- Sound Your Truth Planning Meeting 10/1/24Please join us for a special Sound Your Truth prep meeting with circle keeper (and NP neighbor) Rox Etheridge, Circle Keeper. Tuesday October 1, 7 – 8:30pmOld Library 107C We will be discussing restorative justice and ways to keep Sound Your Truth creative, generative and inclusive. Snacks!! Come to learn with us about holding community spaces with care. We… Continue reading Sound Your Truth Planning Meeting 10/1/24
- SOUND YOUR TRUTH Planning Session, 9/18/24, 7pmPlease join us for a WebEx gathering to discuss and plan Sound Your Truth 2024: SOUND YOUR TRUTH: UNMUTEDWhere Creativity Speaks Louder Than Silence Click this WebEx Link, 7-8pm on September 18, 2024 All are welcome. Let’s get creative. Info about past Sound Your Truth events can be found here.
- SOUND YOUR TRUTH: UNMUTED – Where Creativity Speaks Louder Than Silence
Tuesday October 22, 4:30 – 7:30pm on the Courtyard in front of Sojourner Truth Library Please email eddy@newpaltz.edu if you would like to be involved in planning and hosting the event or if you would like to involve your club or class in the event. We look forward to collaborating! Here is the registration form. Please… Continue reading SOUND YOUR TRUTH: UNMUTED – Where Creativity Speaks Louder Than Silence - Tending to Our Community, 5/13/2024 5:30pm
Join us for an evening of expressive creating Monday, May 13th, 5:30-7:00 PM Courtyard between FAB and Sojourner Truth Library Bring your care, vulnerability, and concern to make a collaborative, hands-on artwork. Paper, watercolor, and other materials will be provided. Hosted with love by Eddy at New Paltz and Student Art Alliance - New Paltz Bike-in on Earth Day, 4/22/24
Bike or walk to school, college, or work onMonday, April 22 We need safe bike paths to all New Paltzschools and the college. Show your support! Biking every day makes us healthy and happy, keeps CO2 out of the atmosphere, is cheaper than driving, and helps us build community. Observe traffic rules, drive safely. New… Continue reading New Paltz Bike-in on Earth Day, 4/22/24 - Sound Your Truth Planning Gathering, 4/29, 9:30am
Please join us as we start the planning for Sound Your Truth 2024, to be held on October 22nd, 2024. When? April 29, 9:30 – 10:30amWhere? Sojourner Truth Library Courtyard / Fine Arts Building Rotunda in case of rain. We request your presence to decide on the theme for 2024 and we invite you to… Continue reading Sound Your Truth Planning Gathering, 4/29, 9:30am - Zine Making Sessions for Earth Day Library, 3/11 and 4/1, 4-6pm
Make a Zine for our growing Earth Day Library Upcoming workshops: We will provide creative materials and show you how to make a Zine. We will display and share your work as part of our new Earth Day Library for the first time during our Earth Day Celebration on April 27, 2024. Ripley Butterfield is… Continue reading Zine Making Sessions for Earth Day Library, 3/11 and 4/1, 4-6pm - Listening in: Mother Language Day, 3/19, 2-3:30pm
Listening In: Open mic jam – Word share – Wisdom clips Eddy invites you to celebrate International Mother Language Day by reading a brief text in the first language you learned. This may be a poem, an aphorism, a famous quotation or passage. Or just join us to listen in. We aim to share the… Continue reading Listening in: Mother Language Day, 3/19, 2-3:30pm - Better Together, 2/24/24
Restorative Climate JusticeScience Hall, 1-5pm With special guest speaker County Exec. Jen Metzger, dance performances, lunch, and four environmental workshops run by various clubs. You will have an opportunity to create zines for our Earth Day Library, to be shared during our campus-wide Earth Day celebration on April 27th, 2024. No experience or zine making… Continue reading Better Together, 2/24/24 - EARTH DAY April 27, 2024
The SUNY New Paltz community will celebrate Earth Day on April 27th on the Old Main Quad this year. Many clubs and organizations will contribute. Eddy collaborators are excited to be part of this important event and to bring together and amplify many different voices of our community. Make a Zine for our growing Earth… Continue reading EARTH DAY April 27, 2024 - Earth Day Planning – Creative Engagement Session
Tuesday December 12, 8:30 – 11amVan den Berg Hall / VH Annex gymnasium, 4th floor Breakfast at 8:30, collaborative process 9-11am Join student leaders and Eddy folks as we explore creative and collaborative pathways to plan for Earth Day 2024 while building community. Bring a (small) object that represents the system we are trying to… Continue reading Earth Day Planning – Creative Engagement Session - Sound Your Truth 2024 -planning meeting
