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Alice Live!
To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Alice’s Adventure’s in Wonderland, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts will present the exhibit Alice Live! The exhibit will trace the history of Lewis Carroll’s immortal Alice stories in live performance from their first professional staging in 1886 to the present day. Alice... [read full post]
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Behind the Scenes of Alice in Wonderland (2010)
New Snark choral piece charms with smiles and soap.Go behind-the-scenes and see what went into the making of the modern live-action Disney production of “Alice in Wonderland” (2010). With visual and motion effects by Sony Pictures Imageworks, Alice’s adventures come to life in truly wondrous ways. Running time: 14 mins. This will be shown every half hour.
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Go Ask Alice: Alice, Wonderland, and Popular Culture
Read all about it: Dame Gillian's lecture on "Alice in Time"'Go Ask Alice': Alice, Wonderland and Popular Culture, explores Alice parodies and ephemera for viewers of all ages, in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the publication of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the beloved children's story by Lewis Carroll. The exhibition draws material from Fales Library’s Alfred C. Berol Collection, the largest collection of Lewis Carroll... [read full post]
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Alice150 at the Brooklyn Books, Art, Photos and Design Expo
Celebration of Mind II - Sign up!Representatives of Alice150 will have a table at the Expo to engage attendees in conversation about the Alice150 celebration, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Lewis Carroll. Stephanie Lovett, the president of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America will be one of those present. There will be performance readings of a chapter from Alice twice... [read full post]
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Theatrical Reading of the Mad Tea Party
Mary BlairAt the Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza September 19, 2015 The LCSNA will be staging an Official Bookend Event for the Brooklyn Book Festival! We will be doing a reading of the Mad Tea Party and answering questions at the Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza at 11:00 on Saturday, September 19.... [read full post]
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Alice in a World of Wonderlands
Bobby Fischer meets Alice in the work of Norberto ContiThis is an exhibition of many translations of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This is an outgrowth of the compiling of the book by the same name. Well over one hundred translators and scholars contributed to the 3 volume compendium of foreign language Alice knowledge.
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Alice at Columbia
Chang Octagon Gallery, Rare Book and Manuscript Library Butler Library, 6th Floor, East, Columbia University, New York, NY, United StatesThis exhibit is about Alice Hargreaves being awarded an honorary Ph.D. in 1932, on the occasion of the centenary of Lewis Carroll's birth. The degree was awarded based on the fact that Alice as a child implored Carroll to write down the tale he had begun on a fateful rowing trip. There was much fanfare... [read full post]
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The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland
Pee Wee Players Alice in WonderlandIn his latest book, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Magdalen College, University of Oxford, illuminates the friendship between Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alice Liddell, the child for whom he invented the Alice stories. Douglas-Fairhurst examines how this relationship stirred Carroll’s imagination and influenced the creation of Wonderland. A book signing follows the talk. The exhibition Alice: 150... [read full post]
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Alice: 150 Years of Wonderland
Pee Wee Players Alice in WonderlandThis exhibition will bring to light the curious history of Wonderland, presenting an engaging account of the genesis, publication, and enduring appeal of Lewis Carroll's classic tale, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. For the first time in three decades, the original manuscript will travel from the British Library in London to New York, where it will be... [read full post]
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LCSNA Spring 2015 Meeting
Harry Ransom Center University of Texas, Austin, TXThe fabled Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, home to three legendary Carroll collections (Warren Weaver, Helmut Gernsheim, Byron W. and Susan R. Sewell), hosted our meeting on April 18. We began with a tour of their fabulous sesquicentennial exhibit, led by Dr. Danielle Sigler, its curator. After lunch, Dr. Francine Abeles, Professor Emerita... [read full post]
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