Now at the Uncertain Hour A Collaborative Humanities Program Created by:

u St. Lawrence University

u Shechem Press

u North Country Public Radio

u Charles M Pepiton

u Damon Falke

u Camilla Ammirati

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St. Lawrence University

Performance & Communication Arts Department

The Performance & Communication Arts Department at St. Lawrence University is the current academic home of Prof. Charles M Pepiton, project director for Now at the Uncertain Hour. The PCA department produces four fully mounted theatrical and dance productions and a number of other student produced and guest artist performances each academic year in three well equipped theatre spaces.

[L-R] 2013: Hush: An Interview with America directed by Charles M Pepiton 2012; Beyond the Footlights choreographed by Keri Canedy

2013: Hush: An Interview with America directed by Charles M Pepiton

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Shechem PressShechem Press publishes Damon Falke’s work and is an in-kind benefactor and organizational partner for Now at the Uncertain Hour. The project will culminate in a published script, which will include an account of the program and resulting audience interaction. The Press was an organizational partner, chief sponsor, and publisher for The Sun is in the West in 2010, a previous collaborative program created by writer Damon Falke and director Charles M Pepiton.

Shechem Press is a 501(c)3 non-profit, grassroots organization dedicated to advancing the work of poets, playwrights, artists, and thinkers. It produces 1-2 publications each year along with an annual set of original broadsides.

[L-R] 2013: By Way of Passing by Damon Falke (Fiction)2010: The Sun is in the West by Damon Falke (A Play)2010: Matter Anthology V.01 Foreword by Peter Rollins & Ed. Charles M Pepiton (A Collection of es-says at the intersection of Art & Theology)

Collaborators Include:

Stephen BehrendtDamon FalkeKevin MeauxJoshua MehiganCharles M PepitonSaara RaappanaPeter RollinsRebekah Wilkins-Pepiton

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North Country Public RadioNCPR is an in-kind benefactor and organizational partner for Now at the Uncertain Hour. Program Director Jackie Sauter and Production Manager Joel Hurd are key collaborators on the project and have helped to craft the project’s vision from its inception and will execute the technical aspects of the program during production. NCPR will facilitate and host the live radio broadcast, online audio/video streaming, and audience interaction.

Prison Time Media Project:Receives funding from the New York Council for the Humanities.

Prison Time Media Project Lead producer: Brian Mann

Reporter and assistant producer: Natasha Haverty

Based in Canton, NY, in St. Lawrence County, NCPR operates a network of 32 transmitters broadcast-ing to the entire Adirondack North Country, western Vermont and southeastern Ontario. The com-mercial-free format includes a wide variety of programs from National Public Radio including All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Fresh Air and more. NCPR’s award-winning news team can be heard weekdays at 8:00 am with regional news broadcasts, features and interviews. The station also airs an eclectic mix of locally-hosted music programs.

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Charles M PepitonCharles M Pepiton is the project director for Now at the Uncertain Hour and currently serves as Visiting Assistant Professor of Performance at St. Lawrence University. He holds an MFA in directing from the University of Idaho. As a stage director, his creative interests revolve around the transformational qualities of theatre where communities may be changed or formed through their participation. He was the director of Damon Falke’s The Sun is in the West in 2010, which toured New Mexico and Colorado. Like the current project, The Sun is in the West was an interdisciplinary humanities event featuring three storytellers and a live blues guitarist. Other projects include cross-cultural productions of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest at Guizhou University in China. The latter production was invited to perform as part of the 2012 Chinese Universities Shakespeare Festival in Hong Kong.

[L-R] 2011-12: The Tempest at Guizhou University, Guizhou, P.R. China.2010: The Sun is in the West at Square Top Repertory Theatre, Colorado & New Mexico

Review by Leanne Goebel

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Damon Falke

Damon Falke is a playwright, poet, and novelist. He holds a Master of Liberal Arts degree from St. John’s College. He is the author of performance pieces such as The Sun is in the West, Canaan, and this current project, Now at the Uncertain Hour. His novella By Way of Passing will come out in September 2013 through Shechem Press, which has been his publisher since 2007.

Notes on Paper“when october comes”

Interview in The College

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Camilla AmmiratiCamilla Ammirati is a musician and a scholar of American literature. She is a member, songwriter, and composer of The Don’t Tell Darlings, a band focusing on bluegrass and traditional American music. The group has created three albums of original music including recent collections Salt for Salt (2013) and Sugar for Sugar (2011). She holds a Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of Virginia and serves as an adjunct instructor in the First Year Program (FYP) at St. Lawrence University. Camilla will compose and perform the music for Now at the Uncertain Hour.

“The Last Thing You Wanted”Written by Millie Ammirati, The Don’t Tell Darlings, All Rights Reserved, Copyright 2011

“Honeybee”Written by Millie Ammirati, The Don’t Tell Darlings, All Rights Reserved, Copyright 2011

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