#jill washington

[behindthemirrorofmusic]

"He fell at my feet, with words of love ... with words of love in his dead mouth ... and the music had ceased ... He kissed the hem of my dress and did not see that I closed my eyes."

Gaston Leroux

#phantom of the opera #poto #the phantom of the opera #ethan freeman #jill washington

[night-unfurls-its-splendour]

I DEMAND THE RETURN OF BIG, FRIZZY HAIR CHRISTINE

*bangs fist on table*

I demand Frizzy Brunette Representation!

I reject smooth ringlets and loose waves!

(Samantha Hill || Holly Ann Hull)

I want that shit wild! UNTAMEABLE!!

I want to see seaweed-ass lookin tendrils that you know will turn into a ball of shapeless frizz if anyone so much as approaches it with a brush.

No but seriously I am deeply grateful that Phantom was made in the 80's when volume was the look du jour, hang smoothness and sheen and wound up having such longevity in the cultural zeitgeist.

If I had gotten into phantom as a kid, I think it would have done wonders for my self-esteem, as a frizzy brunette living in the 00's (when having smooth, shiny, flowing waves was everything) to see a Top Tier Romantic Heroine, torn between two men who worship the earth she stands on, who was a curly brunette; but even more so if that Curly Brunette looked like she understood that you Can't Brush That Shit When It's Dry.

Reblog with your frizziest Christines

#phantom of the opera #poto #poto musical #christine daae #sarah brightman #dale kristien #jill washington #joke de kruijf

[wheel-of-fish]

favorite E/C almost kiss GIFs in MOTN?!!?!?! 👀👀👀 asking for a friend… 😳

Answering this two months late, but better than never? In roughly chronological order...

Jill Washington and Ethan Freeman—except what you can't glean from the gif and should definitely watch is his very audible gasp as he pulls away.

Julie Hanson and Hugh Panaro

Celia Graham and John Owen-Jones

Rebecca Pitcher and Brad Little

Jennifer Hope Wills and John Cudia

Marni Raab and Greg Mills

Tamara Kotova and Dmitri Ermak

Julia Udine and Laird Mackintosh

Emilie Kouatchou and Jeremy Stolle

And this isn't so much one of my favorites as one I just happen to find particularly funny:

Kristi Holden and Anthony Crivello

#phantom of the opera #gifset #edit #jill washington #ethan freeman #julie hanson #hugh panaro #celia graham #john owen jones #rebecca pitcher #brad little #jennifer hope wills #john cudia #marni raab #greg mills #tamara kotova #dmitri ermak #julia udine #laird mackintosh #emilie kouatchou #jeremy stolle #kristi holden #anthony crivello #(in)box five #by request

[phantomchristinesuk]

Christine in the ballet: around the world

1- Sarah Brightman - 1986

2- Jill Washington - 1989

3 & 4- Gina Beck - 2008 & 2010

5- Emmi Christensson - 2016

7- Julia Udine - 2013

Years are from the brochures they first appeared in (approximately)

Pictures from various souvenir brochures

#phantom of the opera #phantomoftheopera #poto london #poto west end #poto sweden revival #poto sweden #poto stockholm #poto restaged tour #restaged us tour #poto us tour #poto Meg tour #sarah brightman #jill Washington #Gina beck #emmi christensson #julia udine #poto worldwide

[ethanfreemanappreciation]

Ethan and Jill Washington (West End)

#ethan freeman #poto #phantom of the opera #european musicals #the phantom of the opera #jill washington

[operafantomet]

Mario Frangoulis as Raoul de Chagny, West End 1991

Photo 2 with Julia Goss (Carlotta), Sally Smith (Madame Giry), Ethan Freeman (André) and Kimberly Paritridge (Meg Giry)

Photo 5 with Jill Washington

#been listening to a lot of greek music this summer #thus a lot of #mario frangoulis #raoul de chagny #phantom of the opera #poto west end #jill washington #ethan freeman

[homicidal-slvt]

The autistic urge to set fire to anyone who disrupts my morning routine for it is the only thing that allows me to even remotely function and not absolutely perish into the pits of hell.

#vee's random thoughts go brr #tagging characters i also project this onto cause it makes me feel better #leon s kennedy #luis serra navarro #piers nivans #jill valentine #ashley graham #kyle garrick #simon riley #kate laswell #chris redfield #farah karim #sebastian castellanos #joseph oda #vincent sinclair #jason voorhees #ruvik victoriano #juli kidman #josh washington #sam giddings #dylan lenivy #vee's dumbass jokes

[uwmspeccoll]

Indigenous People’s Day 2022

Today we commemorate Indigenous People’s Day with art by Native American Women from Hearts of Our People: Native American Artists. This exhibition catalog was published in Minneapolis in 2019 by the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) in conjunction with the University of Washington Press to accompany the traveling exhibit “Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists.” The exhibition catalog was prepared by MIA curator Jill Ahlberg Yohe and Kiowa artist Teri Greeves. 

