IDEA's Dan Baron Cohen declares Nov. 27th International Drama/Theatre and Education Day

My friend Dan Baron Cohen (one of my co-participants last month at Performing the World 08) has sent an email to The Hankster that I thought you might be interested in:


IDEA friends, amigos, amis!

As the President of IDEA, I’m delighted to declare November 27th International Drama/Theatre and Education Day. We now have a specific date to celebrate our rich and distinctive contribution to the global project of cultivating a human education, human rights and peace for all, in particular for young people, children, and excluded communities that are threatened by violence...

Cómo Presidente de IDEA, estoy encantado de declarar el día 27 de Noviembre como el Día Internacional del Drama/Teatro y Educación. Ahora tenemos un día especifico para celebrar nuestra rica y distintiva contribución al proyecto global que busca cultivar una educación humana, los derechos humanos y la paz para todos, en particular para los jóvenes, los niños y las comunidades excluidas amenazadas por la violencia...

En tant que Président d’IDEA, j’ai l’honneur de déclarer le 27 novembre Journée Internationale de l’Education Artistique en Théâtre. Nous avons désormais une date spécifique pour célébrer notre riche et singulière contribution au projet global de développement de l’éducation des hommes, des droits de l’homme et de la paix pour tous, et tout particulièrement pour les jeunes, les enfants et les exclus menacés par la violence...

Dan Baron Cohen
IDEA President 2007-2010
Chair of the World Alliance for Arts Education
www.idea-org.net

PTW 2008 Blogging the World International Youth Performance Harlem

PTW 2008 Blogging the World International Youth Performance

New York City

Performing the World

2008

PTW 2008 Blogging the World from New York City, Friday Oct 3

There's a Picasa photo album at the top of The Hankster of snap-shots of a FEW of today's Performing the World conference/performance festival. There are so many wonderfully creative programs represented that engage social workers, youth, performance and progress in a world sorely in need of a new performance. Some of the sessions pictured here include:

• Irish National Youth Theatre - A Methodological Approach (Orlaith McBride)
• A Work in Progress: The Tools-and-Results of a Youth Group in Mexico and Their Process in Spite of Progress (Miguel Cortes, Diana Itzel Gonzalez and others; org headed by Teresa Almada Mireles) presented by the Centro de Asesoria y Promocion Juvenil A.C. (aka CASA)
• The Performance of Studying Performance: Building Bridges Between the Academy and Performance Communities (Richard Schechner, Jon Oram, Judith Marcuse, Paul Murray)
• Improvising Yesterday to Clarify Today and Illuminate Tomorrow: Performance for Conflict Resolution and Political Stability in Nigeria (Babafemi Babatope -- aka "Bicycle")
• (Outside) What's Your Problem? (Chris Dupuis) installation in progress!
• Performing Your Creative Self at Work (Carrie Sackett, Jennifer Ostrega)
• Community; Creativity; Change! Ethiopia's One Love HIV/AIDS Awareness Theater [aka Awassa Childrens Project] (John McKay, David Schein, Anteneh Tamrat, Tesfaye Tekele)
• Citizens as Actors in Urban Renewal Projects: Could Performance Make a Differenct? (Corinne Marseille, Karen Hemink)
• The (Re) Making Project: An Experiment in Democratizing the Creation of Theatre (Charles Mee with Marcia Ferguson, Jay O'Berski, James F. Schlatter, Jennifer Schlueter, Patrick Torres)

I was fairly "bowled over"! Tomorrow, more workshops of course, and midday plenary sessions of international youth performances. I'll try to interview some of the attendees.

Stay tuned!!! We're blogging Performing the World. And we're blogging the world.....

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