By Brian Gillikin | Program Manager
Dear friends,
It has been a truly exciting few months here in Tbilisi. Before getting to updates, however, Radarami would first like to plug a little thing called “The Holidays.”
‘Tis the season, and as such, we’d like to give a little something back. From now until the end of the 2014, anyone donating over $30 will receive a Radarami 2015 Calendar as a gift. This calendar will be full of photos of Georgian readers engaged in the global conversation thought Radarami’s books, and is our little way of saying “Thank you” for your support.
These calendars also make great gifts for friends and family interested in the work you’ve supported in Georgia.
The donations made through the end of the year end will go towards:
And now to the news...
With much energy, patience, elbow-grease, and the help of OSGF and you, our generous supporters, The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen by Kwame Anthony Appiah, and The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement by David Graeber, Nos. 12 & 13 in the Read & Connect Series, are printed and distributed to readers throughout Georgia.
In mid-September, we loaded up a van full of fresh copies of Honor Code, and headed west. Neither storms nor floods nor fog nor flat tires nor the lack of physical roads could hold us back from Honor Code presentations and lively discussions on the role of morality, ethics, and honor in societies in Ozurgeti, Batumi, and Shuakhevi. We also covered new territory, delivering books to Khulo and the Adjaran high villages.
For Democracy Project, we set our sights even higher, venturing out in early November to Zugdidi where we joined longtime readers and supporters at the Central Library for discussion and cake before heading up to Svaneti for a event in Mestia’s City Hall where teachers from 10 villages were introduced to Radarami and received in total over 300 books. We wrapped the trip up in Kutaisi with what ended up being a lively debate on democracy and governance.
And the news that we’ve all been waiting to hear: Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin will be printing this coming week. A massive effort made possible by too many people to name, we’re thrilled to at last see No. 14 in the series released out into Georgia. A huge feat, and our thanks go out to the Heinrich Böll Foundation and as always to you, our global network of supporters.
As Radarami seeks innovative ways to reach curious Georgian audiences, we will shortly be launching an online radio station called “RadioRami”, with technical support through OSGD/SIDA’s MicroWav.FM innitiative. Through this platform, we will be able to air recordings of Radarami events, interviews, public lectures, and other Georgian language content focused on the global conversation to new and wider audiences.
Radarami will continue to spread the global conversation in Georgia one book and one reader at a time as we move into 2015. Stay tuned for more exciting developments at Radarami. If you have any other questions or comments, please email brian@radarami.org.
Thank you again for your generous support.
Best wishes,
The Radarami Team
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