Dennis Shafer, Creativity Legacy Winner from 2008, will join with fellow Chagall Performance Art Collaborative artists to present Choose Your Own Adventure Series Premier Concert on Friday, March 26 at 8 pm. This unique musical adventure will take place at Jewett Hall, First Church of Cambridge, 11 Garden Street in Cambridge. Tickets are $10 and can be reserved by contacting Sounds in Bloom at soundsinbloom@gmail.com
David Bauer, Creativity Legacy Winner for 2005, will be heading to Oxford in the fall as a Rhodes Scholar, working on a doctorate in chemistry and genetics. Congratulations and Bon Voyage!! David spent several weeks Liberia in the spring, helping science and math teachers in remote villages. He will be teaching chemistry this summer at City College of New York before heading to England.
Eric Kandel’s (Creativity Laureate 2003) book In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind tells his life story and describes breakthroughs in our knowledge of learning and memory. For more about the book visit Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Search-Memory-Emergence-Science-Mind/dp/0393058638
At the Inauguration of President Obama, Yo-Yo Ma (Creativity Laureate 2001), along with Itzhak Perlman on violin, Gabriela Montero on piano and Anthony McGill on clarinet, performed ‘Air and Simple Gifts,‘ written for the occasion by John Williams. To read about the performance and see a video, visit the NY Times website: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/arts/music/23band.html.