March 2020 News
“Dear ones, we’re in this together—for the long haul.” 

Words of the late beloved Ann Snitow resound in my ears this Women’s History Month with the launch of her memoir, Visitors .

Ann’s thoughts for feminists of East Central Europe facing the rise of the Right are, sadly, apt for American activists now. “We don’t have to worry that the multiple aspirations of many feminisms will evaporate and disappear. We survive backlash because being part of all great movements of liberation gives us lives of significance. We are people who believe that human beings can change their situation. To believe that and to act on that belief, even with skepticism, is to have an extremely exciting and kinetic relationship not only to ourselves but to the world."

In solidarity,
Lynne
Ann Snitow's VISITORS Releases!
Feminist organizer and scholar Ann Snitow's extended personal essay Visitors: An American Feminist in East Central Europe launches this month in New York City! The intimate and worldly memoir describes Snitow's adventures helping to build a feminist movement in post-communist Europe. Read an excerpt published in Dissent Magazine.

Join us for the combined launch celebration of Visitors and Nights in the Concert Hall by Ann's husband, composer Daniel Goode.
Tuesday, March 24 , 5:30–8:00 PM EST
167 Spring St. #3, New York, NY, 10012
RSVP: hello@newvillagepress.net

Also mark your calendar for an evening award event Friday, May 8th, 2020 at The New School for the inaugural Ann Snitow Prize , which honors an extraordinary feminist activist in the United States.
More Visitors Events

Panelists: Rachel Blau DuPlessis , Phillip Lopate , and Elzbieta Matynia , moderated by Inessa Medzhibovskaya.
Saturday, April 4th, 2:00–4:00 PM EST 
The New School, Starr Foundation Hall,
UL102, 63 5th Ave, New York, NY 10003
The event is free and open to the public. Space is wheelchair accessible .
Gender and Transformation: Women in Europe Workshop

Friday, April 17th, 4:30-6:00 PM EST
Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, New York University, 53 Washington Square South, Room 3E,
New York, NY 10012
This event is free and open to the public.
RSVP: 347-837-3328

A Man of the Theater Events
A Man of the Theater: Survival as an Artist in Iran is out now! Nasser Rahmaninejad was an accomplished theater artist in Iran when he was caught between two great upheavals in that nation's history. His memoir tells the story of his fraught creative life under the Shah and after the Iranian Revolution.
Orinda, CA
Orinda Books
Program in English – Date TBD

N  orcross, Georgia
April 17, 2020 7:00 PM (EST)
3146 Reps Miller Road
Program primarily in Farsi

Vienna, Virginia
April 20, 2020 7:30 PM (EST)
James Madison High School
2500 James Madison Drive
Program primarily in Farsi
Waging Peace at Sonoma State University
The Waging Peace in Vietnam exhibit, curated by two co-authors of Waging Peace in Vietnam: The U.S. Soldiers and Veterans Who Opposed the War Ron Carver and Barbara Doherty, is now in California! The exhibit and book share the history of U.S. soldiers and veterans who protested against the American War in Vietnam and helped end it.

Click HERE to learn more and see where the exhibit will travel next!
March 2 - 7
Sonoma State University
1801 E. Cotati Avenue
Student Union Ballroom A
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
March 17 - April 22
401 Van Ness Avenue Veterans Gallery
San Francisco, CA 94102
Info: PaulCox890@comcast.net
May 1 - 4
Kent State University
800 E. Summit Street
Kent, OH 44240
Waging Peace in Vietnam Essay Winner
“The Vietnam War is a fraught but essential human story. This exhibition provided a rich, provocative, and deeply moving opportunity to remember both the horror we are capable of inflicting on one another, and our simultaneous potential to empathize across time and borders, and grapple with what kind of world we might create, if only we are wise and brave enough to create it.” —Zaynab Quadri
Zaynab Quadri, a fourth year graduate PhD candidate in American Studies at George Washington University, won a $500 prize for her essay on what the Waging Peace in Vietnam exhibit meant to her. Prof. Linda Yarr, right, presents the award. Learn more .
Upcoming Readings for Such a Pretty Girl
Nadina LaSpina at Barnes

