizcayamuseum.org/programs-descriptions.asp#contemporary
Cristina’s exhibit will run through February 24, 2008.
More info:: http://flavorpill.com/miami/events/2007/11/8/vizcaya-s-contemporary-arts-project-cristina-lei-rodriguez
William F. Foote (Class 1986)
The prestigious “Ashoka: Innovators for the Public” Award recognizes Root Capital Founder William Foote’s successful efforts to help underserved communities in the developing world.
Ashoka elects emerging social entrepreneurs to an international Fellowship of their peers. Ashoka Fellows are recognized for their innovative solutions to some of society’s most pressing social problems. To learn more about Root Capital, visit www.rootcapital.org . For more information about Ashoka, visit www.ashoka.org
The induction ceremony will be on February 25, 2008
Location: Carnival Center in Miami
A series of induction activities will occur from February 24-26
