GIA Reader (2000-present)

2011, 397 pages, Bloomsbury USA, New York, NY

2011, 257 pages, PublicAffairs, New York, NY

2010, 26 pages, ZeroDivide, San José, CA

2011, 332 pages, Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT

Liz Lerman's body of work has come to symbolize the participatory community arts movement, and this collection of essays delightfully chronicles both her artistic growth as a choreographer and the intellectual process that led her to this path that revolutionized the ways in which dance is developed, performed, and experienced.

Written and compiled by Shannon Stewart. 2010, All-ages Movement Project, Seattle, WA

The back cover of In Every Town: An All-ages Music Manualfesto announces, “IT'S IN YOUR HANDS.” The book is a call to action to put on and support all-ages music shows and to give musicians the tools to develop and release their own music.

2011, 220 pages, Teachers and Writers Collaborative, New York, NY.

Reading the journals, blogs, and press in the philanthropic sector, one would think there is a conspiracy afoot to create meaningless buzzwords. Somewhere in a secret underground laboratory, teams of evil linguists work overtime coining new words and phrases designed to bewilder grantwriters and obfuscate funders' true intentions—a covert operation designed to keep grant money from being awarded.

It would be cool if this were true, but I am inclined to think otherwise.