Past Events (January 2025-)
April 2026
May 1, 2026 – Bill McKibben to speak at “Climate Solutions” panel during PEN America’s 2026 World Voices Festival in NYC, NY
In-person
Bill McKibben, essay contributor to Robert Shetterly’s Portraits of Earth Justice, will join a discussion on solutions and a new path forward for the climate change movement. The panel will be held from 8:00PM – 9:15 PM ET at the Judson Memorial Church – Memorial Hall. Tickets are required and cost $20.
More details and how to purchase tickets here.
April 30, 2026 – Robert Shetterly to unveil new portrait at National Press Club in Washington, DC
In-person
Robert Shetterly, author of Portraits of Racial Justice (New Village Press, 2021), Portraits of Earth Justice (New Village Press, 2022) and Portraits of Peacemakers (New Village Press, 2024) in his Americans Who Tell The Truth series will unveil his portrait of whistleblower Erez Reuveni to honor him as a recipient of the 2025 Ridenhour Truth-Telling Prize.
The National Press Club will host the event at 529 14th St. NW in Washington, DC from 6:00 – 9:30pm.
Learn more about the event here.
April 30, 2026 – My Deepest Desire book launch event with New Village Press in NYC, NY
In-person
Join us to celebrate the release of My Deepest Desire with artist Sandy Walker! In addition to presenting the book, he will screen a documentary about the dance performance he co-created with Ellen Webb for the 50th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. The screening will be followed by a discussion of the film and the book, a Q&A, and a book signing.
The event will be held at the Upper West Side, starting at 7:00PM ET. RSVP to hello@newvillagepress.net to receive the full event address.
April 29, 2026 – My Deepest Desire book launch event at the UN Bookshop, New York, NY
In-person & online
The United Nations Bookshop is hosting a book launch event for our April release, My Deepest Desire in NYC! Artist of the book, Sandy Walker, will be joined by Jackie Cabasso of the Western States Legal Foundation for a thoughtful and meaningful discussion.
The bookshop is located at 405 East 42nd Street, with the event going from 1:00 – 2:00pm and requires visitor registration. The event will also be livestreamed via Facebook.
Learn more about UN Arrival Procedures here.
April 28, 2026 – Fern Tiger presents Creative Instigation at The Good Work Institute
In-person
Fern Tiger, author of Creative Instigation: The Art & Strategy of Authentic Community Engagement, will talk about the book’s case studies on community engagement projects. The lecture will be held from 6:00PM – 7:30PM ET at The GWI Greenhouse, 65 St James Street, Kingston, NY
Register for the event here.
April 26, 2026 – Sandy Walker art exhibit Gallery Talk at Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C.
In-person
Explore Sandy Walker’s monumental woodblock prints in this gallery talk examining his distinctive approach to scale, surface, and landscape. Shaped by formative years spent on a ranch in Wyoming, Walker’s work invites viewers to experience moments of awe and heightened awareness within the immensity of the natural world. Curator Jack Rasmussen and special guest Darlene Michitsch will be in discussion with Sandy Walker about this exhibit.
The event is from 2:00-3:00pm. RSVP to attend here.
April 26, 2026 – Annie Lanzillotto launches new poetry book at City Lore in NYC, NY
In-person
Annie Lanzillotto, contributor to Talking to the Girls:
Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, will be launching a new book of sonnets, alongside Gabriella Belfiglio and her new debut poetry book.
The event will be held at City Lore on 56 E 1st St, New York, NY 10003 (Between 1st and 2nd Ave), from 2:00 – 5:00PM ET. Annie and Gabriella will read from their books. After a vino and cookie break, everyone is welcome to stay for a short poetry workshop.
Tickets are $20. Learn more and purchase tickets here.
April 24, 2026 – Fern Tiger to speak at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY
In-person
Fern Tiger, author of Creative Instigation: The Art & Strategy of Authentic Community Engagement, will talk about the book’s case studies on community engagement projects. The lecture will be held from 12:20PM – 2:00PM ET at the Abby and Howard Milstein Auditorium.
