A Challenge to the ASGPP

[Edward Schreiber]

Dear Colleagues,
How much are we willing to stay stuck in our conserve, a conference  
structure that no longer meets the needs of the larger community to  
hear, learn, grow with our method?  We keep the same format, the same  
awards dinner for the same selected people who can afford to attend,  
the same on-going structures that frankly are becoming stale.  A  
recent letter by Zerka to the President and the Council has called  
for us to grow.  Yet what I continue to hear is fear, resistance to  
take a leap.  So here's the challenge:  Read the enclosed and see  
what we could offer to the world - with the will, creativity, and  
drive to bring our method to the world in a way that grows us beyond  
the conserve our conference has become.

Here's an example:
best,
Ed

Expressive Arts in Social Action: Peace-ing our world together



International Expressive Arts Therapy Association

8th International Conference



Lesley University
Cambridge MA
August 12-15, 2009

February 23, 2009

Dear Workshop Presenter,

We are so excited that you are coming to our conference.  We have an  
exciting line-up of activities planned for the week of Aug 10-15.   
Prior to the actual start of the conference, attendees are invited to  
participate in a two-day intergenerational Social Action Project that  
is an extension of a call to communities to come together and utilize  
the arts for peace-making. Peace-Arts Zone, Peace-ing our Communities  
Together will take place on Monday and Tuesday, August 10-11 in the  
greater Boston area and will allow participants to work with youth  
and elders to create an arts-based project that brings these  
disparate groups together to envision and create symbols of peace.

The conference will officially begin on Wednesday, August 12 with  
several all-day pre-conference workshops.  Our pre-conference  
workshops will include many familiar and some new presenters  
including Shaun McNiff, Vivien-Marcow Speiser and Phillip Speiser,  
Robert Macy and Dickie Macy, Stephen K. Levine and Ellen Levine, Kate  
Powers, Jason Cruz and RAW Art Works, Natalie Rogers and Mutki  
Khanna, and Kathleen Horne, Victoria Domenichello-Anderson and the  
Expressive Arts Florida team.

Wednesday evening, Lesley University in conjunction with the IEATA  
conference will kick off its Centennial Celebration with performances  
by Expressive Arts community groups run by Lesley’s Expressive  
Therapy Alumni, and with recognition of our founders.

Thursday, August 13 begins our conference with a gathering of our  
IEATA community by our Executive Co-Chairs and Conference Committee.   
Our keynote address on Thursday will be by Robert and Dickie Macy  
(Children's Trauma Recovery Foundation) (Founder, Center for Trauma  
Psychology and author of numerous books), experts in using the arts  
with trauma around the world. The Macy’s have implemented an  
expressive arts based psychosocial intervention projects in the  
United States, Netherlands, Norway, Palestine and Israel, Jordan,  
Afghanistan, Nepal, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Burundi, Eritrea and  
South Africa.  In the afternoon, we will begin our workshops, where  
over 60 presentations, both lecture and experiential will take  
place.  Thursday evening we will have a performance by Paolo Knill  
and Elizabeth McKim, topped off by an Open Mic event.

Friday, August 14 we will continue with IEATA Committee reports and a  
second keynote address by David Gere. Dr. Gere teaches at the  
University of California at Los Angeles and is the Director of MAKE  
ART/STOP AIDS, an international network of artists intervening in the  
AIDS epidemic, Director of the Art/Global Health Center, and  
Associate Professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures. Dr.  
Gere was the 2008 Sonnabend Fellow.  His presentation “Please Listen,  
People,” HIV/AIDS Scrolls of West Bengal represents a multi-media  
project incorporating an ancient technique of storytelling, art  
making, poetry and song.  In the afternoon, we will begin our  
workshops, where over 60 presentations, both lecture and experiential  
will take place.  Friday evening will bring an Educational Fair and a  
Poster Session followed by an Awards Banquet and Community Dance.

Saturday, August 15 our conference will “officially” end with a  
celebration of IEATA and an ending ritual.  The conference will then  
open up to a menu of half-day post-conference workshops that will  
allow participants one last chance to connect with familiar and new  
faces. Post conference presenters will include Sally Atkins and the  
Appalachian Expressive Arts Collective, Kyoko Ono, Anin Utigaard,  
Graciela Bottini and Maria Gonzalez-Blue, Julia Byers, and Adriana  
Marchione.

Conference registration will officially begin April 1.  All  
registration will take place on-line through www.ieata.org.  Lodging  
will be provided by Sheraton Commander Hotel in Harvard Square,  
Cambridge (http://www.starwoodmeeting.com/Book/IEA) for both room  
discounts and for a banquet/awards dinner/dance with a live band that  
will take place on the Friday night of the conference. A separate  
ticket will have to be purchased ($25) for the banquet.



A second lodging option will be staying in the dorm rooms at Lesley  
University. Most dorm rooms are spacious air conditioned and located  
in Victorian Houses on campus. The rate for these rooms are: Single  
Room $65/PP/no AC - $85/PP+ AC Double Room $55/PP/noAC - $75/PP/+AC.  
Information will be available at the time of registration for how to  
apply for dorm lodging.



A third lodging option we are exploring is doing a student-student  
exchange, where a student at Lesley or alumni will volunteer their  
couch or spare bedroom.




  
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