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Transforming World With Word: Transformative Language Arts
TLA is an emerging field, profession and calling focused on community building, culture shift, health and healing, liberation and celebration through the spoken, written, and sung word.
Category Archives: Social Change
Poetry Therapy International
In an exciting piece of news from the poetry therapy front, TLA Network Council Member Sherry Reiter shares that she has been invited to the 2010 "Conference on Humanities Therapy," sponsored by Kangwon National University in Chuncheon, Gangwon-do province, … Continue reading
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Cascadia Arts and Healing Center
We recently heard from Brian Moore, who shared about the Cascadia Arts and Healing Center which he is developing to explore the connections between the expressive arts and deep ecology. Brian also facilitates Poetic Pathways and Journal to Wholeness at the … Continue reading
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Justice, Language, and Social Work
I recently came across this fascinating article by Colleen Vojak about how the language social workers use has clear impact on "helper and recepient" relationships, particularly on how marginalized folks develop their own sense of self. From the article's abstract is this key … Continue reading
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Funding for Art-based Social Change
Looking for funding an art-based social change project? Check out NowArtGrants, a site devoted to matching up artists with funders. To qualify as Now Art the artist/art must: Take place outside of a gallery or limited-access space. Engage a … Continue reading
Film, Poetry and the Disobedient Body
Listen to this new podcast on Alexandra Hartman's journey from poetry and web design to filmmaking and the disobedient body. Alex's website, and her entire 33-minute film – The Word Made Flesh, an be viewed at her website. Her studies … Continue reading