Register for the event here.
April 19th, 2026 – Margaret Randall at Collected Works Bookstore in Santa Fe, NM
In-person and online via Zoom
Margaret Randall, author of several New Village Press titles, will be in conversation with Maria Kelson on “poetry as archive and literature as testimony.”
The event will be held at Collected Works Bookstore (202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM) from 4:30pm. You can also register to watch on Zoom here.
April 16th, 2026 – Opening Reception of Sandy Walker Exhibit at St. Albans School, Washington, D.C.
In-person
Sandy Walker will be visiting his alma mater for the opening of a small but comprehensive exhibit of drawings on paper from a span of over 40 years. The art will be displayed at the Steuart Building Gallery at St. Albans School, and the opening reception will be from 5:00 – 7:00PM ET.
Copies of his book, My Deepest Desire, will be available for purchase.
April 17th, 2026 – My Deepest Desire book launch at Busboys & Poets, Washington, D.C.
In-person
Sponsored by the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS), a book launch event for our April release, My Deepest Desire will be held at Busboys & Poets, 14th & V location in Washington, D.C.! The event will feature artist of the book, Sandy Walker who will be in discussion with IPS’ Phyllis Bennis, as well as Prof. Peter Kuznick of American University. The discussion will be moderated by David Sturtevant of St Alban’s School.
The event will be held at their 14th & V location, from 6:00-8:00PM ET. More details about the event here.
April 13th, 2026 – Screening of Alice Rothchild documentary Voices Across the Divide at First Unitarian Church of Houston in Houston, TX
In-person
Following the screening of several short films by Palestinian directors, Alice Rothchild (author of Inspired and Outrage: The Making of a Feminist Physician) will be at a screening of her oral history documentary Voices Across the Divide and will be answering questions after,
More details about the event here.
April 12th, 2026 – Alice Rothchild to speak at Cypress Creek Christian Church in Spring, TX
In-person
Alice Rothchild, author of Inspired and Outrage: The Making of a Feminist Physician, will be speaking on the weaponization of anti-semitism to silence critics of Israeli policy from 6:00–8:00PM CT.
For more details contact (281) 376-7113.
April 12th, 2026 – Alice Rothchild to speak at Plymouth United UCC in Spring, TX
In-person
Alice Rothchild, author of Inspired and Outrage: The Making of a Feminist Physician, will be presenting at two different events at the following times:
1). 10:00–11:00AM CT she will share a 15 min speech during the service, entitled “From Nice Jewish Girl to Palestine Solidarity Activist: Reflections on My Search for Justice.”
2). 11:15–12:00PM CT she will discuss the topic “Understanding the experience of women and children living in Gaza through the lens of health and human rights.
For more details contact (281) 251-8147.
April 11th, 2026 – Alice Rothchild presents Inspired and Outraged at Basket Books and Art in Houston, TX
In-person
Alice Rothchild, author of Inspired and Outrage: The Making of a Feminist Physician, will be presenting the book from 7:00–9:00PM CT at 115 Hyde Park Blvd, Houston, TX, 77006.
More details can be found here.
April 11th, 2026 – Alice Rothchild to speak at Live Oak Friends Meeting in Houston, TX
In-person
Alice Rothchild, author of Inspired and Outrage: The Making of a Feminist Physician, will speak about the failure of the US Health establishment on reporting conditions in Gaza from 3:00–5:00PM CT.
For more details contact Rich Corl at (832) 257-8425.
April 9th, 2026 – Alice Rothchild interview on KPFT 90.1’s The Progressive Forum
Radio/Online
Alice Rothchild, author of Inspired and Outrage: The Making of a Feminist Physician, will be interview on The Progressive Forum from 6:00–6:30PM CT.
Listen to the interview live here.
