Cindy Marie Jenkins, Outreach Nerd

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-mefti-14fbe78 We’re kicking off a podcast series called “OutThink the Classics,” part of my own personal quest to contextualize classic pop culture for modern families. Our first series is “Exploring Evil,” where we will explore the concept of evil in classical kids’ stories. We start this journey with the Wicked Witch of the West– can’t you just hear her…

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-cc9fe-14f86ad OutThink the Classics is a new podcast where my guests and I will activate your brain, and give you the historical and cultural context to decide which stories in pop culture have a place in your life today. Join us for our first series called Exploring Evil: I’ll talk with experts in mythology, therapy, psychology, and more to show you how…

Fall Into Fun this Halloween!

It’s officially October, and even though we don’t necessarily feel the need for a comfy sweater yet, there are festivals all around us! Here are some of our favorite Fall Festivals in the Orlando area. Central Parkway Baptist Church hosts a Pumpkin Patch all day, every day!With a Sat 10/21 10am-2pm. (5281 Central Florida Parkway) Fall Open House with The MOMS Club of Conway Oct 13 (10am-12pm).…

Hunker Down for Hurricane Irma

By now you are probably ready for what Hurricane Irma will bring to our area, or spending your Saturday preparing your home. We’ll continue sharing useful information on Facebook and Twitter so long as we have power, but here are some of the more useful facts we’ve found to help! To assist residents prior to and during Hurricane Irma, The City of Orlando is waiving parking fees for five City…

Zaha Hadid, Floral Park & Berkeley: Nook Real Estate This Week

Every week I write 3 regular blogs for Nook Real Estate, an innovative company who addresses a lot of the issues I personally had with the home buying process.

The week of August 27, I wrote about the architect Zaha Hadid, the Nook Neighborhood Floral Park and some Fast Facts about UC Berkeley.

For Architect Zaha Hadid, The World is Not a Rectangle 

Zaha Hadid knew her place in the architectural…

TVY Rising: Peeking Inside Theater for the Very Young

If you don’t spend time around babies regularly, bringing them to the theater — say, for a performance of Theater for the Very Young, or TVY — may be a strange concept. As primary caretaker to a 3-year-old and a 10-month-old, I’m often astonished by how very simple parts of our world can entertain them for extended periods of time. As I type this introduction, my own baby is completely consumed…

Orlando Convention Center Events

Orlando is host to incredible events every month, and we’re honored to print jobs for many companies at the Orlando Convention Center. We even deliver your order right to your hotel room or convention center table! AAU Jr. National Volleyball Championships Thursday, June 15 – Monday, June 26 Location: North/South Concourse World Ballet Competitions 2017 Monday, June 19 – Saturday, June 24…

Beefing up my Wikipedia Editing Game

Did you know that under 10% of Wikipedia editors identify as female? Last spring, I

My Bitmoji for fun.

trained to be a Wikipedia editor through Art+Feminism, but didn’t pull an event together.

I will be working to amplify female-ID voices, specifically writers to start. In order to do this right, I will need time.

Please review Wikipedia’s General Notability Guidelinesto see if you or someone…

Why TYA Should Join the Dark Side (of Fairy Tales): my extended interview with Gypsy Thornton part 1

I had the pleasure to interview Gypsy Thornton of Once Upon a Blog recently. Segments of our interview appeared in the article “Why TYA Should Join the Dark Side (of Fairy Tales)”, but she had such great insight that I gained permission to publish our extended interview. 

CINDY MARIE JENKINS:Sometimes people are surprised to hear how dark the origins of their favorite fairy tales are. Why do you…

Honoring the Tony Winners That CBS Didn’t Show

The Tony Awards broadcast continued a long-standing protocol this year. Namely that numerous awards were given prior to the CBS broadcast, with clips shown after breaks — you know, when everyone in your viewing party is rushing back from the bathroom or filling their libations. Many people on Twitter, for instance, were surprised and unhappythat James Earl Jones’ acceptance speech for a Lifetime…

In my first entry of this Theater for Young Audiences (TYA) series, I said I didn’t want to make assumptions on what people think or want from children’s theater. I know most of my desires for pushing the conventionsof TYA come from my own childhood and from my new experiences of introducing a small human to the theater. But I was left wondering: How do other parents feel? I interviewed four…

#FastFactsFriday: Frank Lloyd Wright

What can we add to the overwhelming love being shared for Frank Lloyd Wright’s birthday? There’s no need to pile onto the think pieces of Fallingwater’s significance or the public’s first impressions of The Guggenheim. At Nook, we value our role as specialists, poised to find the gems of houses perfect for every one of our clients. We’ll take the same route today for the anniversary of arguably…

Universal’s Volcano Bay. Photo Credit: Inside the Magic

The Na’vi River Journey at Pandora: World of Avatar

Orlando also has a bustling community of independent artists. From last month’s 26th annual Orlando Fringe Festival and MegaCon to this week’s Space Coast Book Lovers Event, residents of The City Beautiful are always creating.

    An event that brings Authors and Readers together for the love of books! June 1st – June 4th, 2017 – International Palms Resort in Cocoa Beach More info here

  Speaking of the Space Coast, on June 1st you can see a launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, sending the Dragon spacecraft to resupply the ISS (International Space Station).

More info here

  The City of Orlando and Orange County Government, in collaboration with Pulse, have jointly designated June 12, 2017, as “Orlando United Day – A Day of Love and Kindness.”

More info here

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