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This June we celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride Month, initiated in 1994 to honor the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan, a tipping point for the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States.
For insight into changing attitudes and practices in gender/sexuality and other identity and boundary issues in the performance art world, we spotlight Meeting the Moment by New York authors Jan Cohen-Cruz and Rad Pereira. Their groundbreaking book explores experiences from a diverse range of progressive theater and performance makers in the US and features many eye-opening interviews from the LGBTQ+ community.
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June 11, 11:30 AM ~ 3:30 PM PT
UC Santa Cruz Arboretum
Rabbits of Realness: Inner Rabbits Art Exhibit
Author Spoon Jackson (By Heart, The Book of Judith) is a key contributor to this exhibition of poetry, art, and music created by artists who are or have been incarcerated.
Artist SaraMarie Bottaro has been working with incarcerated author and poet Spoon Jackson on a Rabbits of Realness zine series this past year.
We also love this interview about their collaboration with the Justice Arts Coalition.
Rabbit lllustration © SaraMarie Bottaro
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June 14, 4:00 PM ET, Philadelphia and Zoom
Lecture on Inherited Silence: Listening to the Land, Healing the Colonizer Mind
Author Louise Dunlap joins the 44th Annual Meeting of the Friends Association for Higher Education to discuss her book Inherited Silence.
Learn more about the June 12–15 conference
Quakers, Colonization and Declination HERE.
(Access will be limited to conference registrants.)
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Monday, June 26, 1:00–2:00 pm ET – on Zoom
Harnessing Art’s Power to Inspire Social Change
A panel discussion moderated by Arlene Goldbard, hosted by the New Israel Fund
The Reagan administration slashed funding for the arts in America, and authoritarian regimes all around the world fear art’s power for transformative change today. So why do artists and culture creators around the world have so much trouble finding progressive funding? Libby Lenkinski, Kendall Pinkney, and Anthony Russell will discuss their work and how culture creation has the possibility to open peoples’ minds, call them to action, and bring about the changes we want to see in the world.
More info and free registration HERE
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Wednesday, June 28, 2023, 7:30 – 8:30 PM ET
Shalom Center webinar
Join Arlene Goldbard and Rabbi Waskow as they discuss Goldbard’s new book In the Camp of Angels of Freedom: What Does It Mean to Be Educated? They will focus on her Angels of Freedom portraits of Abraham Joshua Heschel and Paul Goodman to explore the confluence of love and justice.
More info and free registration HERE
Friday, June 30, 6:00 PM, MT – in-person
Arlene Goldbard reading & signing In the Camp of Angels of Freedom: What Does It Mean to Be Educated
Books on Bosque Bookstore
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Arlene Goldbard in Podcast
In Episode 28 of A Culture of Possibility, Arlene Goldbard interviews Ben Fink and Kate Fowler about the new two-volume anthology Art in a Democracy: Selected Plays of Roadside Theater, comprising scripts and commentary from this unique community-based theater’s history in Appalachian coal country and beyond.
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Transitioning people and ecosystems away from vulnerable coastal areas |
Aviva Rahmani, author of Divining Chaos, has written a moving, illustrated article, "There Will Be No Managed Retreat" for Issue #16 of the on-line journal, Dark Matter: Women Witnessing.
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Can We Make a Difference?
“A Peaceful Superpower . . . is a tremendous contribution to our knowledge of the efforts to try to stop a war before it started."
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A Discussion with Louise Dunlap
Georgia Kelly, director of the Praxis Peace Institute, talks with Louise Dunlap, author of Inherited Silence, about the historical damages that the early colonizers of North America caused, including Dunlap’s own ancestors in California’s Napa Valley.
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Understanding NYC’s Affordable Housing Plans with Tom Angotti
In an interview with Brownstoner, the co-editor of Zoned Out! Tom Angotti provides nuanced input into New York City's current proposals for housing laws. This article is an important dive into the reality of New York’s tendency towards gentrification.
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Americans Who Tell the Truth Exhibits & More
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Portrait Exhibition thru June 30
First Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts
11 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Shetterly's portraits of Denise Altvater (left), Maulian Dana, Betty Burkes, Ida B. Wells, Bob Moses, Bryan Stevenson, Frederick Douglas, Gladys Vega, Bill McKibben, Amara Ifeji, and Harriet Jacobs are on display at First Church.
Most of these portraits are in the Americans Who Tell the Truth book series, Portraits of Earth Justice and Portraits of Racial Justice, along with original essays.
More info about the exhibit HERE
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Robert Shetterly receives Ashley Bryan Arts and Humanities Award
The Maine Education Association’s annual Ashley Bryan award “honors an individual in the fields of the arts and the humanities for their commitment to education and their work and advocacy for human and civil rights and social justice.”
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New Blog Post from Robert Shetterly
"Moral Beauty and Reframing AWTT"
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Truth Tellers – The Film
Truth Tellers is a documentary film about the more than 250 courageous Americans that artist/activist Robert Shetterly has painted and honored. Find out how to bring it to your community.
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Stuff
Instead of a Memoir
Lucy R. Lippard
Colorfully written and illustrated "anti-memoir" of the activist art writer Lucy Lippard
Hardcover, 144 pages, 300 color illustrations,
8 x 8 inch trim
September 12
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Skyscraper Settlement
The Many Lives of Christodora House
Joyce Milambiling
The roles that Christodora House has played from 19th-century settlement house to its newest forms.
Paperback, 256 pages12 b/w illustrations, 5.5 x 8.5 inch
September 19
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That's a Pretty Thing to Call It
Prose and Poetry by Artists Teaching in Carceral Institutions
Leigh Sugar, Editor
Frank, breath-taking writing by more than fifty
arts-in-corrections educators
Paperback, 304 pages, 10 b/w illustrations, 6 x 9 inch
October 3
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Luck
Margaret Randall
Fearless personal essays from treasured feminist poet
and activist, Margaret Randall
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Seventeen full-page line drawings by Barbara Byers
Paperback, 256 pages, 17 b/w illustrations, 5.83 x 8.27 inch
October 17
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