March 2026
March 29, 2026 – Edvige Giunta presents Talking to the Girls in Hoboken, NJ
In-person
The Hoboken Historical Museum will be hosting Edvige Giunta as she presents Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.
The event is free, open to the public and is happening from 4:00-5:00PM ET.
More about the event can be found here.
March 28, 2026 – Robin Wall Kimmerer speaks at the Veterans Memorial Building Atrium at City Park, Bowling Green, OH
In-person
Hosted by the Wood County District Public Library, Robin Wall Kimmerer (essay contributor to Robert Shetterly’s Portraits of Earth Justice), will speak at the Veterans Memorial Building Atrium.
The event is free, open to the public and starts at 10:00AM ET.
More about the event can be found here.
March 27, 2026 – Robin Wall Kimmerer visits Bowling Green State University for “In the Round” events, Wood County, Bowling Green, OH
In-person
Robin Wall Kimmerer, essay contributor to Robert Shetterly’s Portraits of Earth Justice, will visit Bowling Green State University for their “In The Round” speaker series featuring Native American Creatives.
The event is free and open to the public. It will start at 5:30PM ET in Kobacker Hall, Moore Musical Arts Center.
More information can be found here.
March 26, 2026 – Story Exchange Workshop with Americans Who Tell The Truth & Narrative 4
Online
Americans Who Tell The Truth is partnering with Narrative 4, a nonprofit whose mission is to build a compassionate community through storytelling.
In this story exchange, participants will share stories inspired by an Americans Who Tell The Truth portrait done by Robert Shetterly, and take turns sharing their assigned partners story in the first-person. Some of Robert Shetterly’s portraits are collected in his Americans Who Tell The Truth book series.
The workshop will be held online on Thursday, March 26th from 6:00-9:00PM ET, followed by a Facilitator Training on March 31st from 6:00-9:00PM ET. Tickets can be bought here.
March 25, 2026 – Robin Wall Kimmerer lecture and book signing at University of Portland, Portland, OR
In-person
Robin Wall Kimmerer, essay contributor to Robert Shetterly’s Portraits of Earth Justice, will give a lecture at University of Portland as part of their Schoenfeldt Distinguished Writers Program.
The lecture will be followed by a book signing. The event will go from 7:30-8:30PM PT and is free and open to the public, no RSVP or ticket needed.
More details about the event here.
March 21, 2026 – Edvige Giunta to hold virtual memoir writing workshop and reading with The Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College
On-line via Zoom
As part of their Distinguished Poets Reading Series, The Poetry Center at PCCC, is hosting Edvige Giunta, editor of Talking To the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire for a virtual memoir workshop.
The workshop will be held on Zoom from 1:00-2:30PM ET followed by a memoir reading from 2:30-3:00PM ET. Registration for the workshop is required along with a $20 fee.
Find out more on how to register here.
March 21, 2026 – Keith Knight to be keynote speaker at Let’s Talk Racism Conference in Durham, NC
In-person
Keith Knight, illustrator of Beginner’s Guide to Community-Based Arts, will be the keynote speaker at We Are’s Let’s Talk Racism Conference.
The conference will be held on March 21st, 2026 from 9:00AM-4:00PM ET.
More details and tickets here.
March 20, 2026 – Reading by Margaret Randall at Santa Fe Public Library, Santa Fe, NM
In-person
Margaret Randall, author of the upcoming Letters that Breathe Fire and the recent Letters From the Edge and More Letters From the Edge: Outrider Conversations will read from her new works, The Calendar’s Whim and Pages Lost and New.
More about the event can be found here.
March 14, 2026 – Mary Anne Trasciatti to read from latest book during Books and Burlesque event at Caveat, NY
In-person and online livestream
Mary Anne Trasciatti will be reading from her latest biography, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: The Rebel Girl, Democracy, and Revolution, alongside other authors. Each author is paired with a spectacular burlesque or drag performer who will be creating new acts inspired by the book they read.
Doors open at 9:00PM, with the show starting at 9:30-11:30PM ET with an intermission.
