New Village Press Books
Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict
Volume I: Resistance and Reconciliation in Regions of Violence
Volume I: Resistance and Reconciliation in Regions of Violence
Courageous artists working in conflict regions describe exemplary peacebuilding performances and groundbreaking theory on performance for transformation of violence.
Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict
Volume II: Building Just and Inclusive Communities
Volume II: Building Just and Inclusive Communities
Acting Together, Volume II, continues from where the first volume ends, documenting exemplary peacebuilding performances in regions marked by social exclusion, structural violence, and dislocation.
Acting Together on the World Stage DVD
Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict
Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict
This feature-length documentary film of peace-building performances and interviews, produced in the midst of violence and its aftermath, shows the contribution of theater to justice, reconciliation, and coexistence.
American Tensions
Literature of Identity and the Search for Social Justice
Literature of Identity and the Search for Social Justice
This new anthology of contemporary American poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction, explores issues of identity, oppression, injustice, and social change.
Art and Upheaval
Artists on the World's Frontlines
Artists on the World's Frontlines
Author William Cleveland tells remarkable stories from Northern Ireland, Cambodia, South Africa, United States (Watts, Los Angeles), aboriginal Australia, and Serbia, about artists who resolve conflict and heal unspeakable trauma.
Art in Other Places
Artists at Work in America's Community and Social Institutions
Artists at Work in America's Community and Social Institutions
Art in Other Places profiles 29 institutional and community arts programs across the Untied States that have pioneered the field of arts-based community development.
Art, Dialogue, Action, Activism
Case Studies from Animating Democracy
Case Studies from Animating Democracy
Art, Dialogue, Action, Activism examines the role of dialogue in the work of cultural organizations oriented toward civic action and activism.
Arts for Change
Teaching Outside the Frame
Teaching Outside the Frame
Beverly Naidus shares her passion and strategies for teaching socially engaged art, offering, as well, a short history of the field and the candid views of more than thirty colleagues.
Asphalt to Ecosystems
Design Ideas for Schoolyard Transformation
Design Ideas for Schoolyard Transformation
Case studies from North America, Scandinavia, Japan, and Great Britain demonstrate natural outdoor teaching environments that support hands-on learning in science, math, language, and art in ways that nurture healthy imagination and socialization.
Awakening Creativity
Dandelion School Blossoms
Dandelion School Blossoms
Awakening Creativity shows in gloriously illustrated detail how Lily Yeh guides a participatory process of artistic expression that uplifts a distressed community. Her open, joyful approach to artmaking is a model for building healthy cultural esteem.
Beginners Guide to Community-Based Arts
Ten Graphic Stories about Artists, Educators & Activists Across the U.S.
Ten Graphic Stories about Artists, Educators & Activists Across the U.S.
Ten transformative local arts projects come alive in this illustrated training manual for youth leaders and teachers. This energetic guidebook demonstrates the enormous power of art in grass-roots social change.
Between Grace and Fear
The Role of the Arts in a Time of Change
The Role of the Arts in a Time of Change
This book is a series of interviews with social theorists and scholars, philanthropists, scientists, theologians, artists, community development and community arts activists.
Building Commons and Community
Building Commons and Community documents 45 years of the late Karl Linn's legacy creating neighborhood spaces for communities and by communities. In this richly-illustrated landscape-format hardcover book, Linn presents his philosophies and practical wisd
By Heart
Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives
Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives
A two-person memoir that explores education, prison, possibility, and which children our world nurtures and which it shuns. At the book's core are two stories that speak up for human imagination, spirit, and the power of art.
Civic Dialogue, Arts & Culture
Findings from Animating Democracy
Findings from Animating Democracy
Civic Dialogue, Arts & Culture explores the power of the arts and humanities to foster civic engagement and demonstrates how arts and humanities organizations can be vital civic and cultural institutions.
CoHousing
A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves
A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves
A movement that began in Europe has taken hold in North America because it provides some real answers for the increasing number of people who stop to look at where and how they live and at their impact on the environment.
