Chicago Voices, Chicago Stories
Over the transom.
1. Oak Forest 9-Year-Old Wins Voice Part In Animated Film of The Boxcar Children.
Olivia Bell, a third-grader at Trinity Lutheran School in Tinley Park and resident of Oak Forest, will voice a small part in the upcoming animated adaptation of the classic book The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner.
The contest, run by the publisher of the series Albert Whitman & Company (Park Ridge, IL), took place in Fall 2012 to celebrate both the new film and the 70th Anniversary of the series.
The taping will take place on Thursday, March 21 in the Carol Stream studios of Oasis Audio, the publisher of the audio versions of many of the books in The Boxcar Children Mysteries books.
The director of the film, Mark Dippe, from Hammerhead Production, will direct Olivia in the role via phone.
Eh. Sounds a little gimmicky. But here’s the Wikpedia entry for The Boxcar Children.
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2. Poetry as Comedy.
From W. H. Auden to Lewis Carroll, John Updike to Ogden Nash, Ezra Pound to Dorothy Parker, some of our brightest poetic minds have enjoyed using their skills in works designed to tickle our funny bones.
This program will bushwhack through poetry in English, bouncing from Robert Lowell to Edward Lear, Emily Dickinson to Wallace Stevens, and Elizabeth Bishop to Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Under the direction of Second City founder Bernard Sahlins, a trio of Chicago’s finest actors will bring us an evening of poems and laughter.
This is a Poetry Foundation deal. The deets:
When: Sunday, March 24, 3 p.m./Monday, March 25, 7 p.m.
Where: Poetry Foundation, 61 West Superior Street
Admission: Free admission on a first-come, first-served basis
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3. Bridgeport Billy.
Nelson Algren Award winner Billy Lombardo will hold a craft talk titled Beginnings: Germs, Openings, and Discoveries at Roosevelt University at 5 p.m. on Monday, March 25 at the Gage Gallery, 18 S. Michigan Ave.
Lombardo will address the three beginnings of fiction, and will talk about the joys and dangers that come with the first crush of an idea and staying open to discovery.
He also promises to reveal the best piece of advice that no one ever told him about fiction writing.
Born and raised in Bridgeport, and currently a resident of Forest Park, Lombardo is the author of a number of books, including How to Hold a Woman, The Man with Two Arms, and The Logic of a Rose: Chicago Stories, as well as Meanwhile, Roxy Mourns, a collection of poetry and prose.
The 2011 recipient of the Nelson Algren Award for Short Story Fiction, Lombard also has won the G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction and his collection, The Logic of a Rose: Chicago Stories, was chosen by the Chicago Tribune as Best Fiction of 2005.
Free admission as well.
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Posted on March 20, 2013