Mary Anne Trasciatti is the co-editor to NVP title Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.
More details and tickets can be found here.
March 13, 2026 – Sonya E. Pritzker presents The Living Justice Project at CUNY Graduate Center, NY
In-person
Anthropologist Sonya E. Pritzker will introduce The Living Justice Project and examine the complex links between language and the body in collaborative interpretations of the
past, present, and possible future.
Signed copies of the book Living Toward Justice: A Time Capsule, will be available for purchase at a discounted price!
The event will start at 2:00PM ET in Room 4204 of CUNY Graduate Center. A Zoom link can also be accessed here with the passcode 390766.
March 10, 2026 – Margaret Randall reading at the Southside Library in Santa Fe, NM
In-person
As part of the “Something Queer at the Library” series at the Southside Library, Margaret Randall, author of the upcoming Letters that Breathe Fire and the recent Letters From the Edge and More Letters From the Edge: Outrider Conversations will read from her new works, The Calendar’s Whim and Pages Lost and New.
More info on the event here.
March 4, 2026 – Italian version of Talking to the Girls to be presented at New York University, New York City, NY
In-person
Le ragazze della Triangle: Saggi intimi e politici sull’incendio di una fabbrica newyorkese, the Italian translation of New Village Press book, Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire co-edited by Edvige Giunta and Mary Anne Trasciatti, will be presented at Casa Italiana at NYU.
The line-up of presenters include Talking to the Girls co-editors, Edvige Giunta and Mary Anne Trasciatti; Talking to the Girls essay contributors Annie Lanzillotto and Paola Corso; as well as labor activist May Chen. New Village Press will have a table selling copies of the English version of the book.
The event starts at 6:30PM ET and is free and open to the public on a first-come first-served basis.
More details about the event, presenters and RSVP here.
February 2026
February 19th, 2026 – Jan Cohen-Cruz to give an interactive lecture as part of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies event series at Fordham
Author and podcast creator of See Me: Prison Theater Workshops and Love Jan Cohen-Cruz will share accessible performance tools and explore the collaborative and imaginative aspects of theater.
The lecture will be held on Thursday, February 19th from 4:00-6:00PM in Fordham Lincoln Center’s Lowenstein 12th Floor Lounge.
More about the event here.
February 19th, 2026 – Documentary featuring Leah Penniman to be screened at Michigan Tech’s Sustainability Film Series, Houghton, MI
In-person
Farming While Black, a “powerful cinematic exploration of the intersectionality of race, class and agriculture,” follows Leah Penniman, essay contributor to Robert Shetterly’s Portraits of Earth Justice.
The series is open to the public and free to attend. The screening starts at 7:00PM ET and is held in Fisher Hall Room 138 on Michigan Tech’s main campus.
More about the event here.
February 12th, 2026 – Keith Knight to visit Malden Catholic High School, Malden, MA
In-person
Keith Knight, Malden native and illustrator of Beginner’s Guide to Community-Based Arts, visited Malden Catholic High School to present his world famous comic strip slideshow followed by a book and print signing.
More about the event here.
February 11th, 2026 – Keith Knight screening and talk at Salem State University, Salem, MA
In-person
Keith Knight, illustrator of Beginner’s Guide to Community-Based Arts, presented his comedy videos and talked about his work in TV.
The event was held at Marsh Hall.
February 8th, 2026 – Bob Chenoweth and Susan Schnall to be featured at documentary screening for book signing
In-person
The Institute for Policy Studies and Veterans for Peace sponsered a viewing of a special Talk Vietnam episode, where two heroes Bob Chenoweth and Susan Schnall, signed copies of Waging Peace in Vietnam: US Soldiers and Veterans Who Opposed the War to which they contributed essays.
The event was held at Busboys & Poets in Washington, DC .
More about the event here.
