Mark Jaster - A Fool Named "O"

Famous Mime, Mark Jaster, will perform his one-man show A Fool Named “O”

Developed and featured at the Maryland Renaissance Festival, “O” uses the simplest of props: a wooden hoop, a cloth, and some musical instruments (and non-instruments!) that might have been available to a medieval fool, and engages the audience in some really old-fashioned fun.  

Audiences of all ages and backgrounds have enjoyed Mark Jaster’s kinetic humor, playful interaction, musical wit and inventive imagination. His skills in mime were developed in training with 20th-century masters Marcel Marceau and his teacher, E. Decroux, along with careful observation of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harpo Marx. Jaster served as teaching assistant to Mr. Marceau in a series of seminars in Michigan, and he teaches frequently in Artist residencies, theatres, and dance programs. Mark is also co-director of Happenstance Theater.

Mark Jaster - Piccolo's Trunk

His work combines live music on unusual instruments and non-instruments, outrageous acrobatics, and hyper-advanced communication skills with honest, gentle humor and playful interaction, obliterating many a skeptic’s antipathy toward mime. The Washington Post called Mark Jaster a “clown extraordinaire and one of the most graceful performers you will ever see on a stage.” The Baltimore Sun called him “immensely gifted.”

Read more about Mark at his website http://www.markjaster.com/index.htm

Saturday, January 21, 2012

3:00 pm

at the 

Aspen Hill L ibrary

4407 Aspen Hill Road

Aspen Hill, Maryland  

Free admission – all are welcome!

sponsored by the Friends of the Aspen Hill Library

Karen Currie, Vice President of the Potomac Chapter, eats dinner at Potomac Pizza in the Potomac Promenade on Monday, November 28, with other FOL members and supporters. Twenty percent of the profits for the night were donated to the Friends of the Library.

Sunday, December 4, 2011 from 2:00-3:00 p.m.

Rockville Memorial Library’s first floor meeting room.

This program is suitable for youths between the ages 13-18.

Join us for an exciting afternoon as a member of the performing group Step Afrika! offers a one-hour workshop teaching step dancing.

“Step Afrika is the first professional company in the world dedicated to the tradition of stepping. Founded in December 1994, the company is critically-acclaimed for its efforts to promote an understanding of and appreciation for stepping and the dance tradition’s use as an educational tool for young people worldwide.”

─ http://www.stepafrika.org/

Participation is limited to 35 youth aged 13-18. Registration is required.

1.  Go to the registration webpage

http://bit.ly/vGQbfd

2.  Enter the required information

3.  Important! Click the “Complete Registration” button at the bottom

Rockville Memorial Library’s first floor meeting room.

This program is suitable for anyone over the age of 12.

Two debut authors discuss their women-centric world-wise novels

Join us in a lively discussion with two acclaimed Washington-area debut authors whose books transport you into the lives of compelling women in another time, another place:

• The Civilized World, an O Magazine “Book to Pick Up Now,” by Susi Wyss — a glorious literary novel in stories set in Africa, follows five Ghanaian and American women, two of them haunted by a shared tragedy, as their lives intersect in unexpected and sometimes explosive ways.

Susi Wyss earned a master’s degree in fiction writing from Johns Hopkins University, and has received various grants and awards, including two Artist Awards from the Maryland State Arts Council. She currently lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, where she balances creative writing with her work at Jhpiego, a Baltimore-based international health organization. Her debut novel in stories, The Civilized World, is inspired by her 20-year career in international health.

www.susiwyss.com

• The Calligrapher’s Daughter, 2009 Borders Original Voices Award winner, by Eugenia Kim — a sweeping debut, inspired by the life of the author’s mother, about a young woman who dares to fight for a brighter future in early twentieth-century occupied Korea.

Eugenia Kim is the daughter of Korean immigrant parents who came to America shortly after the Pacific War. She has published short stories and essays in several anthologies and journals, including Potomac Review, and Asia Literary Review. An MFA graduate of Bennington College, Eugenia teaches fiction at Fairfield University’s MFA Creative Writing Program. She lives in Washington, DC. The Calligrapher’s Daughter is her first novel.

www.thecalligraphersdaughter.com