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CAF is committed to ensuring the knowledge and experience of animal and vegan advocates are not lost. To that end, we’ve begun a year-long oral history project to gather the life stories and recollections of activists from the 1950s to the present.
Requiem for Animals, a piece written by composer Keane Southard (2024) for a choir of sopranos, altos, tenors, and bases, and string orchestra, was commissioned by the Brattleboro Music Center (for performance in May 2025 by the Brattleboro Concert Choir, Jonathan Harvey, director) with additional support from the Culture & Animals Foundation and the Eric Stokes Fund, Earth’s Best in Tune. This interview is excerpted from Keane’s prefatory material for the piece’s complete score.
An Interview with Kevin Augustine
Martin Rowe, ED of the Culture & Animals Foundation, talked with CAF 2024 grantee Kevin Augustine of Lone Wolf Tribe about his play “The People vs. Nature,” which ran at La MaMa Experimental Theater from November 7–17, as part of the 2024 Puppet Festival.
On the occasion of the awarding of novelist J. M. Coetzee with the 2024 Nancy Regan Arts Prize, CAF convened a webinar with three leading scholars to discuss Coetzee’s The Lives of Animals, which was published 25 years go this year. The following is a lightly edited transcript of the webinar.
Tom Regan (1938-2017) was the co-founder of the Culture & Animals Foundation with his wife Nancy (1938–2021). Together, they made a major contribution to animal rights. You can read about their and CAF’s origins, work, and legacy below.