January 2026
January 29, 2026 – Alice Rothchild at Third Place Books in Seward Park, Seattle, WA
In-person
Alice Rothchild, author of Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician, visited Third Place Books for a book reading of We Are Not Numbers: The Voices of Gaza’s Youth. Her work is a collection of writing from We Are Not Numbers, a program that supports young writers in Gaza where Alice Rothchild is a mentor.
More about the event here.
January 27, 2026 – Sonya Pritzker at Ernest & Hadley Booksellers in Tuscaloosa, AL
In-person
Ernest & Hadley Booksellers held a talk and book signing for Sonya Pritzker’s Living Toward Justice: A Time Capsule.
More details about the event here.
January 26, 2026 – Robert Shetterly presents Americans Who Tell the Truth project at the University of New England in Portland, ME
In-person, and online via livestream
As part of UNE’s Center for Global Humanities Lecture/Seminar Series, Robert Shetterly, author of the Americans Who Tell the Truth series, will demonstrate the capacity of art as both medium and message, in a talk framed around the inspiring stories of portrait subjects whose courage, perseverance, and love of justice, light a way forward.
The event was held at the Innovation Hall at the Portland Campus for the Health Services followed by a reception and presentation.
More details about the event here.
January 19, 2026 – Robert Shetterly presents at Reversing Falls Sanctuary Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Celebration in Brooksville, ME
In-person, and online via livestream
Robert Shetterly presented six portraits from his Americans Who Tell The Truth project and explored how these figure exemplify Martin Luther King, Jr.’s teachings of love, justice and nonviolence. These portraits include William Barber II, Cesar Chavez, Deqa Dhalac, John Lewis, Aldo Leopold and Kathy Kelly.
More details about the event can be found here.
Ended January 18, 2026: Lily Yeh’s “Breaking Down Walls: Art as a Portal for the Incarcerated” exhibition at The Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington, DC
In-Person
Christina Ayson-Plank and Ricky Gomez co-curated an exhibition focused on The Emanuel Project and the Graterford Prison Project. It featured letters, photographs, exhibition flyers, scrapbooks and other primary source documents from the collections of Emanuel Martinez and Lily Yeh, author of Awakening Creativity: Dandelion School Blossoms and co-author of Healing from Genocide in Rwanda: Rugerero Survivors Village, an Artist Book.
Held at the Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery of The Smithsonian Archives of American Art, the exhibition is free to view. More information about the exhibit here.
January 14, 2026 – Margaret Randall at the Benedetti Foundation in Montevideo, Uruguay
Online via livestream
The Benedetti Foundation hosted a reading by and discussion with activist and poet Margaret Randall, who authored the introduction to Witness, The Selected Poems of Mario Benedetti as well as the recently published Letters from the Edge.
More details about the event here.
December 2025
December 22, 2025 – Judy Karofsky at local Lechayim luncheon, sponsored by Madison Jewish Social Services, Madison, WI
In-person
Judy Karofsky discussed her book DisElderly Conduct: The Flawed Business of Assisted Living and Hospice at her local Lechayim luncheon at the Beth Israel Center.
More details can be found here.
December 10, 2025 – Judy Karofsky at the District 11 book club at Sequoya Library, Madison, WI
In-person
Led by District 11 representative, Adler Bill Tishler, the District 11 Book Club holds various open forums on books relevant to today’s issues. Judy Karofsky was invited to speak about her book DisElderly Conduct: The Flawed Business of Assisted Living and Hospice at the Sequoya Library.
More information about the event here.
December 8, 2025 – Keith Knight speaks at Artists’ Television Access in San Francisco, CA
In-person
Cartoonist Keith Knight, illustrator of Beginner’s Guide to Community-Based Arts, returned to Artists’ Television Access to talk about the pasts of ATA, 90s San Francisco, and the Bay Area Zine Wars and Comix scene.
The event was held at 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA.
