A Challenge to the ASGPP

[drjb at mindspring.com]

Dear Ed,
 I am just back from Romania (Sibiu) where I did a two day workshop on Sociometry. Rhadu says Hi. They gave me a shepards hat and a t shirt from the conference where you presented. Asked me to have my picture taken with you in St Lois wearing the t shirt. I also gave them a copy of your paper on sociometry that you put on the internet--they had it translated to Romanian--I will bring it for you. The workshop was at a school--Could we use Leslie? where you have connections? I looked into ODU but it was expensive and unworkable for many reasons.

I was just also presenting at the conference for Sociodrama in Sweden and Helsinki. We were on a cruise ship, luxuriours and yet less expensive than a hotel. Another conference idea.

Why don't you run for council so that you can help ASGPP make the changes that you want them to make from the inside-- like Martin Luther King-- and now we have Obama.

Love, Jeanne

-----Original Message-----
>From: Edward Schreiber <edwschreiber at earthlink.net>
>Sent: Mar 15, 2009 8:41 PM
>To: Group talk Listserv <list at grouptalkweb.org>
>Subject: A Challenge to the ASGPP
>
>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
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>Expressive Arts in Social Action: Peace-ing our world together
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>International Expressive Arts Therapy Association
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>8th International Conference
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>Lesley University
>Cambridge MA
>August 12-15, 2009
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>February 23, 2009
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>Dear Workshop Presenter,
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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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