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"Lucy Caldwell (born 1981) is a Northern Irish playwright and novelist. Biography Born in Belfast in 1981 in what she later described as into > one of the darkest and most turbulent years of the Troubles: the year the > hunger strikes began, when within a few months Bobby Sands and nine others > died; when things seemed to be spiralling irrevocably out of control. She studied at Strathearn School and later at Queens' College, Cambridge, graduating with a First Class Degree, and Goldsmiths College, London. Caldwell left the city she had always considered 'boring, introverted' in 1999 but later declared 'yes, it's true: I do love this city, and I do love these streets, and I am proud to be from here.' In June 2004, Caldwell's first short play, The River was performed at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, and subsequently the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The play won her the PMA Most Promising Playwright Award. Caldwell spent time as writer-on-attachment to the National Theatre in 2005. Her first full-length play, Leaves, won the 2006 George Devine Award, the 2007 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and the BBC Stewart Parker Award. In 2007 it was produced by the Druid Theatre Company, and directed by Garry Hynes. The play premiered in Galway before transferring to the Royal Court Theatre. Her second full-length play, Guardians, premiered at the 2009 HighTide Festival in Halesworth. Reviewing the production, critic Michael Billington wrote, "[Caldwell] writes with real power about lost love. I was much moved." Notes to Future Self was produced at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in March 2011, directed by Rachel Kavanaugh. It was described in The Stage as "Brave, beautiful, and quite extraordinary" Caldwell's first novel, Where They Were Missed, set in Belfast and County Donegal was published in February 2006 and short-listed for the 2006 Dylan Thomas Prize. It was described by Vogue as "a debut reminiscent of Ian McEwan's The Cement Garden and Trezza Azzopardi's The Hiding Place. Her second novel, The Meeting Point, centred around a young Irish missionary couple who journey to Bahrain, was published in February 2011 by Faber. It was described by the Sunday Times as "Compelling, passionate and deeply resonant" and by the Guardian as "haunting... compulsively readable" Caldwell's radio play, Girl From Mars, broadcast by BBC Radio 4 in 2008, won the Irish Playwrights' and Screenwriters' Guild Award ("ZeBBie") for Best Radio Play and the BBC's Richard Imison Award for best script by a writer new to radio. In their verdict, the judges said: > This is a gripping and powerful depiction of the effect on a family when one > sibling goes missing. The beautifully-told story begins when a body is found > and the remaining daughter returns to be with her family while they await > identification. Girl From Mars is moving and emotionally taut. It veers away > from sentimentality and felt personal and believable. The structure is > complex – combining three different timescales – and uses radio to its full > potential, using many techniques including voice-overs, dialogue, text > messages, and voice mail. The story has a shades-of-grey resolution about > the way a person's life can tragically stop short – and this is echoed in > the subtle way the writer ends her own play too. In 2012 she was the recipient of a Major Individual Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. Her most recent novel, All the Beggars Riding, published in 2013, was shortlisted for both the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award and the Fiction Uncovered selection and was chosen as Belfast's One City One Book. Novels & Plays Novels * Where They Were Missed (Faber, 2005) , * The Meeting Point (Faber, 2011) , * All the Beggars Riding (Faber, 2013) , * Multitudes: eleven stories (Faber, 2016) , Stage Plays * Leaves (2007) , ; Chapel Lane, Galway, transferring to the Royal Court (Upstairs), London * Carnival (2008) produced by Kabosh at Edinburgh Festival Spiegeltent * Guardians (2009) * The Luthier (2009) Origin Theatre Company as part of the New York 1st Irish Festival * Notes to Future Self (2011) at Birmingham Repertory Theatre Company * Hier Soir, Demain Soir (2012), commissioned by the Comédie de Valence, for Festival Ambivalence(s) Radio Plays * Girl from Mars (2008) BBC Radio 4 * Avenues of Eternal Peace (2009) BBC Radio 4 * The Watcher on the Wall (2013) BBC Radio 4 Awards and honours * 2006 George Devine Award for Leaves * 2007: Susan Smith Blackburn Award for Leaves * 2009: Irish Playwrights' and Screenwriters' Guild Award for Girl From Mars * 2009: Richard Imison Award for Girl From Mars * 2011: Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. * 2011: Dylan Thomas Prize for The Meeting Point * 2013: Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award (shortlisted) for All the Beggars Riding * 2018: Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in its "40 Under 40" initiative. References External links * Official website http://www.lucycaldwell.com * Paperback review: All the Beggars Riding, By Lucy Caldwell (Saturday 16 March 2013) https://www.independent.co.uk/arts- entertainment/books/reviews/paperback-review-all-the-beggars-riding-by-lucy- caldwell-8537406.html * Lucy Caldwell’s All the Beggars Riding is Belfast’s choice for One City One Book 2013 (Wednesday 6 February 2013) http://www.artscouncil-ni.org/news/lucy-caldwells-all-the-beggars-riding-is- belfasts-choice-for-one-city-one-b * One Minute With: Lucy Caldwell (Friday 1 February 2013) https://www.independent.co.uk/arts- entertainment/books/features/one-minute-with-lucy-caldwell- novelist-8475320.html * The Meeting Point, By Lucy Caldwell (Friday 11 February 2011) https://www.independent.co.uk/arts- entertainment/books/reviews/the-meeting-point-by-lucy-caldwell-2210899.html Category:1981 births Category:Living people Category:Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge Category:Alumni of Goldsmiths, University of London Category:Women dramatists and playwrights from Northern Ireland Category:Women novelists from Northern Ireland Category:People educated at Strathearn School Category:Writers from Belfast Category:Date of birth missing (living people) Category:21st-century novelists from Northern Ireland Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Category:21st-century women writers from Northern Ireland "
