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Louise will be reading, speaking and offering Undoing
Silence workshops throughout the United States during the months
leading up to the November 2008 elections. A charismatic teacher,
trainer, organizer, and speaker, her work helps citizen activists
write to make change in the world.
Recent clients include grassroots
tenant activists, the City of Cambridge, foundations in Boston
and San Francisco, and a chapter of the Sierra Club. Workshops,
tailored to the needs of each group, focus on greater comfort and
confidence in the writing process, a more powerful “voice” in
writing, and strategies for reaching out to specific audiences.
They include formal and informal writing activities and the chance
to give and receive feedback. To arrange a workshop, contact louise@undoingsilence.org.
If you’re in the
Boston area, your might consider joining the Social Justice Writers
Group, a project of the National Writers Union that grew out
of an Undoing the Silence presentation. This group meets
monthly on Sunday afternoons for energizing and support. Contact Miriam
Stein.
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SCHEDULE — BOOK TOUR
APRIL 2009
April 20: Champaign/Urbana IL: Planning
Dept. workshops sponsored by Prof. Eliizabeth Sweet
April 22: Minneapolis MN: The Loft 6-7 Workshop
7-8 Reading Target Performance Hall, 2nd floor of the Open Book
building, 1011 Washington Ave S, Mpls, MN 55415. No pre-registration
required. Workshop & reading FREE and open to the public.
612-379-8999
April 23, 4-6 & April 24, 1-3 pm University
of Minnesota, Hubert Humphrey Institute Workshops for grad students
(full)
April 24, 1-3 pm:
Public Reading: University
of Minnesota, Hubert Humphrey Institute
April 25-28: American Planning Association
Conference Minneapolis MN (At Island Press booth)
MAY 2009
May 1-3: Chicago IL: Yoga & a Sustainable
Writing Practice Weekend workshop with Monika Andreas, 1555 N
Dearborn Unit 10E, Chicago, IL Cost $140 for 4 sessions or $45
per session To register for full weekend or separate sessions:
(312) 274-1030
May 4: 6 pm: Book talk at Alumni Association
DePaul University School for Public Service, DePaul Center Barnes
and Noble, Lower Level, Chicago.
May 20 – June 24: 6-week course on Writing
and Public Communication, Urban & Environmental Policy and
Planning, Tufts University, http://ase.tufts.edu/summer/courses/index.asp (course is UEP161A)
JULY 2009
Two-week visit to Israel/Palestine; workshops
with AFSC’s Public Achievement Project
AUGUST 2009
August 17-19: PhD workshop, Dept of City and
Regional Planning, UC Berkeley
OCTOBER 2009
October 1-14 Tour of Southeastern US (in planning
stage)
NOVEMBER 2009
Training of trainers in South Africa
sponsored by Action Aid International
Event Archive:
SEPTEMBER 2007
Bay Area CA
Thursday September 27, 7:30 pm Modern Times Bookstore,
PRE-PUBLICATION Reading and Workshop, 888 Valencia St., San Francisco
(www.mtbs.com)
OCTOBER 2007
Milwaukee WI
October 18-20 Associated Collegiate Schools of
Planning Conference
NOVEMBER 2007
Boston MA
Friday November 2, 10 am – 4 pm, Writing
workshop on “Women and Money”, WE LEARN, Simmons
College
Los Angeles CA
Friday, November 16, 7:30 pm. Book talk at Los
Angeles Eco-Village, 117 Bimini Place, @ three miles west of
downtown LA near First and Vermont (www.laecovillage.org)
or 213/738-1254
Saturday, November 17, 3-4 pm, Metropolis Books,
440 S. Main St (213) 612-0174 (www.metropolisbooksla.com)
Sunday, November 18, 10 am – 4 pm workshop,
Writing for Social and Environmental Change, Eco-village Central
LA (www.laecovillage.org)
Friday or Saturday Nov 23/4 Evening house party,
Carlsbad CA. Details TBA
DECEMBER 2007
Napa CA
Friday, December 7, 4- 5:30 pm Copperfield’s
Books, Booksigning, Bel Aire Plaza, Hwy 29 & Trancas St.,
(707) 252-8002 Marin County CA
Saturday, December 8, 10 am-4 pm Book Passage,
Daylong workshop. 10 am – 4 pm: Undoing the Silence: Writing
for Social Change, $95 (sliding scale*) limit 25. 51 Tamal Vista
Blvd (415) 927-0960 (www.bookpassage.com)
Bay Area CA
Sunday, December 9, 2-6 pm New Village Press
Event celebrating Undoing the Silence and Karl Linn’s book,
Building Commons and Community, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
Hall, 1924 Cedar St (510) 841-4824 (www.bfuu.org)
Boston area MA
Tuesday December 11, 5-7 pm Book celebration
sponsored by Labor Resource Center at the University of Massachusetts/Boston.