While the exhibit and its catalog featured art from antiquity through the present, I decided to primarily focus on the work of living artists, with the exception of the marble by Edmonia Lewis. Lewis, born in the mid-19th century to an African-Hatian father and a Black and Mississauga mother, is credited with being the first African American and first Native American to attain international success in the art scene. Trained in and working out of Rome, Lewis incorporated themes of Blackness and Indigeneity into her Neoclassical sculptural work. Whether through the subversion of traditionally European artforms or the reimagining of Indigenous traditions, the contemporary artists featured here alongside Lewis bring the depth of Native visual languages to a wide range of mediums.

Explore the exhibit further through the exhibition page from the Smithsonian American Art Institute, which hosted the exhibit from February 21-March 13, 2020.  

View past Indigenous People’s Day posts here.

Find more posts on Native Americans here. 

-Olivia, Special Collections Graduate Intern

#Indigenous People's Day #Hearts of Our People #minneapolis institute of art #University of Washington Press #Teri Greeves #jill ahlberg yohe #Edmonia Lewis #Ashley Fairbanks #Joan Hill #Lou-ann Neel #Jamie Okuma #Jody Folwell #C. Maxx Stevens #Christine McHorse #Cara Romero #Keri Ataumbi #Indigenous Artists #Indigenous Art #Indigenous Women #Native American Art #Native American Artists #Native Americans #olivia

[darlingillustrations]

Fight Food Deserts with Community Gardening

“Gardening is fun!” When I talked with David Thompson, founder of Food is Free Washington, that’s why he said he started doing it. It was so much fun, in fact, that he grew too much produce in his 2,000 sf garden to use it all himself, so he started giving it away. He went on, “The thing that became more fun than growing my own food was sharing it. It’s the joy of giving stuff away.” That is the heart of the Food is Free movement: building community by sharing food independence.

Read more about the real life gardener who inspired Chapter 3 of Calico Jill and the Search for Cheese!

What Food is Free Does

Food is Free Washington is a non-profit co-run by David and Ursula Thompson in Tacoma, WA. The goal of Food is Free is to take care of our planet and take care of each other in the process by feeding people. The Thompsons seek to reduce food waste by getting food into the hands of local people who need it. They also educate people on how to grow their own food so that our community is more self reliant and less dependent on outside forces.

Food deserts stretch across many of Tacoma’s communities, but especially so in downtown Tacoma, east Tacoma and south Tacoma. A food desert is an area where local residents do not have access to fresh and healthy foods. Food is Free focuses in particular on these communities in need.

While a food bank might serve 50-100 people, Food is Free serves on average 220 people with each food giveaway. Food banks are great resources for gathering food and giving it to those in need, and they even supply Food is Free with donations through the Emergency Food Network and Feeding Feasible Feasts, but Food is Free is so much more effective in its distribution for two reasons: it goes into the heart of communities where there is food insecurity, and there is no requirement to show an ID or prove income. Anyone who shows up gets food. It’s as simple as that.

Food Is Free Sharing Tables

Ursula and David’s solution to the food deserts that stretch across Tacoma is gardening. Food is Free has planted 3,000 square feet of community garden space across the city. They started setting up tables next to these garden plots, and they would set out food for anyone to take.

They encouraged others to follow suit. At the height of the pandemic, there were 97 of these sharing tables scattered around Tacoma which became a sort of mobile food pantry. During a time of social isolation and social distancing, people formed a sense of community around sharing food surplus with each other within their local communities.

These tables were popular for a time, but there were obstacles. Even though the Thompsons would post instructions on accepted and restricted items, there wasn’t enough education about proper food storage. People started dropping off things like chicken breasts and milk, things that would spoil if left on a table.

These days, the total number of food tables is around 10-12, and they are run independently.

Food Accessibility in 2023

One thing the Thompsons are particularly excited about is the Gleaning Project, a program that is run through Harvest Pierce County in which people can sign up to have the fruit trees in their backyards harvested. Last year, 27,000 pounds of produce was harvested thanks to this program and shared with local hunger relief organizations.

Food banks are getting fewer donations than they used to. EBT benefits were cut in March. With rising food inflation, fewer people want to make donations. Add to these factors the job insecurities that we’ve all faced thanks to the pandemic, and more and more people are turning to feeding themselves with their own gardens.

Food is Free Washington is supporting these burgeoning green thumbs with seeds, plant starters and resources. Ursula explained, “You can grow an extra row. You can grow an extra plant. We just want people to do it with us. All of us gardeners together, we can help feed our community.”

Food Is Free Drop Offs

If you live in Tacoma, you can pick up food on Tuesdays in the extra parking lot across from (west of) Hope Point (formerly Calvary Baptist) Church. Address: 6511 South C Street. Follow @tacomaurbanfarmer on instagram to stay abreast what is available from week to week.

