Dear Friends:
We're still glowing from the Dallas launch of
Conversations with Diego Rivera—in all ways a wild success. The Wild Detectives Bookstore and Bar in the Bishop Arts District filled beyond capacity, including a Fox 4 News producer and excited friends of the event hosts, Cora and Sara Cardona. Cora is the daughter of the book’s author, Alfredo Cardona Peña, and the founder of Teatro Dallas. Sara, Alfredo's granddaughter, is an artist and scholar. Barbara Cardona, widow of the translator Alvaro Cardona-Hine (Alfredo's brother), also came from out of state with Alvaro’s two daughters. Following a dramatic reading, writer Ben Fountain added his appreciation in a lively discussion (aided by the tequila being passed to all the presenters!) with Cora and Sara and the crowd about Mexican Muralism and whether Mexican culture peaked during the life of Diego Rivera. We're planning more cultural celebrations for this book in Santa Fe and New York, which are sure to be spirited too!
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We hope you'll also catch our excitement about the forthcoming
Placemaking with Children and Youth
. Read on for particulars of upcoming programs with the book’s three authors, Victoria Derr, Louise Chawla, and Mara Mintzer, each leaders in participatory planning with children and young people.
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Conversations with Diego Rivera
launches in Dallas
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Author Ben Fountain, Executive Director at Tenants Union Sandy Rollins, Teatro Dallas Board President and political activist John Fullinwider, painter and Executive Director of Teatro Dallas Sara Cardona, Teatro Dallas Artistic Director Cora Cardona, and visual artist Giovanni Valderas.
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Teatro Dallas actors Omar Padilla and Armando Monsivais performing a dramatic reading of
Conversations with Diego Rivera
at Wild Detectives book launch.
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Important Upcoming Events
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Collected Works Bookstore to Celebrate
Conversations with Diego Rivera
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September 13, Santa Fe:
Conversations with Diego Rivera
launch
event at the Collected Works Bookstore
. Hear intimate stories about the book's late author Alfredo Cardona Peña and late translator Alvaro Cardona-Hine from Barbara Cardona, who wrote the afterword. Santa Fe's Poet Laureate Emerita, Joan Logghe, will read selections from the historic 1949–1950 interviews between Alfredo and Diego Rivera.
Program: 6:30–8:00 pm. Free and open to the public.
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Mara Mintzer at the Partners in Prevention Conference
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12:30–1:30 pm: Mara's keynote address
1:45–2:45 pm: signing
Placemaking with Children and Youth
at the exhibit table
3:45–5 pm: workshop with Mara
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American Sociological Association Meeting
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August 11–14, Philadelphia: Visit New Village Press' distributor, NYU Press, at the
American Sociological Association conference
! NYU Press' exhibit table will display some of our books that exemplify this year's theme: Feeling Race: An Invitation to Explore Racialized Emotions.
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Get Ready for Our Fall Titles!
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A comprehensive illustrated guidebook for engaging children and youth in the process of designing their communities
By Victoria Derr, Louise Chawla, and Mara Mintzer
In addition to a history of children’s rights and case studies from around the world of initiatives that aim to create child-friendly cities,
Placemaking with Children and Youth
offers detailed practical guidance in how to engage children and youth in the planning and design of local environments. This illustrated 400-page guidebook not only explains the importance of children’s active participation in their societies it presents step-by-step methodology for involving multiple generations in the planning of communities with a high quality of life for people of all ages.
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This wonderful book recognizes that sustainable development calls for highly participatory local communities, including children and youth, who can cooperatively plan for and flexibly respond to environmental change. Based on this engaged view of citizenship, it offers a comprehensive range of practical methods for everyone who would like to better involve young people in this effort.
~Roger Hart, Professor, Psychology and Environmental Studies, Graduate Center, CUNY
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Citizen artists revitalize place, celebrate culture, and inspire social change
Edited by Lynne Elizabeth and Suzanne Young
Releasing in September
With revised resources throughout the text, this richly-illustrated compendium of multicultural human-interest stories depicts an intersection of creativity and sense of place that introduces the field of community-based arts. The detailed profiles of nine diverse grassroots projects and their founders in
Works of Heart
will inspire and inform both community development professionals and citizen activists.
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Community building is not just about housing, although we are doing that.
It's not just about gardens, but that's an important backbone.
It's not just about education.
It's all of that,
but we must remember the heart.
~Lily Yeh, founder, The Village of Arts and Humanities, Philadelphia
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"
The Earth, the City, and the Hidden Narrative of Race
documents an extraordinary journey of passion, learning, and an unrelenting fight for social justice… The earth and its people are inextricably intertwined; the fight for ecological sustainability cannot be won without a serious reckoning with racism, past and present. In spite of the gravity of its subject matter,
The Earth, the City and the Hidden Narrative of Race
… combines acute political analysis with a zeal for change and improvement."
~Nivi Manchanda
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Acting Together
reviewed in the
Comparative Drama Journal
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The authors wrestle in one way or another with the reality that peace itself is a loaded and sometimes even oppressive term, harnessed to squelch unrest and struggles for justice.The performances documented are inspiring. They attest to the potential of performance to honor, (re)member, critique, (re)generate, transform, and confront. As the performance processes recorded here reveal, conflicts demand responses as specific and layered as the beings whose bodies are (and have been) so achingly at stake.
~Kelly Howe
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Saskia Sassen in Australia
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Why does all of this matter? The city is one of the few places where those without power have the opportunity to make a history and a culture.
~Saskia Sassen
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The following day, Dr. Sassen attended the
Housing Futures Conference
in Sydney and spoke about how cities are complex, incomplete systems that are constantly changing—and about how to make them environmentally sustainable.
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Photos from the International Big History Association Conference
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The IBHA Panel: John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker from Yale, Professor Richard Gragg from Florida A&M, and Professors Dwight Collins and Ron Mazur from Presidio Graduate School with authors Carl Anthony and Paloma Pavel.
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New Village Press authors Carl Anthony and Paloma Pavel with the founding president of the International Big History Association, David Christian.
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October 9-13, Spokane: North American Association for Environmental Education
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Victoria Derr, lead author of
Placemaking with Children and Youth
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will be hosting a session about Embedding Global Learning and Engagement in Institutional Missions and Campus-Wide Reforms. Derr will show how environmental studies courses can promote cultural inclusion and progressive planning with local communities.
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November 1–3, Albuquerque: Come visit the New Village Press book table at Culture Shift 2018! Culture Shift incites "creativity and social imagination to shape a culture of empathy, equity, and belonging." This year's conference hopes to gather together a community that will fight for cultural healing and democracy.
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This August we say goodbye and offer heartfelt thanks to our wonderful summer interns, Meghan Costa, a Temple University senior, and Micaela Eckett, a Sarah Lawrence sophomore.
New Village is currently accepting applications for
Fall Internships
. Please help us spread the word.
In community,
Lynne Elizabeth
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