The Toadstool Bookshop Over 50,000 new & used plus excellent “search” services and special orders. Depot Square, Peterborough, NH 03458

Yellow Moon Press An excellent selection of multicultural books, tapes, teachers' resources.

Everyone's Books An unusual selection of multicultural picture books, Brattleboro, VT (802) 555-1212

Asia for Kids A vast catalog of materials about Asia and Asian-American culture.

A Day in the Life of Becky Sao CD-ROM about Cambodian-American teenager's life. Courses and educational material about Cambodia are available from Global Learning Solutions. Visit website or call (617) 803-3307

Peace In Many Languages A comprehensive online dictionary

Sound & Spirit A weekly weekend program on Public Radio International featuring music of many cultures in thematic contest. Excellent. No cassettes available but it's possible to tape the weekly program at home or hear it over the web:

Soundplay, Inc, for indoor/outdoor installations of wind, water, and percussion instruments like our dragon drum and giant thumb piano (kalimba).

Resources for Harmony & Invention classes in rhythm, drumming, balafon, African dance. School outreach visits and certified rhythm work with stroke patients. Joanne Van Deusen, (603) 563-9272

Mt. Kearsarge Theatre “A You and Me World,” Mr. Kearsarge Regional High School, (603) 927-4899

The Pimsleur Method produces language tapes geared to easy learning in the car! Not boring plus effective.

Springstep A new Adult Education center located in Medford, MA whose mission is to "preserve, create and celebrate traditional and contemporary arts, music and dance in an inclusive and multicultural environment."

Sacred Dance Guild & Annual Festival

Moving Company Dance Center Keene, NH

Brattleboro Area Argentine Tango Society weekly dances in VT and monthly Sunday dances at Mariposa Museum.

Annual Idaho International Folk Dance Festival video clips

Aangikam Dance Academy Bharat Natyam, Manipuri & Folk Classes for NH and MA. 4 Milan Street, Nashua, NH 03060 (603) 889-3783

Heifer Project International (includes a reading project for children to earn money to help buy livestock for needy farmers at home and abroad).

www.tibet.org National effort working towards a free Tibet.

Monadnock Friends of Tibet branch of international high school & college association (603) 355-2286 or e-mail.

Drepung Gomang Tibetan Monastery a Tibetan monastery relocated to southern India, which sends an annual delegation of monks as cultural ambassadors to inform the public and raise funds for the rebuilding of the monastery. They will create a sandpainting for world peace at Mariposa Museum October 1-7 2002. Book School Visits NOW!

Horizons international and domestic study programs in traditional world crafts.

Fair Trade Federation promoting fair wages and working conditions, worker education & empowerment, fair labor practices worldwide.

Joseph's Coat PeaceCrafts of Peterborough, NH: wide selection from Ten Thousand Villages, SERRV, Marketplace, DZI, Asian World Imports, Adivasi, Rubiya, cooperatives and returned peace corps volunteers of crafts, jewelry, clothing, Tibetan singing bowls, folkart, toys, textiles created by artisans in need receiving fair wages, education, and training in projects at home and abroad:

Rubia marketing crafts by Afghani refugee women.

Gondwana Imports Concord, NH: international fair trade crafts

Advivasi Imports Brattleboro Vermont: wholesale and retail fair trade crafts from India

Milagros South American and Mexican Folkart, Newburyport, MA

Ten Thousand Villages nationwide fair trade stores include Northampton, MA and Cambridge, MA

DZI Tibet Collection crafts from Tibetan refugee artisans in Dharmsala, India, home of the Dalai Llama.

Marketplace, Handwork of India blockprinted clothing & textiles by cooperatives of women and handicapped workers in Bombay. Excellent design and workmanship.

Bosnian Handicrafts rebuilding war-torn economy stitch by stitch.

Asian World Imports: Operated by Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Jeff Kaley, who served four years in Nepal, this PeaceCraft importer has supplied many of the unusual instruments to our collection and many of the products in our gift shop. Do take a look!

