Lois Holzman |

05 Jan Can Performance Change the World?

Posted at 21:54h in Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming 2 Comments

January 5 2010 That's the question for the sixth Performing the World conference taking place September 30-October 3 in New York City. I'm what you could call the "chief organizer" for Performing the World (PTW) conferences and community. It's a great job because there seems to be no end to the...

30 Oct Development Grows in Juárez

Posted at 22:10h in Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics, Vygotsky, Youth Development 5 Comments

October 30, 2009 These days, la Cuidad Juárez in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico is pretty much known for one thing—violent crime. No denying the destruction of life and transformation of culture that’s hit this city so hard. But it is not the whole story (it never is). [caption id="attachment_321" align="alignleft" width="300"...

19 Aug Reviews for Vygotsky at Work and Play

Posted at 20:08h in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Language, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Reviews, Social Therapeutics, Vygotsky 0 Comments

August 19, 2009 Popular books, especially if they relate to current events, get reviewed as soon as they are published—and sometimes before. Not so academic books. Alas, it's typically a year before a review appears in print. So I was pleasantly surprised today to find an email in my inbox from...

11 Aug Don’t Let A Favorite Business Close

Posted at 19:04h in Community Organizing 5 Comments

August 11, 2009 Over lunch with my friend Melea Seward I told her that a favorite restaurant in my neighborhood had closed and said that if the owners had let people know there would almost certainly have been a community effort to keep it in business. We talked about the gap...