expressive arts

[Adam Blatner]

By the way, are any of you on the East Coast or elsewhere going to attend this Expressive Arts conference? I'm interested in building more bridges with our sister organizations. 
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    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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