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We were so happy the College Art Association conference was in person for the first time in three years—a chance to show off our arts books together with NYU Press. Huge thanks to NYU Press for creating the shared exhibit for us!
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Left: Ecoartist Aviva Rahmani who came to sign the books she authored, Divining Chaos, and coedited, Ecoart in Action, mugs with social media maven and former Art News editor, Robin Cembalest.
Right: New Village Press interns Natalie, Irene, and Emilia with director Lynne (second from right)
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Art in a Democracy – New Release!
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Art in a Democracy: Selected Plays of Roadside Theater tells the story of a rural Appalachian theater company’s 45-year search for a form of artistic expression that advances the project of American democracy. This two-volume work features nine award-winning original play scripts, a critical recounting of the theater’s history from 1975 through 2020, and ten essays by authors from different disciplines and generations exploring the plays’ social, economic, and political circumstances.
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Art in a Democracy: Selected Plays of Roadside Theater, Volume 1: The Appalachian History Plays, 1975–1989
Edited by Ben Fink
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Art in a Democracy: Selected Plays of Roadside Theater, Volume 2: The Intercultural Plays,
1990–2020
Edited by Ben Fink
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"Art in a Democracy unveils the way we can build strong bonds through working, living,
and creating art with communities while addressing social inequities.
The history embedded in these volumes is priceless."
—Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Founding Artistic Director, Urban Bush Women
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March 16–17
46th Annual Appalachian Studies Association Conference
Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
Art in a Democracy will be on display at this in-person and virtual conference.
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Friday, March 31st at 7:00 PM
Pregones Theater
575 Walton Ave, The Bronx, NY 10451
To launch Art in a Democracy: Selected Plays of Roadside Theater, Pregones Theater will host a concert and storytelling celebration featuring performances of Roadside Theater’s most well-known plays. Reception and book signing following.
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Monday, Apr. 10, 6:30 – 8:00 PM
School of Visual Arts
133/141 West 21st Street, New York, NY 10011
Artist and community organizer Ben Fink will discuss Art in a Democracy, his edited
two-volume series of Appalachian and intercultural grassroots plays and essays at the
Free and open to the public.
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Saturday, April 15, 6:00 PM
Hemphill Community Center
2514 State Highway 317, Jackhorn, KY 41825
Join us in the Appalachian coalfields for a concert and celebration of Art in a Democracy The gathering will feature music and stories from decades of homegrown playmaking. Members of Roadside Theater’s original ensemble will be joined by longtime collaborators from Pregones Theater in the Bronx.
Admission is free, and dinner will be available for purchase on-site.
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A Peaceful Superpower – Media & Events
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A Peaceful Superpower:
Lessons from the World's Largest
Antiwar Movement
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Twenty years ago, as the Bush administration prepared to wage war against Iraq, some ten million people around the globe took to the streets to warn against the impending disaster. It was the largest wave of antiwar protest in world history. This is the story and analysis of those dramatic events and the breadth of continuing dissent following the ill-fated invasion of Iraq by the United States in March 2003, told by distinguished peace scholar and activist David Cortright.
Foreword by David S. Meyer
Original paperback, 240 pages, 18 b/w illus.
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“David Cortright offers us a timeless gift in this book. A Peaceful Superpower has a relevancy for today precisely because it demonstrates that for powerful national leaders around the world war remains the political default option which in turn requires the diligent building of both a strong web of domestic anti-war mobilization and transnational response.”
~ John Paul Lederach, Professor Emeritus, University of Notre Dame
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David Cortright writes
for The Nation
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The Impact of the Anti-War Movement 20 Years After the US Invaded Iraq
"The White House lost the war politically before it ever began militarily. The same is true today for the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine, which, like the US invasion of Iraq, is an illegal war of aggression against a sovereign state. A new global anti-war movement is needed now with the same message as 20 years ago: 'No to war.'"
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David Cortright also wrote a provocative piece, “A Democratic Deficit: The War in Iraq,” for Democracy Paradox. In this article he notes, "the Iraq war authorization is still on the books. Congress soon will have a chance to vote on revoking that authorization. It’s a long overdue step that hopefully can spark debate on reasserting democratic control over the use of force in American foreign policy."
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UPCOMING EVENTS WITH DAVID CORTRIGHT |
Mar. 24 10:40 AM CT
Mendoza College of Business
Notre Dame, IN 46556
David Cortright will offer a free public lecture on
“Global Governance — Creating a More Peaceful and Prosperous Future.”
Friday, March 3, 4:00 p.m PT
Praxis Peace Institute – Zoom
Live interview with David Cortright
Tickets $15 for Praxis members; $20 for general public.
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Author David Cortright is Professor Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and author or co-editor of more than 20 books, including Waging Peace in Vietnam: U.S Soldiers and Veterans Who Opposed the War. Cortright organized against the Vietnam War as an active-duty soldier, was a leader of the Nuclear Freeze movement during the 1980s and helped to found Win Without War in 2002 to oppose the invasion of Iraq.
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Vietnamese language edition of Waging Peace launches |
Lead editor Ron Carver traveled to Ho Chi Minh City to celebrate the March 1 launch of the Vietnamese language edition of Waging Peace in Vietnam. The War Remnants Museum, which hosts the exhibit of the same name, has published the book together with Tre Publishing. Kudos to Ron Carver who initiated the project and led the fundraiser through New Village Press to underwrite this edition.
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In the Camp of Angels – Media & Events
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In the Camp of Angels of Freedom:
What Does It Mean to Be Educated?
by Arlene Goldbard
Through her evocative paintings and narrative, author Arlene Goldbard portrays eleven individuals whose work most influenced her— what she calls a Camp of Angels. She sees each as a brave messenger of love and freedom for a society that badly needs “uncolonized minds.” Readers will learn about the author’s own self education and issues of formal higher education and the damage done by a society that prizes profits over people.
