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 IT TAKES A VILLAGE Blog by Trella Dubetz

If it takes a village to raise a child, what happens when that village is a prison?

Portrait of Schuyler Iona Press 
Copyright Rebekah Blu
AVALON Spring 2012
All rights reserved.
Schuyler Iona Press, who is featured in AVALON Spring 2012, is the youngest singer/songwriter ever to have performed at the iconic Bitter End in NYC. Read about her in AVALON's Spring 2012 issue.
Photo copyright Robert R. Taylor  (From our Spring 2012 issue) All rights reserved.


SPRING 2012 QUOTES WE LOVE


"The future holds all sorts of “different” we haven’t even thought of yet. The only thing we can control is our response to that difference. No one belongs here more than you."

––Bonnie Curtis, “Hollywood Women,

A Conversation with Albert Nobbs producers Bonnie Curtis and Julie Lynn”

by Pat McMahon



"Firenze is the Ryan Gosling of cities––quiet, charming, maybe a little cocky, and impossible not to fall in love with."

––Kira Shipway, “Places to Explore:

Italy, Heart & Soul”


 

"There is an indefinable and deeply American quality––call it Abraham Lincoln’s 'better angels of our nature'––in building a wooden boat by hand, from scratch, and making a film about it, on film, over a long, long period of time."

––Carol Dysinger, “Documentary Films,

The Realist Art”



"So what if the kids can quote from the 'Dogs of War' monologue or whole chunks of 'Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears,' from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar? By learning the language of Shakespeare, by internalizing the cadence of iambic pentameter, these children are opening a conduit to what I consider some of the greatest truths, the deepest wisdoms, of Western culture."

––Liz Mechem Carroll,

“Shakespeare Speaks Volumes to Children” by Liz Mechem Carroll & Sarah Bowers-Peter



"The kids got sponsors to support their vows to be silent for a full 24 hours: they did not speak, text, email, or Twitter. Their silence made a profound statement about the

many children in the world who never have a voice."

––Donna McFarlane, “From the Global Community”



"The fact is that it was very hard.

But what I found out was that 'hard' pays off, big time. And the biggest surprise is that “hard” doesn’t have

to be miserable."

––Nancy Slonim Aronie

“While We’re on the Subject”



APRIL SNOW!

Our preteen columnist Georgia Mills sent us this April 24th photo

of her back yard in Mount Forest, Ontario!!

Read our story on musician Nick Branch by AVALON music columnist Laurel Redington-Whitaker:
Our world culture, arts, and lifestyle magazine is available in print in Canada and the US, internationally as a digital subscription through pocketmags.com, and as an iAPP for iPad and iPhone through iTunes.
If you are in the Boston area May 23rd, please visit the Harriet Tubman Gallery from 6 to 8 to view the exhibit "Peace in Focus." The show features photographs by youth from the US, Burundi, Liberia, Haiti, Cuba, and Egypt, including work by AVALON's contributing photographer from Egypt, Yasser Alaa.
Congratulations Lisa Levart!
Lisa's poignant, beautiful book, Goddess on Earth, is awarded the 2012 GOLD Nautilus Book Award in the Art/Photography category!

View some of the images and read an excerpt from "Interview with a Goddess of Divine Femininity," our feature about Lisa and her work by Rebekah Blu, in our Holiday 2011 DREAM issue.
AVALON ABC
(Audio Book Club)

Audio Book for May

The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht


It's an 11+1/2 hours of listening, so we'll give you some time. Then we'll post our thoughts too, with an audio recording of some of our team talking about The Tiger's Wife... 

ENTER AVALON’s 2nd ANNUAL

“Writing From the Heart” WRITING CONTEST

Our 2nd annual Writing Contest is based on Nancy Slonim Aronie’s celebrated Chilmark Writing Workshop, where participants can use prose, poetry, or any creative writing form to tell their stories, guided by prompts from Nancy. For this contest, we hope you are inspired by Nancy's prompt to write about (in 1,000 or fewer words) "the hardest thing..."

 

Our AVALON panel will choose our favorite essay to be published in the Autumn 2012 issue! The winner will receive 4 nights and 5 days accommodation on Martha’s Vineyard to attend a full session of the Chilmark Writing Workshop! There is no entry fee. Email your essay entry or send by post. Entries must be postmarked or emailed by June 1, 2012. Good luck, and remember, write from your heart!

EMAIL CONTEST ENTRY
WRITINGCONTEST@AVALONMAG.COM

MAIL TO: PO Box 1355 Vineyard Haven MA 02568

As a world culture, arts, and lifestyle magazine, our mission is to celebrate the global community. Tibetan Home of Hope is featured in our Spring 2012 story, "Tashi Dolma, Fostering Hope," by Lynne Dwane. Go to our Better World page to see more...
SOME OF THE STORIES COMING IN OUR SUMMER 2012 ISSUE

Interview with the Emmy Award-Winning Wild Irish Poet Alan Cooke
(Preview the YouTube video of his upcoming "Naked in New York" Audio Memoir)
10th Annual Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival
Places to Explore: San Francisco + New Orleans...
The Arts: "Dream Crossing" Photography + A Study of Swimmers

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