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Aug 18, 2023 · I n 2001, Sam Lipman-Stern was a teenage high school dropout working at Civic Development Group (CDG), a telemarketing company that operated out of central New Jersey.
Recently appointed as the full-time Composer-In-Residence, Head Accompanist, and Lecturer in Musical Aesthetics for the Theater and Dance Department at the University of Texas at Austin, Lipman boasts a prolific portfolio, critically acclaimed for its wide variety and poignant beauty.
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Aug 13, 2023 · Who is Sam Lipman-Stern? It was reportedly back in 2001 when New Jersey native Sam Lipman-Stern realized his future wasn’t in studies or traditional service, driving him to drop out of high school despite being merely 14-years-old.
- Lipman Was Inspired by Free Willy!
- Free Morgan!
- “Found Swimming Alone & Emaciated”
- Keeping Animals Captive Also “Goes Against The Cycle of Life”
- Began with Internships
- “Many Happy Times on Orca Watch Surveys”
- Balcomb: from Desert to The Sea
- Inspired by The Son of Aldo Leopold
- From Banding Sea Birds to Flying For The Navy
- Photo ID of Puget Sound Orcas
“Sam’s passion for orcas was first ignited when she watched the movie Free Willy,” recalled the web page for Orca Aware, an organization Lipman herself founded in 2012. “She had worked with British Divers Marine Life Rescue since 2007 as a medic, course instructor, and out-of-hours coordinator. She was formerly part of the head office staff and in ...
“Sam also volunteered with the Orca Research Trust and Free Morgan Foundation,” Orca Aware mentioned, the latter an organization founded to seek the release of an orca kept at Loro Parque on Tenerife in the Canary Islands of Spain. Lipman in the latter capacity in April 2016 authored “Orca Morgan Smashes Her Head…and Loro Parque Says This is Normal...
“The sixth orca, Morgan, was born in the wild. In June 2010 she was found swimming alone and emaciated off the Dutch coast and taken to the Dolfinarium Harderwijk in the Netherlands for rehabilitation and release. Instead of being returned back to her native Norwegian waters, Morgan was sent to Loro Parque. “Why Morgan was locked inside Loro Parque...
“Despite this statement,” Lipman charged, “Loro Parque does not appear to consider that the permanent prevention of the freedom and choice of the wild animals under its human care is an action that also goes against the very cycle of life and well-being of the animals – that the orcas have other needs and those needs are frustrated in captivity.” M...
Lipman while an undergraduate at Durham University did month-long internships with the Orca Foundation in South Africa and the Orca Research Trust in New Zealand. Completing a bachelor of science degree in zoology ad animal biology in 2012, Lipman taught English and drama from July 2010 to September 2015 with the TheaterSPASS program in Germany, ea...
“I met Sam many years ago, and remember many happy times we shared whilst in the north of Scotland on annual Orca Watch surveys. I also worked closely with her within the Dolphinaria-Free Europe coalition,” memorialized Marine Connection director Margaux Dodds. “We at Marine Connection will remember Sam with much love, affection, and admiration for...
Ken Balcomb, founder of the Center for Whale Research, died in Friday Harbor, Washington, his home of 46 years. Born on November 11, 1940 in Clovis, New Mexico, almost on the Texas border and nearly 1,000 miles from the Pacific Ocean, Balcomb spent his early years in Albuquerque, relocating with his family to Carmichael, California, at age 11. “Aft...
“After graduating from American River College in 1960, he went to the University of California at Berkeley where he enrolled as a philosophy major in preparation for law school. In his senior year, however, he took a fish and wildlife management course taught by Paul Needham and A. Starker Leopold, the son of pioneering ecologist Aldo Leopold, that...
Transferring to the Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program of the U.S. National Museum, Balcomb spent 1966 banding and studying seabirds in the central North Pacific. Enlisting in the U.S. Navy to become a pilot, at the height of the Vietnam War, Balcomb spent five years flying, took a two-year leave of absence to begin work on an eventual Ph.D. f...
Upon leaving the Navy, Balcomb was hired by the National Marine Fisheries Service in 1976 to do a photo identification study of orca whales in Puget Sound, following up research begun by Mike Biggs (1939-1990). Balcomb began just one month after the last capture of orcas on Puget Sound for display at marine mammal parks, at Budd Inlet near Olympia,...
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Sam Lipman-Stern is a New Jersey born Documentary Filmmaker, Producer, and cinematographer, with a passion for the visual arts that dates to his early days as a graffiti artist. Sam has become known globally for bringing an authentic eye and hip-hop perspective to the film medium.
