Events and Classes: September
A Fall-to-Winter Season Opening Reception
The East Side Institute presents...
A Fall-to-Winter Season
of Revolutionary Conversation
Wednesday, September 15, 7:15 - 8:45pm
920 Broadway, 14th Floor (at 20th Street)
Join Us for a season opening reception. Stop by after work, raise a glass and join us for...
...some creative play and improvisation,
...an introduction to upcoming workshops and events,
...and an opportunity to talk to our faculty, students
and broad community.
Join the conversation on the creation of a new psychology.
Please RSVP to mmeyer@eastsideinstitute.org or 212-941-8906, ext 304.
A Fall-to-Winter Season
of Revolutionary Conversation
Wednesday, September 15, 7:15 - 8:45pm
920 Broadway, 14th Floor (at 20th Street)
Join Us for a season opening reception. Stop by after work, raise a glass and join us for...
...some creative play and improvisation,
...an introduction to upcoming workshops and events,
...and an opportunity to talk to our faculty, students
and broad community.
Join the conversation on the creation of a new psychology.
Please RSVP to mmeyer@eastsideinstitute.org or 212-941-8906, ext 304.
Being as Healthy as You Can Be: Play and Performance from Beginning to End
Being as Healthy as You Can Be:
Play and Performance from Beginning to End
A workshop with Dr. Susan Massad
Saturday, September 25, 10:30am-12:00pm
Location: 920 Broadway, 14th Floor (bet 20th and 21st)
Fee: $25.00 in advance/ $30.00 at the door
Click here to register
For Susan Massad, no one is too old, too ill or too impaired to play and perform, or to develop and learn new ways of being. As a doctor and seasoned community organizer, Dr. Massad brings the humanism and creativity of social therapeutics to her understanding of health, illness and infirmity.
This workshop is for everyone – young, middle-aged or old – who wants to explore the potential for health, vitality, creativity and continued productivity that can (but often doesn’t) come with growing older, chronic illness or disability.
Susan Massad is a medical educator and general internist at the Brooklyn Hospital Center. She has taught and lectured widely on postmodern and humanistic approaches to the practice of medicine. In 2004, she was named by New York Magazine as one of the NYC’s top-10 doctors for her expertise in doctor-patient communication and her groundbreaking work in bringing improv and performance into the medical education of resident physicians.
Play and Performance from Beginning to End
A workshop with Dr. Susan Massad
Saturday, September 25, 10:30am-12:00pm
Location: 920 Broadway, 14th Floor (bet 20th and 21st)
Fee: $25.00 in advance/ $30.00 at the door
Click here to register
For Susan Massad, no one is too old, too ill or too impaired to play and perform, or to develop and learn new ways of being. As a doctor and seasoned community organizer, Dr. Massad brings the humanism and creativity of social therapeutics to her understanding of health, illness and infirmity.
This workshop is for everyone – young, middle-aged or old – who wants to explore the potential for health, vitality, creativity and continued productivity that can (but often doesn’t) come with growing older, chronic illness or disability.
Susan Massad is a medical educator and general internist at the Brooklyn Hospital Center. She has taught and lectured widely on postmodern and humanistic approaches to the practice of medicine. In 2004, she was named by New York Magazine as one of the NYC’s top-10 doctors for her expertise in doctor-patient communication and her groundbreaking work in bringing improv and performance into the medical education of resident physicians.
Performing the World 2010: Can Performance Change the World?
Performing the World 2010:
Can Performance Change the World?
Thursday, September 30-Sunday, October 3
Location: All Stars Project, Inc., 543 West 42 Street (between 10th & 11th Aves)
Fee: $245.00
Click here to register
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. Performing the World 2010 is well underway.
Nearly 100 presentations, workshops and performances will be featured at this year’s Performing the World. Below is a sampling of theatre related sessions and presentations dealing with performance, health and wellness. Check back frequently on www.performingtheworld.org for highlights 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.
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.
Can Performance Change the World?
Thursday, September 30-Sunday, October 3
Location: All Stars Project, Inc., 543 West 42 Street (between 10th & 11th Aves)
Fee: $245.00
Click here to register
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. Performing the World 2010 is well underway.
Nearly 100 presentations, workshops and performances will be featured at this year’s Performing the World. Below is a sampling of theatre related sessions and presentations dealing with performance, health and wellness. Check back frequently on www.performingtheworld.org for highlights 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.
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.
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