{"id":10443,"date":"2017-04-24T12:20:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T16:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/?p=10443"},"modified":"2026-10-28T10:00:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T14:00:47","slug":"libertaire-premiers-may-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/libertaire-premiers-may-11\/","title":{"rendered":"SPC professor\u2019s screenplay, LIBERTAIRE: THE PLAY, opens May 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>LIBERTAIRE: THE PLAY<\/em>, an award-winning screenplay written by SPC Art Professor Elizabeth Indianos is also an adapted stageplay premiering May 11-13, 2017, at 7:30 p.m. at the Tarpon Springs Performing Arts Center. The play tells the story of newspaperman Joe Pulitzer and French sculptor Auguste Bartholdi, who fight discrimination and indifference for a woman no one wanted: Lady Liberty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe story really revealed a lot to me and I felt like I needed to tell this story,\u201d said Indianos. \u201cMy grandparents were immigrants and they came through Ellis Island and saw the statue of Liberty &#8211; escaping the Greek genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the play and ticket information at <a href=\"http:\/\/tarponarts.org\/event\/libertaire-the-play\">tarponarts.org\/event\/libertaire-the-play<\/a>. Students enrolled in on campus classes at SPC\u2019s Tarpon Springs Campus can contact Barbara Fumano at <a href=\"mailto:fumano.barbara@spcollege.edu\">fumano.barbara@spcollege.edu<\/a> for one free ticket request while supplies last.<\/p>\n<p>An instructor on St. Petersburg College\u2019s Tarpon Springs Campus, Indianos has received numerous awards for the screenplay, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Best Screenplay 2017 Vancouver Film Festival, Canada<\/li>\n<li>Official selection 2016 Female Eye Film Festival, Toronto<\/li>\n<li>Best Screenplay 2016 Life Long Island International Film Expo<\/li>\n<li>First Runner up Feature Drama Woods Hole Film Festival screenplay competition 2016<\/li>\n<li>2016 Nicholl Fellowship Screenwriting Quarterfinalist<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YscZFePmXJA<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA personal family motto that I have grown up with from my father is, \u2018The impossible just takes 15 minutes longer,\u2019\u201d said Indianos. \u201cThat kind of philosophy of never giving up is coded into my DNA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about St. Petersburg College <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/degrees-training\/arts-humanities-and-design\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arts, Humanities and Design degrees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10445\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10445\" style=\"width: 139px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10445 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/04\/Indianos.jpg\" alt=\"Elizabeth Indianos, writer of Libertaire, the play\" width=\"139\" height=\"199\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10445\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Indianos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><em>Elizabeth Indianos<\/em><\/strong><em> is an artist, writer, public speaker and art professor at St. Petersburg College. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Florida and a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of South Florida. Early in her career she received a Mobil Corporation grant for the exploration of new materials. Over the past twenty eight- years her diverse and varied work has developed in this same spirit of exploration through a variety of themes and a wide scope of materials and technology. She has created large-scale projects in the public art arena. Many of these projects integrate writing components and unusual collaborative ventures. View some of her art at <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elizabethindianos.com\"><em>www.elizabethindianos.com<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIBERTAIRE: THE PLAY, an award-winning screenplay written by SPC Art Professor Elizabeth Indianos is also an adapted stageplay premiering May 11-13, 2017, at 7:30 p.m. at the Tarpon Springs Performing Arts Center. 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