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Dear Friends,
I offer this picture of tranquility from my walk this morning in the park. Immersing myself in nature is a balm for the agitation I've been carrying in this week of violence.
May we each find places of peace and solace, and the time to go a little deeper.
To develop the practice of deep listening, sometimes we have to start with ourselves.
I offer, too, the following good news of and from our thoughtful authors.
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Such a Pretty Girl
rocks its rollout!
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Barnes & Noble Union Square | July 14
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Following the 5th Annual Disability Pride NYC Parade, for which she was a Grand Marshal and a keynote speaker, Nadina LaSpina presented her new memoir to a capacity crowd at Barnes & Noble.
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Jessica De La Rosa and Jose Hernandez take a selfie at B&N!
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Nadina LaSpina welcomes the audience at her book launch.
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Signing her book and celebrating with fans and fellow activists.
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Despite thunderstorms, Nadina attracted a full audience to Pen+Brush for her reading, scheduled to commemorate the July 1990 passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Her presentation reminded us of what rights and needs still must be addressed. It will be aired on
C-SPAN BookTV!
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Upcoming Programs with Nadina LaSpina
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• Aug 10, 2019 | 8:00pm EDT
• Aug 12, 2019 | 1:00am EDT
• Aug 18, 2019 | 2:00pm EDT
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Here's a short
preview clip
of Nadina at Pen+Brush reading an excerpt of
Such a Pretty Girl
from the upcoming C-SPAN BookTV.
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August 13th, 8 pm EDT, Nadina LaSpina will discuss disability rights and her new memoir on Paul DeRienzo's "
Let Them Talk
" show on Manhattan Neighborhood Network (Lifestyle Channel 2) 56/RCN 83/FIOS 34 and online at mnn.org
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Saturday, October 12, Nadina will be reading at the New York Public Library, Mulberry Street, for the Italian American Writers Association.
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Such a Pretty Girl
in Best lists!
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Disability rights activist Nadina LaSpina wrestles with pity, ableism, and sexuality in her poignant new memoir.
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Book Riot—
SUCH A PRETTY GIRL is a Necessary, Compelling Memoir
—Grace Lapointe notes: "This is an empowering and feminist book. . . In an intimate way,
Such a Pretty Girl
shows how far disability rights have come in the past 70 years and touches on inequalities that still exist.
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Check out
this excerpt of
Such a Pretty Girl featured in
Women's eNews.
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Selected
Best New Book by the American Library Association's
Booklist Reader!
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WBAI Joy of Resistance Feminist Radio "BEST FEMINIST SUMMER READ"
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Waging Peace in Vietnam
releasing September 10 with an exhibition tour
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Exhibition Tour
A
Waging Peace exhibition will tour the United States and Vietnam in conjunction with book launches and symposia beginning in September. East Coast stops include Boston, Amherst, NYC, and Washington DC.
Details of the tour
here!
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Resistance from within all branches of the military made a critical difference to the course of America’s engagement in Vietnam. Yet this history is largely unknown.
Waging Peace in Vietnam shows how the GI movement unfolded, with first-hand accounts, oral histories, underground newspapers, posters, flyers, and photos, plus fourteen original essays by leading scholars and activists.
“No one did more to bring an end to America’s cruel and unjust war in Vietnam than the patriotic GIs and veterans who turned against it.”
~Daniel Ellsberg
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In the Company of Rebels
– an honorable act of remembering
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In the Company of Rebels
A Generational Memoir of Bohemians,
Deep Heads, and History Makers
by Chellis Glendinning
"Glendinning offers a quotation from Jeanette Armstrong, who belongs to the Okanagan in British Columbia, and who says, 'Our challenge is to remember who we are—despite all the brokenness, despite all the paradoxes, despite all the ways we cannot remember or haven’t been told.'
In The Company of Rebels
is an honorable act of remembering and sharing."
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A Man of the Theater
Survival As an Artist in Iran
by Nasser Rahmaninejad
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This is the personal story of a theater artist caught between the two great upheavals of Iran: the White Revolution of the 1960s and the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Rahmaninejad’s memoir describes his fraught creative life in Tehran, founding a theater company and directing plays under increasing pressure of censorship and the Shah’s secret police.
After arrest, torture, and years in Tehran’s infamous Evin prison, Rahmaninejad is freed by the Revolution of 1979. But his new-found freedom is short-lived; progressive intellectuals soon find themselves subject to terror and exile.
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More Author Programs & Events
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Listen to the first issue of the new
Cultural Activism in the Classroom Video Journal
, "Be As Honest and Open with Yourself As You Ask Others To Be," with special guest Rhodessa Jones. It's the first in a series of short interviews with cultural activists about how and why they do what they do.
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Cultural Activism in the Classroom
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Mat Schwarzman
, coauthor of
Beginner's Guide to Community-Based Arts
will be offering a 50-hour online professional development class for teachers and teaching artists that teach teens. Through College Unbound, October 30 – Dec 17.
Learn to help young people become self-determined learners, creators, and leaders through collaborations with social justice organizations in your community.
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This vividly illustrated memoir (949 color images) recounts how women artists responded to war, racial tension and reconciliation, cultural and aesthetic inequality, and struggles for reproductive freedom.
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The activist life of NYC women artists
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Sabra, who lives now in New Mexico, recently completed
Mountain/River
a mosaic mural at the entry to Dixon Elementary School with ceramic tiles created by students of all grades.
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Equitable Access to Nature
A ten-year retrospective exhibit of
Growing Up Boulder
, a child- and youth-friendly city initiative,
is open at the Boulder Public Library thru September 30, 2019.
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Green Schoolyards America Conference this September in California
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Sharon Gamson Danks
, author of
Asphalt to Ecosystems
and founder of Green Schoolyards America, annouonces a conference, Sept 27–28, featuring the work of Susan Humphries, one of the international founders of the green schoolyard movement. The public event will be hosted by Golestan Education in El Cerrito, CA.
Details here.
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As always, it is a great pleasure to bring forward wisdom of the community, especially from those outside the center. Thank you for listening with me.
Lynne Elizabeth
Director, New Village Press
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