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| Power of Words 2007
Liberation, Transformation
& Celebration Through the Spoken, Written & Sung
Word
September 12-15, 2008 at Goddard College,
Plainfield, VT.
Explore
how we can use our words — written, spoken or sung — to make
community,
deepen healing, witness one another, wake ourselv es up, and
foster
empowerment and transformation. Sponsored by Transformative Language
Arts at Goddard College, this conference features experiential
workshops on a wide range of the expressive language arts and right
livelihood, performances, open readings, and celebrations. Make
community with others who share your passion.
Keynote presenters for the 2008 conference
include:
- Walter Mosley, author of 29 books,
including his most recent, including novels, mysteries, non-fiction,
and The Year You Write Your Novel. www.waltermosley.com
- Bread and Puppet, one of the premier
theatre companies in the world focused on social transformation through
the arts. www.breadandpuppet.org
- Kelley Hunt, award-winning international
touring artist, rhythm and
blues singer-songwriter performing her soulful music, offering a
day-long workshop on making a living through performance and workshops,
and available for one-on-one meetings with singers and songwriters. www.kelleyhunt.com,
www.myspace.com/KelleyHuntMusic
- Rick Jarow, author of Creating
the Work You Love, who will also present a workshop on
creating your own right livelihood, and on the Vedic and Jungian roots
of magical language. www.anticareer.com
- Sherry Reiter, poetry therapy pioneer and
drama therapist
presenting a workshop on the possibilities inherent in poetry therapy. www.erols.com/sreiter
- Janet Aalfs, poet laureate of
Northampton, MA, and martial artist
presenting a workshop on interweaving poetry and movement, and
available for individual consulting on combinging dance and martial
arts into poetry performance.
- The Afrikana
Madonna aka Barbara Bethea, poet, singer, spoken word
performer who will perform her spoken word soul.
- Lewis Mehl Medrona,
author of Coyote
Medicine,
Native American physician and psychiatrist and professor of family
psychiatry who calls himself a post-modern, semi-urban neo-shaman.
- Callid
Keefe & Kristina Perry, facilitators-in-residence and
writers on Theopoetics and the Quaker meeting tradition.
- Cynthia Ross,
artist-in-residence.
Pre-conference workshops begin
Wed.,
Sept. 11; official conference begins Fri. evening,
Sept. 12 and ends Sun. night, Sept. 15;
post-conference workshops on morning of Mon., Sept. 15.
“A
wide open door into the
multiple layers of words and their healing nature.” –
Marianela
Medrano-Marra, Ph.D., writer and psychotherapist
“Rarely
have I felt so present and full in each and every
moment...from the
beginning to the end, I was moved, inspired, challenged, and
changed. I did, indeed, leave differently than I had
arrived.” --
Embrya deShango, spoken word performer, Cincinnati
For more
information, please see
www.goddard.edu/powerofwords
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