This one-hundred-minutes session is in the context of our work on Art-Based Learning.
Malvina Reynolds (1900-1978) was an American singer-songwriter and political activist, who never ceased to inspire me in (roughly) the decade before she passed and the decade thereafter. I owned just one of her (much sought after) albums, added to which I possessed a BASF tape reel with songs I recorded from one of the illegal radio stations that used to operate from vessels anchored outside the territorial waters in the North Sea.
Malvina's parents were immigrants of Russian and Hungarian descent. They were active in socialist, pacifist, and communist organizations - opposing World War I and actively promoting human rights, equality, voting rights, and social welfare for underprivileged migrant labourers.
In the interwar years Malvina teamed up with Earl Robinson and Pete Seeger. At the same time she attended Berkeley, where she obtained a PhD in Music Theory. In 1934, she married William Reynolds, a carpenter and labour organizer. A lifelong Unitarian Universalist, she first appeared on a recording when shzme was forty years old.
Malvina died with pancreatic cancer in 1978. I heard about her demise on the radio. Her work remains incredibly relevant, even more so in the times we live today.
Like all my work in Art-Based Learning, the present workshop has three outcomes:
participants familiarize themselves with an art maker and/or one of their works
participants understand that any piece of art can serve as a placeholder for any kind of learning outcome
participants are able to apply this principle by creating relevant learning outcome for them and their organization, based on the art piece under scrutiny in the workshop
In this workshop, we start from the lyrics of a select choice of songs taken from the album Malvina Reynolds Sings the Truth, Columbia 1967, currently available on most of the prevalent streaming platforms.
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