You Can Book Your Tickets Now! Cardiff ATRiuM's Exciting New Theatrical Production King Oedipus 6-9 Feb 2008

[Pictured above: Antigone Leads Oedipus out of Thebes by Charles Francois Jalabert. The two-dimensional work of art depicted in this image is in the public domain in the United States and in those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years. This photograph of the work is also in the public domain in the United States (see Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp.).]

In 1927 Igor Stravinsky debutted the staged grand opera version of Oedipus rex. This constituted an example of Neo-classicism in the arts, and it's in this same vein that dramatists Jodie Allinson and Michael Carklin, headquartered in Cardiff, the Welsh capital city and an emerging British lively arts centre of innovation and activity, have written and are staging an exciting new piece for audiences.



Tickets are available now!

Director Michael Carklin has written to us to let us know that reservations can now be made for this coming event:

Dear colleagues,

Following my e-mail to you last week (see below), I am pleased to announce that booking is now open for our production of King Oedipus to be performed at the ATRiuM on 6-9 February at 7.30pm.

Tickets cost £4.50 or £3.00 concession (CCI staff eligible for concession).

Tickets can be reserved from Catherine Fifer on ext 8506 or upstairs in the ATRiuM in CA414.

Please note that Catherine will reserve the tickets but is not handling payment which can be made at the door on the night. We look forward to seeing you.

Best wishes,
Michael

Head of Department of Drama & Music / Pennaeth yr Adran Ddrama a Cherddoriaeth
Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries / Ysgol Diwydiannau Creadigol a Diwylliannol Caerdydd 
ATRiuM -- University of Glamorgan / Prifysgol Morgannwg 
Adam Street / Heol Adam
Cardiff / Caerdydd CF24 2HX

+44 (0)1443 668 506 For Bookings

The University of Glamorgan, Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries announces an exciting new theatrical production 'King Oedipus' in the new arts centre called the 'ATRiuM'.



‘ATRiuM’ is the name for the building which is the city centre home to the University of Glamorgan’s Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries.



The new School brings together the creative disciplines within the University of Glamorgan, including Art & Design, Media & Communication and Drama & Music.

Michael Carklin writes:

Dear Colleagues

Our students will be presenting a production of King Oedipus on the evenings of 6, 7, 8 and 9 February starting at 7.30pm here at the ATRiuM.

The production is co-directed by Jodie Allinson and me. Using the ancient Greek and ancient Roman versions of the play (by Sophocles and Seneca) as a starting point, we hope that this will be an intriguing, challenging and satisfying journey for the audience, exploring the story of Oedipus who, in trying to escape a prophecy that he will kill his father and marry his mother, discovers that he has inadvertently done just that.



King Oedipus, first performed around 2400 years ago, is widely regarded as one of the cornerstones of western drama and this production has offered drama students a stimulating opportunity to practically explore the production of this play for a contemporary audience.

Details on how to reserve tickets will be sent out shortly - but please note the dates of the performances. We would greatly value your support.

All the best
Michael



For additional info please contact Dr. Mark Leslie Woods at mwoods[at]glam.ac.uk

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Performance Artist or Philosopher? Glamorgan hosts Londoner Abdur-Raheem Green Soapbox Preacher on the Purpose of Life Friday, February 1, 2008

Time and Place Date: Friday, February 1, 2008
Time: 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Location: B 12. University of Glamorgan, Wales
City/Town: Treforest, United Kingdom

What is the purpose of your life?
January 22nd, 2008

The Chaplaincy wanted to bring news of an interesting event hosted and run by the University of Glamorgan Islamic Society during Islamic Awareness week.

Topic: Purpose of Life – is there more to it than Sex, Drugs and Rock n Roll?
Speaker: Abdur-Raheem Green
Venue: B12 (Morgannwg) Block B, University of Glamorgan
Doors Open: 5.30pm (lecture starts at 6pm prompt)
Duration: 1.30 hrs

For more information on the event go to it’s webpage

For more information contact the ISOC

Glamorgan Islamic Society proudly presents Abdur Raheem Green for the first time in Wales.

