October seems to be fairly exploding with creative activity. From the launch today of Leigh Sugar's formidable collection of writing by prison arts educators to the abundance of author events, this month does take our breathe away! One event we always look forward to is the Imagining America gathering where we are re-energized every year. Likely this is because we feel so aligned with their vision of a world of expansive social imagination, where people work together to nurture healthy, vibrant, and joyful communities. | | |
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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, breathtaking writing by more than fifty
arts-in-corrections educators, including acclaimed writers Ellen Bass, Joshua Bennett, Jill McDounough, E. Ethelbert Miller, Idra Novey, Joy Priest, Paisley Rekdal, Christopher Soto, and Michael Torres; the late pioneers Buzz Alexander and Judith Tannenbaum; and award-winning choreographer Pat Graney.
Paperback, 304 pages, 10 b/w illustrations, 6 x 9 inch
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“That’s a Pretty Thing shows us that it is possible to seek beauty from hell; that it is possible to cultivate sweetness and honesty in the face of brutality and betrayal. We learn that buried deep in the American carceral system are people. People who love and hurt and think and grow. People who have something to say if only we would listen.”
—Cynthia W. Roseberry, Acting Director, ACLU Justice Division; project manager of President Obama’s Clemency Initiative; founding board member of Georgia Innocence Project.
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LEIGH SUGAR is a Michigan-born writer, teacher, and dancer, who has facilitated creative writing workshops through the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) and co-edited PCAP’s annual Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing. She has also taught writing at the Institute for Justice and Opportunity, NYU, the Poetry Foundation, the Justice Arts Coalition, and beyond. Her writing appears in Poetry Magazine, Split This Rock, jubilat, Honey Literary, and elsewhere.
As a disabled and chronically ill person, Leigh Sugar is committed to working towards greater justice for all. She is donating all her royalties from this anthology to Dances for Solidarity, a project that brings arts to people incarcerated in solitary confinement.
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Luck
Margaret Randall
Fearless personal essays from feminist poet
and activist, Margaret Randall
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Full-page line drawings by Barbara Byers
Paperback, 256 pages, 17 b/w illustrations, 5.83 x 8.27 inch
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MARGARET RANDALL’s most keen essays to date will prompt readers to rethink topics of death, lies, memory, language, landscape, poetry, anger, sex, food, war, pandemics, violence, feminism, imagination, power, identity, and of course luck. This singular book is complemented by drawings of artist BARBARA BYERS.
“Margaret Randall has an uncanny ability to verbalize the pressing thoughts and questions that often elude us. . . opening us to possibilities that we might otherwise never encounter, inviting us to come to our own conclusions. Partnering and paralleling Randall’s words are the powerful, evocative drawings of Barbara Byers, the two creating together a work summed up perfectly by the final words of Luck: ‘no metaphor… only untiring passion carrying creativity on its wings.’”
—Susan Sherman, founding editor of IKON Magazine and author of America’s Child
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Aviva Rahmani to present in Pittsburgh
Friday, October 6 at 11 am
Artist Aviva Rahmani, author of Divining Chaos and coeditor of Ecoart in Action, will present about the international influence of issues brought up by her opera about ecocide, Blued Trees, at the Carnegie Museum of Art symposium, Convening: Unsettling Matter, Gaining Ground. The exhibition and panels will address how art can change the conversation on Earth rights and international law.
4400 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Register for the Free Symposium HERE
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Robert Shetterly at One Planet Peace Forum in Eliot, Maine
October 6–8
Join artist, author, and founder of Americans Who Tell the Truth, Robert Shetterly, in a hybrid event at the One Planet Peace Forum, where he will join a distinguished panel of activist speakers addressing "How is the Common Good Foundational to Peace?”
A Bahá’í Center of Learning
61 Green Acre Drive, Eliot, ME 03903
Forum info HERE
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Dr. Joyce Milambiling in virtual discussion with Village Preservation
October 10, 6 pm ET
Don't miss author Joyce Milambiling as she discusses her book Skyscraper Settlement: The Many Lives of Christodora House. The book tells the story of how an idea held by two young women developed into one of the many settlement houses established in New York City. The free virtual event is sponsored by Village Preservation and East Village Community Coalition.
