09 Mar Billboard + Humidity = Water
See what happened in when a a university, an ad agency, a serious social-economic-environmental problem, and a billboard come together. Watch the video and and read the article....
Author: loisholzman
09 Mar Who Are We/Who Are We Becoming?
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in Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Philosophy, Politics, Training/Classes, What's New 0 Comments
Earlier this evening I completed a six-day residency period of The International Class of the East Side Institute. It was an intense period of conversation on all manner of psychological, phiosophical, political, cultural and completely mundane matters. The 9 current members of this year's hail from 5 countries—Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, the Netherlands,...
07 Mar New Book Series!
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in Applied Theatre, Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Play, Psychology, Publications, What's New, Youth Development 2 Comments
I'm excited to share a new project of mine. I'm series editor for a new collection of books for Palgrave Macmillan on the topic of Play, Performance, Learning and Development. Over the next three years (and maybe beyond) researchers and practitioners will have a multi-disciplinary "home" to publish their work...
28 Feb Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information
I just saw "Love and Information", the new play by the great playwright Carly Churchill. Unique in form (15 actors played 100 parts in 57 scenes that are seconds to a few minutes long), it's equally unusual in content—how our obsession with knowing and information permeates our everyday conversations and...
25 Feb The Performance Turn in Social Activism
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in Applied Theatre, Clowning, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Play, Politics, Publications, Training/Classes, What's New 0 Comments
[caption id="attachment_2074" align="aligncenter" width="478"] New Book and Coffee Cup[/caption] I was so pleased to see this new book in the mail yesterday that I took a photo of it. Performance Studies in Motion originated in a 2010 conference at the University of Haifa: RS and PS: Richard Schechner and Performance Studies....
20 Feb Discover Development—NYC
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in Creativity, Culture, Events, Human Development, Performance Movement, Play, Speaking Engagements, Training/Classes, What's New 1 Comment
I'll be playing "Development Tour Guide" once again this coming May 16-18 as I lead another Discover Development NYC weekend. It's a unique small-group experience in seeing and making culture in one of the world's most vibrant cities. Contact Melissa Meyer at mmeyer@eastsideinstitute.org if you're interested. Click here for more information. ...
16 Feb Beyond the Therapeutic State
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in Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Events, I Like This, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, What's New 2 Comments
That’s the title of a conference taking place in Norway this coming June. I like the title for a few reasons. First, therapy has become “an arm” of the state. Second, I agree that we must believe in and work for something other than (“beyond”) the current therapy institution (what...
30 Jan More on Murray, Fred and Me
I have very few photos of my life before age 20 and lots and lots since then. I found one of Murray and another of Murray and me. And here's one of Fred and one of Fred and me. [caption id="attachment_2053" align="alignright" width="208"] Fred and me, circa 1990[/caption] [caption id="attachment_2051" align="alignleft" width="300"]...
30 Jan The Mystery of Play at TEDx
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Announcing TEDxNavesink PLAY I'm happy to say that I'll be there in Red Bank NJ on May 10 2014. for this unique event on the subject of PLAY. I'll be one of two dozen presenters (list in formation). I titled my talk, "Unveiling the Mystery of How Play Helps Us to Grow at...
23 Jan No Words for the Joy Music Creates for Us
Filmmaker Michael Rossato Bennett explores what music is and its power to "awaken" people with dementia. Watch the clip from "Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory” premiering at the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. Bennett comments that we don't have the vocabulary for what music does to us...