Dear Friends:
New Village celebrates Women’s History Month and joins in encouraging the study and observance of the vital role of women in shaping American history. This issue of our newsletter highlights the programs and work of clinical psychiatrist and social scientist Mindy Thompson Fullilove; children, youth and environmental researchers and advocates Louise Chawla, Mara Mintzer, and Victoria Derr; and artist and community builder Sabra Moore. We are also proud to have two powerful memoirs written by notable women coming out this season:
In the Company of Rebels
by environmental and social activist Chellis Glendinning and
Such a Pretty Girl
by disability activist Nadina LaSpina.
All these authors bring us a deeper understanding and appreciation of women’s prowess to animate, inform, and empower movements for societal change.
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Important Events in March
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March 11, Austin, TX:
Mindy Thompson Fullilove will be speaking at the JW Marriott on behalf of her 400 Years of Inequality Initiative, which calls on the country to reckon with its history of slavery.
She'll be joined by artists Shaun Leonardo, whose work centers on the criminal justice system, and Favianna Rodriguez, founder of The Center for Cultural Power, in a conversation moderated by Jamie Bennett, executive director of ArtPlace America. Dr.
Fullilove is New Village Press author of
Root Shock, Urban Alchemy
, and coauthor with her father of
Homeboy Came to Orange
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March 15, New York, NY: The 400 Years of Inequality National Organizing Committee invites you to
A People's Observance for a Just Future
, a day of performance, reflection, and conversation on the 400 years since Africans were first brought to Jamestown in 1619 to be sold into bondage. In preparation for People's Observances across the nation in 2019, this gathering will demonstrate the many forms an Observance can take.
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March 24, Montclair, NJ: The Undoing Racism Committee of UUCM invites you to their
annual women's history month celebration
to reflect on the trials endured by women and learn ways to work towards a just future. Featuring a talk by Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove, international advisor on women, poverty, and race and leader of "400 Years of Inequality," the program will weave music from multi-instrumentalist, Maritri, with messages to inspire forward actions.
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"They shed light onto the views of this gargantuan art historical titan, and also hint at what it would be like to sit in his living room and absorb an earful of the older painter’s verbiage — a task that Peña patiently took on for a full year."
~Karen Chernick
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The Earth, the City, and the Hidden Narrative of Race
is being produced as an Audio Book
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Carl C. Anthony's memoir on the struggles for social, racial, and environmental justice will soon be available as an Audio Book, making this important narrative available to a wider audience.
More details to come!
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Uppsala Health Summit: Healthy Urban Childhoods
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May 22-26, Brooklyn, NY: coauthors Louise Chawla and Mara Mintzer will both be presenters at the 50th anniversary conference of the
Environmental Design Research Association,
EDRA50.
New Village Press will also have a full book table at EDRA50. Come visit us!
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Community Awards and Projects
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New Mexico Farmers Market of the Year!
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It is our pleasure to congratulate Sabra Moore, artist and New Village Press author, who serves her community as manager of the Española Farmers Market, on receiving the Farmers Market of the Year award from New Mexico Secretary of Agriculture, Jeff Witte, during the New Mexico Food and Farms Day!
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Sabra Moore featured in
Rio Grande Sun Arts
: "Birth of a Mural"
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Artist Sabra Moore, author of
Openings: A Memoir from the Women’s Art Movement, New York City 1970-1992,
is also leading a community mosaic tile mural project in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico. Her corn-themed art project is documented in a five-page illustrated feature story of the
Rio Grande Sun Arts
. The mural is an opportunity for residents to "show pride in the community and be a part of an art installation that will
be around for many years."
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Through a series of 43 vignettes—tight biographical sketches of the characters and intimate memories of her personal encounters with them—Chellis Glendinning creates a collective portrait of the rebels, artists, radicals, and thinkers of the 1960s and '70s who through word and action raised many of the issues of justice, the environment, feminism, and colonialism that we are now familiar with.
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This beautifully written memoir is Nadina La Spina's story—-from her early years in her native Sicily, where still a baby she contracts polio, a fact that makes her the object of well-meaning pity and the target of messages of hopelessness; to her adolescence and youth in America, spent almost entirely in hospitals, where she is tortured in the quest for a cure and made to feel that her body no longer belongs to her; to her rebellion and powerful activism in the disability rights movement.
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In community,
Lynne Elizabeth
Director, New Village Press
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New Village Press books are distributed by New York University Press
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