Event info HERE
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Leigh Sugar at Literati webinar
October 10, 7 pm ET
Join in the online launch of That’s a Pretty Thing to Call It: Prose and Poetry by Artists Teaching In Carceral Institutions, edited by Leigh Sugar. Leigh will be in conversation with Amani Sawari and You Li at this "At Home with Literati Series" hosted by Literati Bookstore of Ann Arbor, MI. Leigh's new anthology features powerful writing from more than fifty artists, writers, and activists who’ve taught in U.S. criminal legal institutions.
*Live ASL interpretation provided for the event.*
Event info HERE
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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Memorial Unveiling
October 11, 11:30 am to 1:30 pm ET
Greene Street and Washington Place
in Greenwich Village, New York Cty
The long-awaited Triangle Fire Memorial to the victims and legacy of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire will be unveiled and dedicated at the site of the historic fire. Rising nine stories, the Memorial tells the story of the fire in the languages spoken by the victims: English, Yiddish, and Italian. It will be one of the only memorials in America dedicated to workers.
Event info HERE
To learn about the far-ranging changes to workplace safety and other legacies of this fire, we can think of no better book than Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.
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Muriel Fox in New York
October 11, 7–8 pm ET
JCC Feminine Mystique Panel Discussion
Join Muriel Fox, co-founder of the National Organization for Women and author of the forthcoming book, The Women’s Revolution: Who Did It and How We Changed Your Life during an in-person panel discussion about bestseller The Feminine Mystique 60 years after its publishing.
The Jewish Community Center
334 Amsterdam Ave at 76th Street
New York, NY 10023
Event info Here
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Arlene Goldbard at Utah State University
October 19, 2023, 5:00 PM MDT
Communitas Lecture – in-person
Writer, speaker, social activist, consultant, and author of In the Camp of Angels of Freedom Arlene Goldbard will be the guest presenter for the Utah State University Communitas lecture series that promotes equality, diversity, and togetherness.
4060 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT 84322-4060
Event info Here
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Imagining America International Gathering
October 20-22, Providence RI
Look for the New Village Press book exhibit at the Imagining America 2023 Gathering that brings together scholars, artists, and designers to bring about a more just America. This year's theme is Radical Reckoning: Invoking the Elements for Collective Change.
Event info Here
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David Cortright at Cornell University
November 13, 5–6 PM ET
Drawing from first-hand experience and research into the U.S. nuclear freeze movement of the 1980s and the Iraq antiwar movement of 2002–09, David Cortright, author of A Peaceful Superpower: Lessons from the World's Largest Antiwar Movement, will discuss the challenge of attempting to evaluate if policy is shaped by social movements against war and nuclear weapons.
Physical Sciences Building
245 E Ave, Ithaca, NY 14850
Event info Here
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New Village Press at Howard Zinn Book Fair – San Francisco
December 3, 10 AM–6 PM PT
New Village Press is looking forward to exhibiting at the Howard Zinn Book Fair on Sunday, December 3 in San Francisco. Authors Daniel O’Connell, Janaki Anagha, Laura Roberto, and Louise Dunlap will be presenting and have their respective books featured. The free public event will be in-person, with an “Against Amnesia” theme.
1125 Valencia St
San Francisco, CA 94110
Event info HERE
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Margaret Randall Birthday Celebration
December 6, 6 pm MT
New Village is thrilled to announce the planned celebration of Margaret Randall’s 87th birthday at Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse! Margaret has authored nearly twice as many books as she is years old, including four books with New Village Press and will be reading at this event from her most recent one, Luck!
202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
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STUFF
Instead of a Memoir
Lucy R. Lippard
Hardcover, 144 pages, 300 color images, 8 x 8 in
A colorful "non-memoir"
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Don't miss this exuberant abundantly illustrated autobiography of the American art writer, activist, and sometime curator Lucy R. Lippard.
