Event: Literature As Recycleable Material 4/30

I'm a little biased about this event, but it sounds really cool:

Literature as Recyclable Material (Part of ARTS 2010)

Time: Friday 4/30 02:00 PM
Location: CGIS, 1730 Cambridge St., Room S010

No Tickets Required. Free and Open to the Public.

A workshop with the Paper Picker Press that explores artistic interventions into challenging texts. Rewrite, reinterpret and rediscover literature as a recyclable material.

Tylor Brandon '12, facilitator.

Cliches

Can't think of the right phrase? Reaching for cliches?

Other writers share your problem too. This week, PaperCuts has an article on cliches. There have been quite a few articles about them recently--both on their negative and their "positive" qualities (some reportedly humorous).

Read more about them here.

Event: Working in Non-Profits Panel -- Friday, 4/23

Meet CEOs in the Non-Profit World: Explore the Pathways to Leadership

This Friday (April 23) 4:30 pm

Interested in meeting CEOs from four of the largest non-profit organizations in the country? Want to learn more about what it takes to become a leader in the non-profit sector? Come hear from members of Leadership 18, a coalition of not-for-profit CEOs whose organizations serve over 87 million people annually and work with over 5.5 million volunteers. The panel will be moderated by David Ellwood, Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and is open to all University students. Speakers include:

Stephen Bennett, CEO, United Cerebral Palsy;

James Firman, CEO, National Council on Aging;

Peter Goldberg, CEO, Alliance for Children & Families; and

Roxanne Spillett, CEO, Boys & Girls Club of the USA.

DATE: Friday, April 23, 2010

TIME: 4:30 p.m.

LOCATION: Harvard Graduate School of Education, Larson 106

RSVP: ocsrsvp@fas.harvard.edu. Include your name and Harvard affiliation in your response. Space is limited.

Leadership 18 Member Organizations

Alliance for Children and Families, AARP, American Cancer Society, American Red Cross, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, Boy Scouts of America, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Camp Fire USA, Catholic Charities USA, Girl Scouts of the USA, Girls Incorporated, Goodwill Industries International, Inc., Lutheran Services in America, Mental Health America, National Council of La Raza, National Urban League, Inc., The Salvation Army, United Cerebral Palsy, United Way of America, Visiting Nurse Associations of America, Volunteers of America, YMCA of the USA, and YWCA USA.

Obituary for An Illustrator

From The New York Times:

Remember "Julie of the Wolves"? Too young to remember "Owl Moon?" John Schoenherr illustrated it.

As described by The New York Times, Schoenherr had a fascinating life. He illustrated children's books and designed the jackets of science-fiction books. He explored a variety of media to create what the NYT described as "evocative" drawings. Schoenherr also painted.

Learn more about him here.

Event at Harvard

From The Living Magazine:

An International Literary Event!

Location: Arthur Sackler Museum Auditorium on 485 Broadway
Time: 4:00-6:00 pm on Wednesday, April 14

The second installment of the Visiting Writers Series will be a performed literary magazine featuring, among others, Chinese poets Bei Ling (co-editor of the banned Chinese literary magazine TENDENCY) and Meng Lang (co-editor of TENDENCY and editor-in-chief of the banned Chinese online literary magazine FREEDOM TO WRITE); Burmese poet and surgeon Ma Thida (editor of Burmese TEEN Magazine); and Iranian novelist Shahriar Mandanipour (editor of the banned Iranian literary magazine THURSDAY EVENING).

This event is free and open to the public; students are encouraged to attend.

A Stories for Orphans blog?

We had an official site and a Facebook page, but no convenient way of communicating with you, our writers and illustrators, about the local events and news related to literature and orphans. Until now.

We decided to create this blog in order to raise your awareness about children's orphanages worldwide, inspire your literary creativity, help you learn more about writing and illustrating children's books, and encourage you attend literature and orphanage-related events in the Harvard and Cambridge area.

We invite to click on the links to the right of this post (from which several of our posts will come) and subscribe to or bookmark this blog so that you can be more aware, informed, and inspired. We welcome you to comment on our posts. Perhaps this will also be the beginning of a discussion.

Sincerely,

Alina and Ruirui
Co-presidents 2010