December 7, 2025 – Keith Knight speaks at Howard Zinn Book Festival panel in San Francisco, CA
In-person
Cartoonist Keith Knight, illustrator of Beginner’s Guide to Community-Based Arts, was a panelist at the Howard Zinn Book Fair 2025. His panel entitled “Cartooning for the Cause: A History of Bad Cartoonists Making Good Trouble” touched on “the history of cartoonists speaking truth to power” alongside fellow cartoonist Fred Noland.
The panel was held at Mission Campus, City College of San Francisco.
More about the panel here. More about the Howard Zinn Book Fair here.
November 2025
Through November 30, 2025: Sabra Moore in Realms of Seduction I group exhibit at the INHABIT Galerie, Corrales, NM
In-Person
INHABIT Galerie, a recent artistic space that opened in New Mexico, will exhibit the sculpted work of Sabra Moore, author of Openings: A Memoir from the Women’s Art Movement, New York City, 1970-1992, alongside other pieces by Bill Jehle and Petra Gupta-Valentova.
Learn more about the gallery and its hours here.
Through November 30, 2025: Robert Shetterly’s Americans Who Tell The Truth – Outdoor Installation at Paul Smith’s College VIC, Paul Smiths, NY
In-Person
Hosted by the John Brown Lives! Organization and previously exhibited at the John Brown Farm, an outdoor installation of portrait replicas from Robert Shetterly’s Americans Who Tell the Truth series, are being moved to Paul Smith’s College Visitor Interpretive College (VIC). The portraits include abolitionist John Brown, Congressman John Lewis, #MeToo movement founder Tarana Burke (all featured in Portraits of Racial Justice), as well as anti-war activist Rachel Corrie (subject in Portraits of Peacemakers) and environmentalist Bill McKibben (subject and essay contributor to Portraits of Earth Justice).
Learn more about the VIC and its hours here.
November 17, 2025 – Judy Karofsky’s DisElderly Conduct discussion and book signing at The Seminary Co-op Bookstores, Chicago, IL
In-person
Judy Karofsky will discuss her book DisElderly Conduct: The Flawed Business of Assisted Living and Hospice at The Seminary Co-op Bookstores, followed by a Q&A and book signing.
The event will be held from 4:00-5:00PM CT. More information of the event can be found here.
November 17, 2025 – An Evening with Alice Rothchild at Tikkun v’Or Reform Temple
In person, also online via Zoom
Author Alice Rothchild, Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician, be talking about her work, and her book.
The address to the temple is 2550 N. Triphammer Road, Ithaca NY 14850
The event will start at 7PM ET. Registration is required for in-person attendance or you can find the Zoom link here.
November 17, 2025 – Alice Rothchild speaks at online meditation, Opening Our Hearts to Peace
Online
Author Alice Rothchild, Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician, be speaking online during a morning meditation session, Opening Our Hearts to Peace, discussing medical work for social justice and peace.
Time and link to join the event TBA.
Through November 17, 2025: Robert Shetterly’s Americans Who Tell The Truth – Environmental Justice Truth Tellers Exhibit at Parkersburg, WV
In-Person
South Parkersburg Library will exhibit 10 portraits focused on environmental justice figures by Robert Shetterly, author of Portraits of Earth Justice. The exhibit is free and open to the public during the library’s regular business hours.
Learn more about the library and its hours here.
November 16, 2025 – Alice Rothchild at Dorothy Cotton Institute Dinner/Reception, Ithaca, NY
In-person
Author Alice Rothchild, Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician, will be honored at a dinner/reception at the Dorothy Cotton Institute.
The event be held at CAP ArtSpace, 110 N. Tioga Street (Ithaca Commons, Tompkins Center for History and Culture), time TBA.
November 14, 2025 – Inspired and Outraged, Reading and Book-signing with Alice Rothchild at Buffalo Street Books, Ithaca, NY
In-person
Author Alice Rothchild will be holding a reading and book signing event for her memoir, Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician, at Buffalo Street Books.
The event will start at 5:30PM ET. More information of the event can be found here.
