Creative
On Creativity: Voices From The Circle 2018
The creative arts speak to and through us in 2018.
Faces on the Green and the Disappeared, by Laura Altshul (Cohort 6) [1941–2024]
"When the exhibit came down it took me by surprise... made me think of the 6,000 Disappeared – the desaparecidos... plus other countries where dissidents or 'unwanted' citizens were mercilessly eliminated. And of course, that's what Trump and ICE are doing..."
A Poet’s Plea to Save OUR Planet
...always THE never mine; if it’s not me never mind...
Sharing Refugee’s Plight Through Art, by Laura Altshul (Cohort 6) [1941–2024]
"...ever since, I have been thinking of how painful it must be for a person to leave everything behind at a moment’s notice..."
Our Strength is Diversity and Inclusion, by Abby Roth (Cohort 10), New Haven Alder
...shifting the conversation about immigrant, dreamer, refugee and citizen identities.
My Words and Hers on Memorial Day, by Nate Bixby (Cohort 17)
Run along dumb beasts / Lest we become attuned to your patters / Begin to know your speech / To love you too much / And wish your home / Were not in the way of our commerce. -Joanne W. Bixby (November 16, 1931 – April 1, 2018)