[McNairMail] McNair Mail | June '007

[McNair Wilson]

> McNairMail | June ‘007 [The year of the spy]
> _________________
>
> Calendar Update
> At long last the calendar of my speaking, traveling, and gamboling  
> about has been wiped clean and updated on my website:  
> McNairWilson.com. Have a look as I may be coming near, through,  
> over, or past you in the not-too-distant future. I am always  
> looking to piggy-back another event on to existing dates. Take a  
> look at my schedule, now!
>
> McNair: LIVE! - - in LA
> Please join me for a LIVE performance of my one-man play, The Fifth  
> Gospel on Sunday 8 July 2007, 10:30 AM.
> 	This was the first of my three original plays that I created as an  
> experiment in melding my art and my personal faith. It has been  
> performed on three continents to audiences of every denomination  
> including at a private, all-boys, prep school with 60% of the  
> student body from Jewish families. I have presented it at  
> conferences, churches and hundreds of church-related colleges in 49  
> states, with well over 1200 performances. I still love perfoming it.
> 	The play is ever-changing, though at its’ core is the examination  
> of a life we think we know as recounted by those who met Jesus and  
> were changed by their encounter. It is at once a challenge to the  
> misconceptions of ardent, long-time, believers and the honest  
> skeptic. Here is a very human, personal look at this unusual life  
> that is both intensely dramatic and raucously comedic. It will not  
> bore your teenagers or embarrass those who have seen too much lousy  
> church drama. (Me too!)
> 	My friend Dallas, who attends this church, tells me that it is a  
> very casual setting, filled with folks of wide variety of life and  
> faith experiences. So, load up the van and be there. Age- 
> appropriateness: I’ve had great reactions from kids as young as  
> six, and insights from folks in their eighties.
> 	Venice Community Church has a map on its website for easy  
> directions. Please forward this announcement to friends who live in  
> the Los Angeles area.
> 	As always I will have copies of my books and videos available.
> 	Be there, or be somewhere else!
>
> Hark! The Ark
> Film review
>
> Evan Baxter was just a local news anchor with a dream, "Change the  
> World." So he went and got himself elected to congress and packed  
> up his wife and three sons and headed off to Washington. That  
> covers the first 60 seconds of the new movie Evan Almighty. You’d  
> have to be living in the desert, without Internet or cable TV, and  
> not speaking to your neighbors in order to not have heard of this  
> movie.
>     From it’s title you will know it is a sequel, of sorts, to the  
> 2003 Jim Carrey romp, Bruce Almighty. ----
>
> Read the rest of my review of Evan Almighty, HERE.
>
> Back To School
> Being on a college campus for a few days has always been one of my  
> favorite speaking/coaching experiences. I would like to calendar  
> some colleges for the coming academic year, 2007-2008. besides the  
> obvious theatre, visual arts, creative writing, public speaking  
> classes, have been used to deliver workshops for college faculty on  
> Creativity in the Classroom. (I have a list, “McNair in the  
> Classroom”, that tells my professional disciplines and classes I  
> have spoken in at numerous colleges and grad schools.) I especially  
> love spending a full afternoon with a combined gathering of  
> theatre, visual arts, and music students as I share “If I’d Know My  
> Life Was Going To Be This Much Fun, I Might Have Gotten Up  
> Earlier”--during which I talk about making a living with your  
> life’s passion.
> 	At church-related schools I have often been the keynoter for a  
> series presentations on faith and creativity during early weeks of  
> the school year or a mid-year “founders week” or other annual event.
> 	Love to talk about a visit to (or back to) your campus. Feel free  
> to contact me directly and we can set up a time to chat on the  
> phone. You are also welcome to contact my friend, Tim Grable, for  
> schedule details. Tim is in Nashville at 1-866-333-8663.
>
> Tea Anyone?
> Just returned from a great writers conference in North Carolina  
> where I reconnected with several regular readers of my weBLOG, Tea  
> With McNair.
> 	Nearly two years since its launch in the Autumn of 2005, it was  
> developed to replace the old email newsletter, McNair Mail. A blog- 
> based website allows me to post a permanent book list of titles to  
> tickle your creative spirit. I am constantly encouraging writers to  
> start sketching and speakers to write or take an acting class, all  
> to improve their primary medium of expression. A author emailed a  
> few weeks to report the grand time he had in his water coloring  
> class he had just completed and that he was going into rehearsals  
> for his first stage play. I am thrilled to hear these stories.
> 	Recent posts include: instructions, book 2 (parts a and b) that  
> includes my secret for clearing your life of all those boxes of % 
> #&@ stuff in the garage, attic, or spare room. ( I’m still working  
> on my boxes, but the methodology is effective.) I received several  
> passionate reactions pro and con to my negative review of the Will  
> Smith flic Pursuit of Happyness and my praise of Mel Gibson’s  
> Apocalypto. (Both films are analyzed in one blog post--“pursuit of  
> drearyness” (sic)--as their themes are similar.) I enjoy the back- 
> and-forth of ideas in the pursuit of creative expression. Blogging  
> has been a delicious instrument to launch and maintain a dynamic  
> conversation on living a more actively creative life.
> 	If you are not already a frequent visitor, I hope you will stop by  
> for a frequent cup of McNair. Do leave a comment, however brief. My  
> friend Mr Jennings has prodded, “You need to blog more, McNair. I  
> need it.” So I hope to step up my postings in the coming weeks.
>
> 	See you on the infobauhn.
>
> Onward & upward,
>
> McNair
>
> bigdesk at mcnairwilson.com

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