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Choosing to See: Racial Healing is Possible, by Hanna du Plessis
Hanna was invited to participate in the annual Woordfees arts festival in South Africa. She wrote seven short personal essays describing moments in her journey toward racial healing. Read by Erica Wessels (who voiced the audiobook of "Bedsores and Bliss) and illustrated by Marc Rettig, the result is a 35-minute film of deep beauty and reflection. Group viewing on Zoom: Saturday November 15, 1:00pm US Eastern, 8:00pm South Africa. See the flyer in this post for the Zoom link.
Another Light: Making Space for Healing
With production support from Okay Then, artist Jeffrey Dorsey created a month of community events set amidst his twelve painted portraits. It was a joy to design and develop audio stories, a web site, signs, books and more to help bring this profound work to life in the community.
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Bedsores and Bliss
This chapbook holds a curated collection of Hanna\\\\\\\'s writing from her experience living with a diagnosis of ALS. A rare glimpse of the details of life with a fading body and fierce determination to life fully. Brave and funny.
Boppa’s Bald Stories
This man got bald thirteen different ways! So his wife wrote a book. Here are thirteen whimsically illustrated stories about how Granddad got bald. A fabulous bedtime book.
Hanna du Plessis
Our first featured voice is Hanna du Plessis, whose impact on people, communities, and the practice of social change is immeasurable.