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Please join us! Date  Sat. Aug. 27, 2011 Time  8:40 p.m. Performance "Voices" and "In Amsterdam" excepts from "The Warrior Tree" The story of the performers' spontaneous artistic response to a terrorist  attack during an International Festival in Amsterdam Written by Sandra Hughes. Performed by Sandra Hughes, Michael Hickey Venue The Large Gallery Location American Friends Service Committee, Georgia Peace Center, 60 Walton Street, NW, Downtown Atlanta - 3 short blocks from the Five Points MARTA Station, Parking available on the street and at parking lots along Cone Street A Windows and Mirrors Exhibit Event Followed by: Reflections on War and Peace: A Performance Museum Saturday, August 27 at 9:00 pm until Midnight The performance evening will feature artists from multiple disciplines and connects to themes in the Windows and Mirrors exhibit. We challenge artists to consider and construct work around the social and cultural ways we conceive of war an...

Atlanta’s Art on the Beltline has selected sixty-six visual and performing art pieces to present along the 22-mile loop of proposed transit and urban green space. Water Is Life – Hidden Springs, Atlanta   (the performance piece I proposed) is included as part of this three month event which is now in its second year. *** One Saturday morning I join a number of the other artists to walk part of the Beltline to locate sites for our outdoor projects. Early into the hike a fellah walks up beside me and says, “Hi, Sandy”. “Hi.” "You’re from Erie,” says he. “I am,” says I. I look him over carefully and decide I don’t know him. He certainly seems to know me. *** Presque Isle, Erie PA - Oct. 2010   Photo: Sandra Hughes   Usually, only family  members and long time friends call me Sandy. Occasionally,  someone says it intuitively which I always appreciate because I actually prefer Sandy to Sandra. I adopted the use of my full, formal, first name some...

Some of you may have seen a performance of  my play for family audiences about the importance of honeybees at the Bug Out Festival at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta last August and September. A school version of Honeybees Are Important! will be performed Friday, February 25th at 11 a.m. – presented by Young Audiences at the Rich Auditorium at the Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta. Michael Hickey, Jerilynn Bedingfield and I (Sandra Hughes) utilize masks, music, drama, mime and dance to encourage students to experience, understand, participate and learn about the importance of honeybees to our food supply - as well as their important role as pollinators of  the food eaten by animals. In 2006 after working to help dying honeybees at the Findhorn Foundation in Scotland (with support from the Ford Foundation and Alternate ROOTS) I returned to the U.S. and founded The Bee Project with support from Gateway Performance Productions. The ...