Astrophysicist, Sinziana Paduroiu, interviewed Bonnie Ora Sherk about A Living Library and her earlier Life Frames for ROOSTERGNN, Global News Network. Here is the published version, A Living Library - Cultivating the Human & Ecological Garden, which appeared online on September 9, 2014.
Enjoy !
Bonnie Ora Sherk was interviewed on KPOO FM, 98.5 on Connecting the Dots by Judy Drummond on August 28, 2014. Bonnie Ora discussed A Living Library and all the Branch Living Library & Think Parks underway in San Francisco and New York City, and multiple opportunities to develop Branches around the world. Listen to the Broadcast here !
In the interview, she also talked about the Living Library Nature Walk, that is underway, and is a model for the whole Islais Creek Watershed, the largest in SF that interconnects eleven neighborhoods, that could eventually link community resources like schools, parks, public housing, streets, and other open spaces through development of a new, narrative landscape, with other features, including the daylighting of Creeks where possible. 
Bonnie Ora Sherk was interviewed in the OMI/Excelsior Living Library & Think Park Lower Garden on August 8, 2014, by Starr Sutherland, who is shooting and editing a new video on A Living Library, for Producer, Patricia Watts, Founder & WestCoast Curator for ecoartspace. This video will be shown on the ecoartspace website as a companion piece for a prior video interview with Bonnie Ora, in which she discusses her earlier art works, linked here.
Stay tuned to see the new video ! See pics below of Starr and colleague Matt, getting ready for the video shoot:
FOODshed: Art and Agriculture in Action, curated by Amy Lipton at Smack Mellon Gallery in adorable Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY, from June 7-July 27, features Bonnie Ora Sherk and A Living Library. The exhibit focuses on New York artists who work with food and agriculture. This exhibition features A Living Library, and specifically showcases an installation on the Roosevelt Island Living Library & Think Park. View more information about the exhibit on the Smack Mellon Website and ecoartspace blog. Also read the FOODshed Press Release.
Below are views of the installation on A Living Library at Smack Mellon Gallery in NYC:
Another exciting exhibition that features Bonnie Ora Sherk's work with A Living Library and her earlier Life Frame, Crossroads Community (the farm), is in Turin, Italy, at Parco Arte Vivente (PAV). The international exhibition, which opened on May 30 through November 2, is Vegetation As A Political Agent, curated by Marco Scotini and Andris Brinkman. The Museum has invited Bonnie Ora Sherk to visit Turin this fall, and explore with the Museum and local community, the opportunity to create a Turin Branch Living Library & Think Park.
Please see press release, website, and installation views below:
Elementary School Students from Roosevelt Island learned science, math, and literacy, and about gardens and plants while preparing the garden beds of the Roosevelt Island Living Library & Think Park for the Annual Living Library Planting on Roosevelt Island Day, this year, held on June 21.
Students love to dig in the soil and find earthworms and other creatures !!
And they wrote about their experiences in their A.L.L. Journals... .and then continued to dig in the earth !
And, then came the planting on Roosevelt Island Day - June 21 by the community led by Bonnie Ora Sherk ! A great time was had by all and another beautiful Living Library Garden was created by the Roosevelt Island community !!!
Stay tuned for updated pictures as the beautiful RI Living Library Garden grows !!!
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