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A number of
musicians, writers, dramatists, and filmmakers have completed – or are still
working on – many creative projects which consider the people of Peoples Temple
and the events in Jonestown. The articles below describe those projects,
introduce the creative forces behind them, and consider how they perceive their
own work.
A. Art and popular culture notes
B. Books and poetry
1. Jonestown Lullaby Published
1a. I Do Not Love You, by Teri Buford O’Shea
1b. The Poems In Jonestown Lullaby, by Heather Johnson
2. 2011 Update For Jonestown Survivor: An Insider’s Look, by Laura Johnston Kohl
2a. Website and Blog Complement Jonestown Survivor, by Laura Johnston Kohl
3. In the Game of Life, Faith Wins, by Leslie Wilson-Cathey
4. Surviving November: My Life After Jonestown, by Dawn Gardfrey
5. A Thousand Lives Is Published
5a. An Author Reflects Upon Her Work, by Julia Scheeres
5b. In Search of the Grander Scale, by Kathy Tropp Barbour
5c. A Thousand Lives A Painful and Disturbing Read, by Annie Dawid
5d. Rewriting Jonestown, by Katherine Hill
5e. Scheeres Book Offers Understanding of November 18, by Sylvia Marciniak
5f. The Pieces Still Missing, by Rikke Wettendorff
6. Lavender Look Published Posthumously
7. Volume of Poetry Counters Erasure of Jonestown, by Carmen Gillespie
8. Belva Davis Memoir Includes Recollections of Peoples Temple
9. Other Jonestown Dimensions: Views from Guyana, by Eusi Kwayana
10. And Then They Were Gone Nears Completion, by Ron Cabral
11. Bring Out The “Black Dimensions” Of Peoples Temple, by James Lance Taylor
12. Finding Jeanette McDonald’s Pool, by Jennifer Kathleen Gibbons
12a. Visiting Andalusia
13. You Are Your Text, by Darlene Anita Scott
14. Asking Why, by Russell Working
15. On writing a novel about Jonestown, in retrospect, by Sylvia Smith
16. White Night: The Novel, by Sharon Maas
17. Revealing Peoples Temple through Creative Writing, by Chelsea Blundon
17a. Don’t Drink The Kool-aid
17b. Separation of Church and State of Shock
17c. Mortis Operandi
17d. Sharon Amos
17e. Daleigh
17f. Step On Up
C. Music
1. Cults Song Includes Temple Images
1a. A Director Under the Influence of History, by Isaiah Seret
1b. Talking with Cults: Conversations with a Video Director, by Don Beck, aka Eiredon
2. Peoples Temple will forever be remembered as a cult... or will it?, by Casey Strain
D. Film and Drama
1. The People’s Temple Performed at Napa Valley College
1a. Telling the Truth, by Jennifer King
1b. Awake My Soul, by Cristhian Ayvar
1c. A Year Reconsidered, by Dawn Johnson
1d. Grieving Peoples Temple, and a Daughter, by Donald E. Lacy, Jr.
2. Jonestown Opera Project Finds New Life, by Dan Buckley
3. Exploring ambivalence in Peoples Temple, by Carl Kelsch
4. My Father’s House Advances in Research, Staging, by Ken White
5. Jonestown: Thoughts from behind-the-scenes on National Geographic Channel’s Seconds from Disaster, by Sally Brindle
6. Misconceptions of Jonestown and Peoples Temple, by Martin English
7. White Night: Survivors of Jonestown, by Alex Smith
8. “I Believe in Jim Jones”, by Chase Voorhees
E. Artworks and photography
1. Painting Stories, by Nick Burgess
2. Summer Camp, by T. Gordon
3. Making “A Shovel in Soil”: An Artwork in Audio, by Matthew Sochocki
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