"Pandit Ulhas N Kashalkar (born 14 January 1955) is a Hindustani classical vocalist. He has previously received training in the Gwalior, Jaipur and Agra gharanas, and is considered a representative of all three schools. Early life Ulhas was born in Nagpur. He received his first lessons in music from his father N D Kashalkar, a lawyer by profession and an amateur vocalist and musicologist. He went on to study music at Nagpur University, topping his post-graduate class. Around that time, he trained under Rajabhau Kogje and P N Khardenavis. Indian music is heavily influenced by the Guru-shishya tradition. Kashalkar studied principally under Ram Marathe and Gajananrao Joshi. Career Ulhas Kashalkar initially worked as a programme executive at the Mumbai station of All India Radio. In 1993 he became a teacher at the ITC Sangeet Research Academy, where he remains today. Both Rambhau and Gajananrao were traditionalists which finds reflection in Kashalkar's vocalism. He possesses the ability to switch between three styles (namely Gwalior, Jaipur and Agra), at times even in the course of a single performance. He adheres to the aesthetic contours of each individual style, and also to the formal demands of the raga being presented. He is noted for his authentic presentations of obscure traditional ragas. In an uncharacteristically expansive passage, the veteran music critic Prakash Wadhera once noted: Ulhas is a fabulous vocalist, still in his middle years and young, who has an old musical head stuffed with innumerable current and rare ragas and compositions. Like a computer he never errs in any raga or composition howsoever intertwined or tricky it may be. He, just seems to press one key and out comes a raga in the true Jaipur colours, another to obtain a melody attired in the Agra style and still another to get a raga in the Gwalior habiliments. One can only imagine Kashalkar's questionless loyalty to his various gurus, and his own prodigious capacity to assimilate and consolidate the incoming knowledge. Awards * Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, 2008 awarded in 2009 * Padma Shri in 2010 *Tansen Award in 2017 *Pt. Omkarnath Thakur Award in 2019 See also * Vikas Kashalkar * Arun Kashalkar Footnotes Category:1955 births Category:Living people Category:Hindustani singers Category:Musicians from Nagpur Category:Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University alumni Category:Recipients of the Padma Shri in arts Category:Agra gharana Category:Gwalior gharana Category:Singers from Maharashtra Category:20th- century Indian singers Category:21st-century Indian singers Category:Indian male classical singers Category:20th-century male singers Category:21st- century male singers "
"The Ducktown Basin Museum is a history museum and heritage center in Ducktown, Tennessee that chronicles the history of copper mining activities in the Copper Basin, a geological region in Polk County, Tennessee. The museum is located adjacent to the Burra Burra Mine, which was the most productive mine in the basin. History The Copper Basin, also known as the Ducktown Basin, is a geological located mostly within Polk County, Tennessee which contains extensive deposits of copper ore, as well as many other minerals. Copper from the basin was extensively mined between 1847 and 1987. Mining activities began to decline in the mid-1950s, and in 1978, the museum was established by a group of local citizens intent on preserving the heritage of the mining activities in the basin. Initially, the museum was located on Main Street in Ducktown. In 1982, the museum was moved to its present location. The adjacent Burra Burra Mine was placed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) the following year. Exhibits The museum is located in a building that formerly served as the headquarters of the Tennessee Copper Company, one of the major entities that operated mines in the basin. This site, jointly known as the Ducktown Basin Museum & Burra Burra Mine State Historic Site, is owned by the Tennessee Historical Commission, and consists of 10 buildings on 17 acres. The first exhibit in the museum is a geological history of the Copper Basin. This is followed by several exhibits about the history of the mining and sulfuric acid production activities in the basin, as well as the lives of the miners and residents of the mining towns in the basin. Many artifacts from the mining activities are included in the exhibits. The museum also includes an exhibit about the environmental problems that resulted from the mining activities in the basin, and the subsequent cleanup and restoration efforts. See also *Copper Basin (Tennessee) *Burra Burra Mine (Tennessee) *Copper mining in the United States References Category:Copper Basin (Tennessee) Category:Tourist attractions in Polk County, Tennessee Category:Museums in Polk County, Tennessee Category:Mining museums in Tennessee Category:1978 establishments in Tennessee Category:Museums established in 1978 Category:History museums in Tennessee Category:Industry museums in Tennessee Category:Natural history museums in Tennessee "