Mari Steed \(Verizon\)
04-19-2004, 11:18 AM
For any of you SoCal folks near San Diego:
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MISSION VALLEY BRANCH LIBRARY (Immediately west of the IKEA store)
2123 Fenton parkway, San Diego, CA 92108
RECEPTION & DANCE PERFORMANCE choreographed by Alison Cutri and featuring
her dancers: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., Friday, April 9, 2004
HOURS: Mondays thru Fridays, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 6
p.m.; Sundays, 2 p.m. to 10 p.m.
PHONE: (858) 573-5007
"The Visual Arts Program of the San Diego Public Library is proud to host
'Maids & the Magdalene Laundries,' a visually stunning and thought-provoking
exhibition by one of San Diego's most skilled and socially aware artists,
Cheryl Parry.
Long inspired by important issues such as the environment and the work of
Rachel Carson, Parry now musters her creative forces to focus on one of the
most shocking and, until recent years, hidden chapters in the history of the
Catholic Church in Ireland. Between 1850 and 1996, tens of thousands of
girls and women fell victim to the excessively puritanical, Church-dominated
mores of the times. Judged unfit to live in Irish society for infractions
as minor as being too pretty or flirting, they were banished to the
convent-run Magdalene Laundries where many of them endured a life-time of
isolation, enslavement, and suffering. Known as Magdalenes, some were never
heard from again and were only recently rediscovered buried together in
unmarked graves.
Parry approaches her subjects, not as a sensationalist, but as an empathetic
spirit and commentator. Through an ambitious and sensitive series of works
that includes classically rendered paintings, assemblages of objects,
performance, and text, 'Maids & the Magdalene Laundries' subtly and
poetically explores the worlds of fantasy Parry believes the Magdalenes were
compelled to create in order to escape and transcend their harsh working
conditions and physical and mental abuse.
Parry is a gifted and versatile artist whose work offers beauty and
enlightenment. 'Maids & the Magdalene Laundries' promises to be a sobering,
yet uplifting, viewing experience." - M. Lugo
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Slan,
Mari Steed
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MISSION VALLEY BRANCH LIBRARY (Immediately west of the IKEA store)
2123 Fenton parkway, San Diego, CA 92108
RECEPTION & DANCE PERFORMANCE choreographed by Alison Cutri and featuring
her dancers: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., Friday, April 9, 2004
HOURS: Mondays thru Fridays, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 6
p.m.; Sundays, 2 p.m. to 10 p.m.
PHONE: (858) 573-5007
"The Visual Arts Program of the San Diego Public Library is proud to host
'Maids & the Magdalene Laundries,' a visually stunning and thought-provoking
exhibition by one of San Diego's most skilled and socially aware artists,
Cheryl Parry.
Long inspired by important issues such as the environment and the work of
Rachel Carson, Parry now musters her creative forces to focus on one of the
most shocking and, until recent years, hidden chapters in the history of the
Catholic Church in Ireland. Between 1850 and 1996, tens of thousands of
girls and women fell victim to the excessively puritanical, Church-dominated
mores of the times. Judged unfit to live in Irish society for infractions
as minor as being too pretty or flirting, they were banished to the
convent-run Magdalene Laundries where many of them endured a life-time of
isolation, enslavement, and suffering. Known as Magdalenes, some were never
heard from again and were only recently rediscovered buried together in
unmarked graves.
Parry approaches her subjects, not as a sensationalist, but as an empathetic
spirit and commentator. Through an ambitious and sensitive series of works
that includes classically rendered paintings, assemblages of objects,
performance, and text, 'Maids & the Magdalene Laundries' subtly and
poetically explores the worlds of fantasy Parry believes the Magdalenes were
compelled to create in order to escape and transcend their harsh working
conditions and physical and mental abuse.
Parry is a gifted and versatile artist whose work offers beauty and
enlightenment. 'Maids & the Magdalene Laundries' promises to be a sobering,
yet uplifting, viewing experience." - M. Lugo
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Slan,
Mari Steed
