Theater of War Productions - An Enemy of The People Feb 22 + 24

Cast Update! 

We are thrilled to announce that Kathryn Erbe, Frankie Faison, and Peter Francis James have joined the cast of An Enemy of the People on February 22 and 24, alongside David Strathairn, Francis Collins, Vivian Pinn, Victor Dzau, Brían F. O’Byrne, Jay O. Sanders, Keshia Pollack Porter, Gloria Addo-Ayensu, and many more! The project will present live dramatic readings of scenes from Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 play An Enemy of the People to frame powerful audience discussions about the challenges to public in our culture today. Register below to attend in person or online! Check individual listings for confirmed cast members each night, as casts will vary and are subject to change. An Enemy of the People: A Public Health Project Thursday, February 22, 2024 7:00 pm - 9:30pm EST Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center 555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20001 Featuring performances by David Strathairn (Nomadland), Frankie Faison (The Wire), Kathryn Erbe (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), Peter Francis James (Oz), Jay O. Sanders (True Detective), Brían F. O'Byrne (The Wonder), Marjolaine Goldsmith (Company Manager of Theater of War Productions), Monica Feit (Executive Director, Health and Medicine Division, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine), Jeffrey Kahn (Director, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics), Keshia Pollack Porter (Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health), Tshaka Cunningham (Chief Scientific Officer, Polaris Genomics), Gloria Addo-Ayensu (Director of Health, Fairfax County Health Department), Emily Packard Dawson (Program Officer, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine), Nancy Kass (Deputy Director for Public Health, Berman Institute of Bioethics), Graham Sack (Filmmaker, Dracopoulos-Bloomberg iDeas Lab Fellow), Grelia Steele (Global Continuity and Crisis Manager, Guidehouse), Peter Marks (Former Chief Theater Critic, The Washington Post), Matthew Frieman (Viral Pathogen Research Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine), and Joshua M. Sharfstein (Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health). Register to attend in person or online An Enemy of the People: A Public Health Project Saturday, February 24, 2024 7:00 pm - 9:30pm EST National Academy of Sciences  2101 Constitution Ave, NW Washington, DC 20418 Featuring performances by David Strathairn (Nomadland), Frankie Faison (The Wire), Kathryn Erbe (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), Peter Francis James (Oz), Jay O. Sanders (True Detective), Brían F. O'Byrne (The Wonder), Francis Collins (Former Director, National Institutes of Health), Monica Feit (Executive Director, Health and Medicine Division, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine), Jeffrey Kahn (Director, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics), Keshia Pollack Porter (Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health), Victor Dzau (President, National Academy of Medicine), Vivian Pinn (Senior Scientist Emerita at the NIH Fogarty International Center), Ruth Faden (Berman Institute Founder; Philip Franklin Wagley Professor of Biomedical Ethics), Grelia Steele (Global Continuity and Crisis Manager, Guidehouse), Peter Marks (former chief theater critic, The Washington Post), Gloria Addo-Ayensu (Director of Health, Fairfax County Health Department), Graham Sack (Filmmaker, Dracopoulos-Bloomberg iDeas Lab Fellow), Nancy Kass (Deputy Director for Public Health, Berman Institute of Bioethics), Joshua M. Sharfstein (Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health), Marjolaine Goldsmith (Company Manager, Theater of War Productions), and Emily Packard Dawson (Program Officer, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine). Register to attend online

 
I will register have registered (online). There is a production of An Enemy of the People in London, but it is expensive from NW England.

This afternoon I enjoyed a delayed appointment with DUNE 2021 Part 1 IMAX, a brilliant cinematic experience that includes a performance by Oscar Isaac as Duke Leto Atreides.

See also: Ibsen , theatre ...

Guinea worm announcement

c/o The Carter Center Guinea Worm Eradication Program

"13 Human Cases of Guinea Worm Reported in 2023 – Remaining at the Lowest Level Since the Eradication Campaign Began"

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mental health emotional distress anxiety - impact on life chances, ability to study, earn knowledge - awareness my health literacy access to knowledge brokers respect what is 'old' but what is new - insight?

"Dracunculiasis is a crippling parasitic disease on the verge of eradication, with 27 human cases reported in 2020. From the time infection occurs, it takes between 10–14 months for the transmission cycle to complete. About this time, a mature female worm emerges from the body. The parasite is transmitted mostly when people drink stagnant water contaminated with parasite-infected water fleas. Dracunculiasis was endemic in 20 countries in the mid-1980s."

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"March 27 is the anniversary of the start of the Guinea worm cease-fire that former U.S. President Jimmy Carter brokered in 1995 during the Second Sudanese Civil War."

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SUN & AMON (2018). Addressing Inequity: Neglected Tropical Diseases and Human Rights. Health and Human Rights, 20(1), 11–25. http://www.jstor.org/stable/90023050	"Two boys drink through pipe filters at Kuse Dam, Terekeka County, Southern Sudan, in 2010. During the 1995 Guinea worm cease-fire, health workers distributed 200,000 cloth household filters. Both types of filter strain Guinea worm larvae out of water, making it safe to drink."
Curtis, V. (2011). Why disgust matters. Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, 366(1583), 3478–3490. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23035750	AMON & ADDISS (2018). “Equipping Practitioners”: Linking Neglected Tropical Diseases and Human Rights. Health and Human Rights, 20(1), 5–10. http://www.jstor.org/stable/90023049

See also: 'Noma'

My source: Times Radio UK