<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div>Hi again Adam,</div><div><br></div><div>Yes I am thinking of Augusto Boal. He was part of a similar mob that Ed is going to and was in brisbane in about 1996. He did a plenary session with people he had been working with in a workshop for about three days. He worked for the three days trying out a set of scenes and then practising and going over it again and again and again and again (so I was told). He did this as the stereotypical theatre director (not psychodrama director) where he was the boss and everyone towed the line. This set presentation was then presented at the plenary session. He ran the show as a great showman. He was entertaining and charismatic. At times he invited the audience to try out different interventions. The "eekkyy" bit was when the audience didn't like what someone who was having a go did - they were cruel and he encouraged it and was caught up entirely in the moment. Showing his humaness really. I was part of a playback theatre troupe at the time and it all seemed rather clumsy and over contrived for a person who was used to crafting an immediate enactment from a live story. Perhaps I was one up? At our recent conference Jose Fonseca remembers Boal being in training and finds it amusing his reactiveness to psychodrama.<br><br></div><div>The suggestions that group work is all sociometry is really saying that all groups work is focused around the relational flows, which can be encountered in a more or less strict sociometric manner. On one end of a spectogram we could have a sociometric read out or even paper and print out. At the other end we have something more like "Kim I notice you seem really keen on what Dave is bringing forward. Could you express more of what you are showing with your body" or similar. Over here we would call that end of the spectogram <i><b>in situ. </b> </i>With the experietial learning process of the training here there are many, many opportunities to work with and experience and unearth the sociometry that is happening. Basically I think there is massive built in redundancy in the training. It is similar to a martial arts training. It needs to be trained into us not read into us. I go to Aikido training (a martial art) and I get shown something and then I need to practice, practice, practice in order to develop the capacity to use what I have been shown. I think this is one of the strengths of the training in my experience and from a theoretical perspective. For instance in a year long training group there might be 30 - 40 different session - that is sessions with beginning, middles and ends where there is opportunity to try out and experiment with things. Including group dynamics. I guess aI am considering sociometry in a broad sense and would often stick aspects of group dynamics in sociometry. Rather than reductionistic perhaps the area of sociometry is large enough to include a number of other models and frameworks. The other doesn't quite work the same way. For instance we can't stick sociometry under or wholely within the Central Concern Model model but we could legitimately stick the Central Concern Model under sociometry. Maybe cognitive dissonance working overtime here :) but methinks it goes easier one way than another. This has got me thinking further.................... Probably a few papers here as well.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers again from over here</div><div><br></div><div>Peter</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>Peter Howie B.Sc, TEP<div><div><div><div><div><div>Managing Director</div><div>The Moreno Collegium for Human Centred Learning, Research and Development</div><div>0411 873 851</div><div><a href="http://www.morenocollegium.com.au">www.morenocollegium.com.au</a></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br><div><div>On 17/04/2009, at 6:37 AM, Adam Blatner wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div bgcolor="#ffffff" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Are you talking about Augusto Boal and his Theatre of the Oppressed?</div><div> </div><div> For instance that chap from Brazil with the drama stuff whose name escapes me, was appalling with both groups and individuals - not always but I did witness some extremely clumsy large group work that was nevertheless entertaining and in some ways quite profound. So as a dramatist he was excellent.</div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"> ab: in which role component ? Drama therapy? group worker? Boal generally rejects psychodrama though his wife (or first wife?) was a psychodramatist in the 1960s. Nevertheless, I find his major format to be simply a kind of role playing</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"> Set up situation, have actors auxiliaries play it, heat it up, stop it: Ask audience how they'd do it. Invite them up to confront one of the players, model. Ask others to show how they'd do it... that kind of thing. Which is okay. But I'd like to hear more of your anecdote, because I don't know that Boal himself did it that way.</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"> On the other hand, the movies of Moreno conducting psychodrama make me cringe. Have you ever seen them?</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"> </font></div><div> The group work aspects are often absent in the specialised training becasue it is not core to what they are on about. Gestalt has been like this in the past in Australia - an individual process done in groups but it is beginning to change from what I hear. Or else the training is delivered as of a children's pedagogical sort - like the ways teachers teach children and young adults. And often the way adult educators teach adults. Often recognition of group effects or that practitioners are working in groups is absent. Then again I have run into teachers who denied they were leaders in any way. I find it quite distressing as these practitioners both work in groups and hate them at the same time while loving the ways they work. </div><div> </div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"> AB: I agree with your desire to see more awareness of group dynamics in leaders of groups! Yay!</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"> I'm not sure that many psychodramatists get sufficent training in this way. If one learns all the sociometry in the world, that is not the same as all the group dynamics training. I don't doubt that knowledge of sociometry informs group leadership---and I'd like to see that angle developed and integrated into group leader training; but neither does it constitute the whole of group work.</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div><div>Group work is all sociometry. That doesn't get taught.</div><div> ab: Do you think this? I think it's too reductionistic.</div><blockquote style="padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; margin-right: 0px; "><div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font><br></div><div>I hope you have a ball. I am encouraging ANZPA members to act in a more coherent fashion when presenting at conferences as you are doing and as Adam and others have been encouraging. Do it with colleagues and don't act like the mob you are presenting for already know this stuff because they don't. </div><div><br></div><div>Cheers for the moment</div><div><br></div><div>Peter in Brisbane</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 16/04/2009, at 9:14 PM, Edward Schreiber wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p style="min-height: 19px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Dear Colleagues,</p><p style="min-height: 19px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">I pass along an upcoming conference that brings Psychodrama, Sociodrama, Sociatry, Sociometry together with many other Expressive Arts in Social Action and therapy. Rosalie Minkin and I have been invited to present and this will be woven into the fabric of this conference. The conference web site is:</p><p style="min-height: 19px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><a href="http://www.ieata.org/conference.html">http://www.ieata.org/conference.html</a></p><p style="min-height: 19px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">This is an example of a good conference structure.