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Articles

Silence in the concert hall

Sep 19, 2024 | overland.org.au | Adalya Nash Hussein |Kate Larsen |Alda Balthrop-Lewis

It has been a turbulent time for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. At a solo recital programmed by MSO on August 11, pianist Jayson Gillham introduced his premiere of Connor D’Netto’s Witness, a work dedicated to the journalists of Gaza, by saying:Over the last 10 months, Israel has killed more than one hundred Palestinian journalists. A number of these have been targeted assassinations of prominent journalists as they were travelling in marked press vehicles or wearing their press jackets.
Overland literary journal

Aug 29, 2024 | overland.org.au | Kate Larsen |Alda Balthrop-Lewis |Jordy Silverstein

As artists, cultural workers and arts organisations, ours is the business of statement-making. I was reminded of this recently by the work of Portuguese artist Tiago Casanova, whose installation Every wall is a Statement is currently part of the A liberdade e só a Liberdade exhibition (‘Freedom and only freedom’) at The Art and Culture Center of the Eugénio de Almeida Foundation in Évora.
Overland literary journal

Aug 22, 2024 | overland.org.au | Alda Balthrop-Lewis |Sofia Sabbagh |Jordy Silverstein

This is an essay about the chickadees, a bird family of North America, and about climate politics. By the end, it’s going to ask you to join me in November in Newcastle, New South Wales, for the People’s Blockade of the World’s Largest Coal Port.
Australia rejects greater political representation of First Peoples

Mar 14, 2024 | earthisland.org | Alda Balthrop-Lewis

An Australian referendum to provide a political voice for First Peoples may have failed, but the push will continue. I arrived to stay for good in Melbourne, Australia, during the coldest, darkest season here. At the time, this place felt like a foreign land. I moved from New Jersey in June, where it was a humid, green summer, and Melbourne’s grey morning mists and rainy days made clear that this was not my country.
Hometown disaster, faith, spurs fight to make fossil fuel companies accountable

Jan 25, 2024 | newcastleherald.com.au | Alda Balthrop-Lewis

Hometown disaster, faith, spurs fight to make fossil fuel companies accountableMy hometown in Florida was affected by BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. Now I work to protect other communities from fossil fuel negligence. or signup to continue readingSee subscription optionsThat's how I found myself in the Port of Newcastle in November, where I was one of the 109 people arrested for kayaking in a way that interfered with others' use of the port.
Spirituality & Practice

Jul 19, 2023 | spiritualityandpractice.com | Alda Balthrop-Lewis

Too often seen as a writer about nature and simple living, this book places Henry David Thoreau — still with those passions — squarely in the service of social justice. As the author makes clear, Walden Woods, to which Thoreau famously retreated for a two-year experiment in living, “were not only a place of peace. They were also where people of color and poor people we now consider white (largely Irish) lived and worked.
Spirituality & Practice

Jul 19, 2023 | spiritualityandpractice.com | Alda Balthrop-Lewis

“Thoreau suggests that it is better to try to become good than to try to do good. It is not that Thoreau avoids doing good. Rather, he finds the way people take for granted what is good disturbing. “The difference is in what actions are inspired by these two aims. Thoreau’s concern is that ethical life ought not be the doing of a certain set of prescribed good deeds. Ethics is relational, the working out together of what our relationship and our world ought to be like.