{"id":58,"date":"2007-12-04T15:46:09","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T15:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/humanrightsresearch.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/04\/christopher-gunness-lecture-and-pentecost-performance\/"},"modified":"2007-12-04T15:46:09","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T15:46:09","slug":"christopher-gunness-lecture-and-pentecost-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/2007\/12\/04\/christopher-gunness-lecture-and-pentecost-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Gunness Lecture and &#8220;Pentecost&#8221; Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Christopher Gunness, spokesperson for the UN Relief Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, will lecture on &#8220;Chaos, Refugees, and Gaza Today&#8221; on <strong>Thursday, December 6\u00a0at 4 p.m. at Jorgensen Gallery<\/strong>, prior to a 7:30 \u00a0p.m. performance of the play, <em>Pentecost.\u00a0 <\/em><\/font><font size=\"2\"><em>Pentecost,<\/em> written by Tony Award-winning playwright David Edgar\u00a0 is being performed November\u00a029 through December 7 at Jorgensen.\u00a0\u00a0 A brief synopsis of the play is below:<\/font><font size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">Tony Award-winning playwright David Edgar\u2019s (<em>Nicholas Nickleby<\/em>) epic play <em>Pentecost <\/em>\u00a0is one part artistic whodunit and one part hostage thriller.\u00a0 The authenticity of a newly-discovered painting, found in an Eastern European church, presents a tantalizing puzzle that could permanently alter our concepts of art.\u00a0 Cultures clash in the debate among a curator, art historian, church official and even tourists who are then suddenly taken hostage by a group of asylum-seeking refugees from a variety of world trouble spots.\u00a0 David Edgar\u2019s extraordinary language is often compared to Bernard Shaw\u2019s in this incendiary collision between art and politics that New York Times critic Alvin Klein said, &#8220;sets the brain spinning in the highest gear; there\u2019s no controlling where wonderment will fly or land.&#8221; <em>Contains adult sexual content and male nudity.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Gunness is a former BBC News reporter and served as UN spokesman in Sarajevo during the Balkan Wars. He will speak on chaos, refugees, and US foreign policy in today&#8217;s Gaza.\u00a0 His talk will be followed by a reception.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The lecture is free and open to the public.\u00a0 Tickets for the performance of <em>Pentecost <\/em>are $16.50- $28.\u00a0 Tickets and information are available at the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crt.uconn.edu\/shows\">Jorgensen box office.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The lecture and performances are sponsored by the Foundations of Humanitarianism program in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Human Rights Institute, and the Humanities Institute.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Gunness, spokesperson for the UN Relief Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, will lecture on &#8220;Chaos, Refugees, and Gaza Today&#8221; on Thursday, December 6\u00a0at 4 p.m. at Jorgensen Gallery, prior to a 7:30 \u00a0p.m. performance of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/2007\/12\/04\/christopher-gunness-lecture-and-pentecost-performance\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NL7Z-W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}