Art of Healing
Preserving memory… Immortalizing loss… Promoting healing…
A combined symposium-performance program which addresses how the arts can be used therapeutically in a time of world crisis. These multi-disciplinary set of arts workshops are designed to externalize emotion and help traumatized individuals heal, understanding that world conflict has a penetrating and enduring impact which undermines human potential and ultimately our society. Target groups include: military personnel and embedded journalists returning from war-torn areas, humanitarian aid workers and refugees.
Target groups include: refugees, veterans and embedded journalists and humanitarian aid workers returning from war-torn areas.
Date: Spring 2015
…and loan to me your final needle. Let us take turns stitching each other’s holes. Here are mine-you go first. they ache to close…
-white linens by Shanley Erin Kane First Prize Winner – GATC Poetry Contest Quilting as a Metaphor for World Peace
Configuration:
Five-day program of multi-disciplinary arts workshops focused on:
Other workshops to include: dance, yoga and movement, literature and film.
Special sections may also include: thought leaders in mental health, art therapy, integrative healing and rehabilitation arenas. Focus on dealing with youth/children.
Pilot Program:
20 refugee women and 20 daughters in four cultural contexts
• Phase I: Turkey to focus on Syrian refugees
• Future II, III and IV: Uganda, Chicago and San Diego
Location:
Retreat Center TBD
Funding permitting, speakers/presenters to include:
• The Daniel Pearl Family and Foundation – Dr. Judea and Ruth Pearl*
• Reporters Without Borders* – Secretary General, Robert Menard*
• The International Crisis Group – Louise Arbour*
• Director of the Art Therapy Program at the National Conservatory of Music in Amman, Jordan* (rehabilitates Iraqi refugee victims of the War on Iraq)
• Northwestern Medill School of Journalism – in progress
• University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School* and Kelly Writers House*
• Author Robert Olen Bulter*
• Actor Stacy Keach*
• Actor/Director Joyce Piven* and The Piven Theater Workshop (Jeremy Piven*)
• Gary Sinise (already has worked with Genesis at the Crossroads)
• Musician and Vietnam Veteran, Kimo Williams*
• Willow House Founder and Executive Director, Stefanie Norris*( Visual Art)
• Visual Artist Leonard Lehrer*
• Ellen Rosen Kaplan* on alternative healing
• Thought leaders from National Institute of Mental Health*
• Frederique Lehoux, Former Director, OXFAM* now at Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commision
• Dr. Maya Nadison* – puppetry and children’s sexual health/public health messaging
• Terra Tolley* – Phd ABD in conflict resolution, GMU
• Global Arts Corps*
• Cambodian Living Arts*
• Drama for Life*, South Africa
• Opera Circus* – Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Dr. Nigel Osborne*
• Ambassador Colin Munro* (Croatia/Austria)
• Salzburg Global Seminars*
• Saffron Caravan artists*
*Already on board
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