|
Welcome to the first issue of our new monthly e-newsletter from the Center for Transformative Action! Our email newsletters will be short, sweet and simple with the goal of keeping our friends and supporters updated on all the social change work that CTA engages in, from human rights to workers' rights, alternative media, environmental sustainability, social justice and personal transformation through the arts.
You are receiving this because we felt you would want to keep up to date with us, or because you subscribed to one of our newsletters in the past. In the event we were wrong, please feel free to unsubscribe--details are below.
Wishing you all the best,
Anke Wessels, Ph.D., Executive Director
Liz Field, Communications Manager
|
|
Lily Yeh to Visit Ithaca Oct 23-25
|
 | | Lily Yeh in front of the "Tree of Life" mural at Ife Ife Park Philadelphia, PA. |
As part of our 40-year Anniversary, our featured keynote speaker is Lily Yeh. Ms. Yeh is a remarkable individual and internationally acclaimed artist who has developed a unique methodology for using the arts as a medium for personal and social transformation.
Fueled by a belief that art is a human right and that artists can create a foundation for profound social change, she's worked with a school for migrant children outside of Beijing, genocide survivors in Rwanda, neighborhoods in north Philadelphia, and impoverished communities all over the world. She focuses on creating public art--mosaics and murals--with community members as a form of healing and empowerment.
Ms. Yeh spoke at the 2009 Bioneers conference in San Francisco and her talk can be viewed below:
|
|
"Making art in destitute places is like making fire in the dead cold night of winter. It gives out warmth, gives light, gives direction and rekindles hope." -Lily Yeh
Learn more at her website barefootartists.org
|
