PerformWorld & psychodrama?

[Adam Blatner]

Dear Colleagues, 
    Do any of you folks know about this group? Apparently they overlap with our interests --- from what I can gather-- but it's hard to know what exactly they do or what they're about. 
        I've seen some of their books---heavy into the postmodernist rationale, light on description---
   But one is about drama in education and that feels closer to spontaneity training in schools---I feel good about that---

         So though I can't afford to attend, perhaps someone in the New York area knows someone who knows these people?

       Warmly, Adam



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Performing the World '08
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Deadline for Proposals: April 1, 2008
Announcement and Call for Proposals
�The conveners of Performing the World, the conference/festival of the
growing international performance movement, are excited to announce
that the fifth Performing the World will be held in New York City from
October 2-5, 2008. The event will showcase innovative practice and
scholarship and provide a rich context for learning and performing
together.
�A New Location, A New Kind of Conference
�Performing the World '08 (PTW '08) builds on the momentum of 2007's
PTW 4, which brought together 300 practitioners, scholars and
community activists-educators, youth workers, researchers,
psychologists and therapists, health and helping professionals,
business people, artists and activists from 27 countries. PTW '08 is
bringing the international performance movement to the streets of New
York-and introducing the performance movement to the communities of
New York City.

For the first time, the All Stars Project, an organization recognized
for its highly successful performance-based outside-of-school
developmental programs for young people and its Castillo Theatre,
joins the East Side Institute as a co-sponsor of the conference.� PTW
'08 will be based out of the All Stars' performance and development
center on 42nd Street near Times Square, and will be hosted by young
people from around the city. Workshops and performances will take
place there and at theatres, schools and other venues throughout
Manhattan and other boroughs. New Yorkers from virtually every
neighborhood will open up their homes to out-of-towners, not only to
save on hotel costs, but also to incorporate the diversity of family
and neighborhood into the experience of the weekend and to build
person-to-person ties between ordinary New Yorkers and performance
activists and scholars from around the world.
�Proposals
�PTW '08 invites proposals from all who are involved in performance
work that is related to cultural, economic or psychological
development, community-building, social justice, citizenry, individual
and social transformation, social entrepreneurship, etc. We are
looking for a variety of presentation types, including workshops,
conversations, demonstrations, discussions and panels. We encourage a
playfulness and experimentation for all presentations, especially with
regard to theory and data.
�This year's theme, "Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow," encourages
participants to attend to history and process-their own and that of
the performance movement. We are particularly interested in
examinations/explorations of the shift from a cognitive to a
performative approach to understanding, interacting with and
(re)creating the world as embodied in the work of the participants
and/or those they with whom they work/play/ study. Also of interest is
the performance movement's interaction with and impact on the "big
issues" facing the world- poverty, war and peace, sustainability,
democracy, globalization, cultural diversity and creativity, the list
could go on. The second day of PTW '08 will be devoted to "An
International Celebration of Youth" and we encourage those interested
to submit proposals relative to youth, youth performance and youth
development for that day.
�Fields of Interest:
�* Applied Theatre
* Improvisation
* Performance Studies
* Youth Development
* Participatory Research and Evaluation
* Political and Community Organizing
* Education
* Drama in Education
* Psychology and Psychotherapy
* Community Development
* Medicine and Health Care
* Organizational Change, Business and Management
A sampling of conversational themes, panels, workshops and
performances:
�* Performance as a Community Building Methodology
* Postmodern Creativity and Performance
* Knowing, Not Knowing and Performing
* Performance and Politics
* Performance in Daily Life
* The Therapeutics of Performance
* The Creativity of the Group, Ensemble and Community
* Theatre and Community
* The Creativity of Improvisation
* Performing, Improvising and Learning
* The Power of Play
* Conflict Resolution and Performance
Conveners:
�Dan Friedman, All Stars Project, NY
Lois Holzman, East Side Institute, NY
Dian Marie Hosking, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Ana Marjanovic-Shane, Cultural Educational Center "ZMAJ", NY &
Philadelphia
Sheila McNamee, University of New Hampshire, Durham
Paul Murray, University of Winchester, UK
Fred Newman, East Side Institute, NY
Registration Fee:

Before August 1: $195 (US)
After August 1: � $225 (US)
�Instructions and forms for submitting proposals, due April 1, 2008,
can be viewed and downloaded at www.performingtheworld.org. Proposals
should be e-mailed to Lois Holzman at ptw at eastsideinstitute.org. The
subject headline should be PTW Proposal.� If you can't e-mail, then
mail or fax to:

Lois Holzman, Director
East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy
920 Broadway, 14th Floor
New York, New York 10010
U.S.A.
Fax: 212-941-0511
Tel: 212-941-8906
�PTW '08 is sponsored by the All Stars Project, Inc. (www.allstars.org)
and the East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy
(www.eastsideinstitute.org).

Adam Blatner, M.D.
   website: www.blatner.com/adam/   
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