>From: MurrayDab@aol.com
>
>Announcement and Call for Proposals:
>
>PERFORMING THE WORLD 3
>The Performance of Creativity and the Creativity of Performance
>
>Friday, October 14 - Sunday, October 16, 2005
>Tarrytown House, Tarrytown, NY
>
>Performing the World 3 recognizes, celebrates and interrogates the growing
>global performance movement, the thousands of innovative performance
>projects taking place in urban centers, towns and villages the world over,
>and the researchers, theoreticians and analyzers of what all this ensemble
>creativity, improvisatory play and "stage-making" might mean for human
>development and social change.
>
>The conference will bring together performers, educators, artists, scholars
>and researchers, psychologists and therapists, health and helping
>professionals, business professionals, youth workers, activists, and
>community organizers to showcase innovative practice and scholarship and
>provide a rich context for learning and performing together.
>
>Spend a unique weekend...
>
>* Learning new ways to relate to human beings, to culture, to community,
>and to social change
>
>* Meeting others like yourself; learning, teaching, inspiring and being
>inspired
>
>* Exploring the potential of a performance approach to unleash and nurture
>the human capacity to create, collaborate and change the world
>
>
>
>A sampling of conversational themes, panels, workshops and performances:
>
>* Performance as a New Learning Model
>* Postmodern Creativity
>* Knowing, Not Knowing and Performing
>* The Creativity of the Group
>* Performance as Metaphor/ Performance as a Way of Life
>* The Therapeutics of Performance
>* The Power of Play
>* Theatre and Community
>* The Creativity of Improvisation
>* And more
>Fields of interest:
>
>
>* Education
>* Drama in Education
>* Psychology and Psychotherapy
>* Medicine and Health Care
>* Organizational Change, Business and Management
>* Community Development
>* Performance Studies
>* Youth Development
>* Participatory Research and Evaluation
>* Political and Community Organizing
>* And more
>
>
>Performing the World 3 is sponsored by
>The East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy
>For proposal forms go to:
>http://www.performingtheworld.org/PTW3propform.pdf
>
>PERFORMING THE WORLD 3
>
>Conveners:
>
>Dan Friedman
>(The Castillo Theatre and Youth OnStage!, NYC)
>Lois Holzman
>(East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy, NYC)
>Sheila McNamee
>(University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH)
>Fred Newman
>(East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy, NYC)
>Lois Shawver
>(Scholar, Author, Oakland, CA)
>
>
>Environment
>
>Performing the World 3 will be held at the Tarrytown House in Tarrytown, New
>York, 24 miles north of Manhattan. The Tarrytown House is situated amidst
>wooded bluffs overlooking the Hudson River. Built in the late 1800s as a
>country estate, it offers all the facilities and amenities of the 21st
>century. Accommodations include cable TV, phone and Internet access, and use
>of the fitness center, tennis courts and indoor pool. The Tarrytown House is
>surrounded by miles of jogging and walking trails.
>
>Conference activities will run from 5 p.m. Friday, October 14 until 5 p.m.
>Sunday, October 16. Registration and check-in begin at 3 p.m. on Friday.
>
>
>Proposals
>
>Instructions and forms for submitting proposals, due March 15, 2005, can be
>viewed and downloaded at http://www.performingtheworld.org.
>
>
>
>
>Murray Dabby, LCSW
>Director,
>Atlanta Center for Social Therapy
>1758-B Century Blvd.
>Atlanta, GA 30345
>(404)633-3282
>Murraydab@aol.com
>www.atlantasocialtherapy.com
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