November 7, 2025 – Lucy Lippard in Conversation with Suzanne Lacy, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
In-person
Lucy R. Lippard, author of Stuff: Instead of a Memoir, will be joined by Suzanne Lacy, an LA-based artist and pioneer of socially engaged public performance art. They will speak about their friendship and shared history at the front lines of engagement with social themes and urban issues.
The event will be held at the St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art, starting at 5:30PM-7:30PM.
More information of the event can be found here. Register for the free event here.
November 6–7, 2025 – Robert Shetterly’s Americans Who Tell The Truth at NJEA Convention, Atlantic City Center, Atlantic City, NJ
In-person
Twenty-four of Robert Shetterly’s Americans Who Tell The Truth portraits will be displayed at the “Resilience and Reflection Row,” an immersive space on the convention’s Exhibit Floor. Copies of Shetterly’s Americans Who Tell The Truth books will also be available for purchase.
More information of the convention can be found here.
November 5, 2025 – Robin Wall Kimmerer to speak at the Furman Humanities Center’s Distinguished Lecture Series, Greenville, SC
In-person
Delivering the inaugural address for the Furman Humanities Center Distinguished Lecture Series, Robin Wall Kimmerer (essay contributor to Robert Shetterly’s Portraits of Earth Justice) will hold a brief Q&A session followed by a book signing.
The event is free, open to the public, and will be held at the McAlister Auditorium on the Furman University campus, starting at 6:45PM ET.
More information of the event can be found here.
November 1, 2025 – Merideth Taylor at the One Maryland, One Book Emancipation Day Descendants Panel, Hollywood, MD
Online via Zoom
The One Maryland One Book initiative has chosen this year’s book Kin: Rooted in Hope, by Carole and Jeffery Boston Weatherford which uses poetry to tell the story of how the authors uncovered their family history. As part of the event, Merideth Taylor, will be facilitating a panel conversation with Sotterly descendents focusing on the theme of preservation through nontraditional means — through poetry; events like Day of Unity, sharing research; becoming board members; and work like Kin and Making a Way Out of No Way.
The event is being held at Historic Sotterly, Hollywood, MD from 9:00AM-5:00pm ET. More about the event here.
October 2025
October 29, 2025 – Launch of “The Intercessor” by Arlene Goldbard, in conversation with Rabbi Diane Elliot
Online via Zoom
Arlene Goldbard, author of New Creative Community: The Art of Cultural Development and In the Camp of Angels of Freedom, is launching her new book, “The Intercessor” and is celebrating on Zoom with Rabbi Diane Elliot. Diane will ask Arlene some questions, followed by a reading of some excerpts of the book along with a Q&A with the audience.
The launch starts at 5:30PM ET. Attendance must be registered here. Doing so will award you with a discount link to buy the book at 20% off!
October 24-25: Louise Dunlap presents at the Cultural Healing Convocation
Online via Zoom
Described as “a gathering for reckoning, reclaiming, reimagining,” Root System’s Cultural Healing Convocation features “voices of cultural healing,” including Louise Dunlap, author of Inherited Silence: Listening to the Land, Healing the Colonizer Mind.
Her session “When They Cry, Their Eyes Are Open” discusses how facing grief can heal the colonizer mind.
The event will be held virtually via Zoom on both October 24 and 25, from 10AM-6PM ET. Learn more and register for the event here.
October 18: Merideth Taylor at “Preserving Our Past: A 75th Anniversary Oral History & Memorabilia Collection Event,” Lexington Park Library, Lexington Park, MD
In-Person
As part of Lexington Park Library’s Preserving Our Past series, Merideth Taylor, author of Making a Way Out of No Way: Lives of Labor, Love and Resistance, will be commenting on the process and value of oral history.
Held from 10:00-11:30 AM ET, walk-ins are welcome. More information about the event can be found here.