The talk will shed light on the "Purpose of life" from an Islamic prospective and it will also feature topics such as "Sex, drugs and Rock n Roll".

It would be a great opportunity to learn about the purpose of life in the light of Islam.

Details of the talk:

Topic: Purpose of Life: is there more to it than Sex, Drugs and Rock n Roll
Speaker: Abdur-Raheem Green
Venue: B12 (Morgannwg) Block B, Univesity of Glamorgan (Click to get directions)
Doors Open: 5.30pm (lecture starts at 6pm prompt)
Duration: 1.30 hrs of talk



Lanky, blonde, green-eyed, 33-years-old Abdur Rahim Green appears to be a character straight out of a Hollywood movie Ben Hur.

• He was born to British parents in Darussalam in Tanzania in 1964.

• He was educated at a famous Roman Catholic Monastic School called Ampleforth College and went on to study history in the London University. However, he left his education unfinished.
• He was dissatisfied with Christianity since the age of eight.

• He was practising Buddhism for nearly three years though he never formally embraced it.



• His study of the Noble Qur’an immediately attracted him to Islam and he embraced Islam in 1988. He has been a Daw’ah practitioner in Britain since then.

• He wears a look that instantly evokes comparison with the popular portrayal of the Prophet Jesus (Pbuh) in the imagery of Christian Europe.

• He has two wives, both British-born Muslims of Indian origin and six children.

• Currently, he is working with an Islamic media company based in England and engages himself in da’wah activities including lectures on Islam in London’s famous Hyde Park. He is well known for his efforts at the renowned "Speaker’s Corner" in London’s Hyde Park.

• He also delivers talks and lectures for Muslims, and concentrates on the pure teaching to the say of Prophet Muhammad (May God’s peace and blessing be upon him), and the early Muslims.



For additional info please contact Dr. Mark Leslie Woods at mwoods[at]glam.ac.uk

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Cardiff ATRiuM Debuts Live Theatre Feb. 6-9 with King Oedipus co-directed by Jodie Allinson and Michael Carklin

[Pictured above: Antigone Leads Oedipus out of Thebes by Charles Francois Jalabert. The two-dimensional work of art depicted in this image is in the public domain in the United States and in those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years. This photograph of the work is also in the public domain in the United States (see Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp.).]

In 1927 Igor Stravinsky debutted the staged grand opera version of Oedipus rex. This constituted an example of Neo-classicism in the arts, and it's in this same vein that dramatists Jodie Allinson and Michael Carklin, headquartered in Cardiff, the Welsh capital city and an emerging British lively arts centre of innovation and activity, have written and are staging an exciting new piece for audiences.



The University of Glamorgan, Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries announces an exciting new theatrical production 'King Oedipus' in the new arts centre called the 'ATRiuM'.



‘ATRiuM’ is the name for the building which is the city centre home to the University of Glamorgan’s Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries.



The new School brings together the creative disciplines within the University of Glamorgan, including Art & Design, Media & Communication and Drama & Music.

Michael Carklin writes:

Dear Colleagues

Our students will be presenting a production of King Oedipus on the evenings of 6, 7, 8 and 9 February starting at 7.30pm here at the ATRiuM.

The production is co-directed by Jodie Allinson and me. Using the ancient Greek and ancient Roman versions of the play (by Sophocles and Seneca) as a starting point, we hope that this will be an intriguing, challenging and satisfying journey for the audience, exploring the story of Oedipus who, in trying to escape a prophecy that he will kill his father and marry his mother, discovers that he has inadvertently done just that.



King Oedipus, first performed around 2400 years ago, is widely regarded as one of the cornerstones of western drama and this production has offered drama students a stimulating opportunity to practically explore the production of this play for a contemporary audience.

Details on how to reserve tickets will be sent out shortly - but please note the dates of the performances. We would greatly value your support.

