vol. 7, num. 16 :: 2008.09.12 — 2008.09.26
Celebrating six years of publishing catapult magazine with our annual issue on the gift of community. The image in the issue banner is a photograph taken by Neil E. Das at the Light Project (St. Louis, MO). The pictured installation is Chorus by Sebastian Hungerer and Rainer Kehres.
An image-rich tour through a place you may or may not recognize, a place you may have been in but not seen.
A visit to a collection of art installations prompts thoughts about the relationships between art and community.
A piece of furniture forms a literal and symbolic stopping point in a life story.
How globalization both strengthens and discourages community.
Taking another look around an empty room reveals another kind of community, and subsequent responsibility.
Taking up life in a new community at a different stage of life presents challenges and promises.
A report from the biennial conference, co-sponsored by *cino and Russet House Farm.
A French farce about WWI and hiphop music from a Somali refugee.
Overuse of the word community beckons us to rediscover its meaning.
An interview with Monique Sliedrecht, artist-in-residence at Freswick Castle in northern Scotland.
On gaining a "sense of place" through knowledge of nightmares.
Todd Epp writes about Jean Vanier's legacy in Hamilton, Ontario.
A music video about being supported in community.
A record of what happens when TAL staff decide to spend one whole day at a 24-hour restaurant.
A harsh welcome becomes a meaningful message.
Bread eaten together is daily sustenance. Bread eaten together is economic sharing. Not merely symbolically, but also in fact, eating together extends to a wider circle the economic solidarity normally obtained in the family…. In short, the Eucharist is an economic act. To do rightly the practice of breaking bread together is a matter of economic sharing.
John Howard Yoder
Body Politics
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