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Re: [xmca] Performing a Conference
Dear Ulvi,
Thanks for this. I'll be sure to talk to Patch about La Colmenita. In fact, I think that they are coming to the conference!
Lois
Don't forget to check out the latest at http://loisholzman.org
Lois Holzman, Director
East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy
920 Broadway, 14th floor
New York NY 10010
tel. 212.941.8906 ext. 324
fax 718.797.3966
lholzman@eastsideinstitute.org
www.eastsideinstitute.org
www.performingtheworld.org
loisholzman.org
On Jul 27, 2010, at 2:52 AM, ulvi icil wrote:
> Lois, it is so nice.
>
> Please note that Patch Adams is a very close friend of my Cuban bees, La
> Colmenita, and of my close friend, his director, Carlos Alberto Cremata, he
> went several times to Cuba, I think the last time after the two powerful
> hurricanes. If you wish you can speak with him about La Colmenita, who is
> visiting Turkey this August to play UN Convention for Children Rights on its
> 20th Anniversary.
>
> Best wishes for you and the congress
>
> Ulvi
> (Turkey)
>
>
>
> 2010/7/27, Lois Holzman <lholzman@eastsideinstitute.org>:
>>
>> Hi All,
>> Please share with players and playful wannabees who want to be with
>> grassroots social change agents from the US and all over the world. And
>> consider coming yourselves...
>> There's been an ongoing conversational thread within XMCA grappling
>> with/promoting/describing/explaining/theorizing/deconstructing/etc.
>> performance, play, creativity. imagination, and how they do and might impact
>> in a human way on what we all care about. Here's a conference devoted to it
>> Lois
>>
>> PERFORMING THE WORLD 2010:
>>
>> CAN PERFORMANCE CHANGE THE WORLD?
>>
>> SEPTEMBER 30-OCTOBER 3, 2010
>>
>> NEW YORK CITY
>>
>>
>>
>> Conference Sponsors
>> All Stars Project, Inc. and East Side Institute for Group and Short Term
>> Psychotherapy
>> Conference Headquarters
>> All Stars Project, Inc., 543 West 42 Street (between 10th & 11th Aves)
>>
>> “Can Performance Change the World?”
>> Performing artists, community organizers, theatre workers, educators,
>> scholars, youth workers, students, social workers, psychotherapists,
>> psychologists, medical doctors, health workers, and business executives are
>> coming from 31 countries to discuss/perform that question and their
>> responses to it. Among the nearly 100 presentations, workshops and
>> performances that will be featured at this year’s Performing the World are
>> some theatre related sessions and presentations dealing with performance,
>> health and wellness. Upcoming news alerts will highlight sessions on
>> performance and education, performance and trauma, and performance and
>> mental health.
>>
>> Play On Stage and Off
>>
>> A Day in the Life of the World – The Living Theatre has been pushing the
>> boundaries of the theatre and working to change the world since
>> 1947. Founder and artistic director Judith Malina and company members will
>> lead a workshop on Living Theatre performance techniques and a discussion on
>> the Living Theatre’s perspective on performance and social transformation.
>>
>> Performing Change – One morning a group of young people fan out through the
>> downtown streets stopping people at random to engage them in conversations
>> about problems in their community and what they think needs to be changed in
>> the world. A few days later this group of young people present a
>> performance illustrative of the concerns raised on the streets. Members of
>> the Street Spirits Theatre Company, based in British Columbia will share
>> their play-creation process.
>>
>> Towards a New Educational Theatre with Chinese Characteristics -
>> Huizhu Sun, President of the Shanghai Theatre Academy, will share his
>> efforts to introduce devised and educational theatre in China based on
>> traditional characters derived from Chinese Opera.
>> Reinventing Avant-Garde Theatre – Projekt Theater Studio in Vienna has
>> transformed itself from a classical left avant-garde theatre to a community
>> performance space, the Butcherie, creating new performance forms with
>> immigrants, refugees, women and the elderly. Founder and artistic director
>> Eva Brenner will discuss these changes and lead a workshop in the
>> Butcherie’s performance techniques.
>>
>> Bubbles on the Subway - Play in Unexpected Places - Throughout 2009 Kristen
>> Pedemonti played with people on the subways and streets of New York City
>> using bubbles as a means to engage. She wanted to help people remember what
>> it is to play and demonstrate play’s potential to help people
>> grow. Pedemonti will share her experience and explore how adult play can
>> change energy, shift focus and open us up to each other.
>>
>> Performance and Health
>>
>> Patch Adams - the Clown Laureate of Medicine, comes to Performing the World
>> for the first time. He will share his work from around the world, bringing
>> performance and hope to the sick and suffering. In addition to his own
>> workshop, Patch will be joining Jim Mangia, executive director of St. John’s
>> Well Child and Family Center in Los Angeles, and other innovative doctors on
>> a panel entitled, “What is Health?”
>>
>> The Performance of Resiliency at The Johns Hopkins Hospital – Oncology
>> nurses from John Hopkins Hospital and performance coaches from Performance
>> of a Lifetime share how performance games and workshops helped the nurses to
>> regain the sense of humanity that initially led them to professional
>> nursing.
>>
>> The Power of Performing Our Story – Lewis Mehl-Madrona will share her work
>> helping people transform the stories of their illnesses into performance and
>> discuss healing as social performance.
>>
>> Clowning at Hospital Changes the World – Clownetterna, a Swedish hospital
>> clown group, brings performance to children in hospitals, and shares the
>> special magic of the clown/child encounter.
>>
>>
>> Housing the World
>>
>> PTW 2010 Housing Committee is busy securing free housing for the hundreds
>> of performance activists and scholars who will be attending. They have
>> already secured, as of this writing, 80 beds for visitors in households
>> throughout the five boroughs of New York City.
>>
>> If you want to stay in a NYC home while at PTW, you must fill out a housing
>> form (available at www.performingtheworld.org). The deadline to apply for
>> housing has been extended to July 24. Housing forms will not be processed
>> until conference registration is received. Additionally, if you live in the
>> New York metropolitan area and would like to host a performance activist or
>> scholar from around the world, please contact Jenny or Esther at
>> 212-941-9400 x 414, or fill out a form on the website (
>> http://eastsideinstitute.org/page63/page63.html).
>>
>> Conference Schedule
>> Thursday, September 30, conference begins at 5:30 PM
>> Registration and Opening Reception
>> Friday, October 1
>> Concurrent Sessions and Evening Performances
>>
>> Saturday, October 2
>>
>> Plenaries, Concurrent Sessions and Evening Performances
>>
>> Sunday, October 3
>> Concurrent Sessions and Closing Plenary
>>
>> Conference ends at 6:00 PM
>>
>>
>> Registering for the Conference
>> Registration for PTW 2010 can be completed online at (
>> http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=204261) or contact Melissa Meyer
>> at 212-941-8906 x 304.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Don't forget to check out the latest at http://loisholzman.org
>>
>> Lois Holzman, Director
>> East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy
>> 920 Broadway, 14th floor
>> New York NY 10010
>> tel. 212.941.8906 ext. 324
>> fax 718.797.3966
>> lholzman@eastsideinstitute.org
>> www.eastsideinstitute.org
>> www.performingtheworld.org
>> loisholzman.org
>>
>>
>>
>>
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