My New Book Drops on Human Rights Day!
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Virtual book launch on Sunday, 12/10, 11:30am!
I am so excited to announce the publication of Every Man, Woman and Child + Every Living Soul: The Original Musical Presentation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights! It's coming out on December 10 of this year, the 75th Anniversary of the UDHR, but is available to pre-order in all bookstores right now.
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I’ve been working with composer Merrill Collins on this music project since it was young. I am so proud that her label, Spiraling Music, finally decided to get into publishing ~ something I know a bit about! A year ago we published We Declare! Songs, Chants, Dances and Multimedia Projects based on A Global Ethic, but this one is actually the first in the series. I played the roles of editor, designer, publisher, and co-writer. In writing the history of the project, “The Human Rights Vibration” (starts on page 2), I realized that this song written by a single mom in my own Oakland neighborhood was actually the first grassroots musical expression of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This is a unique historical work, and a pretty wonderful story of arts activism.
Please join us for our international book launch on December 10th, at 11:30am PST on Zoom. After that event, we will be performing one of the many iterations of this song at the 75th Celebration of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. And on Martin Luther King Day, January 15th 2024, we will also be teaching a class on the various ways to engage your community in musical celebrations of the UDHR.
Those who own a copy of this book will be able to guide every type of community in producing musical presentations of the UDHR. To hear the documents read, or paraphrased, in community, is an incredibly powerful experience that in every situation sparks conversation about what rights are, who gets them, who gives them, the aspirational nature of the UDHR, and the state of the world trying to live up to these ideals.
Links:
Order single copies of the book from Bookshop, Barnes and Noble, or Amazon
Get a PDF of the ebook directly from Spiraling Music
Order the book from Ingram for your bookstore
Listen to the EMWC playlist on Spotify.
Come to our virtual Book Launch party on December 10th!
Join us at the Exploratorium afterwards with UNA-USA East Bay for a 75th Celebration of the UDHR
Register for the January 15th class, Teaching Human Rights with Music
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THIS MOMENT HAS BEEN YEARS IN THE MAKING!
It’s now been thirty-five years since the song’s creation. Every Man, Women and Child + Every Living Soul is available for everyone, with an open invitation to jam. Let’s imagine what the world could be doing together in 2048 when the UDHR turns 100!
Yaaay!
Congratulations Kristen! So exciting!