Wheatley Student Lounge, 4th Floor. (www.cpcs.umb.edu/lrc/)
Saturday December 15, 10:30 – 4, “Lift
Your Voice with Other Women,” writing feedback workshop
for women at Haymarket Peoples Fund, 42 Seaverns Ave, Jamaica
Plain, $20-50 sliding scale. Register with Stacy at (617) 522-7676
or email stacy@haymarket.org
Wednesday December 19, 7 – 8:30 pm Celebration
and book signing house party, 59 Chestnut St, Cambridge
JANUARY 2008
Boston area MA
Thursday January 10, 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm, United
for a Fair Economy Brown Bag talk, 29 Winter Street, Boston.
(www.faireconomy.org)
Thursday, Jan 10, 7:30 pm, Porter Square Books,
Reading and book-signing, Porter Square Shopping Center, Cambridge
(www.portersquarebooks.com)
Sunday, Jan. 13, 12 – 3 pm, Mel and Joyce
King’s home, 4 Yarmouth St, Boston’s South End.
Lifting EVERY Voice: A celebration, book-signing and potluck
brunch. (617) 547-6881
SF Peninsula CA
Thursday, January 24, 12:30 – 1:30 pm,
Undoing Silence Brown Bag at Women of Color Resource Center,
1611 Telegraph Ave., Suite 303 Oakland. Contact Anisha Desai
at: 510/444-2700 ext. 301
Thursday January 24, 7:30-9 BooksInc, Reading,
Book-signing & Mini-Workshop, Castro St, Mt. View
Friday/Saturday January 25/26 Workshop: Persuasive
Writing for Environmental Action III, Sierra Club Loma Prieta
Chapter
Monday, January 28, 12:30-1:20, De Anza College
Reading/Writing Center, Book Talk 1:20-2:20 Writing Workshop
SF Bay area, CA
Tuesday, January 29, 7pm, Cody’s Bookstore,
1730 4th St, Berkeley (www.codysbooks.com)
FEBRUARY 2008
Grass Valley/ Nevada City CA
Saturday February 2, 9:30 am – 1:30 pm,
Environmental writing workshop with SYRCL (South Yuba River
Citizens League), Nevada City (www.syrcl.org)
Sunday February 3, 1-3 pm, Book signing at
The Bookseller 107 Mill Street, Grass Valley, for info: (530)
272-2131
Bay Area CA
Wednesday, Feb 6 Reception in Oakland
Thursday, Feb 7, San Bruno Mountain Watch,
Talk and workshop
Saturday, Feb. 9, all day writing workshop
at Unitarian Universalist Hall, Cedar & Bonita Sts, Berkeley
CA (www.bfuu.org/). To register: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/25968
Washington DC
Monday February 18, 10 am – 4pm, Writing
from the body/Responding from the heart, a writing workshop
for women, DuPont Circle area, 2040 S Street NW, Washington,
DC, Contact: jdoll@genderatwork.org
New York, NY
Monday February 25, 5:15 – 7 pm, Urban
Mondays at Hunter College, 8th floor, Hunter West Building;
68th & Lexington
Cambridge, MA
Wednesday, February 27, 7 pm Lifting EVERY
voice for peace. Reading, discussion, inspiration. Sponsored
by the American Friends Service Committee/PeaceWork, Mass Peace
Action, and the Cambridge Peace Commission. Cambridge Friends
Meeting, 5 Longfellow Park. For information: choffman@CambridgeMA.GOV
MARCH 2008
Boston area
March 28-30, Women and Media conference (www.centerfornewwords.org/wam/)
South Africa: Cape Town, Jo’burg, Durban
APRIL 2008
New Orleans
April 2-5 College Composition and Communication
Conference
Boston Area
Wednesday, April 16, 12:45 – 2 pm, Reading
and talk, Bentley College, Waltham For information: CBoucher@Bentley.edu
Wednesday, April 16, 8 pm. Expressing Social
Consciousness Through Writing: a panel sponsored by the National
Writers Union, Boston Local and the Cambridge Adult Education
Center, 56 Brattle St., Cambridge $6. www.ccae.org
MAY/ JUNE 2008
New England & Northeast
May 20 noon – 1:30 pm, 14 Beacon St, Boston.
