A week or so ago, I wrote about CSA, community-supported arts, a concept that borrows from the community-supported agriculture movement. In case you missed it, here’s the post. Another creative idea for supporting the arts is crowd funding. I learned about it from the Backstage blog by way of ArtsJournal.com. ” ‘I saw people believing in themselves enough to [...]
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Creative Funding for the Arts
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged art, artist, arts, artsjournal, backstage blog, crowd funding, csa, funding, kickstarter, patron of the arts, patronage, support on July 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
More on Poetry
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged art, ashbery, Bruno Schulz, criminal ingenuity, ellen levy, jonathan safran foer, joseph cornell, marianne moore, poem, poet, poetry, pratt, vanderbilt on July 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
An island neighbor has just published Criminal Ingenuity: Moore, Cornell, Ashbery, and the Struggle Between the Arts (Modernist Literature and Culture). Ellen has been studying poets Marianne Moore and John Ashbery, and artist Joseph Cornell for some years — first as a member of the faculty at Vanderbilt and now at Pratt. I don’t know much [...]
After Foster Care
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged aging out, capitol, capitol hill, Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute, Ellenbogen, foster care, foster child, Foster Youth Internship, lindsay on July 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Not long ago, I talked to Suzanne’s friend Liz about her long and deep support for a girl who was struggling through the foster-care system in California. She expressed the view that kids who “age out” of foster care still need support. Maybe they reject anything that smacks of the government programs at first, but the possibility of more advice and [...]
Esperantists in the Subway
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged esperanto, film, hope, incubus, invented language, language, ludwig zamenhoff, movie, peace, william shatner on July 29, 2011 | 2 Comments »
When you have a doctor’s appointment in the morning and go to work late, you see a whole different crowd riding the subway. In the summer after rush hour, there are a lot of families on outings. A woman and a boy of about 11 got on and sat near me. The boy began to tell [...]
All You Need in Minsk
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged africa, aids, Belarus, guinness world records, Minsk, online sing-along, starbucks on July 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This YouTube video would have you believe that all you need in Minsk is love. The video appears to be one of a couple Belarus entries into the “All You Need is Love” AIDS fund-raising effort that got Starbucks into Guinness World Records for the most nations in an online sing-along. Personally, I think Starbucks [...]
Sailing in Sweden
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged birthstone jewelry, Luna & Stella, sailboat, sailing, sweden, swedish, vastkusten, veddo on July 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
To recap, I started this project in May, having been asked by Suzanne and Erik to write a blog affiliated with Suzanne’s birthstone jewelry company, Luna & Stella. This first post explains. Folks who have been reading know that Erik is from Sweden. He and Suzanne often go sailing when they vacation there in summer. [...]
Food Deserts (“deserts,” not “desserts”)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged childhood, food desert, fridge, fruits, mark menjivar, menjivar, michelle obama, nourishing, nutrition, obesity, photo essay, photographer, photography, refrigerator, rural, supervalu, urban, vegetables, wal-mart, walgreens on July 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I have been reading about Michelle Obama’s latest efforts to encourage good nutrition in childhood. “Executives from Wal-Mart, Walgreens, SuperValu and other stores joined Michelle Obama at the White House on [July 21] to announce a pledge to open or expand a combined 1,500 stores in communities that have limited access to nutritious food and are [...]
Urban Kids Interning with Nature Conservancy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged block island, environment, experience, green, independence, intern, Leaders in Environmental Action for the Future, LEAF, nature, nature conservancy, tnc on July 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I was reading about the latest enthusiastic group of LEAF interns in the Block Island Times tonight and decided to look up more information on the program. The Leaders in Environmental Action for the Future (LEAF) program is an initiative started by the Nature Conservancy (TNC) 17 years ago. According to the TNC website, it “provides paid [...]
Playwriting Class, 3
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cambrige center for adult education, ccae, hacking, murdoch, peter littlefield, playwriting on July 24, 2011 | 3 Comments »
The next assignment is to listen in on a conversation somewhere and try to write it down word for word without adding any of your own details or dramatizing it. In the age of Murdoch telephone hacking, is that kosher? I do sometimes hear conversations I want to write down. Yesterday, for example, I was in [...]
Database for Sleuths
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ash center, coral gables, database, detective, digital, florida, gumshoe, harvard, innovators insights, kennedy school, murder mystery, shoe, shoeprint, shoes on July 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Not sure if, as a fan of detective mysteries, I should be disppointed or delighted about a new police database in Florida. I learned about the database from an e-mail listserv I receive at the office. It’s called Innovators Insights. Sign up here to tell the Ash Center at Harvard’s Kennedy School what sorts of [...]
Burnt Food Museum
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged boston, burnt food museum, deborah henson-conant, harp, hip harpist, jazz, moba, museum of bad art on July 23, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The Hip Harpist I wrote about before has a lot of interests, about which she both tweets and blogs extensively. An especially kooky interest is her Burnt Food Museum. She explains: “The museum was founded in the late 1980′s one night when Deborah put on a small pot of Hot Apple Cider to heat, then received [...]
Community-Supported Art
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged agriculture, cambridge center for adult education, ccae, community supported art, csa, minnesota on July 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Community-supported agriculture has been working well for some years now. A person who likes local produce and wants to support local agriculture will buy a “share” that can help support a farmer (recently, even a fisherman) while giving the “investor” a guaranteed amount of food. The “dividend” could be a dozen eggs a week, a [...]
She Reviewed Rock Bands into Her 80s
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cleveland, cleveland plain dealer, critic, dick clark, jane scott, review, reviewer, rock band, rock critic on July 20, 2011 | 1 Comment »
My son mentioned this Jane Scott obit the other day. He knows how much I like stories about older people who stay in the fray because they love their work. Writes the NY Times: “In four happy decades as a rock writer for The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Ms. Scott, who died on Monday at 92, [...]
Gas Lamps and Ice Delivery
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cambridge center for adult education, ccae, coal, gas lamp, horse, ice delivery, jersey shore, lamplighter, milk, milk delivery, peter littlefield on July 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
When I told my husband that playwriting teacher Peter Littlefield wanted class members to base a scene on an early moment when we first looked objectively at the adult world, he volunteered memories of his own. Last weekend, Suzanne, John, and their spouses got to hear about a Philadelphia childhood and the horse that delivered milk, going [...]
Today in Hartford
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged billings forge, community, community development, firebox, hartford, kitchen, melville charitable trust on July 19, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Today I was at a conference in Hartford, and I just want to say that I had the best box lunch I have ever had at a conference, maybe the best box lunch ever. The story that goes with it makes it seem even more delightful. The lunches were catered by The Kitchen, an urban [...]
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