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For over thirty years, photographer Wendy Ewald has worked collaboratively with children around the world to create a portrait of childhood. Greater Boston Arts traces Wendy's career through her "Secret Games" retrospective exhibition at the RISD Museum to her current project, an Art ConText-sponsored residency at Providence's Carl G. Lauro Memorial Elementary School. Here Ewald works with a group of students to make an exhibit of photographs and video that offers visitors both a look into the inner lives of the children and a picture of what it is to struggle to learn to read. "Secret Games" co-curator Adam Weinberg explains that Ewald has always worked to erase the traditional boundaries between photographer and subject, sharing with children the means and ability to capture what they feel is most important about themselves. For more on Wendy Ewald visit the highlight. Secret Games: Wendy Ewald Collaborative Works With Children, 1969-1999 Greater Boston Arts gets a taste of the Boston actor's life with comic virtuoso and three-time Elliot Norton award winner John Kuntz. Whether he's rehearsing at home in his Allston apartment or performing on stage in the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, John displays his go-for-broke dramatic skills. As Boston Globe theater critic Ed Siegel explains, "John inhabits his characters to an almost frightening degree." Pigeon-holed early in his career as just the "gay waiter," John turned to writing and producing his own multiple character one-man shows to showcase his comic talents. Despite his current critical acclaim, John still struggles with what even the most accomplished actors in Boston face: the constant search for work in a field without job security. For the moment at least, John resists the siren call of New York or Los Angeles. Casting director Kevin Fennessy explains why: "the brass ring is not here, but the road to it is here." John Kuntz performs in For the past several years at Somerville's Burren pub, the Tarbox Ramblers have been filling the house every Saturday night with a raw, contemporary take on traditional American roots music. With the current popularity of roots music sparked by the film "O Brother Where Art Thou," Greater Boston Arts catches the Ramblers quartet - guitarist Mike Tarbox, bassist Johnny Sciascia, fiddler Daniel Kellar, and drummer Jon Cohan - in the heat of performance. Boston music critic Ted Drozdowski notes that the Ramblers avoid the usual pitfall of musical reverence by playing well-known traditional roots tunes (Blues, Gospel, and Appalachian hillbilly) with a jazz-like improvisational dynamic and a "teeth-gritting" punk rock energy. Inspired by blues legends like Howlin' Jack Wolf, the Ramblers' artistic goal is not academic imitation but capturing the "fierce and mysterious" spirit that infused the music of the early blues players.
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