11/30 1 pm -2 pmCollege Hall 113 or via WebEx A meeting to start planning for Sound Your Truth 2024. We will choose a theme, establish a planning schedule, see who wants to be part of the leadership team, distribute tasks, and envision what we would like to see and do next fall. This is an… Continue reading Sound Your Truth 2024 -planning meeting - Circle Back – Give Thanks, Nov 16+17, 2023
Card Writing, November 16 and 17th, STL lobby: Come join us in the Sojourner Truth Library lobby and take a moment to write an artist-designed, hand-printed card for your colleague, advisor, roommate, food service provider, professor, librarian, or anyone else who helps you learn, grow, and live your life here on campus. We’ll send it… Continue reading Circle Back – Give Thanks, Nov 16+17, 2023 - Pedagogical Opportunities & Learning Outcomes: SOUND YOUR TRUTH: COURAGE, Nov 8, 6pm
Student / Faculty Panel on Pedagogical Opportunities & Learning Outcomes: SOUND YOUR TRUTH: COURAGE 2023 Date: Wed. Nov. 8, 2023Time: 6:oo p.m.Location: Old Main 1907 room (B125) Students and faculty members who designed and participated in the October 13, 2023 event will discuss their experiences in light of what they learned and how they envision… Continue reading Pedagogical Opportunities & Learning Outcomes: SOUND YOUR TRUTH: COURAGE, Nov 8, 6pm - SPT Practice Group Fall 2023
We would like to invite you to Hudson Valley Social Presencing Theater (SPT) practice with SPT founder Arawana Hayashi. We are incredibly lucky that Arawana lives locally and is generously sharing her deep experience in embodied transformative practice. Monday October 30, 6:30 – 8:30 pmMonday November 13, 6:30 – 8:30 pm Unison Arts Center, 68 Mountain Rest Road,… Continue reading SPT Practice Group Fall 2023 - Sign Making and Open Mic Circle – March to End Fossil Fuels
Monday September 11, 4-6pm Courtyard in front of Fine Arts Building and Sojourner Truth Library This sign-making session will offer an opportunity to create powerful posters for the March to End Fossil Fuels in NYC (Sunday Sept 17th) while engaging in dialogue about our climate emergency, which is driven by ever rising global CO2 emissions. Let’s get… Continue reading Sign Making and Open Mic Circle – March to End Fossil Fuels - Sound Your Truth: Courage, 10/13, 4:30pm
October 13, 2023, 4:30 – 7:30pm Courtyard / Sojourner Truth Library Quad An interactive evening of creative sharing and collective expression hosted to amplify and center underrepresented voices in particular. This event is held annually on or around the anniversary of George Floyd’s birthday. There will be food!We encourage faculty and student groups to reach… Continue reading Sound Your Truth: Courage, 10/13, 4:30pm - Stepping into Deep Time, 9/22/2023
Please join us here at The Dorsky Musuem on Friday, September 22, 2023 at 5 pm for a deep exploration of the past, present and future and how are lives have been and will continue to be affected by a changing climate. Wellness at The Dorsky: Stepping into Deep Time. What changes do you see coming? What do you want… Continue reading Stepping into Deep Time, 9/22/2023 - Signs of Harm, 4/13, 5:30pm
Eddy at New Paltz cordially invites the whole campus community to Signs of Harm, an evening of listening and sharing in response to disturbing symbols found on campus. Please join and also encourage your students to participate. SIGNS OF HARM hosted by Eddy at New Paltz in collaboration with the Dorsky Museum Thursday April 13th, 5:30 – 7:30pmOLB quad in front of Old… Continue reading Signs of Harm, 4/13, 5:30pm - SPT Practice, Spring 23Social Presencing Theater Open Practice with Founder Arawana Hayashi You are invited to the Hudson Valley Social Presencing Theater practice group hosted by Arawana Hayashi and Andrea Frank. Social Presencing Theater is an innovative social art form co-created by Arawana Hayashi and colleagues at the Presencing Institute. This embodiment practice deepens reflection and supports individual,… Continue reading SPT Practice, Spring 23
- Black Mobility, 2/7, 6:30pm
Title of Event: Marital Selection x Black Immigrants in the USADate: Tuesday, February 7thTime: 6:30 to 8 pm Location: LC 100 or join via WebEx Ex Co-sponsors: Center for Student Engagement, Eddy at New Paltz, Black Studies Department, Black Lives Matter at School Panelist #1: Dr. Vadricka EtienneAssistant Professor of Gender, Race, and Identity and Sociology, University of Nevada, Reno Title: “…As far as Black… Continue reading Black Mobility, 2/7, 6:30pm - 🗓 Circle Back – Give Thanks: 11/16-17/2022
Card Printing Workshop, Friday, October 27, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon, FAB Rotunda: Help us hand print beautiful cards from Linoleum blocks created by Printmaking students in the Fine Arts Building Rotunda. No special skills needed. To honor the late Printmaking Professor Ben Wigfall’s rich and important legacy and to draw attention to the current… Continue reading 🗓 Circle Back – Give Thanks: 11/16-17/2022
