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Performance Movement

14 Sep Performing Shakespeare: “You Have to Get the Language in Your Mouth”

Posted at 02:10h in Culture, Language, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Popular Posts, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre, Vygotsky, Youth Development 0 Comments

September 14, 2010 One evening last month I had a terrific time creating conversation on language, speaking and thinking with five young performers—members of an all-youth cast that recently performed Macbeth on one of the stages at the All Stars Project in NYC. I was blown away by the show. It...

13 Sep UX/You Can’t Learn Without Development

Posted at 21:32h in Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, Youth Development 3 Comments

September 13, 2010 What would you call a center for development open to people of all ages? With an array of programs, workshops and classes spanning culture, performance, leadership, volunteerism? Offering sessions with development coaches as often as you wish? Having the opportunity to grow from all NYC has to offer?...

16 Aug Dan Friedman’s Theatre for Nothing

Posted at 19:37h in Applied Theatre, Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Learning Environments, Performance Movement, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre 2 Comments

August 16, 2010 My good friend Dan Friedman has written a paper I highly recommend. Entitled “Theatre for Nothing,” the paper delineates how theatre is being instrumentalized, especially in relation to social change efforts. Dan urges that politically oriented theatre activists recognize the stifling effect this is having on the potential...

11 Aug The Blessing and the Wound

Posted at 01:19h in Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy 0 Comments

August 10, 2010 I know hundreds of performers-social change workers (and know of hundreds more). But I'd not heard of Hector Aristizabal until Amazon sent me an email (just for me of course!) recommending his book written with Diane Lefer, entitled, The Blessing and the Wound: A Story of Art, Activism,...

17 Jul Can Performance Change the World?

Posted at 20:21h in Clowning, Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Health Care, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Youth Development 0 Comments

July 17, 2010 Participate in discovering/creating responses to this question by attending the sixth Performing the World conference: Performing the World 2010, September 30-October 3, 2010, New York City (hosted by All Stars Project, Inc and East Side Institute for Group and short Term Psychotherapy) “Can Performance Change the World?” Performing artists, community organizers, theatre workers,...

16 Jul Critical Psychology on Street Corners

Posted at 20:20h in Community Organizing, Culture, Learning Environments, Performance Movement, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming 2 Comments

July 16, 2010 I'm beginning to write a chapter on the state of Critical Psychology for a Chinese journal and I've spent a few hours flipping through writings, both mine and colleagues of mine. It's part of how I create an environment for having a new thought, for allowing others (including...

05 Jun Social Therapeutics in a South African Prison

Posted at 17:49h in Culture, Education, Learning Environments, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics 2 Comments

June 5, 2010 "As progressives we have come to believe that if people address the issue of human development—in direct and practical ways—we might indeed change the world." So reads the title page of a booklet the East Side Institute put out several years ago on our history, philosophy and programs. I...

22 Jan Reports from the Field—Advancing Community Building through Performance

Posted at 15:06h in Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Learning Environments, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, Social Therapeutics 2 Comments

January 22, 2010 In 2004 I initiated a program to support grassroots social entrepreneurs and activist-scholars whose work is too new or innovative or radical to get much support. The program is called The International Class of the East Side Institute. As of today, over 50 people from five U.S. States...

15 Jan Galinsky on Play and Learning (and Performance)

Posted at 21:43h in Culture, Education, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, Youth Development 0 Comments

March 18,2010 Here's the link to a video of the scened from the Work/Play described below January, 15, 2010 I was delighted to see The Work/Play - the current production of Youth OnStage! (the youth theatre of the All Stars Project) - featured in a column by Ellen Galinsky in today's Huffington Post....

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...