Tag: Their Stories: Unidentified Portraits from the Thomas Bouckley Collection
Monday, March 21, 2016
RMG Fridays April – HIP HOPera, what?!
Next month, RMG Fridays is on April 1st, and the killer line up is no April Fools joke! We are combining two classic genres of music for one amazing night. This April, RMG Fridays is bringing together hip-hop and opera, the ultimate mash up! This exciting mash up will be a one-of-a-kind experience for RMG…
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Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Their Stories: Final Stories
For the last blog posting featuring three Their Stories submissions, it includes 2 of the most popular portrait subjects. In choosing the unidentified portraits that would be the options, I was looking for ones that were intriguing or suggested a narrative. I was at times surprised at the amount of submissions received for some portraits…
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Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Their Stories: Poetry by Freda Jepson
This week’s Their Stories postings are both poems by the same person: Whitby native Freda Jepson. Freda submitted 5 poems, despite the limit of 2 submissions. She dropped them off in person, and her enthusiasm for the project was contagious. It’s always nice to see someone take an idea and run with it! Freda Jepson…
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Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Their Stories post featuring two creative dating profiles!
In celebration of Valentine’s Day, this week’s Their Stories post features two dating profiles that end up a perfect match. Love is in the air! Portrait #1 Photo received by Matchmaker Dolly, with completed application as follows: Name: Donald Bence Arthur Age: 57 Height: 5’ 5” Weight: 168 lbs. Hair: mostly brown Eyes: depends on…
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Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Their Stories – Unidentified Portraits 3 and 9
This week’s Their Stories posting includes a letter and a short first-person story. Be inspired by one of the unidentified portraits and participate by posting on the wall in the exhibition space or in the comments below! Portrait #3 A lapsed Jesuit The day that I was asked to sit for this photograph was…
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Unidentified Portrait #2 – Story by Freda Jepson
This past fall, I put a call out to the community to submit creative writing entries to accompany unidentified portraits in The Thomas Bouckley Collection. With ten portraits to choose from, submissions included diary entries, letters, short stories, poetry and even a dating profile. I was so pleased with the number we received and the…
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