In Woody Allen’s film Midnight in Paris, the central character gets into a taxi and finds himself transported back to the 1920s. He walks into a cafe and sits down next to his literary heroes Hemingway and the Fitzgeralds. Wow. But then he meets a beautiful girl who dreams not […]
Month: December 2012
TORONTO PURSUITS – Prime the pump at Stratford, July 12-14, 2013
A perfect prologue to Toronto Pursuits (July 14-19) is a weekend of world class theatre at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. Pat and Gary Schoepfel will host another excursion to charming Stratford, Ontario, prior to our week of seminars at Toronto Pursuits. Our theatre experience includes three wonderfully diverse productions. Brian […]
GUEST BLOG – Rosemary Gould on Civil War trip: understanding the Confederate experience
Rosemary Gould, of Charlottesville, Virginia, will lead our trip, The American Civil War, to Richmond, Virginia from March 1-5,2013. Rosemary has led numerous poetry seminars at Toronto Pursuits and the wonderful 2011 trip , Thomas Jefferson at Home. On the Civil War trip, she hopes to discover, together with other non-partisans, what […]