"A godmother of conceptual art and a preeminent feminist critic and environmentalist, Lippard shaped the ways in which we think about the contested borderlands of art, identity, and politics, with perception-shifting exhibitions and twenty-odd books of criticism."
—Megan O'Grady, New York Review, "Art as Action" Oct. 19, 2023.
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Skyscraper Settlement
The Many Lives of Christodora House
Joyce Milambiling
Paperback, 256 pages,12 b/w illustrations, 5.5 x 8.5 in
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“More than just the history of one building or organization, Skyscraper Settlement provides an engaging examination of a profoundly important movement – largely shaped by women – that offers a hopeful message for today. . . . This book is an inspiring read for those who seek a caring society.” — Sarah Peskin, Board Chair, the Frances Perkins Center
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JOYCE MILAMBILING is a writer and educator with a PhD in Applied Linguistics, teaching foreign language and ESL teachers in New York and overseas. A member of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians and the New-York Historical Society, her articles have appeared in Academe, English Teaching Forum, and Theory into Practice
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"Art as Action"
New York Review of Books on Lucy Lippard's Stuff: Instead of a Memoir
“Lucy Lippard is a canonical figure who held no truck with canons, who disdained art history only to become art history.”
Reviewer Megan O'Grady pays homage to Lippard's remarkable life. "In Stuff: Instead of a Memoir, Lippard recalls some of the artistic revolutions of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, the years when conceptual art emerged and developed offshoots of land, body, performance, and other art forms, including the activist art movements in which Lippard was an animating force."
Read the full review HERE
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Photo: Jan van Raay. Lucy Lippard and members of the Art Workers Coalition demonstrating for the creation of an admission-free day at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, January 1971 | | |
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Assay Interviews Edvige Giunta
In an eloquent interview by Assay: The Journal of Nonfiction Studies, editor Edvige Giunta takes a deep dive into the creation process of Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, which she coedited with Mary Anne Trasciatti.
Talking to the Girls received the 2023 Susan Koppelman Award for Best Anthology in Feminist Studies in American and Popular Culture.
"We were fabricating a multivoiced book, a book that was taking shape at the same time as the Triangle Fire Memorial was being created. For this reason, all these essays were written for Talking to the Girls—we did not include any reprints."
Read the Assay interview HERE
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Change the Story, Change the Word Podcast by Bill Cleveland
Judith Tannenbaum is featured on the latest episode of Change the Story Change the World, a podcast by Bill Cleveland. In the episode, Cleveland discusses the story of how the late Judith Tannenbaum crafted the story of a fictional prison in order to reveal the reality of prison life and prepare artists to teach in that environment.
Listen HERE
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GOAT Town Podcast interviews
Tom Angotti and Sylvia Morse
On the latest episode of Stroock Presents: GOAT Town, John Egnatios-Beene speaks with Tom Angotti and Sylvia Morse, coeditors of Zoned Out! Race, Displacement, and City Planning in New York City. Zoned Out! discusses how city land use and housing policies have played out in neighborhoods facing massive displacement of people of color and looks at ways the city can address inequalities, promote authentic community-based planning, and develop housing in the public domain.
Listen HERE
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Feminist activist Muriel Fox reviews Rachel Steir’s book, Betty Friedan
"Rachel Steir's book is a no-holds-barred portrayal of Betty Friedan’s complex persona and her historic achievements." Muriel Fox is a feminist, cofounder of NOW, and the author of the forthcoming memoir, The Women’s Revolution.
Read Fox's review HERE
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Exhibits of Robert Shetterly's Portraits | |
Artist, activist, and author Robert Shetterly has painted over 260 portraits of Americans Who Tell the Truth. These exquisite paintings of inspiring activists are exhibited in dozens of communities—see current shows below. | |
Thru October 8
Rockwell Museum, Corning, New York
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Thru December 29
Thomas College Lunder School of Education, Waterville, Maine
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