</p><p style="min-height: 19px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Best,</p><p style="min-height: 19px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><br></p><p style="min-height: 19px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">EdP</p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 32px; "><font face="Verdana" color="#ff6400" size="6" style="font: normal normal normal 22px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(255, 100, 0); "><b>2009 Conference</b></font></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 17px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" color="#65329a" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 17px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(101, 50, 154); "><b><i>8th Biennial International Conference</i></b></font></p><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="602" style="padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; width: 602px; padding-top: 4px; "><tbody><tr><td valign="center" style="padding-right: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 249px; padding-top: 0px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; 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margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" color="#333333" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">• Break down cultural barriers and misperceptions</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" color="#333333" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">• Encourage community participation and growth</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" color="#333333" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">• Provide opportunities for empowerment and social change/healing</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" color="#333333" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">• Promote social justice locally and internationally</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" color="#333333" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">We also will address the interdisciplinary use of the arts in therapy, and the interface between expressive arts therapy and social transformation. We’ll examine the role of the arts for social change within individual relationships, families and communities, and as a bridge among diverse communities.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" color="#ff6400" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(255, 100, 0); "><b>Location</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" color="#333333" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Cambridge’s vibrant Harvard Square area will provide the backdrop for the 2009 conference, which will be hosted by the Expressive Therapy program at Lesley University’s Porter Square campus.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" color="#333333" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">The conference will feature programming in several venues designed to connect participants to the vibrant Cambridge community, the larger community of expressive arts modalities, a rich academic community, and the global community.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" color="#333333" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Cambridge, MA, just across the Charles River from Boston, is home to Lesley University where pioneers of the Expressive Arts founded an Institute for Arts and Human Development in the mid-1970s. Cambridge is renowned for its prestigious schools, rich cultural resources, diverse population, and an extraordinary array of social gathering places - from restaurants to clubs to parks.</font></p><p align="center" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font face="Verdana" color="#2c7ecd" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(44, 126, 205); "><a href="http://www.ieata.org/conference.html#top"><b>top</b><b></b></a></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" color="#ff6400" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(255, 100, 0); "><b>Social action project</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" color="#333333" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><b>MONDAY AND TUESDAY, AUGUST 10-11</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" color="#333333" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Prior to the start of the conference, attendees are invited to participate in a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>two-day intergenerational Social Action Project,</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>titled<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Peace-Arts Zone: Peace-ing our Communities Together.</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The project is an extension of a call to communities<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>in the greater Boston area</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to come together and utilize the arts for peace-making<b>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Materials fee of $25 applies.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.ieata.org/conference_workshop_descriptions.html"><font color="#2c7ecd" style="color: rgb(44, 126, 205); "><b>Learn more ></b></font></a></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" color="#ff6400" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(255, 100, 0); "><b>Pre-conference workshops and celebration</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" color="#333333" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><b>WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" color="#333333" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">The<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>conference begins<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>with several all-day<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>pre-conference workshops,</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>featuring many familiar and new presenters including<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Shaun McNiff, Vivien-Marcow Speiser and Phillip Speiser, Robert Macy and Dicki Macy, Stephen K. Levine and Ellen Levine, Kate Powers, Jason Cruz and RAW Art Works, Natalie Rogers and Mukti Khanna, and Kathleen Horne, Victoria Domenichello-Anderson and the Expressive Arts Florida team.</i></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" color="#333333" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><b>Wednesday evening</b>, Lesley University, in conjunction with the IEATA conference, will kick off its<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Centennial Celebration</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>with free performances by Expressive Arts community groups run by Lesley’s Expressive Therapy Alumni, and with special recognition of the founder of Lesley’s program, Shaun McNiff.