All the best
Michael



For additional info please contact Dr. Mark Leslie Woods at mwoods[at]glam.ac.uk

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Visit the UK Film Studies and World Cinema and Music Import Showcase

© 2007 Mark Leslie Woods

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Welsh Actress Sian Phillips, Composer Karl Jenkins, Director Marc Evans Open Glittering Cardiff ATRiuM with Hollywood Glamour and Panache

[Pictured above: The ATRiuM in coloured floodlights, as searchlights, limousines and and the celebrity redcarpet create a celebrity splash in sexy Cardiff city centre. Photography by Mark Leslie Woods © 2007]

Cardiff’s Most Exciting Campus Opens

November 28, 2007

The UK’s hottest new hub for the training of tomorrow’s creative industry professionals was officially launched by a host of well-known faces at a glittering event in Cardiff last week, 29th November 2007.

‘ATRiuM’ is the name for the building which is the city centre home to the University of Glamorgan’s Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries.

The new School brings together the creative disciplines within the University of Glamorgan, including Art & Design, Media & Communication and Drama & Music.



Celebrities and leading professionals from across the creative industries were guests on the red carpet for the launch event which will showcase the state-of-the-art building.

The evening was compered by actress Sian Phillips and presenter Rhodri Owen who took guests through an evening packed with entertainment.

Performances were given by well-known harpist Catrin Finch and vocalists Elin Manahan and Daisy Blue who was accompanied on the piano by her father Mal Pope.

Professor Peter Robertson who is the Dean of the new faculty commented, “This high-tech teaching environment provides undergraduate, postgraduate and research degree programmes and will be the largest single university initiative for the creative and cultural industries in the UK.”



Also joining in the celebration was the faculty’s new board of visiting Professors which include some of the biggest names in the creative industries.

This advisory board, headed by industrial designer, Professor Nick Butler OBE, will be made up of actor Daniel Evans, composer Karl Jenkins, animator Robin Lyons, film director Marc Evans and theatre director Terry Hands. Profiles

Messages of support from actors Matthew Rhys and Jonathan Pryce and Welsh band The Lost Prophets were read on the evening.

The multi-million pound facility stands as an architectural icon in the city, as well as a platform for a mix of teaching and research in the theory and practice of media, design and cultural studies.

As well as high-tech teaching and learning spaces and facilities, academics and practitioners from a broad range of subject areas work together in an exciting environment geared to sharing expertise.

Professor Peter Robertson added, “This Faculty is a major development for Wales and the UK and has attracted enormous interest from the media industry, arts and cultural organisations.

Both the Faculty and the campus are being seen as a focus for the creative industries in Wales and we will be producing the professionals of the future to work in these economic growth sectors.”

Some facts about the building:

- The ATRiuM is a £35 million development. It is a 5 storey, 10,500 square metre facility.
– It is a faculty for approx 2000 students and 120 staff.
– The building contains a cinema, TV, radio and film production facilities, design studios, theatre and performance spaces, photography and journalism spaces, animation studios and computer labs.

Cardiff ATRiuM Scholars Publish Exciting New Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance

Dear Colleagues:

The first issue of this new Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance has just been published by Intellect.

It is edited by Richard Hand and Katja Krebs with the help of Martha Minier and marks a step forward for Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries (CCI/ATRiuM) in having an internationally refereed journal coming out of the faculty.

This is a fantastic achievement and is recognition of CCI/ATRiuM's growing stature in this field of research.

Congratulations to all concerned!

The first issue is available as a free download:

Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance Volume 1 Issue 1

ISSN: 17536421



Editors:
Richard J. Hand
University of Glamorgan
rhand[at]glam[dot]ac[dot]uk

Katja Krebs
University of Glamorgan
kkrebs[at]glam[dot]ac[dot]uk

Adaptation, or the conversion of oral, historical or fictional narratives into stage drama has been common practice for centuries.

In our own time the processes of cross-generic transformation continue to be extremely important in theatre as well as in the film and other media industries.

Adaptation and the related areas of translation and intertextuality continue to have a central place in our culture with a profound resonance across our civilisation.



Aims and Scope:

Adaptation in the form of the conversion of oral, historical or fictional narratives into stage drama has been common practice for centuries.

