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Todd Davis & Mary Linton Poetry of Nature Workshop
May 24, 2010
Merry Lea to Offer Poetry of Nature Workshop
Saturday, June 12, 2010 9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Writers who love the outdoors will gather at Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center of Goshen College, Saturday, June 12, 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. for a day of word play among some of Indiana's finest wetlands, woodlands and prairies. Poet Todd Davis will team up with ecologist Mary Linton to offer inspiration and guidance in the kinds of settings that inspired William Wordsworth, John Keats, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Mary Oliver, Wendell Berry, and Jane Kenyon.
About the Presenters:
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Just Released: Woldemar Neufeld's Canada: A Mennonite Artist in the Canadian Landscape, 1925-1995
May 16, 2010Book Description from http://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/press/Catalog/neufeld.shtml
Woldemar Neufeld (1909–2002) emigrated with his Mennonite parents from Ukraine to Canada in 1924. By the late 1920s, he had begun his lifelong project as documentarist, responding especially to the built environment, whether close to his home in southern Ontario or farther afield: northern Ontario, the prairies and the west coast, the Maritimes and Quebec. His work passed through a number of styles, from the coolly abstract to the vividly “realistic.” Although he never abandoned oils, he produced a substantial body of watercolours and block prints—the latter influenced by German Expressionist and Japanese printmaking approaches.
Woldemar …
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Laurier Anniversary Lecture to be given by Paul and Hildi Froese Tiessen
May 16, 2010
"Elmira, Ontario" by Woldemar Neufeld (1987)Annual Anniversary Lecture
LALL's 13th Annual Anniversary LectureKeynote Speakers: Dr. Paul Tiessen and and Dr. Hildi Froese Tiessen
"First Art, then Tennis": the Construction of Kitchener-Waterloo in the Visual Imagination
of Woldemar Neufeld, 1925 - 1995
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 | 7 p.m.
Senate and Board Chambers
Wilfrid Laurier University
75 University Avenue West
Waterloo, ON | 519-884-0710 ext. 4628for more information, see http://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=160&p=2322
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Everyday Rapture on Broadway!
May 10, 2010Sherie Rene Scott's musical, "Everyday Rapture," has opened on Broadway at the American Airlines Theater to rave reviews! Read all about it here:
http://theater.nytimes.com/2010/04/30/theater/reviews/30everyday.html
Raised in Kansas by a Mennonite mother and what she describes as a "cavalry officer" father, Sherie Rene Scott plays a character based on her own life. Read more about it here:
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/sherie_rene_scott/index.html?inline=nyt-per
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Mennonite in a Little Black Dress -- #1 NYT Paperback Bestseller
May 10, 2010Mennonite in a Little Black Dress is at the top of the New York Times paperback bestseller list for Nonfiction this week--its third week on the list!
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/bestseller/
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Ken Reed receives Grant from the Schowalter Foundation
May 10, 2010Schowalter Foundation, Newton, Kansas, has just announced a grant of $10,000 as seed money for the research and writing of a major new historical novel on the coming to America of the Swiss German Mennonites in 1710. Schowalter awarded the grant to the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society (LMHS), Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in cooperation with Ken Yoder Reed, author of two previous novels on Mennonite life and history.
The coming-to-America story of the Swiss German political refugees is a largely untold story. Mennonite and Amish refugees, caught up in the European geo-political wars and chaos of the eighteenth century, fled to William …
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Boundary Waters Retreat with Jeff Gundy and Julia Spicher Kasdorf
April 15, 2010Jeff Gundy and Julia Spicher Kasdorf will be the resource persons at the "Stirring the Waters" Writer's Retreat at Wilderness Wind, near Ely, Minnesota, June 24-27, 2010. Join them by the lakeside for a refreshing time of reflection and writing in an unspoiled natural setting.
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Rhubarb Magazine solicits work for Food Issue
April 10, 2010Rhubarb Magaine is looking for submissions on the theme of food,
especially fiction and short prose, deadline May 15.Send submissions in a word document to submit@rhubarbmag.com
For further details, visit www.rhubarbmag.com
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Memoir by Lee Snyder just published by Cascadia
April 1, 2010At Powerline and Diamond Hill: Unexpected Intersections of Life and Work by Lee Snyder has just been published by Cascadia publishing company.
This is a readable and engaging reflection on the elements of a life that led to leadership and service in surprising ways. Snyder was the first woman president of Bluffton College, and has held a number of significant leadership roles in the Mennonite Church. Yet her book is as intimate and personable as a chat over tea, sharing reflections of works of art and literature that inspire her, challenges faced in finishing her education as an adult or …
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A Mennonite Woman: Exploring Spiritual Life and Identity
April 1, 2010Dawn Ruth Nelson is a Mennonite Pastor and Spiritual Director who has written a reflection on her spiritual journey as it intersects with the legacy of her Mennonite grandmother, her experience as a peace worker in Ireland, and her own everyday life.
"Nelson’s search leads from her grandmother’s life in Mennonite community, through peace work in Ireland and engagement with the Roman Catholic tradition, and finally to the essential inner/outer balance of the Anabaptist spiritual tradition—a response of discipleship made possible by the spiritual connection to the living vine, Jesus Christ." —C. Arnold Snyder, Professor of History, Conrad Grebel University …