AIC Events

COMING UP IN SEPTEMBER: AIC-sponsored visit to Cambridge/Boston/Providence by artist/engineer Natalie Jeremijenko

Report on FUNDRED Dollar Bill Project in New England

Resource Guide on Haiti

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A Second Summer OneBook:

Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich
Three Saturdays: July 31, August 7 and August 14, 5-7 p.m.
sprout, 339R Summer St., Somerville, MA

Deschooling Society is a work by Illich exploring the effects of institutionalization on the lives of people. Using the education system as his base, he looks at the cultural effects of commoditizing education, conflating the process of schooling with the process of learning, and asks how we might re-humanize our education system in the hopes of building more fulfilled, self-sufficient communities of empowered citizens. We will be focusing on this last bit: discussing how we can build a more convivial and humane world.

This OneBook is being hosted by sprout (http://thesprouts.org), located near Davis Square in Somerville. At each session, we will discuss two of the book's six essays. Go to http://deschoolingsociety.org to download a pdf of the text. You can also contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with questions about this OneBook.


And OneBook in the Fall:

Evocative Objects: Things We Think With by Sherry Turkle
Dates and Location TBA

Among the OneBook book clubs we are planning for the fall is Evocative Objects: Things We Think With. In this collection of short essays, MIT Professor of Social Studies of Science and Technology Sherry Turkle links theory to example and uses an academic approach to illuminate people’s deep connection to everyday objects.

For further details, contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

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Report on FUNDRED in New England

The FUNDRED Sous Terre Armored Truck was in New England April 30 – May 7, collecting Fundreds created by people in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.  Making stops in places like the Wake Up the Earth Festival in Jamaica Plain, MA, The Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, the State Capital in Augusta, ME, and the New Hampshire Institute of Art in Manchester, NH, Tory Tepp, FUNDRED truck driver, collected almost 10,000 Fundred Dollar Bills handmade in New England. That adds up to nearly $1 million worth of Fundreds toward the nationwide project's $300 million goal.

Please see the full FUNDRED Report here!

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AIC's RESOURCE GUIDE ON HAITI by Radical Reference Librarian Alana Kumbier

An AIC Benefit for Haiti took place on Wednesday, January 27 at the Somerville Public Library.

Featuring  a screening of acclaimed filmmaker Jonathan Demme’s The Agronomist (2003), a documentary about the life of Haitian human rights activist and radio journalist Jean Dominique.

For this benefit, we highlighted the Matènwa Community Learning Center (MCLC) on the Haitian island of La Gonâve, located approximately 40 km from Port-au-Prince As MCLC says on its website: “The world will be contributing to the major rescue organizations and as usual the people in the bay, on La Gonave, will be forgotten and suffering without the media to send out their call.”

Donations to Beyond Borders/MCLC can be made online at http://www.matenwaclc.org