October 10: Letters From the Edge: A Reading with Poet Activist Margaret Randall at the Starr Library, Rhinebeck, NY
In-Person
Join Margaret Randall as she reads and discusses her books Letters from The Edge: Outrider Conversations and its follow-up, More Letters from the Edge at the Starr Library.
The event will be held from 6-7PM ET. Learn more about the event and order copies of the books here.
October 9: Barbara Benish’s ArtMill: A Story of Sustainable Creativity in Bohemia book launch event at the Czech Center in New York, NY
In-Person
Mark your calendars to celebrate the New York launch of ArtMilI— artist Barbara Benish’s story of the formation of a unique ecologically regenerative arts residency center in rural Czechia. Her memoir takes us from post-totalitarian Czechoslovakia through the collaborative creation of an arts and sustainability hub that is still thriving today.
The event will run from 7:00-9:00 PM ET on Thursday, October 9th in the Bohemian National Hall at the Czech Center, located at 321 East 73rd Street New York, NY 10021.
Find more information about the event here, and reserve tickets here.
October 8: Margaret Randall discusses her Letters from the Edge: Outrider Conversations series at the CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY
In-Person
Join Margaret Randall for a reading and discussion of her books Letters from the Edge: Outrider Conversations and its follow-up More Letters from the Edge: Outrider Conversations at hosted by CUNY Graduate Center!
The event will run from 6:30PM-8PM ET on Wednesday, October 8th in the Martin E. Segal Theatre located at 365 5th Ave, NY.
Find more information about the event here.
October 7: Robert Shetterly’s Americans Who Tell the Truth at The South Orange Performing Arts Center, South Orange, NJ
In-Person
Experience truth, art and dialogue at the opening reception for Robert Shetterly‘s Americans Who Tell the Truth portraits to be exhibited by SOPAC. It includes a preview of five portraits of truth-telling individuals, and will be followed by a panel moderated by Dr. Bryan Crable, Founding Dean of SHU’s College of Human Development, Culture and Media.
The opening reception will be held on Tuesday, October 7th from 6:00PM-8:00PM at SOPAC’s The Herb + Milly Iris Gallery. The exhibition will run until October 31st, 2025.
Read more about the event here.
October 7: A conversation with author Margaret Randall and Susan Sherman at the Bowery Poetry Club, New York, NY
In-Person
Join author Margaret Randall and Susan Sherman at Bowery Poetry Club for a conversation with founder Bob Holman. There are sure to be surprising stories for us, as these venerable poets talk about their longtime commitment to resistance, their collaborations, and their personal letters in Randall’s new Outrider Conversations book series.
The event will begin at 7PM ET on Tuesday, October 7th, with doors opening at 6:30PM. The Bowery Poetry Club is located at 308 Bowery, New York, NY 10012.
Find more information about the event and purchase tickets here.
October 4: Conversations that Change the World, In Conversation with Muriel Fox & Debbie Millman, Nyack Center, Nyack, NY
In-Person
Join co-founder of the National Organization for Women, and author of The Women’s Revolution: How We Changed Your Life, Muriel Fox and designer, writer and artist Debbie Millman for a community-centered discussion focusing on feminism and believing women.
Find more information about the event and purchase tickets here.
October 3-5: Jan Cohen-Cruz and New Village Press at the Imagining America Conference, Las Cruces, New Mexico
In-Person
Imagining America’s 25th annual conference is titled “Providing Passage: Practicing the Worlds that We Want.” New Village Press will have a table where you can purchase our books. Also, Jan Cohen-Cruz, author of Meeting the Moment: Socially Engaged Performance, 1965-2020, by Those Who Lived It, will also be giving a presentation.
Find more information about the conference here.
October 2: Merideth Taylor on Making a Way Out of No Way at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, MD
In-Person
Join author, photographer and SMCM emerita professor of theatre and dance, Merideth Taylor as she talks about her book Making a Way Out of No Way: Lives of Labor, Love and Resistance.
The event runs from 4:30-6:00PM EST and is followed by a reception. More information on the event can be found here.
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