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CAAS Mtg1482 10 2020 Zoom - YouTube Meeting #1482 of the the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences-recorded on 10-31-2020 via Zoom-- Tribute to Margot Kohorn –Harvey Feinberg and others-- Prese...

Margot Kohorn (nee Lytton) of Orange, Connecticut died on October 7, 2020. She was born September 9, 1929 in London, UK to Morris and Pearl Lytton. Margot was sunny and vivacious, deeply empathetic, a stranger to no-one, who loved her family deeply. She lived a rich life. She lived through WW II as a child in London, as a teen was awarded one of 12 national scholarships to the Royal Academy of Dancing, danced with Royal Ballet, graduated from University College London with a degree in psychology, worked as a juvenile probation officer, received a degree in Abnormal Psychology from the Tavistock Institute, and became a consulting psychologist with the Tavistock Institute. She and her husband, Dr. Ernest Kohorn, and young daughter also spent 18 months in Libya as he served in the British military as a medical officer. She and her family immigrated to the United States where she was invited by Dr. Albert Solnit, the director of the Yale Child Study Center, to be affiliated with the Center and worked as part of the leadership team and psychologist at the Follow Through Program/Bank Street program at West Hills School in New Haven, Connecticut for many years. She created innovative and visionary programs that created generations of successful students. Along the way she received a school psychologist certification from Southern Connecticut State University. After retirement Margot wrote Growing A School: A Battle for Excellence which describes the construction of a successful school, the challenges faced and a call for a change in education in the United States. She served as the secretary for the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, read with a recording for the blind program, and was on the board of her local chapter of Home Haven. Margot never stopped providing love and joy to everyone she met, and she never stopped dancing. She leaves behind her beloved husband of 67 years, Dr. Ernest I. Kohorn, a brother, Bernard Lytton and his partner Dawn Wood, of New Haven, CT, two children, Ruthy Kohorn Rosenberg of Seattle,WA and Bruce D. Kohorn of Brunswick ME, four grandchildren, Eli Rosenberg of Seattle, WA, Naomi Rosenberg of Seattle, WA, Ari Kohorn of Providence RI, and Eleanore Kohorn of Salem, OR, and two great grandchildren.

Upcoming online events recommended for CAAS members.

We wish to pass on to members of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences online resources of possible interest. Periodically we’ll share via email specific events and links, in the hope that you will find this information helpful and enlightening.

Now through Mon., Sept. 21, 7:00 p.m. EST: Fighting for social justice shouldn’t be a special event. But for the meantime, now through Sept. 21 you can support The Shubert and celebrate the life & legacy of Rep. John Lewis. The Shubert is participating in a virtual social justice event. Beginning with a screening of the new documentary John Lewis: Good Trouble (watch at your convenience through 9/21) and culminating in an interactive Zoom panel discussion on Sept. 21, 7:00 p.m. with Dawn Porter, the film’s director; and national leaders in politics and civil rights, to talk about Rep. Lewis’ legacy of fearless protest and how we can keep his campaign for justice alive. Senator Cory Booker (NJ), will provide opening remarks. https://shubert.com/shows-events/john-lewis-good-trouble

Tues., Sept. 22, 7:00-8:00 p.m. EST: “Katrina, A History: 1915-2015” Democracy in America @ the virtual New Haven Free Public Library. Andy Horowitz, with Yale American Studies. The definitive history of Katrina: an epic of city-making, revealing how engineers and oil executives, politicians and musicians, and neighbors black and white built New Orleans, then watched it sink under the weight of their competing ambitions. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/democracy-in-america-the-virtual-nhfpl-tickets-120484029977?ref=enivte001&invite=MTk5MjkxMTcvZmVpbmJlcmdoMUBzb3V0aGVybmN0LmVkdS8w%0A&utm_source=eb_email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=invitemodernv2&utm_term=eventpage

Weds., Sept. 23, 5:30-7:00 p.m. EST: The New Britain Museum of American Art presents a Zoom webinar: Panel Discussion | Reflections on Race and the Power of Art. Celebrate the closing of Kara Walker: Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) (register at the link) with this exclusive Zoom panel discussion.

From the Macmillan Center, Yale: An Interview with Professor of History, Alan Mikhail, discussing his new book God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World can be found at:

https://macmillan.yale.edu/news/gods-shadow-sultan-selim-his-ottoman-empire-and-making-modern-world

Met Stars Live in Concert at metopera.org. Scroll down to Met Stars Live in Concert. The series started in July. Every two weeks until December there is a (two-hour) concert given by a major Met singer performing from locations all over the world. They cost $20 and after the date of the live concert they stream for twelve days. You can do one or as many as you like. “Great music feels like travel . . . the performing world is not gone just existing in new ways.”

The Shubert Theatre | John Lewis: Good Trouble The historic Shubert Theatre is a not-for profit arts, education, and community institution serving the people of Connecticut, in particular the city of New Haven.

February 21, 2019 | Meeting 1472 | David Pettigrew, Professor of Philosophy, Southern Connecticut State University will present, “Trouble in the Balkans: Republika Srpska and the Failure of the International Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina” Read more about this upcoming event.

February 21, 2019 | Meeting 1472 | David Pettigrew, Professor of Philosophy, Southern Connecticut State University | The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences Event time: Thursday, February 21, 2019 - 5:00pmLocation:  The Whitney Center See map 200 Leeder Hill Road Hamden, CT 06517 Event description: Trouble in the Balkans: Republika Srpska and the Failure of the International Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina presented by David Pettigrew, Professor ...

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Requiem for an Electric Chair- June 22 & 23 - Arts & Ideas Festival. CAAS member Susan McCaslin has created 5 figures for this event, representing the prisoners who shared the cell with Toto Kisaku. Buy Tickets https://www.artidea.org/requiem
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REQUIEM FOR AN ELECTRIC CHAIR
TOTO KISAKU
With a gun to his head, Toto Kisaku was moments away from being killed by his government when his executioner showed him a moment of mercy. His only crime? Creating art that questioned the practice of child exploitation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Toto Kisaku found political asylum in the United States, but many people from his country have not been so fortunate. Be a part of the first audience to hear his harrowing story at the world premiere of his newest theatre piece Requiem for an Electric Chair.

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September 13, 2017–Meeting No. 1459 “How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper.” | The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences Event time: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 - 5:00pmLocation: The Whitney Center See map 200 Leeder Hill Road Hamden, CT 06517 Event description: Jacob S. Hacker, Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science & Director, Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University will present “How...

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October 11, 2017–Meeting No. 1460 “The Cell’s Motors: Nature’s Tiniest Machines for Molecular Transport and Assembly” | The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences Event time: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 - 5:00pmLocation: The Whitney Center See map 200 Leeder Hill Road Hamden, CT 06517 Event description: On October 11, 2017, Jonathon Howard, BS, PhD, Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Professor of Physics at Yale University...