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Lois’ colleagues Tag

28 Nov

Posted at 00:36h in Culture, Education, Health Care, Human Development, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming

November 29, 2010 A wonderful and important performance project is one being carried out by my friends at Performance of a Lifetime and the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins. Dubbed the Performance of Resiliency, the project began in 2008 and involves the entire oncology nursing department in developing their ability...

23 Nov

Posted at 03:59h in Activity Theory, Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Human Development, Language, Learning Environments, Performance Movement, Postmodern Marxism, Psychology of Becoming, Vygotsky, Youth Development

[caption id="attachment_785" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Celcilia Magalhães, Lois Holzman, Carrie Lobman, Fernanda Liberali"][/caption] November 22, 2010 With friend and colleague Carrie Lobman, I just returned from a ten-day trip to Brazil as the guests of two wonderfully talented educator/researchers—Fernanda Liberali and Maria Cecilia Magalhães from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. Carrie...

26 Oct

Posted at 02:27h in Clowning, Community Organizing, Culture, Education, Health Care, Human Development, Outside of School, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre, Uncategorized, Youth Development

October 25, 2010 That's the question that over 500 people from 38 countries played and performed with, and created conversations, dances, music and  skits about—and simultaneously shared the inspiring and creative work they are doing in their communities, schools, hospitals, universities, NGOs and neighborhood streets. The event was Performing the World 2010,...

16 Aug

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

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...

17 Jul

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

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,...

05 Jun

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

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...