Newsletter, 12 June 2013

“If art has nothing to do with people’s pain and sorrow, what is ‘art’ for?” -Ai Wei Wei

12 June 2013
Dear Friends,

Summer is here! Welcome to another edition of our weekly newsletter. We hope to see you at our events and around the Boston-Cambridge community.

Cultural Agent Ai Wei Wei
invites you to make a
flower memorial
for the child victims of the
2008 Sichuan Earthquake.
Also commemorating the victims
is Ai Wei Wei’s 150-ton installation.

Art is a force that drives innovation

Congratulations Colton Valentine!

Colton Valentine (Harvard College ’16) has been named the
SHARP Fellow for Cultural Agents.

SHARP (Summer Humanities and Arts Research Program) is a 10-week summer immersion experience designed by Harvard faculty and library administration. Working closely with Dr. Doris Sommer, Colton will be developing both short and long-term approaches to tracking and evaluating three inter-related dimensions of the PRE-Texts methodology, an arts-based literacy program.

Welcome to the Cultural Agents Team!

Dr. Doris Sommer addresses ELL teachers embarking on their first Pre-Texts experience.
June 6th, 2013
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Pre-Texts in Boston Public Schools
PRE-Texts facilitators Tatiana Beltrán, Stephanie Cedeño and Gabriela Poma Traynor join Dr. Doris Sommer in a training series that ends on June 13th for teachers preparing for Boston Public Schools’ English Language Learners five-week summer program.
Text: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExuperyPre-Texts at TAG
PRE-Texts and the UMass Boston’s Talented and Gifted (TAG) Latino Program are partnering for TAG’s five-week summer program for high school students.
Text: The House on Mango Street by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Stay tuned!

Cultural Agents & Pedro Reyes
reunite at Harvard
in July