In our own time the processes of cross-generic transformation continue to be extremely important in theatre as well as in the film and other media industries.



Adaptation and the related areas of translation and intertextuality continue to have a central place in our culture with a profound resonance across our civilisation.

As an academic discipline, Adaptation Studies has begun to establish itself in the last few decades as an important area of scholarship and research which continues to make significant contributions to our analysis and understanding of a complex and increasingly diverse world culture.



Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance is a new, peer- reviewed journal designed to engage with specific issues relating to performance on stage, film, television, radio and other media.

Embracing comfortably these disciplines under the umbrella of adaptation theories and practices, it attempts to challenge widespread views of national cultural histories and global constructions of performance culture by analysing methods, histories and occurrences of adaptation across a range of media.



We would like to invite contributions that offer historical, theoretical or practice- based considerations and discussions of adaptation in performance in the context of one of the following topics:

Translation as adaptation / Theatre /
Film / Television / Radio / Gaming /
Graphic narratives
Submission Details

To submit to future editions, please, send your completed papers (4,000 – 6,000 words) accompanied by a short CV to the editors Richard Hand and Katja Krebs.



If you would like to discuss any specific proposals before submitting a completed paper, please contact the editors.

Short ‘Notes and Comments’ contributions (up to 1000 words) that facilitate debate and exchange will also be considered.

Articles in the current issues include:

Art of the Past: Adapting Henry James’s The Golden Bowl
Authors: Sarah Artt

Adaptation as Education: A Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
Authors: Freda Chapple

In Praise of Treason: Translating Calabar
Authors: Pedro de Senna

Uncle Tom’s Cabin as Dominant Culture
Authors: Jim O’Loughlin

Translating the City: A Community Theatre Version of Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire in Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Authors: Duˇska Radosavljevic



It has been estimated that an overwhelming percentage of Welsh films and television dramas are intentionally based upon other literary sources.

This overwhelming dependence upon literary adaptation is primarily from important Welsh literary or cultural sources.

This suggests an attempt to ‘recall and recollect’ and to re-‘write the nation’, after a period of suppressed or neglected representations of Welsh-ness.

While Dave Berry’s book and other studies have attributed this Welsh dependence upon literary adaptation as ‘laziness’ (Berry 1994: 234), we see it as being related to issues of post-colonial ‘re-telling’ of a national story, or more related to the economics of production.



For example, Stephen Bayly directed Joni Jones (1982) as a well-received television series for S4C, an adaptation based upon the well-known children’s stories by R. Garallt Jones entitled Gwared y Gwirion or ‘Redemption of the Innocents’.

It is often the case in Wales, that directors will create a series which is actually suited to be converted into a feature film at a later date, should the funding and political will be present to effect the re-formatting.

Additionally, one of Wales's most famous sons is Andrew Davies, who is known around the world as the 'Prince of Adaptation'.

Andrew Wynford Davies (born September 20, 1936 in Rhiwbina, Cardiff, Wales) is a British screenwriter.

He is the creator of the children's Marmalade Atkins television series and A Very Peculiar Practice, and is also well known for his adaptations of classic works of literature, including the 1995 television adaptation of Pride and Prejudice starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle and the 1998 adaptation of Vanity Fair.



Literary and stage adaptations have added clout with film production investors, who assume that a successful novel or stage play will naturally make a successful film.

Some screenwriters have been known to 'invent' a novel AFTER writing a film script, for purposes of marketing the film, and for raising venture capital.

In small nations, broadcasting drama department Commissioning Editors often opt for an adaptation. This satisfies several remits: nationalistic and cultural agendas are fulfilled, while it's assumed that an established audience exists for the new film or TV series.

My favorite book on film and literature in general is Tom Corrigan's 'Film & Literature' (1999, Prentic Hall Inc / Simon & Schuster).

Here's a pleasant Youtube tribute to Colin Firth in Pride & Prejudice:









'Adaptation: Studying Film and Literature' (Paperback) by John Desmond (Author), Peter Hawkes (Author) is concise and readable new text for courses in Film Adaptation or Film and Literature introduces students to the art of adapting works of literature for film.

