Holding Court in the Telling of Tales

Lipman, Doug
Improving Your Storytelling: Beyond the Basics for All Who Tell Stories in Work or Play
Atlanta: August House, 1999
I wonder about the first story told on earth. Did it convey a dire need, an imminent danger, or was it intended to make another tribesman laugh? One of the most skilled storytellers I know is my [...]

The Workings of the Imagination: Full of Contradictions

Egan, Kieran, Maureen Stout, and Keiichi Takaya, eds.
Teaching and Learning Outside the Box: Inspiring Imagination Across the Curriculum
New York: Teachers College Press, 2007
Much to the vexation of my friends and family, I love to play devil’s advocate, arguing an opposing side just for the sake of considering it and as a way to expand the [...]

LCI’s Professional Development Articles Collection

Are you curious about how LCI’s practice is related to the ideas of Maxine Greene, John Dewey, Elliot Eisner, and others? Check out the 22 articles that make up the Professional Development Articles Collection of LCI’s Electronic Library.
The PDA Collection is a collection of articles that are key to the Institute’s philosophy. They are available [...]

Recent Acquisitions to the Heckscher Foundation Resource Center @ Lincoln Center Institute

More than 10,000 and growing! Click here to see a list of resources added to our collection during June.
September Highlight
Aliki
My Five Senses
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2000
My Five Senses introduces children to sound, taste, smell, sight, and touch and explores the ways the senses often work together to discover something new. “Sometimes I use more of [...]

Creative Courage and Imaginative Learning: New Perspectives on How Psychology and Philosophy Intersect in My Work at LCI

May, Rollo
The Courage to Create
New York: W.W. Norton, 1994
“Creativity is the encounter of the intensively conscious human being with his or her world,” (54). Rollo May holds that creativity’s central importance is it’s bringing something new into being. I like this definition, and finding it in May’s text showed me an example of where May’s [...]

Paintings for the People

Braun-Reinitz, Janet, and Jane Weissman
On the Wall: Four Decades of Community Murals in New York City
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009
Several years ago I was awarded a grant to take a group of high school students to a local homeless shelter to paint a mural. I remember the day I opened the letter of acceptance. [...]

Changing the Nature of Education One Teacher at a Time

Lewis, Richard
Living by Wonder: Writings on the Imaginative Life of Childhood
New York: Parabola Books, 1998
Lincoln Center Institute (LCI) hosted an “Imagination Conversation” on June 25th as part of the National Dance Education Organization’s annual conference, bringing together a diverse group of artists and artist/educators (digital artist Paul Kaiser of the Open Ended Group, writer/activist Jonathan [...]

Recent Acquisitions to the Heckscher Foundation Resource Center @ Lincoln Center Institute

More than 10,000 and growing! Click here to see a list of resources added to our collection last month.
July Highlight
Del Vecchio, Mark
Postmodern Ceramics
London: Thames and Hudson, 2001
At its worst, postmodernism is defined as a “culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued qualities of depth, coherence, meaning [...]

Recent Acquisitions to the Heckscher Foundation Resource Center @ Lincoln Center Institute

More than 10,000 and growing! Click here to see a list of resources added to our collection during June.
June Highlight
O’Brien, Lucy
She Bop II: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul
London: Continuum, 2002
Women have always been making and consuming music. But how have women negotiated the genres and sub-genres of the music industry [...]

Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day @ LCI

On the morning of April 23, two visitors arrived ready to learn about what really happens at LCI from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For the first time ever, Lincoln Center Institute participated in Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day.
Approximately 25 children, ranging in ages from 5-16, participated in the program in various [...]