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True To Its 102-Years-Old History, Maryland Festival Debuts A Renovated Parkway Theatre

True To Its 102-Years-Old History, Maryland Festival Debuts A Renovated Parkway Theatre

by The Daily Eye Team May 2 2017, 4:21 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 35 secs

Wiping away 102 years' worth of dirt, wear, crumbling plaster and the shards of misuse from the Parkway theater was never going to be easy. And to the credit of those running the Maryland Film Festival, they opted against even trying. "When we walked into the building a few years back — 100 years old, most of its life [spent] as a movie theater, under multiple owners — the intrinsic beauty of the place was just overwhelming," says festival director Jed Dietz, the guiding force behind the reclamation project that turned the Parkway from a building abandoned for decades to Baltimore's newest movie theater and a crown jewel of the Station North Arts District.

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Prof. Ajanta Dutt


Prof. Ajanta Dutt teaches English in Deshbandhu College, Delhi University. She received her doctorate from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA. While teaching there, she  edited Landscapes and Languages for the ESL Writing Programme. Her books on Tagore's Home and the World and The Poets of the Americas on a selection of post colonial writers were taught in Delhi University. She writes, edits and translates scholarly articles, fiction and poetry. She also writes on contemporary films from Bengal. 


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