Compas de Nicaragua empowering women & girls in Managua slums through craftwork. E-mail only.

SERRV International Gifts That Make a Difference, mail-order.

Heifer International Catalog from a beehive to a world ark, livestock gifts set farmers in USA and abroad on their feet. For that relative who has everything - except a waterbuffalo!

Cultural Survival Crafts Fair twice a year in Cambridge MA bringing crafts from endangered cultures from the rainforest to the silk road.

Joanne Van Deusen Resources for Harmony & Invention, Peterborough NH (603) 563-9272. Balafon, drumming and African dance lessons, drums for sale, school programs in percussion, gamelan, making gourd & other instruments, certified rhythm therapist for stroke and other disabilities.

Miguel Angel Luna Manchester, NH: Visual Artist & Classical Guitarist presenting school programs on Mexico and its folkcrafts, including making instruments from recycled objects.

Jane Kronheim, East View Artisan Harrisville, NH. Gallery

New Hampshire Storytellers Guild

Gerry Hallgrimson Rainbow Storyteller

Jo Putnam, World Folktales

Linda Marsella (Mahira)World Folktales for Adults & Children. Peace Tales and Russian Tales a specialty.

National Storytelling Conference October, Jonesborough Tennessee - annual also at www.storytellingfestival.net

Keene State College Annual Storytelling Conference in April

Summer Institute of Art Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH in July.

Arts in Education Conference sponsored by New Hampshire State Council on the Arts.

Springstep A Center for Traditional and Contemporary Arts

Annual Middle Eastern Dance Gala & Workshops in April at The Moving Company Dance Center, 76 Railroad Street, Keene, NH 03431 (603) 357-2100

The Revels (Multicultural) Spring and Christmas celebrations in six cities including Hanover Boston, Washington, Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco etc.)

Peterborough Folk Music Society top names in Folk music monthly

Asian Dance and Theater

Smithsonian Folklife Festival early July. The BEST!

Lowell Folk Festival July in Lowell, MA celebrating the ethnic heritages of Lowell, a milltown of immigrants in eastern Massachusetts.

Lowell Dragon Boat Races August in Lowell, MA

Eastern European Festival September in Deerfield MA

Annual Asian Festival & Dragon Boats Cambridge, MA. April

Museum of International Folkart the best in the world, Santa Fe, NM

Mingei International Museum of Folkart San Diego, CA

Museum of American Folkart New York City

Smithsonian Institution the world at your fingertips, Washington DC

Immigration Museum Boston

Ellis Island Museum New York City

Jewish Museum New York City

Museum of the American Indian New York City

The Brooklyn Museum Excellent African and Oceania collections, New York City

Holocaust Museum Washington, DC

Franco-American Museum Manchester, NH

Peterborough Historical Society & Museum great school programs

Aquarius No. 1 Fire Museum Summer St. Peterborough NH 03458. Free Admission by appointment.

Jaffrey Civic Center Main St., Jaffrey NH 03452 (603) 532-6527. Great Rotating Exhibits including many on ethnic crafts.

Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum Warner, NH. Intimate and eclectic.

Fort No. 4 Charlestown, NH. 18th century settlement recreated. Excellent Docents.

Strawberry Banke Portsmouth, NH (19th century life)

Canterbury Shaker Village Canterbury, NH

Dartmouth Museum Hanover, NH

Thorne Gallery Keene State College, Keene, NH

Faces (a national geographic for kids, beautifully presented)

Skipping Stones (multicultural, entirely written by children)

Smithsonian

Museum of Natural History

Cultural Survival about endangered cultures worldwide, especially rainforest peoples.

NH to Do What's happening this month & next in NH, even at Mariposa!

Brattleboro Area Argentine Tango Society

Dario da Silva & Claudia Munafo

Eduardo Arce & Sandra Gatti

Hsueh-Tze Lee

When children are raised with respect and curiosity towards
other cultures, the world will know more peace and less war.


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