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- 🗓 Sound Your Truth: Emergence/y, October 14,2022
We invite the campus and wider community to participate in an interactive evening of creative sharing and collective expression on the Courtyard / Sojourner Truth Library quad. Our intention is to particularly amplify and center underrepresented voices. Friday, October 14, 20224:30pm – 7:30 pm Free Food! Our plans for Sound Your Truth: Emergence/y are evolving and will be… Continue reading 🗓 Sound Your Truth: Emergence/y, October 14,2022 - 🗓 Newburgh Symposium on Health, Wellness & Healing 4/27/2022
Our symposium will feature leaders from the Newburgh community and additional experts in the fields of Public Health and Community Building, including keynote speakers Dr. Gregory Simpson, Pastor and Environmental Justice Advocate, Dr. Erin Bell, School of Public Health, U. Albany, and Sameer Ranade, Climate Justice Advisor, NYSERDA. The day will involve panel discussions, lightning talks, posters, and presentations… - 🗓 Afrofuturism: The Imagination to Change, 3/29 and 4/5
On March 29th, 11am – 11:50am, Myron T. Strong will present Afrofuturism: The Imagination to Change via Zoom. Recording of the event: Afro Futurism Presentation Myron Strong_March 29.mp4 To prepare for the talk, please read Afrofuturism and Black Panther by Myron T. Strong and K. Sean Chaplin, published in Contexts, 2019. On Tuesday, April 5th from… Continue reading 🗓 Afrofuturism: The Imagination to Change, 3/29 and 4/5 - 🗓 Listening In – International Mother Language Day March 3,2022, 2-4 p.m.
Listening In: Open mic jam – Word share – Wisdom clips The Eddy invites you to celebrate International Mother Language Day by reading a brief text in the first language you learned. This may be a poem, an aphorism, a famous quotation or passage. Or just join us to listen in. We aim to share the multilingual… Continue reading 🗓 Listening In – International Mother Language Day March 3,2022, 2-4 p.m. - 🗓 Social Presencing Theater PracticeYou are invited to the Hudson Valley Social Presencing Theater practice group hosted by founder Arawana Hayashi and Andrea Frank. Social Presencing Theater is an innovative social art form co-created by Arawana Hayashi and colleagues at the Presencing Institute. This embodiment practice deepens reflection and supports individual, team, organizational, and social transformation. Social Presencing Theater… Continue reading 🗓 Social Presencing Theater Practice
- 🗓 Circle Back, Give Thanks: Wed. 11/17, 11/22, 2021
Circle Back, Give Thanks is an opportunity to show appreciation for members of our community who Join us on Wednesday November 17th between 11am and 3pm, one week before the traditional U.S. Thanksgiving, to offer thanks to someone at SUNY New Paltz who supports you or helps you thrive. Sojourner Truth Library lobby 11:00 – 3:00 p.m.… Continue reading 🗓 Circle Back, Give Thanks: Wed. 11/17, 11/22, 2021 - 🗓 Gayle x Gayle, Wednesday 11/3 4-5pm
Professor Gayle invites us to consider the following questions during her presentation: What is it that you see in a photo the resonates with you? Do you connect more with an image if you can see yourself or your representation through it? What if the only images available to you only told part of the story? So where is the rest of the picture? - 🗓 Black Solidarity Day carpool/caravan for Staff, Faculty, and other Campus Employees, Nov. 1, 2021
Do you need a ride to Black Solidarity Day activities on Monday, November 1 at the Armory Unity Center in Newburgh? The students would be glad to see you there:321 South William StreetNewburgh, NY 12550If you need a ride, can offer a ride, want to caravan, or to let us know you’ll be there, please sign up on this form.We… Continue reading 🗓 Black Solidarity Day carpool/caravan for Staff, Faculty, and other Campus Employees, Nov. 1, 2021 - 🗓 Sound Your Truth: Thursday, October 14, 2021, 5:00-8:00 pm
We invite you, your students and colleagues to participate in an interactive evening of creative sharing and collective expression on the Courtyard / Sojourner Truth Library quad. Our intention is to particularly amplify and center underrepresented voices. Thursday, October 14, 2021, 5:00-8:00 p.m. (Rain date: Friday, October 15) Sound your truth Beat your drum Pipe up Call in Make noise Celebrate Free your speech Listen in Parrhesiazomai* *In rhetoric, parrhesia is a… Continue reading 🗓 Sound Your Truth: Thursday, October 14, 2021, 5:00-8:00 pm - 🗓 International Mother Language Day, 2021View the event recording here.