Visitors with gifts to and from Eastern Europe |
Małgorzata (Gosia) Tarasiewicz came in person to the New Village office last week from Poland to visit and bring a copy of the just published Polish edition of Ann Snitow's seminal memoir of her years as a feminist organizer in East Central Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall—Visitors. We cannot be more grateful to Gosia, herself a revered feminist activist, who was the force behind securing an outstanding translator, Agnieszka Grzybek, and a vibrant Polish publisher, ZNAK. It all stems from Gosia's appreciation of Ann and their many years of collaboration with the Network of East-West Women and other organizations working assiduously for women's rights and most recently providing aid to women and children from Ukraine.
The Polish title translates as Guides. May brave feminists be influential guides.
Their wisdom is needed now more than ever!
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Divining Chaos: The Autobiography of an Idea
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In her new autobiography, groundbreaking artist Aviva Rahmani shares her evolution as a woman, an artist, an ecofeminist, and a fearless defender of the natural world
Divining Chaos offers us not only a rare glimpse into the mind of one of the most original artists working today, but a compelling story of how she helped define a critical political and artistic movement of our time while breaking down barriers.
Foreword by Lucy R. Lippard
Paperback, 316 pages, 13 color & 6 b/w illus.
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“A compelling and courageous memoir of historical importance, written by a central figure in the emergence of ecofeminist art. Aviva Rahmani makes clear that the same entrenched systems of power enable the abuse of women and the abuse of nature.”—Julie Reiss, PhD, editor of Art, Theory and Practice in the Anthropocene
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For the last 54 years Aviva Rahmani has been a pioneer in the art world. Her cutting-edge work grapples with the political, social, and cultural realities of the day and expresses a deep compassion and concern for injustice. Most recently, Rahmani has earned acclaim as one of the foremost innovators in the world of ecoart, a genre which combines art techniques, political activism, and scientific insight to create pieces that speak directly to our current ecological threat.
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Aviva Rahmani to present two books at Vinalhaven Library July 23 |
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Presenting both Divining Chaos and Ecoart in Action
July 23, 2022, at 2:00 PM ET
In-Person: 6 Carver St., Vinalhaven, ME 04863
Free and open to the public
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Rahmani in international Ecoart exhibit in L.A. |
Various Small Fires Gallery, Los Angeles, through July. 812 North Highland Ave
Tuesday – Saturday 10AM – 6PM PT.
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Valid on all New Village Press titles
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National Portrait Gallery portrait unveiling & documentary screening!
The film Truth Tellers will screen
Friday, July 8, 2022, 6:30 PM • In-Person
Meet filmmaker Richard Kane and film subject, painter Robert Shetterly
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Shetterly will unveil the newest portrait in his Americans Who Tell the Truth series—Dawn Wooten, who blew the whistle on forced mass hysterectomies in ICE detention centers.
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Discussion moderated by Asantewa Boakyewa, from Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum, Louis Clark from the Government Accountability Project, and Rev. Lennox Yearwood, from the Hip-Hop Caucus.
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San Francisco War Memorial
Veterans Gallery
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401 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, first floor
Open 1-6pm, Wednesday – Sundays
Free Admission
Sponsored by Veterans For Peace Chapter 69 For more information, please contact Paul Cox: PaulCox@sonic.net
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Authors and books in the media |
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Review of In the Struggle looks at serious educational engagement
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"Strong words are censored, suppressed, intimidated, and subterfuge. Not since the publication of Jim Hightower’s Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times (1978) has the land-grant system and industrial agriculture been confronted with a book like this."
Daniel O'Connell and Scott Peter's book In the Struggle: Scholars and the Fight Against Industrial Agribusiness in California gets a rousing review by Frank A. Fear in the latest issue of the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, Volume 26, Number 2, p. 215, (2022)
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Celebrating Artists in
Margaret Randall's Life!
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Suzanne Sbarge of 516 Arts in Albuquerque hosted revered author Margaret Randall in conversation with Albuquerque Museum curator Josie Lopez. The in-person program launched Randall's new book Artists in My Life, which explores the lives and work of artists who most influenced Randall, including artist Sabra Moore and art critic Lucy Lippard, who were part of the large and vibrant crowd.
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"A photographer’s eye, a poet’s voice, a woman’s sensibilities, a revolutionary feminist’s consciousness, an oral historian’s understanding of biography bounded by time and place: Margaret Randall brings all these to this meditation on some of the artists and art works most meaningful to her life."
~ from Ed McCaughan's foreword to
Artists in My Life
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Top: Margaret Randall in dialog with Josie Lopez.
Bottom: Navajo poet Luci Tapahonso, art critic Lucy Lippard, and 516 Arts directer Suzanne Sbarge.
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Did you miss Jan Cohen-Cruz and Rad Pereira's launch of Meeting the Moment with Americans for Arts?
You can now watch their recorded program on socially engaged art and artists HERE
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Also SAVE THE DATE for a Network of Ensemble Theater's BREAK/through
Monday, July 25 online & in Philadelphia.
It will feature a workshop
"Regenerativity and Freedom Dreaming" from
Rad Pereira and Jan Cohen-Cruz.
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Bill Cleveland interviews Meeting the Moment authors on his podcast, Change the Story Change the World
Recent New Village Press author episodes:
Find all his podcasts HERE
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Margaret Randall is interviewed by Loreen Mills on the PBS "Report from Santa Fe," where she discusses multiple influences and experiences of unusual her life. In the last six minutes, she also talks about her recent New Village Press books—My Life in 100 Objects, Artists in My Life, and Risking a Somersault in the Air.
Learn more about Margaret Randall's New Village Press books HERE.
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Forthcoming Titles you can Preorder |
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We Built a Village:
Cohousing and the Commons
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Inherited Silence
Listening to the Land, Healing the Colonizer Mind
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