Critical Perspectives
Writings on Art and Civic Dialogue
Writings on Art and Civic Dialogue
Critical Perspectives is a collection of essays that explore art, civic dialogue, and reflective critical writing. The essays focus on three compelling projects that employed the unique capacities of theater, visual art, and historic preservation.
Crossroads Comics #1
This educational comic of graphic true stories is derived from the Beginner's Guide to Community-Based Arts by award-winning cartoonist Keith Knight and progressive youth educator Mat Schwarzman. Depicts two inspiring artists who heal social problems.
Cultural Perspectives in Civic Dialogue
Case Studies from Animating Democracy
Case Studies from Animating Democracy
This book shares the efforts of cultural organizers who are skilled in working deeply within and across cultures to understand important cultural considerations in arts-based civic dialogue work.
Dialogue in Artistic Practice
Case Studies from Animating Democracy
Case Studies from Animating Democracy
This book explores the work of three exemplary artist companies. Case studies examine the Animating Democracy projects implemented by these companies, as well as their long traditions of community engagement, to highlight how dialogue is inherent to art.
Doing Time in the Garden
Life Lessons through Prison Horticulture
Life Lessons through Prison Horticulture
Inspiring firsthand account of how in-prison vocational training programs at Riker's Island Jail lead to meaningful post-release employment and reduce recidivism — the GreenHouse and GreenTeam run by James Jiler for the Horticultural Society of New York.
Early Childhood Outdoors
Creating and Restoring Places for Healthy Child Development
Creating and Restoring Places for Healthy Child Development
A fully illustrated design resource including practical guidelines to improve the quality of outdoor play and learning environments for children.
Ecological Design and Building Schools
Green Guide to Educational Opportunities in the United States and Canada
Green Guide to Educational Opportunities in the United States and Canada
This first and only directory of sustainable architecture and green building educational programs in North America features an annotated listing of the best schools and educational centers and compares in detail the offerings of their programs.
100 Families Oakland
Art & Social Change
Art & Social Change
Highlights of a unique community-building and socially healing project that brought diverse families together from four Oakland neighborhoods to create art. Through it, participants gained new respect and appreciation for each other and their communities.
History as Catalyst for Civic Dialogue
Case Studies from Animating Democracy
Case Studies from Animating Democracy
This book examines three projects that mined hidden, forgotten, or suppressed histories of slavery and lynching in the United States in order to stimulate meaningful dialogue about persistent issues of race and marginalization
Museums and Civic Dialogue
Case Studies from Animating Democracy
Case Studies from Animating Democracy
Case studies in this book examine approaches to curatorial practice, interpretation, and education prompted by civic intent; institutional challenges and changes in practice that occurred in doing this work; and the critical importance of partnerships.
New Creative Community
The Art of Cultural Development
The Art of Cultural Development
An inspiring, foundational book that defines the burgeoning field of community cultural development.
Performing Communities
Grassroots Ensemble Theaters Deeply Rooted in Eight U.S. Communities
Grassroots Ensemble Theaters Deeply Rooted in Eight U.S. Communities
Ensemble theater is one of the most vibrant, meaningful American performance forms today. It's more than art — it's a social movement.
Service-Learning in Design and Planning
Educating at the Boundaries
Educating at the Boundaries
Urban planning and architecture educators challenge traditional community-university relationships by modeling meaningful and reciprocal partnerships.
SongLines
A lyrical journey of alternative eclectic songs ranging from afro-celtic, alt-country, and rock to R&B with many surprising stops along the way.
Undoing the Silence
Six Tools for Social Change Writing
Six Tools for Social Change Writing
Undoing the Silence offers guidance to help both citizens and professionals influence democratic process through letters, articles, reports, and public testimony.
What We See
Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs
Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs
An enlivening discussion of critical issues affecting our cities and economies, What We See revises the insights of urbanist-activist Jane Jacobs through the fresh observations of leading contemporary thinkers in many fields.
Works of Heart
Building Village through the Arts
Building Village through the Arts
Citizen artists revitalize place, celebrate culture and inspire social change in this book of beautiful community-based arts projects. Nine communities from the United States and Canada show the genius, passion and practicality of their creativity.
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