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Action Speaks broadcast on 250 radio stations throughout the US, is now being presented by WGBH Boston. A special Action Speaks discussion between Artist Shepard Fairey and author/activist Lawrence Lessig and moderated by Marc will take place at 5:30 PM at AS 220 in Providence, Rhode Island on Auguest 13th, 2010. It will also be available on www.actionspeaksradio.org

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Chace Center, RISD
20 N. Main Street, Providence, RI

Friday, May 14 through Sunday, July 18, 2010

Marc Levitt has just finished his as unpublished first young adult novel; The Mural; “It’s 1962 in the small Rhode Island coastal town of Whitfield, where to a 13 year young man the world never seems to change, until his life and the life of his town are disrupted by the rise in the civil rights movement, the disappearance of a young African American girl and for the young man, the realization that his new best friend, an African American, shares the same last name as his slave owning ancestors.”

Marc Levitt is working on two multi-media educational presentations for 4th Graders about Rhode Road Island roads (I 95 and The Old Post Road) sponsored by the University of Rhode Island’s Transportation Center.
For info: Ms. Deborah Rosen: drosen@mail.uri.edu



Marc Levitt and storyteller Len Cabral have released a short film for the Rhode Island Department of Health that they wrote and performed about how to keep your home 'healthy'.
For more information on, or to get a copy of the film, please contact: Magaly.Angeloni@health.ri.gov. If you are interested in utilizing Mr. Levitt and Mr. Cabral's talents in the areas of Public Health, Housing and/or Transportation please contact Marc.


Marc's book Putting Everyday Life on the Page was published by Corwin Press.
Tom Armstrong, a colleague of Howard Gardner has called it, “A refreshing break from the rule –obsessed manuals… What better way to teach students to write than through their own experiences, their own senses, their own feelings of mystery, wonder and excitement.”
This engaging book offers a wealth of easily implemented ideas and activities to encourage a culture of writing in your classroom and teach writing by acknowledging and utilizing what your students already know. Illustrating how teachers can use a multisensory approach and exercise students' observational intelligence, the author emphasizes specific facets of the writer's craft:
* Beginnings
* Sequential thinking
* Observation and description
* Characters
* Settings and endings

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Marc Levitt is an artist in residence at the Kettle Pond Visitor’s Center in Charlestown
, Rhode Island, where he is putting together an audio walking tour of Ninigret Park. The tour will be a layered history of the site which has been, at various times, a home for the Narragansett, a site of a slave based farm, a dairy farm, a summer colony, a Naval Air Force training facility, a proposed site for a nuclear plant, a site for demonstrations against that plant and now, a place for active and passive recreation. Marc will include music, interviews and natural sounds to create a tour that will immerse visitors into the various stages of this beautiful land’s history. For more information about the tour and/or being a sponsor, please contact: Ana Flores: ana@art-farm.net.
Soup and Stories - Ninigret Refuge Through Time. Kettle Pond Visitor Center, Charlestown, RI (October 16, 6.30pm)

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Check out Mr. Levitt’s newest ‘Site Specific Writing Project’; The Colton School Memoir Mapping Project

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Marc Levitt is now a Teaching Artist with the Brooklyn Arts Council, Young Audiences of Connecticut and Children’s Creative Project of Santa Barbara, California

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Russell Spears benefit/Celebration
June 11th, 2008 7pm-10pm

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Marc's new workshop: United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights; 60th Anniversary!

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Marc's new website www.ThirdCultureStories.com (devoted to the contributions by students, teachers, parents and others dealing with "Third Culture") is now online!

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Marc's article in The New York Times Tales to Inspire the Expatriate Young


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Levitt s new book aids young writers (pdf file)
By Doug Norris
Features Editor
South County Independent,
January 15, 2009
This book offers novice and experienced teachers a myriad of ideas to help them teach writing skills that translate to the general academic setting and foster a love of writing.




The Colton School
Memoir Mapping Project