Power of Words Conference 2009

Liberation, Transformation & Celebration
Through the Spoken, Written & Sung Word

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. Organized by the Transformative Language Network, and founded by 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 2009 conference include:

• Kayhan Irani, performer of the Theatre of the Oppressed and creator of Artivista, an organization that combines art and activism as a form of political expression and engagement
• John Fox, poet, author, poetry therapist, and founder of Poetic Medicine, and author of Poetic Medicine and Finding What You Didn’t Lose.
• 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.
• Dovie Thomason, award-winning Native American storyteller, recording artist and author
• Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, founder of Transformative Languages Arts, and award-winning author of several books including Write Where You Are and Lot’s Wife, who will be debuting her memoir, The Sky Begins at Your Feet.
• Sherry Reiter, poetry therapy pioneer and author of Writing Away the Demons: Stories of Creative Coping Through Transformative Writing will present a workshop with her co-authors.
• Callid Keefe & Kristina Perry, facilitators-in-residence and writers on Theopoetics and the Quaker meeting tradition.
• Terry Hauptman, artist-in-residence, painter and poet, and author of On Hearing Thunder, Rattle, and Masquerading in Clover.

Visit the website for more information: http://www.tlanetwork.org/conference/

 

The Dixon Narrative Workshop 2009

The Dixon Narrative Workshop is a full-day, nuts-and-bolts exploration of the art and craft of narrative journalism with award-winning narrative nonfiction author and magazine writer Lauren Kessler, accompanied in this workshop by multi-media reporters Katie Campbell and Michael Werner.  This lively, intensive workshop is designed for writers, reporters and editors – veteran and novice alike – committed to their craft and eager to enhance their storytelling power.

Saturday, May 10, 2009
from 10:00 am to 04:00 pm
at the George S. Turnbull Center, UO
Portland, Oregon

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Oral History Society Conference

HEARING VOICE IN ORAL HISTORY - Oral History Society Conference

3-4 July 2009
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
This landmark event will provide the opportunity to explore that most essential aspect of oral history: Voice

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Professor Steven High
Professor of Public History and Director of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Concordia University, Montreal.

Anne Karpf
British writer, journalist, broadcaster and sociologist; author of the acclaimed The Human Voice: The Story of a Remarkable Talent.

Rab Wilson
Scots poet, recent holder of the Robert Burns Fellowship and winner of 2008 McCash Scots Poetry Competition. A former mining engineer and currently a psychiatric nurse.

For more information: See the website

34th Annual Rocky Mountain Storytellers Conference 2009

Date: April 23, 2009 - End Date: April 25, 2009

Location: Swallow Hill 71 E. Yale Ave. Denver, Colo.

Adult Price: $60/day or $110 for both days

Description: This year’s theme is “New Horizons,” a fresh approach to storytelling. The expanded conference includes three evenings of concerts, two full days of performances and workshops, a book store and opportunities for participants to do studio recording.

Link: http://www.rmstory.org

To purchase tickets: http://events.swallowhill.com

3rd International Narrative Practitioner Conference 2009

The Third Annual Narrative Practitioner Conference

Featuring:

Professor Corrinne Squire - Professor in Social Sciences, University of East London

and

Dr Kip Jones - Reader in Qualitative Social Science, Bournemouth University

Narrative, Health and Social Justice
22 - 24 June 2009

Keele University
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Staffordshire, United Kingdom

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