April 2, 2010 You can help New Yorkers play by voting for New York Plays in the web-based grant competition Pepsi Refresh. It's the entry of the East Side Institute, the non-profit I direct. Our idea is To conduct at least 3 community PLAYgrounds throughout NYC To introduce the power of play to...
March 30, 2010 I don't usually post news items but I'm so thrilled about the All Stars Newark expansion plan — a partnership through which everyone grows — that I want to share it! From The Star Ledger NEWARK — The All Stars Project of New Jersey today announced a $9 million fundraising...
March 18, 2010 In January I wrote about the Youth Onstage! production of the Work/Play last month. Now there's a video excerpt for your viewing pleasure...
March 13, 2010 One of my weekly treats is the arrival in my inbox of Talk Talk, excerpts from a dialogue Fred Newman and Jackie Salit have after watching the political talk shows on TV. Newman, co-founder with me of the Institute, is many other things – among them a...
March 12, 2010 I just returned from a week in China - specifically, Deyang, a city in the Sichuan province very hard hit by the 2008 earthquake (more than 17,000 people died and over 70,000 were injured; the schools in neighboring areas collapsed). I was there to train middle school teachers...
February 26, 2010 I'm so pleased and honored that my book Vygotsky at Work and Play was nominated for the Eleanor Maccoby Book Award in Developmental Psychology, given by Divison 7 (Developmental Psychology) of the American Psychological Association annually. I just posted the nomination on the Reviews page under Vygotsky at...
February 23, 2010 [caption id="attachment_403" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Fred Newman and Patch Adams"][/caption] This past Saturday I had the privilege of hosting Patch Adams for the day between two university presentations he was giving that morning and evening. The meeting was a long time coming; Patch ("the clown who is a doctor") and I...
January 22, 2010 In 2004 I initiated a program to support grassroots social entrepreneurs and activist-scholars whose work is too new or innovative or radical to get much support. The program is called The International Class of the East Side Institute. As of today, over 50 people from five U.S. States...
March 18,2010 Here's the link to a video of the scened from the Work/Play described below January, 15, 2010 I was delighted to see The Work/Play - the current production of Youth OnStage! (the youth theatre of the All Stars Project) - featured in a column by Ellen Galinsky in today's Huffington Post....
January 7, 2010 I came across an interview with Ann Weimer Baumgardner – author of Pretend You're Normal: But Only When Absolutely Necessary, and described as a molecular geneticist, creative thinker, author and humorist on the IdeaConnection.com website. I hadn't heard of Baumgardner (have you?) but I liked what I read. Here's...
