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Join us on February 23rd, at 5:00pm EST for The Nurse Antigone!
RSVP: nurseantigonesigma.eventbrite.com
A groundbreaking project by and for nurses, The Nurse Antigone presents dramatic readings of Sophocles’ Antigone on Zoom—featuring professional actors and a chorus of frontline nurses—to help frame powerful, guided discussions about the unique challenges faced by nurses. Antigone, an ancient play about a young woman who puts everything on the line to do what she believes is right, dramatizes the heavy cost of silencing and marginalizing caregivers, especially during times of crisis. By performing Sophocles’ play for diverse audiences, including nurses as well as concerned citizens, The Nurse Antigone aims to generate compassion, awareness, connection, and much-needed healing, while celebrating and advocating for nurses at this critical juncture in the history of their profession.
Featuring performances by Margaret Atwood (Author of The Handmaid's Tale), Frankie Faison (The Wire), Jessie Buckley (Women Talking), Jumaane Williams (Public Advocate NYC), Ato Blankson-Wood (When They See Us), Marjolaine Goldsmith (Dress), Jeannette (Jeannie) Meyer, (Clinical Nurse Specialist for Palliative Care at UCLA Health, Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital) Jason Kirchick (MEDSURG-RN University of Vermont Medical Center), Olivia Williams-Coombs (RN, RM, CEN, University Hospital Of the West Indies, Jamaica), Alysia Erin Pack (DNP, APRN, FNP-C, Doctor of Nursing Practice and Family Nurse Practitioner, Old Dominion University School of Nursing, Graduate Faculty - Adjunct President-Elect, Virginia Council of Nurse Practitioners), and Desmond O. Croker (RN, Dip. OHS, BSN, CCDE, MSN Nurse Educator at the Turks and Caicos Islands Community College).
Co-presented by Theater of War Productions, the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, and the Resilient Nurses Initiative - Maryland.
Co-hosted by Sigma.
Supported by the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund.
Support for our digital programming is provided, in part, by the Mellon Foundation.
The Nurse Antigone will take place on Zoom Webinar and can be accessed on personal devices. The event Zoom link will be distributed via email and available to registered attendees starting two days prior to the event.
Join us on February 23rd, at 5:00pm EST for The Nurse Antigone!
RSVP: nurseantigonesigma.eventbrite.com
A groundbreaking project by and for nurses, The Nurse Antigone presents dramatic readings of Sophocles’ Antigone on Zoom—featuring professional actors and a chorus of frontline nurses—to help frame powerful, guided discussions about the unique challenges faced by nurses. Antigone, an ancient play about a young woman who puts everything on the line to do what she believes is right, dramatizes the heavy cost of silencing and marginalizing caregivers, especially during times of crisis. By performing Sophocles’ play for diverse audiences, including nurses as well as concerned citizens, The Nurse Antigone aims to generate compassion, awareness, connection, and much-needed healing, while celebrating and advocating for nurses at this critical juncture in the history of their profession.
Featuring performances by Margaret Atwood (Author of The Handmaid's Tale), Frankie Faison (The Wire), Jessie Buckley (Women Talking), Jumaane Williams (Public Advocate NYC), Ato Blankson-Wood (When They See Us), Marjolaine Goldsmith (Dress), Jeannette (Jeannie) Meyer, (Clinical Nurse Specialist for Palliative Care at UCLA Health, Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital) Jason Kirchick (MEDSURG-RN University of Vermont Medical Center), Olivia Williams-Coombs (RN, RM, CEN, University Hospital Of the West Indies, Jamaica), Alysia Erin Pack (DNP, APRN, FNP-C, Doctor of Nursing Practice and Family Nurse Practitioner, Old Dominion University School of Nursing, Graduate Faculty - Adjunct President-Elect, Virginia Council of Nurse Practitioners), and Desmond O. Croker (RN, Dip. OHS, BSN, CCDE, MSN Nurse Educator at the Turks and Caicos Islands Community College).
Co-presented by Theater of War Productions, the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, and the Resilient Nurses Initiative - Maryland.
Co-hosted by Sigma.
Supported by the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund.
Support for our digital programming is provided, in part, by the Mellon Foundation.
The Nurse Antigone will take place on Zoom Webinar and can be accessed on personal devices. The event Zoom link will be distributed via email and available to registered attendees starting two days prior to the event.
