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22 Dec Words to Ponder #13

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Today’s Words to Ponder are spoken by Sir Malcolm Muckerex, the pompous and erudite narrator in Fred Newman’s play, “Life Upon the Wicked Stage.” The play was first performed live at the American Psychological Association Convention in 1997; you can watch a video performance of it here. The world is a wicked...

18 Dec Words to Ponder # 12

Posted at 14:03h in Culture, Human Development, I Like This, Play, What's New, Words to Ponder 3 Comments

Brian Sutton-Smith was a pioneer in researching the intellectual, social and cultural history of play. He passed away this past March at the age of 90. World renowned for the thoroughness of his scholarly writings, he is also very quotable. Here's one of his most famous: The opposite of play is not a present...

11 Dec Performance and Power

Posted at 19:12h in Applied Theatre, Creativity, Culture, Education, Events, Human Development, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Philosophy, Play, Politics, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Theatre, What's New, Youth Development 0 Comments

ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PROPOSALS September 23-25, 2016 Deadline for Proposals: February 21, 2016 The ninth Performing the World (PTW) conference will be held in New York City, Friday, September 23 through Sunday, September 25, 2016. As the practice, understanding and appreciation for performance and play continue to grow, the world context in which...

11 Dec Vygotsky in Practice

Posted at 17:44h in Creativity, Culture, Education, Human Development, Interviews, Learning Environments, Look and Listen, Philosophy, Play, Vygotsky, What's New, Youth Development 0 Comments

You might enjoy this conversation between Fred Newman and me from 18 years ago! We're looking at the various Vygotskian inspired projects we and our community created and if and how they're "Vygotskian." It was fascinating seeing them in their earlier years (once I got over the shock of seeing a much...

09 Dec Apolitical Intellectuals

Posted at 17:18h in Culture, I Like This, Look and Listen, Politics 0 Comments

The Castillo Theatre of the All Stars Project is named for Otto Rene Castillo, the Guatemalan poet and revolutionary. In this video, members, staff and volunteers of the Castillo Theatre perform "Apolitical Intellectuals"—the Castillo poem that inspired them. [embed]http://https://youtu.be/XSVoNZrjI6A[/embed] ...

03 Dec We Can Stop Playing the Blame Game

Posted at 18:11h in Culture, I Like This, Look and Listen, Play 0 Comments

In The City Beat, an essay by Omar Ali, the 2016 Carnegie Foundation North Carolina Professor of the Year and interim dean of Lloyd International Honors College at University of North Carolina at Greensboro on the origins of the blame game and how to stop playing it! Here's an excerpt: The philosopher...

30 Oct Words to Ponder #9

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"No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child." Maria Montessori ...

16 Oct Why I Love Castillo

Posted at 21:00h in Culture, I Like This, Politics, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre, What's New 0 Comments

The Castillo Theatre, housed in the NYC headquarters of the All Stars Project on 42nd St, is a special place. It's my favorite theatre. In my inbox today was an email from Castillo's artistic director Dan Friedman. It personally and eloquently gives expression to Castillo's values and aesthetics.—and I share...

14 Oct Words to Ponder #7

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"Some people would say that we need a ground from which to act. We need a shared collective ground for collective action. I think we need to pursue the moments of degrounding, when we're standing in two different places at once; or we don't know exactly where we're standing; or...

10 Oct What is the Practice of Method?

Posted at 16:11h in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Creativity, Culture, Human Development, Learning Environments, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Training/Classes, Vygotsky, Wittgenstein, Youth Development 0 Comments

I'm looking for people interested in exploring the politics, ethics and activity of a relational psychology of becoming. Social Therapeutics and the Practice of Method: An Advanced Online Course with Lois Holzman and Faculty February — May 2016 Social therapeutics is a “practice of method” for human and community development. What Lois Holzman and Fred...