Showing posts with label Schuhplatter Sean. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Schuhplatter Sean. Show all posts

SeanChron | White Rose Exhibit

The White Rose exhibit at UW's Odegaard Library, 2013.

I have had the great honor of helping the Munich-based organizers of a traveling exhibit on the White Rose (the student resistance group in WWII Germany) for several years now in the Pacific NW of the United States. The exhibit is administered and scheduled by the Weiße Rose Stiftung and I just help arrange transportation for it in the US, store it when it is not on display, and help install it at new venues on occasion as needed.

I first became involved with exhibit in 2011 when I led a committee to bring the exhibit at the UW in the fall of 2013. Little did I know that this would open up a window into my own past that I hadn't known about before, a rescuer in my own family!

Since that time I continue to support the exhibit in the US and work to share the story of the White Rose given that many of the issues at play in WWII Germany still exist in our world today. This is one reason why I wear a white rose in my hat when for my Schuhplatter (Bavarian folk dancing) performances.

Below you will find pictures and stories of the exhibit as the exhibit makes its way around the Pacific NW and beyond with the most recent updates at the top of the post.

Nov 2016 | Article on White Rose Exhibit at Hebrew College in Boston

A great article by Matt Lebovic on the White Rose exhibit and its impact at its first venue in the NE.
Oct 2016 | White Rose Exhibit off to Boston
The White Rose Exhibit (die Weiße Rose Stiftung) is off to the German Embassy in Boston for a tour of the east coast over the next several months. Huge thanks to Myan, Kate, and Bri at the FedEx Office Print & Ship Center #5506 for the fantastic packing job and for doing it so quickly! Auf Wiedersehen und Gute Reise!

June 2016 | White Rose Exhibit Returns from University of Portland
The White Rose Exhibit (Weiße Rose Stiftung) on the University of Munich student resistance group in Germany during WWII finished up at University of Portland and is on the move again. And yes, in case you were wondering...the exhibit DOES fit in Fiat 500 ;-)

July 2016 | A Visit to the White Rose Exhibit in Munich
I had the opportunity to visit the actual White Rose Exhibit in Munich this summer while on vacation in Germany and I must say it was as inspiring as I expected it to me. I arranged with Angela Kretschmann, the coordinator of the US traveling exhibit, to meet with Ursula Kaufmann, the head of the White Rose Exhibit at the University of Munich. Hearing the stories first hand and then visiting so many of the important locations of the final days of the White Rose participants was an experience I will never forget. Below are a few photos I took.








Here is a short video clip of the art installation in the hallway:

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SeanChron | Restaurant Review | Brigit & Bernard's Garden Cafe

Mahi Mahi meets the Matterhorn

I've been wanting to go to Brigit & Bernard's Garden Cafe for years during my visits to Maui but could never make it happen. Finally made it and am SO glad I did!

The location is as authentic Hawaii as it comes...smack in the middle of industrial area. From outside its not all that impressive but once inside, the fusion of alpen and aloha begins. From the mounted mahi mahi to the rafters lined with steins, you definitely get that you are eating Swiss/German/Alpen food in Hawaii.

The service was island time, but that's a good thing in my opinion. The food...SCHMEDKT auf Deutsch, ONO in Hawaiian. Really, I was blown away. I don't eat farmed meat so I'm a bit limited on choices but my food was amazing the the appetizers and entrees that went buy looked pretty darn tasty...which was confirmed by the other diners.

If your looking for change up from the usual island fair, try Brigit & Bernard's out...its the best of alpen food with a lot of aloha.

Alpen Aloha

Cheesy Mushroom Bread

Käsespätzle

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SeanChron | Billy Zane in The Sound of Music


5.23.14. The discovery this morning that Billy Zane is playing Captain von Trapp in a Lyric Opera of Chicago production of The Sound of Music made me very happy. So happy that I was singing a quite animated version of "The Lonely Goatherd" song while walking to work today...not realizing there was a pack of people behind me enjoying the show.
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Schuhplattler Sean

Welcome to my Schuhplattler Sean page! Below you can follow my adventures in becoming a Schuhplattler. The journey starts at the bottom of this post and continues up with the most current updates right here at the top. In our Next Century Citizenship page we talk about how one becomes a citizen of the next century. The first few items are all about getting to know the history and culture of your family and ancestors. So, just like Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek who goes back to his family's vineyard in France, below you'll find my attempt to stay connected to the history and culture of my ancestors. There's a lot of shoe slapping and jumping so please do enjoy!

27 May 2013
A cool shot from 2013 Northwest Folklife. Thanks to Julie Miller for the photo!

More from 2013 Folklife...


16 May 2013
Schuhplattler shadow...

12 May 2013
My Scifi and Schuhplattler worlds just collided...

11 May 2013
Well, I survived my first full performance at Maifest in Leavenworth, WA. Didn't mess up the Maipole, didn't mess up much at all actually. Whew! Day 1 was SUPER hot so sweat like crazy but Day 2 was really wonderful. No turning back now, I am a performing Schuhplattler. When I compete in the 2013 Gaufest coming up in June, I'll be completely official. Enjoy the photos!















10 May 2013
Starbucks just made this Schuhplattler feel right at home :-)


28 November 2010
My Lederhosen, loferl (half socks), and shoes arrived today. Now we're talking Schuhplattler. Not the fancy trim on the shoes.


27 October 2010
Its my first day of Schuhplattler, aka Bavarian Folk Dancing (also done in Austria, Switzerland, and North Italy). This has been coming for a LONG time. I got started through a friend, Kory Tideman, who plays guitar and button box for Happy Hans, a local Bavarian band. I had hired them to play at my 49th birthday and soon discovered that Kory was also one of the best Hawaiian slack-key guitar players around so invited him to play at our Ballard Luau. Kory mentioned that if I was really serious about this Bavarian stuff, I should start dancing with Enzian Schuhplatter as they were looking for more men. Well, that's what I did and below is my first proof!

That is the first dance set list that I got to try out. Didn't go so well. I did OK on the Family Waltz but everything else was a hot Bavarian mess. I will say that it was fantastic to arrive at the German House and feel right at home. I have a ton of friends in the Hawaiian and local Native community that talk about connecting to ancestors and that's exactly what I felt when I walked into the German House for the first time. Got chicken skin even. And then when we started dancing it was a really wonderful feeling. Schuhplattler goes back in recorded history to 1050 when a Tergernsee Abbey monk described it in a poetic work called Ruodlieb about adventures of a knight from youth to adulthood.
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