December 5, 2020 "Humanity Needs Dreamers: A Visit with Marie Curie" Susan Marie Frontczak
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CU Wizards invites you to meet Marie Curie! Special digital theater performance and interactive Q & A
About this Event
What if two-time Nobel Prize winning scientist Marie Skłodowska Curie could tell her story?
CU Wizards lecture series invites you to take part in a digital theater screening ofHUMANITY NEEDS DREAMERS: A VISIT WITH MARIE CURIEonSaturday, December 5, 2020 from 9:30am - 10:30am (virtual event).
This acclaimed living history performance is 45 minutes followed by an interactive Q & A with living history scholar/performerSusan Marie Frontczakin character asMarie Skłodowska Curie. The community-wide event is free with RSVP and recommended for adults, families and students ages 9 & older.
PROGRAM INFORMATION:
"Everything a science film should be." -Lisa Randall, Harvard University
As one of the world’s most renowned scientists, two-time Nobel Prize winnerMarie Skłodowska Curieis best known for pioneering the field of radioactivity — including early experiments to treat cancer with radium therapy — but few understand the obstacles she faced just to enter the laboratory.
What if she could tell her story?
As a digital theater performance,HUMANITY NEEDS DREAMERS: A VISIT WITH MARIE CURIE(45 mins) invites audiences to meet Marie Curie as she recollects her quest to isolate two elements — polonium and radium. From her childhood in Poland to groundbreaking research in France, Marie Curie shares the struggles, failures and triumphs behind her scientific discoveries and remarkable collaboration with companion scientist & husband Pierre Curie.
Masterfully portrayed by living history scholar & playwright Storysmith® Susan Marie Frontczak,HUMANITY NEEDS DREAMERSis the cinematic version of her acclaimed one-woman show. This unique format breaks the digital fourth wall between live theater and film, scholar and performer, past and present.
Humanity Needs Dreamers: A Visit With Marie Curie is part of an upcoming national digital speaking tour to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Marie Curie’s visit to the United States in 1921 and to promote conversations about science in our local communities.
Testimonials:
“A must see film of one of the truly great heroes of science.” - Roxanne Truhn, Director, Michigan Science Festival
“I came away with a newfound appreciation for Curie's significant accomplishments. I’d consider this required viewing for any student — of science, of history, of humanity itself.” - Maia Weinstock, Science Writer & Creator of LEGO Women of NASA
“Susan Marie Frontczak’s portrait captures Curie’s courage, curiosity, fragility, edge, and passion, and her storytelling transports the audience into the world of her laboratory and life. This film is a rare find.” - Holly Walter Kerby, Executive Director, Fusion Science Theater
About Susan Marie Frontczak, Scholar, Performer & Playwright
Susan Marie Frontczak is a Colorado-based scholar, playwright & performer. Through storysmith.org, she has created and performed Living History portrayals of six historical women across 42 of the United States and abroad. She presents at theaters, conferences, schools, libraries, and festivals internationally — including performing Manya: The Living History of Marie Curie and A Visit with Marie Curie over 450 times to 60,000 people in 34 states and nine countries.
In dramatizing the life of Marie Skłodowska Curie, Susan Marie pays homage to their shared Polish heritage. Marie Curie’s perseverance in purifying a tenth of a gram of radium from a ton of pitchblende, in part, inspired Susan Marie to major in Engineering. She earned a B.S. in Engineering from Swarthmore College and a Masters in Software Engineering from the Wang Institute of Graduate Studies, and worked for fourteen years at Hewlett-Packard Company before pursuing full time writing and performing.
Susan Marie has always viewed both science and art as complimentary outlets for creativity. It is her aim to reveal the human behind the scientist, while placing Dr. Marie Curie’s life and accomplishments in a memorable historical context. storysmith.org
For more information, contact:
Candice Alisa Bartholomew
Email: djnadmin@jila.colorado.edu
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Jen Myronuk, Producer & Director,
STEM on Stage
Email: jen@stemonstage.org