Call for Proposals: Power of Words Conference

2010 Power of Words Conference Call For Proposals
Deadline for Submission: Friday January 15, 2010

The Power of Words conference will be held Sept. 23–26, 2010 at Goddard College in Plainfield, VT and is seeking workshop proposals!

The 7th Annual Power of Words conference brings together writers, storytellers, performers, musicians, educators, activists, healers, health professionals, community leaders, and more. All participants are united in the common exploration of how the written, spoken, and sung word can catalyze individual and communal liberation, celebration, and transformation.

We invite your proposals for experiential, didactic, and/or performance-based workshops that focus on writing, storytelling, drama, film, narrative medicine, songwriting, and other forms of Transformative Language Arts (TLA). We support proposals that focus on social change, the spoken or sung word, and how to make a living using transformative language arts in service to our communities. Because we are strongly committed to including individuals from diverse backgrounds, we encourage proposals from people of color and from presenters of many ages.

The 2010 conference features keynote speakers:

- Greg Greenway (Singer and poet who works with the social awareness of Woody Guthrie )
- S. Pearl Sharp (Writer/actress/filmmaker/broadcast journalist focusing on cultural arts, health and healing, and Black history)
- Kayhan Irani (An artivist using the the arts to deepen engagement with social issues and societal transformation. A writer, director, performer, and facilitator of Playback Theater)
- Katherine Towler (Poet, author, teacher – writes lyrical novels of family and place)

The 2010 conference will feature four thematic tracks. Particular consideration will be given to workshop proposals that forward one or more themes:

Right Livelihood A work life that is an expression of your gifts and makes a contribution to the world.
Social Transformation, the power of word to deepen engagement with social issues and transform self and society.
Engaged Spirituality, writing / employing spiritual pathways challenging deeply-embedded structures of injustice to cultivate a sustainable, just, and peaceful world.
Narrative Medicine, using the power of narrative to help patients discover their own stories of illness and create ones of healing that pull them forward toward recovery.

To learn more, and to submit a workshop proposal, please see our website’s conference page at http://www.tlanetwork.org/conference, where you can access our online workshop proposal form. For further information, please contact the TLAN Coordinators.

Callid & Kristina Keefe-Perry
TLA Network Coordinators
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877-303-TLAN (8526)

[Please note that (a) presenters are not paid for their presentations and must register for, pay for, and attend the conference, (b) conference fees begin at $200 with reasonable room and board available, (c) a limited number of partial scholarships are also available, and (d) no individual should submit more than three proposals.]

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