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NY NOW And Shoppe Object Postpone New York Market Week To October 2020

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The Press Release:
NY NOW®, the modern wholesale market for retailers and specialty buyers seeking diversity and discovery, has decided, in light of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and after careful consideration, to postpone the 2020 Summer Market which had been scheduled for August 8-12, 2020, at the Jacob Javits Center. With the interest of the retail community in mind, and to provide buyers a strong, convenient, and varied Market Week—NY NOW and Shoppe Object are working together to reschedule the New York Market Week to October 2020. The NY NOW Fall Edition will showcase at the Javits Center on October 18 – 20, 2020 and Shoppe Object will stage at Pier 36 October 20 – 22.

“NY NOW’s role is to bring buyers and brands together safely in a spirit of discovery and unity. With that in mind, we are rescheduling our August event and will instead run a NY NOW Fall Edition in October,” said Tim Hart, SVP Retail, NY NOW. “We are pleased to coordinate our change of dates with the organizers of Shoppe Object so that buyers experience a robust and convenient Market Week in October. We will continue to monitor the progress of the COVID-19 pandemic and review our plans as required. It’s, of course, disappointing that our community will not be able to gather in August, but we look forward to coming together in October,” continued Hart.
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Presenting The 65th Annual Drama Desk Awards Nominees

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If there is one thing that I’ve really enjoyed sharing with the readers of “The Chronicles”, it’s the assorted awards show nominations and winners circle rundowns. I was hoping to have the rundown for The TONY Awards but that event was postponed due to the pandemic back in March (discussed HERE if you missed it) and I don’t think that the nominees were ever announced in April as we were originally reading but I digress. Though the practice of my revealing this information from assorted sources and the official press channels is nothing new anymore, this particular one is brand-new to our list of broadcasts. Ladies and gentlemen get ready for the full nominees for the 65th Annual Drama Desk Awards. I’ll return at the close with some final editorial.

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Outstanding Play:
Cambodian Rock Band, by Lauren Yee, Signature Theatre
Greater Clements, by Samuel D. Hunter, Lincoln Center Theater
Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven, by Stephen Adly Guirgis, Atlantic Theater Company/LAByrinth Theater Company
Heroes of the Fourth Turning, by Will Arbery, Playwrights Horizons
The Inheritance, by Matthew Lopez

Outstanding Musical:
Octet, Signature Theatre
The Secret Life of Bees, Atlantic Theater Company
Soft Power, The Public Theater
A Strange Loop, Playwrights Horizons/Page 73 Productions
The Wrong Man, MCC Theater
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YouTube Celebrates 15th Anniversary of First Uploaded Video

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And now its time to celebrate something that isn’t of our own design at all. So historically speaking, today is the 15th Anniversary of the very first YouTube video being published. According to research they first branded this whole thing back in February of 2005 and I guess didn’t rush to get any kind of video up until April. Their launch of brand was actually only a few months before the launch of my own PiercingMetal website for those who might be curious. I dug around and learned that the very first clip was called “Me At The Zoo” and I’ve embedded it for you down below.


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Bethel Woods Center For The Arts Announce “Growing Hope”

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The Press Release:
Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, a nonprofit cultural center located at the historic site of the 1969 Woodstock Festival, announced today an initiative titled Growing Hope. Together with Sullivan Renaissance, a beautification and community development initiative of the Gerry Foundation, Growing Hope will provide flower-growing kits and art supplies to school students who are presently at home due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Kits will be distributed at the end of April. The community will be invited later in the season to plant a peace garden at the historic Woodstock festival site later in the year.

Regardless of the global circumstance, Bethel Woods and Sullivan Renaissance remain committed to inspiring and empowering the people who have touched the organizations by creating opportunities for shared experiences, learning, and engagement with the arts.
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The 2020 BookExpo, The Book Con and Unbound Are Cancelled; See You In 2021

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We’ve just received some sad news from the media handlers of the popular BookExpo, The Book Con and Unbound event that was to be held in July after being rescheduled from late May due to the Coronavirus Pandemic (we first discussed that HERE). With the city still dealing with this crisis, this event will cancel its plans for the year and return next Spring. Check it out down below.

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The Press Release:
To our BookExpo, UnBound & BookCon community,

Due to the escalation of COVID-19 globally, Reed Exhibitions has today announced that the next edition of BookExpo, UnBound and BookCon will now take place in the spring of 2021.

Initially, we were optimistic that our events could run in late July. However, as the pandemic has continued to escalate in the United States and we see the challenges it has brought for the book industry, it is clear that 2020 is no longer a viable option for this community.
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