The Sonnet Project from the NY Shakespeare Exchange is a massive multi-artist, internet-based interpretation of Shakespeare's sonnets. 154 actors ~ 154 locations ~ 154 films ~ 154 SONNETS. Starting on April of 2013 celebrating Shakespeare's birthday, NY Shakespeare Exchange will release short films representing each sonnet. We are bringing 154 different actors together with over 100 film directors to create inspiring and creative versions of Shakespeare's magical poems. Each film will be shot on location at a unique NYC location. From the iconic to the ephemeral, the locations will put the poetry of NYC into direct contact with the poetry of The Bard.
We can too easily forget that even Romeo and Juliet was radical in its own time, setting young love above what has in the last few years become known in British law as âforced marriage.â If there is any Shakespeare work that can be seen as directly prompting a total reversal in social attitudes it is there.
Andrew Gurr, The Shakespearean Stage 1574-1642 (via shakespeaker)
No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change:
Thy pyramids built up with newer might
To me are nothing novel, nothing strange;
They are but dressings of a former sight.
O! never say that I was false of heart,
Though absence seemed my flame to qualify,
As easy might I from my self depart
As from my soul which in thy breast doth lie:
Sonnet 109 at Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island
Your love and pity doth the impression fill,
Which vulgar scandal stamped upon my brow;
For what care I who calls me well or ill,
So you oâer-green my bad, my good allow?
Sonnet 112 at the Andrew Haswell Green Memorial Bench, Central Park
With your help, our non-profit arts organization can put on productions of Hamlet and The Rape of Lucrece in NYC. Plus, our educational Sonnet Project will get off the ground, helping to teach high schoolers around the country about Shakespeareâs sonnets.
God bless thee; and put meekness in thy breast,
Love, charity, obedience, and true duty!
-Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare
The New York Shakespeare Exchange just launched their fundraising campaign for 2016. The season is going to be fantastic! They are producing Hamlet and a new adaptation of one of Shakespeareâs poems called The Rape of Lucrece. And, The Sonnet Project is kicking ass all over the world and rolling out new educational programs soon.
NYSX is growing fast and on top of everything else, next year will be their first season of two full shows. Itâs all very exciting. Take a look at their fundraising website and see all the tickets they offer as donation rewards. itâs a great time to get involved with one of the hottest young companies in NYC.
Thanks!
In Sonnet 77, the poet encourages his beloved to preserve his thoughts in writing, as they watch themselves age.
Here, Shakespeare warns his lover that the mirror will show how their beauty is wearing away, the clock how their precious minutes are disappearing; the pages of this blank notebook will record their thoughts; and they may learn the following things from those thoughts: The wrinkles in the mirror will remind them of open graves. By the hands of your clock, they will learn how time keeps stealing away to eternity. By writing reminders on these blank pages, when they encounter those thoughts again, the children of your brain, theyâll be grown up, nourished by continued reflection. Theyâll be like a new acquaintance. Doing these things often will fill the tome with memories
Willâs Wordplay
The poem has been taken as referring to the gift of a blank-book or book of tablets, perhaps to the beloved, although some have suggested a more distant friendship than that in the other sonnets. It is also hypothesized that the poem relates specifically to the Rival Poet: knowing that he has lost favor, Shakespeare makes a present of this blank book to the beloved, who will now have to fill it himself, since Shakespeare has fallen silent.
In Sonnet 77, the poet encourages his beloved to preserve his thoughts in writing, as they watch themselves age.
Here, Shakespeare warns his lover that the mirror will show how their beauty is wearing away, the clock how their precious minutes are disappearing; the pages of this blank notebook will record their thoughts; and they may learn the following things from those thoughts: The wrinkles in the mirror will remind them of open graves. By the hands of your clock, they will learn how time keeps stealing away to eternity. By writing reminders on these blank pages, when they encounter those thoughts again, the children of your brain, theyâll be grown up, nourished by continued reflection. Theyâll be like a new acquaintance. Doing these things often will fill the tome with memories
Willâs Wordplay
The poem has been taken as referring to the gift of a blank-book or book of tablets, perhaps to the beloved, although some have suggested a more distant friendship than that in the other sonnets. It is also hypothesized that the poem relates specifically to the Rival Poet: knowing that he has lost favor, Shakespeare makes a present of this blank book to the beloved, who will now have to fill it himself, since Shakespeare has fallen silent.
This film is the perfect confluence of modern NYC, Shakespeare, and the rhythm of Americaâs own London.
But wherefore do not you a mightier way
Make war upon this bloody tyrant, Time?
And fortify your self in your decay
With means more blessed than my barren rhyme?
God bless thee; and put meekness in thy breast,
Love, charity, obedience, and true duty!
-Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare
The New York Shakespeare Exchange just launched their fundraising campaign for 2016. The season is going to be fantastic! They are producing Hamlet and a new adaptation of one of Shakespeareâs poems called The Rape of Lucrece. And, The Sonnet Project is kicking ass all over the world and rolling out new educational programs soon.
NYSX is growing fast and on top of everything else, next year will be their first season of two full shows. Itâs all very exciting. Take a look at their fundraising website and see all the tickets they offer as donation rewards. itâs a great time to get involved with one of the hottest young companies in NYC.
Thanks!
âThe green eyes pierce the night, arresting pedestrians who notice the mute blinking orbs above the bustle of Herald Square in Manhattan. But for the most part, the glowing specters go unnoticed by manyâŠ.
It comes from the eyes of two stern-looking bronze owls perched atop a tall granite monument in the northern part of the park in Herald Square. They are among New York Cityâs more obscure architectural oddities. Lighting up every night from dusk until dawn, they can be seen blocks away, their blinks lasting approximately two seconds. But they are not modern additions.
The owls have glowed nightly, barring periodic electrical disruptions, since the monument was completed in 1940, and they were lighting up elsewhere even earlier than that.
If they appear mysterious to people now â recent hypotheses from passers-by included National Security Agency surveillance, Halloween decoration and pigeon deterrent â then some midcentury New Yorkers were probably downright frightened by them.
The eyes are made from thick, green-tinted glass. Green LEDs were installed behind them in a 2007 restoration. Before then, incandescent bulbs sat in the owlsâ skulls and projected as green through the glass, Don Bussolini, a capital projects director for the 34th Street Partnership, said.
How these green-eyed owls first came to be is stranger than most would imagine.
The two owls were once part of a flock of 22 that roosted along the roofline of the old New York Herald newspaper building, for which the square was named. The owls lit up on the hour with the ringing of a clock bell that was part of the building.â
âAlex Vadkul, The New York Times, 2013 [1]
âThe building was designed by Stanford White (of the leading firm McKim, Mead & White, architects of this Museum) on commission from the newspaperâs flamboyant publisher, James Gordon Bennett, Jr.
Bennett also conceived the array of bronze roof sculptures, installed in 1895. The central figure group, commissioned in Paris from the French sculptor Antonin Jean Paul Carles (1851â1919), featured the Roman war goddess Minerva presiding over two hammer-wielding blacksmiths, who flank a large bell. The stately owls that edged the rest of the roofline were electrified so that their glass eyes glowed and blinked in time with the hammered toning of the hours. Bennett had a penchant for owlsâthe official emblem of the Heraldâand collected both live and sculpted ones. Neither the designer nor the foundry responsible for these owls has yet been identified.
In 1939 (by which time the demolition of the Herald Building was nearly complete) Minerva, the bell-ringer group, and two of the four winged owls were installed in Herald Square as the James Gordon Bennett Memorial.â [2]
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