Resources:

Food is Free Washington: https://foodisfreewashington.org/ Emergency Food Network: https://www.efoodnet.org/ Feeding Feasible Feasts: https://feedingfeasiblefeastsllc.org/ Harvest Pierce County: https://piercecd.org/190/Urban-Agriculture and the Gleaning Project (where you can register your fruit trees!): https://piercecountygleaningproject.org/

Calico Jill and the Community Garden

You can read Calico Jill's story on tumblr at the following links. (The Community Garden is Chapter 3):

Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Patreon

The artwork is this post is a painting of mine titled Put A Little Spring In Your Step. It is Watercolor and Ink on 8×10 inch hot press watercolor paper.

#community garden #food deserts #food scarcity #activism #calico jill and the search for cheese #calico jill #tacoma #washington state #pacific northwest

[cinemafromcinema]

“…It tastes and smells of a revolution, it’s grassroots resistance, it’s a globalize intifada…”

#Resistance #Free Palestine #Gaza #Gaza Genocide #Keep Talking About Palestine #Grassroots #Intifada #Disobedience #Human Tragedy #Judaism #Campus #Not in our name #University #Boeing #Lockheed Martin #General Dynamics #Raytheon #Somalia #Yemen #Jill Stein #Washington University #St. Louis #Missouri #War #Mnar Adley #George Galloway #Korea #Vietnam #Laotian #Cambodia

[spurgie-cousin]

I have the teeniest bit of faith that Phil still has a shot if he can stay away from Jill. During this time that he’s been home, when the camera hasn’t been directly focused on him, he’s been making the faces of someone that would rather be getting a root canal than be where they are in the moment (most notably when the family was opening christmas presents and when David’s mom took the kids to a buffet as their christmas gift). Maybe he’s just got RBF (I do too) but with how long he’s been gone from the house, I feel like there’s a chance that the family facade has shifted for him just the slightest. Has he been away from them longer than Tim was?

Well I definitely hope that's true. Idk I just keep my expectations for the Rodrigues kids low lol so then I can be pleasantly surprised if they do anything..... not Rodrigues-y.

I think Tim was officially in school from 2018-2020, even though he moved schools during that time and sometimes says he's still studying aviation. iirc Phillip started his first year of Bible college a little over a year ago, and then also switched schools and is somewhere new as of last semester. So Tim is the Rodrigues kids who has spent the most unmarried time away from his family.

#honestly it was pretty brave of sheltered tim to go to school in Washington state even for the short time he did #but he ended up having to move back closer to Jill #which is exactly what Phillip did i think? idk #if someone knows his new college let me know i can't remember or find it anywhere #Phillip Rodrigues

[behindthemirrorofmusic]

Ethan Freeman and Jill Washington - West End

#ethan freeman #phantom of the opera #poto #the phantom of the opera #jill washington

[night-unfurls-its-splendour]

Ethan Freeman and Jill Washington, "Stranger Than You Dreamt It": Part II

#phantom of the opera #poto #poto musical #poto west end #ethan freeman #jill washington #stranger than you dreamt it #erik the phantom #christine daae #the phantom of the opera #eristine #christine x erik #erik x christine #erik/christine #poto e/c #e/c #poto gifsets

[federer7]

Washington D.C. From series "Resurrection City", 1968

Photo: Jill Freedman

#jill freedman #1968 #Resurrection City #washington

[contemplatingoutlander]

Is there really any contest between how Jill Biden and Melania Trump chose to decorate the White House for Christmas?

Although I guess you could say that those bloody red trees of Melania’s were a fitting symbol of the way the Trump administration sucked the lifeblood out of our democratic institutions. 🧛🏻‍♂️🎄

Yes, Jill Biden decorated the White House in a more traditional way. But after the Trump administration, I think we needed a return to “traditional” and “normal.”

Below are some excerpts from The Washington Post article:

Everyone is familiar with those shiny glass mirror ball ornaments you can find at any big-box store, but this year, first lady Jill Biden hung actual mirrors on the trees of the White House’s Grand Foyer. Circular mirrors. Square mirrors. Lean in, and your face will appear, clear as day.

“That’s very purposeful, very intentional,” said Biden’s communications director, Elizabeth Alexander. “It’s important for the first lady that people see themselves in the decor.”

In other words, the People’s House will be filled with reflections of the 50,000 visitors expected to come through the doors in the next four weeks — some for tours, others to attend the 20-plus planned holiday receptions, ramping up for the first time since the pandemic. The words “We the People” — the first lady’s theme this year — hang over the entrance to the East Wing, and a copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed in 1845, is on display in the library.

I also appreciate that there were models of the First Cat Willow 🐈 and the First Dog Commander. 🐕

Below is a video of all the decorations. (Use this LINK if the video doesn’t play.)

#white house christmas decorations #jill biden #melania trump #video #the washington post #ap #willow and commander

[social-battery-low]

Even as a young person Biden would never have done anything like this. He was too busy trying to keep schools segregated and buddying up with white supremacists.

#free gaza #free palestine #ceasefire #gaza #abandon biden #rafah #joe biden #jill stein #columbia university #nyu #usc #washington university #genocide joe #gaza genocide #palestinian genocide #anti zionisim #anti war #october 7 #Youtube