From the Boston Globe a book group with a difference. Read From a rare friendship, a book club for the homeless is born and watch the video.
It’s five people in a book group, not 5,000 people fed, but it’s five people I can pull aside and talk to,” Tibbetts said
Little Pea
Amy Krouse Rosenthal children’s book author has “beckoned the lovely” in a 2008 invitation on Youtube for others to join her in a collaborative “making of things”, a continuing story found here in a series of video clips. Wonderful connections: books, children, people, collaborative learning, performance, art and community. And a continuing story.
Lori Anna Reid George Koller, Mike Janzen, & Greg Hawco Wed June 3rd, 8 p.m. Saint-Stephen-in-the-Fields, 103 Bellevue, at College St (2 blocks west of Spadina), Toronto (Doors at 7:30)
“Lori Anna Reid is the real deal. She has a heart of gold and is doing a benefit to raise money for feeding homeless people in Toronto (also flew to Afghanistan on secret mission to sing for Canadian troops). And Mike Janzen is a genius. You’ll be glad you went, or if you can’t make it consider buying a ticket or sending twenty five bucks to help� feed those people (the street people, not the band)” (T. Black)
by Jeanine Baker
‘Sense of community’ will become the key currency of sustaining urban communities ~
..” the sustainable city of the future will depend precisely on commitment and long-term residents. It also will rest on the revival of traditional institutions that have faded in many of today’s cities. Churches—albeit often in reinvented form—help maintain and nurture such communities. Similarly, extended family networks will be critical to future successful urban areas. As Queens resident and real estate agent Judy Markowitz puts it, “In Manhattan people with kids have nannies. In Queens, we have grandparents.”
~from “The Luxury City vs. the Middle Class” in The American by Joel Kotkin
From Walking Paper, a favourite blog of mine about library design, technology and the user experience, with a post on an unusual and interesting concept in reusable library space, the Prada Transformer by Seattle Public Library architectural firm Rem Koolhaas. Check out the links posted for other “adaptable” built environments. Another way to take the library with you …or it with you.
