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The Ivy Bookstore event photos–
Above: Angela Wilson. Right: Maya Davis, Merideth Taylor, and Angela Wilson in discussion. Below: Meridith signing books.
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Historic Sotterley descendant Angela Wilson describes her joy after last week’s panel discussion at The Ivy Bookstore in Baltimore for Merideth Taylor’s book, Making a Way Out of No Way: “The enthusiastic response from the audience was nothing short of inspiring. The panel featured Merideth, Maya Davis, executive director of Riversdale House Museum, and me. To my pleasant surprise, we were greeted by a sizable and engaged crowd. A few notable attendees stood out: Doreen Bolger, archivist from the Baltimore Museum of Art, diligently recording our discussion, and a gentleman from the University of Nebraska familiar with the Queen family. We were honored to have students from Hampton University and my beloved family members! It was an evening filled with warmth, learning, and connection, and I’m grateful to everyone who made it so memorable." | |
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A Farthing for Your Thoughts Book Club
Visitor Center Auditorium
Historic St. Mary’s City, MD
Wed, August 14, 2–3:30 PM
Discuss Merideth Taylor’s new book, Making a Way Out of No Way, with a book club that meets every second Wednesday. Email: Iris Ford icford@smcm.edu
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Lucy Lippard to appear in Brunswick Maine
Gulf of Maine Books, 134 Maine St, Brunswick, ME
Wednesday, August 14, 4:00 PM
Celebrate Stuff: Instead of a Memoir, the illustrated autobiography of writer, art advocate, curator, and activist Lucy R. Lippard. Lucy will read and sign copies of Stuff and other titles. The event is free and open to the public.
Contact Gulf of Maine Books at (207) 729-5083.
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Poet Richard Blanco Portrait Unveiling
The Gem Theater, Bethel, ME
Thursday, August 8, 5 PM social, 6 PM main
Artist and author Robert Shetterly will unveil his portrait of 5th Presidential Inaugural Poet and Poet Laureate, Richard Blanco. Blanco will read selections of his poetry, followed by a Q & A with Shetterly and Blanco. The Pay-what-you-can tickets will benefit Americans Who Tell the Truth and Bethel Area Arts & Music. Order TICKETS HERE
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Truth Tellers Film Screening with Robert Shetterly
Opera Arts House, Stonington, ME
Sunday, August 25, 7:00–8:30 PM
Join Robert Shetterly at the Maine Masters Film Festival for the screening of Truth Tellers, a documentary about Shetterly's work, which includes the upcoming Portraits of Peacemakers. Get tickets HERE.
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Jan Cohen-Cruz to present See Me
Emerson College, Boston, MA
Friday, September 20
Editor and coauthor, Jan Cohen-Cruz, will discuss See Me, her forthcoming book on in-prison and post-release theater workshops in a program hosted by the Theatre Education & Applied Theatre Department of Emerson Collage. Details to come in our September newsletter and events page.
Pre-order See Me HERE.
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Muriel Fox to appear at Smith College
Seelye Hall 201, 2 Seelye Dr #1, Northampton, MA
Thursday, September 26, 7:00–8:15 PM
Smith College Program for the Study of Women and Gender will present an in-person reading from The Women's Revolution and Q&A with Muriel Fox.
Free, wheelchair accessible, and open to the public.
For disability access information or accommodations requests, call 413-585-2407.
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ART in a DEMOCRACY
The website artinademocracy.org has added an array of online resources about community organizing for cultural and economic development. Don't miss it!
Learn more through the How-To page HERE.
Also discover the Dig Deeper section for resources on grassroots theater.
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Art in a Democracy: Selected Plays of Roadside Theater is a two-volume collection of critical essays and original play scripts by Roadside Theater, a collective of performers and writers from central Appalachia. The set recounts the theater’s history from 1975 through 2020. The plays in Volume 1 offer a people’s history of the Appalachian coalfields, from the European incursion through the American War in Vietnam. The plays in Volume 2 come from Roadside’s intercultural and issue-specific theater work, which includes collaboration with Pregones Theater in the South Bronx.
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See Me
Prison Theater Workshops and Love
Jan Cohen-Cruz
with Finn K, Ausettua Amor Amenkum, Alexander Anderson, John Bergman, Kevin Bott, Reginold Daniels, George Ferguson, Rand Hazou, Saul Hewish, Kathy Randels, Jess Thorpe, and Gloria “Mama Glo” Williams
September 10, 2024
A collection of intimate dialogues about shared experiences in prison theater workshops
“A compelling insight into the different ways that prison theater has affected the lives of all those involved in it. The picture is of a world where the injustices of mass incarceration are multiple, but the relations fostered by theater provide a rare bulwark against their worst aspects.”
—James Thompson, Coeditor, RiDE: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance
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Portraits of Peacemakers
Americans Who Tell the Truth
Robert Shetterly
October 8, 2024
Essays, portraits, and profiles of over 50 peace activists who resist violence and act with love
"The essays in this book offer diverse perspectives and strategies from some of the most important peacemakers of our time, providing us with necessary guidance for moving through this time of deep upheaval and transition. Additionally, the portraits of peacemakers across time calmly remind us that peace is not something to be achieved, it is a state of being that travels alongside us.”
—Sherri Mitchell, Weh'na Ha'mu Kwasset, author of Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change
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Creative Instigation
The Art and Strategy of Authentic Community Engagement
Fern Tiger
October 22, 2024
Case stories in effective community engagement with democratic policy-making
“Fern Tiger’s concept of creative instigation opens doors for effective community engagement that honors the voices of those often omitted from public policy conversations. Through case studies, she provides principles and lessons while simultaneously recognizing the importance of specific contexts.”
—Theresa Cordova, Director Great Cities Institute, University of Illinois Chicago
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Inspired and Outraged
The Making of a Feminist Physician
Alice Rothchild
November, 11 2024
A remarkable autobiography—in free verse—of Rothchild's journey from 1950's good girl to feisty, feminist obstetrician-gynecologist forging her own direction in the sexist world of medicine
“This remarkable memoir depicts so eloquently the many challenges facing women going into medicine both back in the 1970s as well as more recently. It will surely inspire both young and old to speak truth to power as we seek to preserve our fragile democratic institutions.”
—Judy Norsigian and Jane Pincus, co-founders of Our Bodies Ourselves
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