Open Circle Gathering & Book Gifting
In New York on May 12, 2017? Gather with us from 5-7pm just outside the home of the largest collection of Virginia Woolf’s personal writings (the Berg Collection at NYPL Main) to give and receive books we love by women writers and artists. Check AROHO on Twitter for changes due to weather. We will build a monument together and take these gifts back to our communities to be read and given, read and given again as part of our...
“making art is like blindly seeing…”
“…the shape of what you don’t yet know.” —Teresita Fernandez
Our Invitation, Our Circle
At the start of 2017, we extended an invitation to you to join our new AROHO circle by reading and signing Our Purpose, and to enter into a shared dialogue with creative women by entering The Q. We are heartened that so many of you from around the world have already joined with us in our purpose, and intrigued and touched by the resonant responses of those of you who entered The Q. We are grateful that you are a part of our...
“sacrifice nothing to seemliness”
All is rather rapt, simple, quick, effective—except for my blundering on at The Waves…Still I am not satisfied. I think there is something lacking. I sacrifice nothing to seemliness. I press to my centre. I don’t care if it all is scratched out. And there is something there. I incline now to try violent shots…shouldering my way ruthlessly—and then, if nothing comes of it—anyhow I have examined the possibilities. ...
Dreadful Wind & Rain by Diane Gilliam
Diane Gilliam was AROHO’s 6th Gift of Freedom winner. This stunning verse narrative is the first to be published of the three books Diane completed during the two years of the grant. This book is a river you will want to swim in. It is the hardest thing this holding open of everything with nothing —from “Some Things the Doorways Want to Tell Us” Buy on Amazon Synopsis So the story goes: Neglected and abused by her...
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