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Contrariwise Kickstarter Update and New YouTube Clip

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This just in….

“First, I want to offer our thanks for posting a link to our album pre-sale for “Contrariwise: Songs from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland andThrough the Looking-Glass” on your site. I don’t know if you post any updates on projects in process, but we have 63 hours left and have only met about 30% of our goal. The homepage for our campaign is: http://igg.me/at/Contrariwise and here’s our most recent video update showing a session where we added “hundreds of voices” to the chorus of “Queen Alice” by recording in a former bank lobby, as well as a clip us performing “They told me you had been to her… ” at the Hilltown Spring Festival: http://youtu.be/9CrwC9ErDEM
We thank you ninety-times-nine!
Daniel Hales, on behalf of Daniel hales, and the frost heaves.”

So, if you like indie/alternative music and enjoy supporting Carrollian music projects, you might want to check out their links before their fundraising campaign expires.

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Baba Studio Alice Bags and Tarot Deck

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If shopping for Carrollian goodies is your “bag,” then you might want to check out Baba Studio’s web site, if you haven’t already done so.  They have quite a selection of Alice-themed bags.  To see the results of a search for “Wonderland” on their site, click me.

Baba Studio is also hard at work on a gorgeous-looking new Alice Tarot, for those of you who enjoy prognosticating with the help of a Tarot Deck, or for those of you who simply enjoy collecting unusual Alice items with nifty artwork.  You can follow the progress of the deck’s creation on this Facebook page.

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A Site About Wonderland on the Web

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they were trying to put the Dormouse into the teapotRecent Carleton College graduate Lauren Millikan has created a web site called “Curiouser and Curiouser: The Evolution of Wonderland.”  Here is a brief description of the site’s purpose, from the “About” page:

“The internet is a pretty crazy place. It’s very easy to get lost in it. Many of the people that you meet are very rude. Most of the things you see and read don’t make any sense. And even though it can’t make you grow taller or shorter, (except perhaps by spine compression if you sit in front of a computer for too long) the internet is a lot like Wonderland. This site is dedicated to exploring two questions: 1) how the experience of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Chapters 5, 6, and 7) changes when experienced through the medium of the internet and 2) how this medium can be used to track how Wonderland has evolved in readers’ imaginations.”

To visit Lauren’s site, click me.

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A Call for Unpublished Carrollian Games and Puzzles

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The White RabbitThis just in from Chris Morgan:

“Oh Dear, How Puzzling It All Is”

I am currently editing Volume 5 in the LCSNA’s The Pamphlets of Lewis Carroll series, this one about “Games and Puzzles.” In addition to all of the relevant pamphlets, I would like to get copies of any unpublished Carroll letters and other manuscripts that mention games and puzzles, so I can cite them in the book. I would also like to cite any games and puzzles that have appeared over the years that have been inspired by Carroll’s ideas.  Any information about these topics would be greatly appreciated.
 – Chris Morgan
  morgan@bookgenius.org

Time is fleeting!  If you can help Chris, please do contact him directly as soon as possible with the details of what you have.  Thanks for your contribution to Carrollian scholarship!

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Alice Out of Print and Onto Fabric

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I think it’s safe to say that the Alice books will never go “out of print” regardless of what form “print” takes in the future.  There is, however, a nifty online store called outofprintclothing.com that has a mission of creating literary-themed clothing and other objects.  And, of course, Alice rates her own page with a half dozen items!

As fate would have it, I happened to see one of the tote bags in person this week on someone’s arm here in trend-setting NYC, and it looked quite spiffy and substantial.  Plus the tote itself is made in Brooklyn, which adds to the cool factor.

To browse and shop, click here.

 

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Iris Theatre Presents a Month of Wonderland and a Night of Snark

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News from London-town!  The Iris Theatre will be presenting two Carrollian productions in coming months, performed at St. Paul’s Church in Covent Garden.  Click the links below for more information about these performances:

Alice in Wonderland 
July 30-August 31st

And for one night only:
The Hunting of the Snark
September 1st

If you attend either of these, please do send us a paragraph telling us about the production.  Thanks!

 

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Another Lewis Carroll-Themed Song Cycle

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Composer Bruce Lazarus posted a link on our Facebook page about The Lewis Carroll Project, his art song cycle dedicated to the life and works of Lewis Carroll.  Lazarus has drawn his libretto from both well-known and lesser-known Carroll writings, including The Game of Logic and a letter to a child friend.  You can read more about the project and listen to “The Mad Gardener’s Song” by clicking here.

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A Nice Review for the Strawdog Snark in Chicago

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The recent Strawdog Theatre Company production of The Hunting of the Snark  has softly and suddenly vanished away, but Josh Sobel, the production’s director and the company’s literary manager, just sent me this link to their rave review.  Who knows, maybe this Snark will surface again, in Chicago, NY, or at a theatre near you!

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A Lovely Review for “A Perfect Likeness” by Daniel Singer

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If you attended our Spring 2013 meeting in Winston-Salem, NC, then you already know LCSNA member Daniel Singer’s new play about a fictional meeting between Lewis Carroll and Charles Dickens was warmly received.  In case you missed it, you can read a glowing review here.  Congratulations, Dan!  We look forward to more productions of this play.

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Alice and the Challenge of Depicting a Dream in Literature

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One of our Mimsy Minions submitted this link to a blog post from the New York Review of Books about the difficult (and perhaps impossible) challenge writers face when attempting to depict a dream.  Alice, of course, features prominently in the discussion.  And the post is appropriately illustrated with odd images from the late, great Edward Gorey.  To read the post, click here.

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