Marcia Helene Hewitt
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Agriculture |
| Occupation | Anthropologist/horticulturalist/Spanish teacher/flamenco guitar teacher |
| Location | Perth, Australia, Australia |
| Introduction | Born in Los Angeles California, played cello in the Cimarron Ave. school orchestra and was selected for the All City Chorus 1959. Valedictorian of Norco school, moved to Puerto Rico with my parents at age 15, attended Inter American University of San Juan, moved to Connecticut and Massachusetts worked in Roxbury and New Haven in Black liberation struggles, serving breakfast to black children, creating mobile libraries and immunisation clinics. Moved to Australia, lived on and owned a farm in East Gippsland where I grew food and milked Anglo Nubian goats. Moved to Melbourne where I was the Manager of the Little Bookroom, Foreign Language Shop on Little Collins St.also in the Melbourne Art world at Art Finder and Europa Art Gallery. In Perth I have married and have three children, all university graduates. We were involved with Steiner kindergarten,Moerlina, Family School, Quintillian school and home schooling. I'm in Anthropology at University of Western Australia and own a City Farming business called Garden Angel. I'm a member of the West Leederville Community garden co-op. |
| Interests | Human movement, classical guitar and flute playing, film and cinematography, swimming, vegetable growing, new eco systems, housing and horse riding, kayaking. |
| Favorite Movies | The Mighty Boosh, Zardoz, Almodovar films, John Boorman, Indian art films. The Simpsons. Documentaries and nature programmes. Q & A |
| Favorite Music | Mozart and Bach, (French Suites Nos. 3-6 BWV 814-817 Gregorian Chant Early Music (Instruments of the Middle Ages and Renaissance) Polyphonic Sounds of the Early Church. Music of Antiquity on ancient instruments. |
| Favorite Books | Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck) The Good Earth (Pearl Buck) The Bible The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg My Place (Sally Morgan) A Suitable Boy (Vikram Seth) Words and Rules (Steven Pinker) Greek Myths Chomsky (some of it anyway) Bill Bryson Thunderbolt Kid Wild Swans History of Western Philosophy (Bertrand Russell) CS Lewis...especially That Hideous Strength. Deepak Chopra on health and healing/life and death The Vedantas Rig Veda Rumi Tagore Poetry of Ajit Rao and Aurobindo Louise Hay |
What would you name your ballet inspired by the sight of children leaping through a garden sprinkler?
water music