Original Color Paperback • 224 pages
7" x 10" • 16 color illustrations • $34.95
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Bill Cleveland interviews Arlene Goldbard in the newest episode of his podcast
Change the Story / Change the World.
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Arlene Goldbard Workshop
“What Does It Mean To Be Educated?”
Thursday, March 9, 10 AM - 12 PM MT
Don't miss Arlene's second live interactive workshops on Zoom —It's free!
Participants will also get a 25% discount code for the book upon registration.
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Wednesday, March 22, 11:00 AM ET (18:00 EET)
MIAAW LIVE – Online
Arlene Goldbard will discuss her new book on the first episode of Miaaw Monthly’s new spring series Miaaw Live, a live video on Zoom conversation.
All participants will receive a 25% discount code for the book
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More Upcoming Author Events |
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Tuesday, March 7,
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM CST
Haymarket House
800 West Buena Avenue
Chicago, IL 60613
Robert Shetterly, Americans Who Tell The Truth artist and author of Portraits of Earth Justice, will unveil his newest portrait: Kali Rubaii, Purdue University Professor of Anthropology. Dr. Rubaii’s research, writing, and activism bear witness to the environmental and health impacts of US wars in Iraq and the extractive industries that fuel them.
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Louise Dunlap on Inherited Silence
Sunday, March 12, 11-12:30 ET, Zoom
Ancestors as Earth Holders
With ecotherapist J. Phoenix Smith, Louise will lead the Online Earth Holder Sangha, a mindfulness group in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh dedicated to the care of Mother Earth. Explore the resonance between Buddhist and West African teachings with reference to ancestors and our responsibilities to heal their suffering and that of the earth. Link posted HERE.
Inherited Silence is an insightful look at the historical damages early colonizers of America caused and how their descendants may recognize and heal the harm done to the earth and the native peoples.
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Here is a video recording of the sermon Louise Dunlap delivered on “Healing the Wounds of Colonization” for the Napa Valley Unitarian Universalists
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Friday, March 14, 7:00 PM ET – Zoom
Activist and author Margaret Randall has maintained her ties to friends and comrades in Nicaragua, and recently re-issued her book of interviews with Nicaraguan writers, Risking a Somersault in the Air, with updates on their lives. She will address the current situation in Nicaragua; a Q&A period will follow.
This free event is hosted by the WESPAC Foundation.
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Thursday, March 16, 11:30 AM ET
NJCU Center for the Arts
2039 John F. Kennedy Blvd, Jersey City, NJ 07305
Annie Scheiderman Valliere, contributor to Talking with the Girls, will host a reading and conversation on the triangle shirtwaist fire factory and her great-aunt Rose Schneiderman.
Sunday, March 19, 11:00 AM ET
Community Church of Boston
565 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116
Edvige Giunta and Mary Anne Trasciatti, authors of Talking with the Girls, and Michele Fazio will commemorate the triangle shirtwaist fire factory.
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More Authors in the Media |
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Josh Bowman reviews Glenna Lang's Jane Jacobs’s First City: Learning from Scranton, Pennsylvania, for the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal
"Lang’s account is a beautiful example of primary-source historiography, storytelling, and scholarship animated by sincere affection. It is exemplary of the kind of public history and place-oriented research and memory that is too easily forgotten and seldom supported."
468 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in, 130 color illustrations
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Review of Ecoart in Action – Theory into Practice
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The second part of the collaborative review series of Ecoart in Action has just been published on Climate Cultures — this part addressing the Case Studies section of the book. Artists Claire Atherton, Beckie Leach, Genevieve Rudd and Nicky Saunter find plenty to discuss in a sample of the book’s rich collection of international ecoart case studies, complementing its earlier activities.
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Be Bold America podcast host Jill Cody
interviews ecoartist and author Aviva Rahmani about her new book—Divining Chaos:
the Autobiography of an Idea.
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Reimagining Schoolyards to Improve Health and Learning
An article by Carl Smith in Governing magazine takes an educational walk with green schoolyard advocate and author of Asphalt to Ecosystems, Sharon Danks.
“The question we're asking is how do you get 10,000 schools on 8,600 campuses with 6 million children to have shade,” Danks says. "The immediate goal is to plant enough trees by 2030 to cover at least 30 percent of the areas of school property that children use during the day." Read the article HERE
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Upcoming Conferences & Exhibits |
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Bioneers 34th Annual Conference, April 6–8, 2023, Berkeley, CA
We invite you to attend #Bioneers2023 where New Village Press authors Sharon Danks and Louise Dunlap will have book signings!
Register for Bioneers with this 20% discount code: NewVillagePress20
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Selected portraits by Robert Shetterly, artist and author of Portraits of Earth Justice and Portraits of Racial Justice, will be on display from his Americans Who Tell the Truth portrait series in two separate exhibits.
Through March 31 his portraits can be seen at
The Gallery at 900
360 Broadway, Bangor, ME 04401
Through March 9 at Cayuga Community College’s Auburn campus.
March 13 to March 24 at Cayuga’s Fulton campus.
Each volume of the Americans Who Tell the Truth book series features fifty color portraits by Robert Shetterly, profiles of his subjects, and original essays by inspiring activists, such as Robin Wall Kimmerer, Bill McKibbin, and Ai-Jen Poo.
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Gentrification and displacement of low-income communities of color are major issues in New York City, and the city’s zoning policies are a major cause. Zoned Out! looks at ways the city can address inequalities, promote authentic community-based planning, and develop housing in the public domain.
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