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Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 08:32:44 -0500
MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Juliet Bruce=20 To: YWCA-NCA ; Training-Ideas Moderator ; The Smithsonian Associates ; = IMCW ; Healing Story Alliance ; GWU Expressive Arts Department ; = GoldnFleece@yahoogroups.com ; dcartsed@yahoogroups.com ; Consulting = Women ; childart@icaf.org ; arts-for-life@yahoogroups.com ; Americans = for the Arts ; 9-11 Network=20 Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 8:09 AM Subject: [arts-for-life] Talk: Creative Approach to Violence Hi everyone, I'm attaching the announcement for a presentation I'm making at the = Library of Congress on Wednesday, Feb. 23, at 2:30, in room LJ-119 in = the Thomas Jefferson Building (the beautiful one). It's based on my = research at the Kluge Center there, where I'm currently holding the = David B. Larson Fellowship for Spirituality and Health, and is free and = open to the public. (For those of you interested in applying for this = fellowship, I'll send the new RFP from the library later today.) In case you're unable to open the attachment (Word Perfect), it says: = "The God with Two Faces: Transforming Interpersonal and Cultural = Violence through Art, Myth, and Ritual."=20 Basically, I'll describe the ritualistic process for becoming violent at = both the personal and societal levels, and how creative process, = specifically the expressive arts model -- based on ancient wisdom = practices and aesthetic rather than moral or medical model values -- can = transform violent attitudes and behaviors into life-affirming and = compassionate ones. It's based on my own and others' experience and lots = of research. It will be an overview of my book, Embracing the Dark: A = Creative Approach to Violence in America, now in progress.=20 A summary of my research direction can be found on the Institute for = Transformation Through the Arts web site: www.arts-for-life.org. (Click = on "Articles," then on "Book Summary.") Topics I'm going to touch on in = both the talk and book: the roots of violence and the violentization = process; Emergence -- where ancestral mind meets modern science; the = daimonic; myth vs. narrative; ritual and liminal (threshold or sacred) = space; the hero/warrior and shamanic journeys; expressive arts, = surrealism, and the daimonic; the creative transformation model; = peacemaking as a turbulent spiritual process; and creative = transformation as a potential Third Way in our bipolar American culture. PLEASE NOTE: If you have worked creatively with violent kids or adults, = or are using any of the arts for peacemaking/conflict resolution and = would be willing to be interviewed about your experience and = observations for my book, please contact me. Home office: (202) 667-3766; juliet@arts-for-life.org Library of Congress office: (202) 707-0228; jbru@loc.gov. Best to all, Juliet Bruce Executive Director Institute for Transformation Through the Arts Making art ~ Changing lives 1806 Lamont St., NW, #3 Washington, DC 20010 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Clicking on "Reply" will send your message only to the original author = of the post you are replying to. If you want to send a message to the = entire group, select "Reply All", or paste this address in the "To:" = box: arts-for-life@yahoogroups.com=20 -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ------- Yahoo! Groups Links a.. To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/arts-for-life/ =20 b.. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: arts-for-life-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com =20 c.. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of = Service.=20 ------------------------------- To Unsubscribe from Healingstory send the message: unsubscribe healingstory to: listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu ------------------------------- | ||