Learn more about all upcoming events with author and disability rights activist Nadina LaSpina HERE .
March 12th, 2:00 PM CST
5233 N Clark Street
Chicago, IL, 60640
March 20th, 6:30 PM EST
265 Aragon Avenue
Coral Gables, FL, 22134
April 6, 6:00-8:00 PM EST
25 West 43rd Street
New York, NY 10036
Huxley Theater
April 17, 7:30 PM EST
222 Madison Avenue
Albany, NY, 12230
April 30, 4:00-6:00 PM EST
239 Greene St, 8th floor New York, NY 10003
Artist and Author Sabra Moore Talk and Exhibit
Barnard College will host an exhibition by artist and organizer Sabra Moore. Her first exhibition at Barnard, WORDY combines painted and sewn wall works with artist's books from 1982–2018. A collection documenting her work as an organizer, activist, and curator in New York City is housed at the Barnard Archives . Sabra is the author of Openings: A Memoir from the Women’s Art Movement, New York City 1970-1992 . She will lecture in conjunction with the exhibit.
WORDY Exhibit Opening
Wednesday, March 25, 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Furth Archives Reading Room (Milstein Center 423)  

Artist Lecture
Thursday, March 26, 6:00 PM
Ella Weed Room (Milbank Hall 223)
Barnard College, New York, NY  

Exhibit Duration
March 23 – April 30, 2020  
(Monday – Friday, 10:30 AM – 5:30 PM) Barnard College Library, 4th Floor 
Mindy Thompson Fullilove March Events
Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove is the author of three New Village Press books. Last month, she spoke at the Samuel Dewitt Proctor Conference. Watch her speech .
The University of Orange's book club is reading Urban Alchemy: Restoring Joy in America's Sorted-Out Cities by Mindy Thompson Fullilove. Tuesday meetings started in February and will continue
March 3, 10, and 17, 5–7 PM EST.

University of Orange Headquarters
47 Cleveland Street, 2nd Floor
Orange, NJ 07050

Tuesday, March 10, 8:30 – 9:30 AM PST
N-225 Auditorium, 513 Parnassus Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94143

Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD, will discuss how centers of civic, social, and commercial life link with our collective mental health—t he topic of her forthcoming book Main Street, due out October 2020.
Thursday, March 12,
1:00 - 2:00 PM EST

Registration is free with an at-will donation
Thursday, March 26,
6:30 PM EST
Yale School of Architecture, Hastings Hall Basement, 180 York Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Sat., March 21,
9:30 AM - 2:00 PM EST
Faith Tabernacle UHCA
300 A Street Northeast
Washington, DC 20002
Registration required

Lily Yeh to Keynote Symposium on Arts and Community Engagement
Lily Yeh, author of Awakening Creativity: Dandelion School Blossoms and coauthor of the forthcoming Healing from Genocide in Rwanda , will be speaking at the symposium Shaping Priorities: The Arts and Community Engagement at Columbia University. Her keynote presentation, "Urban Alchemy: Community Transformation Through Art," will be given Saturday, March 7, 9:15–10:15 (EST).

March 6–8, 2020
Teachers College, Columbia University
525 West 120th Street New York, NY
More News
A new exhibition at the Whitney Museum, Vida Americana , explores the influence Mexican muralists had on American art, including Diego Rivera, the provocative muralist whose public art about social justice spoke directly to the people.

To understand Rivera more intimately, we recommend reading Conversations with Diego Rivera: The Monster in His Labyrinth , a year of weekly interviews with the artist about his art, life, and politics.
In memory of Judith Tannenbaum , co-author of the double memoir By Heart: Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives , Chapter 510 in Oakland, CA, has started the Judith Tannenbaum Teaching Artist Fellowship , which will provide time to write and an opportunity to work in a public setting to a teaching artist. Join us in contributing.
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