'Adaptation' describes the interwoven histories of literature and film, presents key analytical approaches to adaptation, and provides an in-depth overview of adaptations of novels, short stories, plays, nonfiction, and animation.

The book concludes with an analysis of why adaptations sometimes fail.



For additional info please contact Dr. Mark Leslie Woods at mwoods[at]glam.ac.uk

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Cardiff ATRiuM Music & Sound Students Meet Producer Tony Platt, Known for Bob Marley, Boomtown Rats, AC/DC, Iron Maiden on Tuesday, 4th December

[Pictured above: Tony Platt]

Tony Platt is visiting the Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries ATRiuM on Tuesday, 4th December.

Tony Platt: Tony is a leading member of the British Music Producer's Guild



Engineer for Bob Marley & The Wailers “Catch A Fire”, Boomtown Rats “Fine Art of Surfacing”, AC/DC “Back In Black”

Producer for Iron Maiden “Phanton of The Opera, AC/DC “Flick of the Switch”, Buddy Guy “Damn Right I got The Blues”, Soweto Kinch "Conversations with The Unseen", and many, many more, including film and TV (http://www.platinumtones.com/discography.htm)



Tony Platt is visiting ATRiuM on Tuesday, 4th December!!!

Tony will be providing useful careers orientated presentations. These are particularly for Music and Sound students, who should attend as follows:

1.00 – 2.00 pm CB4 2nd Year Music and Sound



2.00 – 3.00 pm CB4 1st Year Music and Sound



3.00 – 4.00 pm CB4 3rd Year Music and Sound



Other students and staff are welcome to attend as they are able.



Submitted to AIM ATRiuM Intelligent Media Blog by:

James E Barrett
Principal Lecturer
Department: CCI - Drama & Music


[Pictured above: Tony Platt]

Tony Platt’s career in the music business started at Trident Studios in London but he made his name as an engineer at the now legendary Island Studios.



Working his way from assistant engineer to engineer on sessions with the likes of Free, Traffic, The Who, Rolling Stones, Sutherland Brothers, Led Zeppelin, Paul McCartney, Jess Roden and Mott the Hoople to he came to engineer albums for a hitherto unknown Jamaican artist, Bob Marley, which would launch reggae music into the mainstream for good.



This association led him to complete ”Funky Kingston” for Toots and the Maytals and work with several other notable Jamaican artists such as ZapPow, Lorna Bennet, Harry J’s All Stars, Aswad and The Cimarons.



However, although Tony Platt’s reputation is principally based on his work in the world of rock, at Island he gained other more eclectic experience working on the numerous orchestral, commercial and pop sessions that came through the studio and some fairly eccentric projects including a 30 piece avant garde jazz band and an album consisting entirely of Tibetan bells !



After working with the various spin off projects from the recently disbanded Free - Sharks, Toby, Peace and Kossoff, Kirke,Tetsu and Rabbit and as engineer for Muff Winwood on the debut Sparks album Kimono in my House he finally left Island and turned freelance.



Having recorded demos that prefaced deals for Thin Lizzy and the Stranglers he became engineer for Mutt Lange.

With Mutt, Tony worked on the AC/DC albums Highway to Hell and Back in Black, Foreigner - 4, Boomtown Rats - Fine Art of Surfacing and Broken Home and AC/DC asked him to mix the soundtrack on their documentary film and then to work with them on Flick of the Switch.



When he joined the Zomba producer roster in 1980 Tony enjoyed immediate success producing and engineering the work of artists such as Samson (with Bruce Dickenson singing) & Iron Maiden, Krokus, Motorhead, Gary Moore, Cheap Trick, The Cult, Marillion , the list goes on.



For additional info please contact Dr. Mark Leslie Woods at mwoods[at]glam.ac.uk

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Chapter Arts Centre Cardiff

Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries

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World Famous Scholar Mette Hjort Gives Public Lecture on Scottish Film Dogme Project at Cardiff ATRiuM 5.30pm Weds 28th November 2007

The Centre for the Study of Media and Culture in Small Nations Announces the next upcoming Cardiff Academic ATRiuM Event . . .

The Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries has moved from the University's Treforest campus to our new ATRiuM home in Cardiff city centre.

With ‘state of the art’ facilities this will offer exciting opportunities for joint work with new partners.

Public Lecture on Small-Nation Filmmaking by Professor Mette Hjort, 5.30pm Weds 28th November 2007

Distinguished academic Professor Mette Hjort will be speaking at ATRiuM on Wednesday 28th November. In her only public appearance in Wales, Professor Hjort will deliver a lecture on The ‘Advance Party’ Initiative: Scottish/Danish Solutions to the Problems of Small-Nation Filmmaking.

‘Advance Party’ is a Scottish Dogme project which sets out to do for Scotland what director Lars von Trier’s Dogme 95 had done for Denmark. Professor Hjort will examine how this unique model of transnational filmmaking helps to provide solutions to the problems of small-nation filmmaking.

Distinguished academic Professor Mette Hjort will be speaking at ATRiuM at 5.30pm Weds 28th November. In her only public talk in Wales, Professor Hjort will deliver a lecture on The 'Advance Party' Initiative: Scottish/Danish Solutions to the Problems of Small-Nation Filmmaking.



'Advance Party' is a Scottish Dogme project which sets out to do for Scotland what director Lars von Trier's Dogme 95 had done for Denmark. Professor Hjort will examine how this unique model of transnational filmmaking helps to provide solutions to the problems of small-nation filmmaking.

Professor Hjort is the Leverhulme Visiting Professor of Film Studies at St Andrews in Scotland and Professor of Visual Studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. She has published Small Nations, Global Cinema, and co-edited volumes including The Cinema of Small Nations, Cinema and Nation, The Postnational Self and Purity and Provocation: Dogme 95.

About one of the newest books by Professor Mette, The Cinema of Small Nations:

Synopsis: Within cinema studies there has emerged a significant body of scholarship on the idea of 'National Cinema' but there has been a tendency to focus on the major national cinemas.

Less developed within this field is the analysis of what we might term minor or small national cinemas, despite the increasing significance of these small entities with the international domain of moving image production, distribution and consumption.

"The Cinema of Small Nations" is the first major analysis of small national cinemas, comprising twelve case studies of small national - and sub national - cinemas from around the world, including Ireland, Denmark, Iceland, Scotland, Bulgaria, Tunisia, Burkina Faso, Cuba, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and New Zealand.

Written by an array of distinguished and emerging scholars, each of the case studies provides a detailed analysis of the particular cinema in question, with an emphasis on the last decade, considering both institutional and textual issues relevant to the national dimension of each cinema.

While each chapter contains an in-depth analysis of the particular cinema in question, the book as a whole provides the basis for a broader and more properly comparative understanding of small or minor national cinemas, particularly with regard to structural constraints and possibilities, the impact of globalization and internationalisation, and the role played by economic and cultural factors in small-nation contexts.



This book includes the first major study of a range of small national cinemas. It provides detailed and informative studies of particular small national cinemas from around the globe.

It features an implicit comparative element that reveals major similarities and differences across the case studies.

It also features a strong line up of international contributors including a number of major internationally recognised experts in the field.

It is written in an accessible style to appeal to students, academics and the general reader alike.

Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries / ATRiuM
The University of Glamorgan Adam Street Cardiff CF24 2XF

AIM: ATRiuM Intelligent Media

Chapter Arts Centre Cardiff

Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries

mwoods[at]glam[dot]ac[dot]uk

Click here to go directly to my personal blog page called Welsh-American Family Genealogy, on the World Wide Web.

Click here to go directly to my personal blog page called Welsh Music, Film, and Books Symposium, on the World Wide Web.

Click here to go directly to my personal blog page called Celtic Cult Cinema on the World Wide Web.

Visit the UK Film Studies and World Cinema and Music Import Showcase

© 2007 Dr. Mark Leslie Woods

Smart & Sexy? Your Queer Advantage is waiting!

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© 2007 Dr. Mark Leslie Woods