Sharani Ramesh, Lee Brunkhardt, Yuetong Lin, Sinéad Rushde, JakeJohnson, and Alex Ikuma

On the 5/8/24 edition of Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour:

Sharani Ramesh, Lee Brunkhardt, and Yuetong Lin join the podcast to discuss their upcoming Bike Scavenger Hunt.​​ This is a project for their design class that incorporates the field of paleobotany, community involvement, and creativity through the thematic storyline and hint booklets. Sinéad Rushe explains her unique reimagining of Hamlet that is being shown at the Wyatt Pavilion Theater. Rushde portrays her rendition of the classic play with a six-person cast, three of which play Hamlet and his split consciousness. Jake Johnson shares how their connections in undergrad encouraged them to continue their graduate studies at UC Davis, as well as their style that departs from traditional worldbuilding and adopts satirical and speculative fiction characteristics. Johnson then reads an essay titled, “My Friend, Me, and Dragon Ball Z.” Alex Ikuma closes out the episode by sharing information about the Whole Earth Festival and its new location at Russell Field.

Sharani Ramesh, Lee Brunkhardt, and Yuetong Lin are a part of Professor Tim McNeil's Narrative Environments Course here at UC Davis. They are all Design majors, each with a different emphasis. Sharani is interested in Exhibition Design, and Lee and Yuetong are interested in UI/UX design. This Spring they are putting on the fifth annual Bike Scavenger Hunt, The Great Botanic Panic, in collaboration with the City of Davis.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-great-botanic-panic-bike-scavenger-hunt-2024-tickets-891878902807

Sinéad Rushe returns to UC Davis to collaborate with Professor Margaret Laurena Kemp, chair of theater and dance. Rushe and Kemp’s previous project AntigoneNOW, produced online at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, was screened worldwide including an invited presentation at the Egypt International Experimental Theatre Festival. Rushe is the author of Michael Chekhov’s Acting Technique: A Practitioner’s Guide, co-translator into French of four plays by Howard Barker and was senior lecturer in acting and movement at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. In fall 2023 she became lead acting tutor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). 

https://arts.ucdavis.edu/seasonal-event/whos-there-0

Jake Johnson is a graduate student in the creative writing MFA program at UC Davis. They are working on a novel, and they have an adorable dog named Bandit. 

Alex is a third year physics major and Chaos Control Coordinator for the Whole Earth Festival. She has been involved with the festival through her entire time at UC Davis and is very excited for the weekend.

https://wef.ucdavis.edu/

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