Brown-bag book talk at Community Change Inc. In keeping with
CCI’s 40-year vision, focussed on how institutional racism
affects silencing and how we can transform both. janet@communitychange.org
May 31 10:30-4 pm, Undoing the Silence about
Race and Racism: A Writing Workshop Especially for People of
European Descent. $20-50 or what you can afford. Benefit for
CCI. Registration required. Contact Janet at 617-523-0555.
May 22 – June 26, Writing and Public Communication,
6-week course: UEP 0161 A, Urban and Environmental Policy at
Tufts University, Medford MA. Open to all, but costly.
June 8 4-6 pm, Organizational meeting for a Boston
area Writing for Social Change Support group. Open to all. Contact
National Writers Union member Miriam Stein at 781-648-0255 or miriam.stein@comcast.net.
JULY 2008
Winnipeg, Manitoba
July 17-20 Planners’ Network Conference
(www.plannersnetwork.org)
Santa Barbara CA
July 20-23 Capacitar International Conference
(www.capacitar.org)
AUGUST 2008
Richmond VA
August 8-9 Journal of Planning Education & Research
New Scholars Seminar
SEPTEMBER 2008
Cape Cod, MA
Sunday, Sept. 21, 3-6 pm, Cape Cod, Wellfleet
Public Library. Sponsored by Women’s International League
for Peace and Freedom. Donation. Contact 508/349-1922.
Belfast, ME
Saturday, Sept 27, 10 am to 4 pm, Toddy Pond
School, Oak Hill Road, Swanville, Maine ($30-$75). For more
info and to register, contact Barbara Egan (207) 342-2459.
or barbaraegret@yahoo.com
OCTOBER 2008
Philadelphia, PA
Wednesday Oct. 1, 1:30-2:45 pm, Public talk
at Villanova University. E-Media Room, Lower Level, Falvey
Library. Contact karyn.hollis@villanova.edu
Davis, CA
Friday, October 24, evening public talk at
Avid reader bookstore, contact Chris Benner ccbenner@ucdavis.edu
Saturday, October 25, Daylong workshop for
grad students in Community Planning at UC Davis.
NOVEMBER 2008
Brisbane, CA
Sunday, November 2, 1-5 PM Writing for Environmental
Advocacy at San Bruno Mountain Watch, 44 Visitacion Ave. Contact:
Ken McIntire (415) 467-6631 sanbruno@mountainwatch.org
Portland, OR
November 7-9, Wordstock Bookfair
Oakland, CA
Nov 13-14, Facing Race Conference (proposed)
DECEMBER 2008
Tucson, AZ
Thursday, December 11, 10am-4pm &/or Saturday,
Nov. 13, 9am-12pm, Host: Borderlinks. Contact for cost and
registration: Fernanda Morillon (520) 628.8263 Fernanda@borderlinks.org
Albuquerque/Santa Fe
December 16 – 21
JANUARY 2009
Friday, January 30, 7 pm:
Free talk at Gulf of Maine Books 134 Maine St, Brunswick
ME
Saturday, Sunday January 30-February 1, 10
am to 4 pm:
Day-long workshop and Sunday brunch event, PeaceWorks of
Brunswick ME and Adams-Melman House in Bath Sliding scale
for workshop (no one turned away) Contact: Maureen Block,
207-319-7578, maureenfblock@yahoo.com
FEBRUARY 2009
February 11, 12 noon:
Brown bag discussion of professional writing with state government’s
Amy Schectman. Tufts University, Dept of Urban & Environmental
Policy & Planning, 97 Talbot Ave, Medford. 617-627-3394.
February 14-March 3:
Writing workshop in Ethiopia with Oxfam Canada Friday March
6 Providence Rhode Island University of Rhode Island, Providence
Campus 6th Annual WE LEARN Conference: Stronger Leadership & Literacy:
Empowering Women to Action Women Expanding Literacy Education
Action Resource Network http://www.litwomen.org/conference.html#registration
MARCH 2009
Saturday March 7:
Rhode Island Writing Project spring conference Donovan Dining
Center at Rhode Island College http://www.ric.edu/riwp/programs_conference.php
March 11-14:
Conference on College Composition and Communication San Francisco,
CA
Saturday March 28:
Day-long writing workshop, sliding scale cost Spontaneous
Celebrations 45 Danforth St, Jamaica Plain Contact: Ed
Pasanese 617-534-2910
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