SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT (6/5/05)

Performing the World 3
The Performance of Creativity and the Creativity of Performance
Friday, October 14 - Sunday, October 16, 2005
Tarrytown House, Tarrytown, NY

Around the globe, people are sweeping aside old notions of how we learn and develop, how to educate and to help, and what it is to build community -- by developing new practices based in performance. In both theory and practice, a new psychology that understands our ability to perform -- to pretend, to play, to improvise, to be who we are and other than who we are -- as key to our emotional, social and intellectual growth and well-being.

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.
  

Program includes :

• Performance and improvisation training workshops led by professional trainers and performers.
  
• Demonstrations and hands-on exploration of performance approaches to community development, teaching and learning, therapy, social work and mental health, medicine, bodywork and movement, social activism and politics.
  
• Performance art and dance from established artists-activists from all over the globe.
  
• Explorations of ritual and traditional culture as tools for personal growth and social change, highlighting projects from Bangladesh, the former Yugoslavia, South Africa, and various ethnic communities in the US and Canada.
  
• An international display of youth performers and performance projects.
  

A Sampling of Workshops

• Empowering vulnerable youth (street children of Afghan refugees)
  
• Creating new family "plays"
  
• Taking back social work from social sciences: performing - not dictating - ethical relationships
  
• Vibe theater experience: empowering teenage girls through collaborative theater creation
  
• Transforming organizations using lessons from the festivals of the Caribbean & the Americas
  
• Deconstructing stereotypes in families - rites of reconciliation for children and parents
  
• Active citizenry: improvisation, jazz dance, and the creative process
  
• We are different, we are equal: a multimedia and multicultural approach for the promotion of youth sexual and reproductive rights in Nicaragua
  
• Children's projects in the midst of the crisis - creative and authentic response to violence
  
• The drama of medical encounters
  
• Improvisation and performance in the workplace: creative challenges for trainers and participants
  
• Laughing for development: clown theater for health education in Africa
  
• Performing coexistence: theatre promoting peace in Israel
  
• Performing status: the basis of relationship
  
• An improvised conversation on learning and technology

Performing the World 3 is sponsored by the East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy, 920 Broadway, 14 th floor, New York, NY, 10010.  
Tel. 212.941.8906, Fax 212.941.0511, www.eastsideinstitute.org

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 (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 6 p.m. Sunday, October 16. Registration and check-in begin at 3 p.m. on Friday.

Fees

Fees include conference registration, Friday and Saturday night accommodations, all meals from Friday dinner through Sunday lunch, coffee breaks and a Saturday night party. We can accommodate only a limited number of one-day and no-accommodation registrations.

A limited number of work/study positions and scholarships are available.   
To register online, go to www.performingtheworld.org.

For more information on the conference, work/study or scholarships, or to register by phone, contact Melissa Meyer:

The East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy
Attention: Melissa Meyer
920 Broadway, 14th floor, New York, NY 10010
Phone: 212-941-8906 Fax: 212-941-0511
ptw@eastsideinstitute.org
www.performingtheworld.org