“Microthrills” – Wendy Spero speaks at Google

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Wendy Spero is an actress, comedian, and writer who has performed on Comedy Central, VH1, NBC, and the Food Network. Her one woman show, “Microthrills”, won “Best Solo Show” at the ECNY awards. Her most recent solo show, “Who’s Your Daddy?”, which premiered at The NY International Fringe Festival in August 2003, had a year long run at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in NYC before being produced at the 2004 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!

Rough Crossings – Simon Schama Speaks at Google

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“Rough Crossings” is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon Schama follows the escaped blacks into the fires of the war, and into freezing, inhospitable Nova Scotia where many who had served the Crown were betrayed in their promises to receive land at the war’s end. Their fate became entwined with British abolitionists: inspirational figures such as Granville Sharp, the flute-playing father-figure of slave freedom, and John Clarkson, the ‘Moses’ of this great exodus, who accompanied the blacks on their final…... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!