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" color="#ff6400" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(255, 100, 0); "><b>Conference schedule</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" color="#2c7ecd" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(44, 126, 205); "><a href="http://www.ieata.org/conference_workshops.html"><b>See schedule at-a-glance ><br></b></a></font><a href="http://www.ieata.org/conference_workshop_descriptions.html"><b>See workshop descriptions ></b></a></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" color="#333333" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><b>THURSDAY, AUGUST 13</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" color="#333333" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><b>The morning</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>begins with a gathering of our IEATA community by our Executive Co-Chairs and Conference Committee. Thursday’s<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>keynote speakers<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b><i>Robert and Dicki Macy</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>are world-renowned for the arts-based trauma interventions they have shared with communities around the globe through their individual work and their work with the Center for Trauma Psychology. Join them for a discussion of the ways they have been able to implement expressive arts interventions for a more just world.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" color="#333333" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><b>In the</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>afternoon</b>, participants can choose from a wide variety of 1.5- and 3-hour workshops dealing with a plethora of topics on harnessing the creative arts and arts therapies to facilitate peacemaking, growth, change and social action. Workshop options include panels, experiential programs, lectures and performances that cover a broad range of modalities and methodologies.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" color="#333333" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><b>Thursday evening</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>features a free performance by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Paolo Knill and Elizabeth McKim</i>, followed by an Open Mic event. Why just talk about the transformative power of making and sharing creative work, when you have the opportunity to do it? The conference Open Mic will provide participants with an opportunity to share and perform their creative work for/with their peers.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" color="#333333" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><b>FRIDAY, AUGUST 14</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" color="#333333" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><b>The morning</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>features IEATA Committee reports and a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>keynote address</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>David Gere</i>. As Project Director of Make Art/Stop AIDS, Dr. Gere has utilized the arts to mobilize academics, artists, activists and citizens against the global AIDS epidemic. Beginning his work with this initiative in India in 2003, Dr. Gere has used the universal language of the arts to spearhead AIDS prevention and education interventions around the world.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" color="#333333" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><b>In the afternoon,</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>we will continue with workshops.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" color="#333333" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><b>Friday evening</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>starts with an<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Educational Fair<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Poster Session.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>New work is being added to the body of Expressive Arts research all the time. Come and check out innovative new research, writing and therapeutic interventions by students and professionals in the field.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" color="#333333" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">An<b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Awards Banquet<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Community Dance<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>with live music will follow for an additional $25 fee. After all the conference sessions, idea sharing, and art making, you’re going to need some time to relax! Join your friends from the IEATA community—and make some new ones—for an evening of dining, dancing and socializing at the beautiful Sheraton Commander hotel, in the heart of Cambridge!</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" color="#333333" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><b>SATURDAY, AUGUST 15</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" color="#333333" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><b>Our conference ends</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>with a celebration of IEATA and a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>closing ritual</b>.</font></p><p align="center" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font face="Verdana" color="#2c7ecd" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(44, 126, 205); "><a href="http://www.ieata.org/conference.html#top"><b>top</b><b></b></a></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" color="#ff6400" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(255, 100, 0); "><b>Post-conference workshops</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" color="#333333" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><b>SATURDAY, AUGUST 15</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" color="#333333" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">For participants wanting one last chance to connect with familiar and new faces, we will offer a menu of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>half-day post-conference workshops.</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Presenters will include<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Sally Atkins and the Appalachian Expressive Arts Collective, Kyoko Ono, Anin Utigaard, Graciela Bottini and Maria Gonzalez-Blue, Julia Byers, and Adriana Marchione.</i></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" color="#ff6400" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(255, 100, 0); "><b>Registration</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" color="#333333" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Online registration coming soon!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Check back in mid-April.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" color="#ff6400" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(255, 100, 0); "><b>Fees</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; ">The conference fee includes lunches on Thursday and Friday, all keynote addresses and workshops, Lesley Centennial Celebration, Educational Fair, Poster Session, entertainment, morning yoga and warm-ups, and opportunities to network and connect with a community of like-minded and creative souls.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; ">If you are not yet an IEATA member,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://web.memberclicks.com/mc/quickForm/viewForm.do?orgId=ieata&formId=39497"><font color="#2c7ecd" style="color: rgb(44, 126, 205); "><b>join now<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></font></a>and SAVE on your conference fee. 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