04 Nov Words to Ponder #34
Today's quote is from Groucho, one of my two favorite Marx's. Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. ...
Author: loisholzman
02 Nov The Creative Way to Share What You Think You Know
I've traveled to several cities recently, speaking with students and faculty at different universities and introducing performance and improv to them through workshops. It 's always provocative and eye-opening to challenge the knowing paradigm at a university (for obvious reasons). Inviting professional knowers and knowers-to-be to perform philosophy as a new...
12 Jul Jackie Salit on Small Pleasures
I'm privileged to have Jackie Salit as a friend and mentor. Here is her most recent essay (Pipat's Letter) lamenting the loss —and embracing the joy—of small pleasures as she witnesses, like all of us, some world events. Yesterday morning, all the boys — the Wild Boars – were rescued. At...
05 Jul Old Friends and New
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in Applied Theatre, Clowning, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Events, Human Development, Performance Movement, Performing the World, Play, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre 0 Comments
I'm super excited about the upcoming (in September) Performing the World conference and so privileged to be chairing it again! I'm sharing the first of many newsletters because these people deserve to be known! Newsletter #1 July 3, 2018 Old Friends and New The 10th Performing the World 2018 (PTW) will take place in...
05 Jul Words to Ponder #33
At certain points in history, the paradigm that generated so much information comes to function as a hindrance to the use of that information. Fred Newman...
01 Jul Picture to Ponder
[caption id="attachment_3883" align="aligncenter" width="3264"] ReggieDecember 2003-July 2018[/caption]...
25 Jun Hope Springs…from Activity
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in Applied Theatre, Community Organizing, Culture, Events, Human Development, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre 3 Comments
“Hope springs eternal” is an English proverb that originated in an 18thcentury poem by Alexander Pope. It doesn’t, though. We have to create hope through what we do. This is the message I and many others are taking out to people we meet—from talks we give (“Creating Communities of Hope”) to...
07 Jun Going Somewhere New Together
The Overweight Brain: How our obsession with knowing keeps us from getting smart enough to make a better world shows the ways psychology, education and science are permeated with the conceptions that shape how we see, experience and relate in the world as knowers. In the book I try to show...
31 May New Appointment! Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Vygotskian Practice and Performance
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in Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Training/Classes, Vygotsky 1 Comment
Lloyd International Honors College Julius I. Foust Building, Suite 205 Greensboro, NC 27412 May 15, 2018 Dear Dr. Holzman, Congratulations! This letter is to confirm that you have been appointed Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Vygotskian Practice and Performance in Lloyd International Honors College at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro for a...
30 May The Overweight Brain — Available in June!
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in Human Development, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Publications, Vygotsky, Wittgenstein 2 Comments
The Overweight Brain, which was put online here chapter by chapter, is now a book! It will be available from Amazon as both a paperback and an e-book. We live at a time when knowledge of the world is all right there on our smart phones. Yet we persist in going through life...