Peace
in the Global Village as a Creative Act:
A
Canadian Art Therapy Conference
To held in beautiful Nelson,
BC, Canada
In
response to the way our world has changed this year we want to put forward the
concept of peace in the global village as a creative act. The intention of this
conference is to focus on the relationship of art therapy to issues of war,
peace and justice. We want to explore the role that expressive therapies can
play in healing, conflict resolution and pose the question ‘can peace be a
creative act?’
With
the numerous tragedies and a variety of violent acts and a violent war,
questions of safety and security abound. We are all affected by murder and
suicide in our high schools, the terrorist bombing of the twin towers, the
waging of war, the Arab Israeli conflict, and the situation in Ireland just to
name a few.
We
want to expand our vision and our thinking and to look deeply at the meaning of
peace and justice. We understand grief, tragedy and the roots of war and we see
the impact of on going intergenerational trauma. But the question of how to work
towards peace and how to find a way for each individual to engage in a creative
act in a movement towards global peace needs to be explored.
We
welcome presentations from expressive therapists in exploring the role of the
arts in creating peace within ourselves and within our communities. Family art
therapy can be a way of families coming to a place of peace and justice within
the family. Community creative projects in the expressive arts are beginning to
bring communities together. What is the place or role of expressive therapies in
peacemaking? Is there an art to creating peace? Can we create a path so that
difference and diversity can become a strength instead of a weakness. If we
continue in the path of responding with “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a
tooth then the whole world will become blind and
toothless.”
We are looking forward to your proposals for papers, presentations,
performances and workshops. We would like this conference to extend our thinking
to envision the future and to push the boundaries of our present ways of
responding to envision new and creative avenues towards peace.
The
conference committee has started to generate ideas that we would like to see
presented: the value of art therapy in cross-cultural situations, with refugees,
with issues of trauma and violence. Other potential topics include the value of
the creative process in recovery, the impact of media on children, the use of
art in critical incident stress debriefing, the value of art therapy in healing
from intergenerational issues stemming from residential school experience, and
open studio expressive therapy projects.
Call for Conference Proposals: Due Feb. 28,
2002
Dates: Oct 3, 4, 5, 6, 2002 (October 3rd would
be pre-conference workshops)
Place: Nelson, BC, Canada
Call
for papers, panels, presentations, workshops, video,
performances.
Name
of person submitting:
__________________________________________________________________________________________
Professional
status______________________________________________________________________________
Contact
address:
___________________________________________________________________________________
Telephone:
___________________________
Email:
_______________________________
Title
of submission:
___________________________________________________________________________________
Co-presenters
(names, credentials, addresses, email):
___________________________________________________________________________________
Format:
Workshop __ Paper __ Panel __ Video
__ Performance __
Time
required: 60 min __ 90 min. __ 150 min. (2 ½ hr) __ Other
___
Audience
limited to __ number of participants; __ no limit.
Focus:
Art therapy __ Music therapy __ Dance/movement therapy __ Drama therapy __
Poetry therapy __ Multi-modal __ Other (specify) ____________
Requirements:
Art
materials
(describe)___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________________
Audio/visual
equipment
___________________________________________________________________________________
Other
___________________________________________________________________________________
1)
Abstract (300 word maximum) with references, plus a copy of the paper to be
presented or detailed outline of the workshop. List a maximum of 3 presentation
objectives and a statement of known emotional or other risks.
2)
Release forms: I have obtained all necessary release forms for the client
artwork and pertinent comments, which I intend to use in the presentation.
Signature
___________________________ Date
_______________________________
3)
Brief biographical information for each presenter and a brief (50 word)
description of the presentation for the conference brochure.
Send submissions
to: Canadian Art Therapy Conference, c/o Kutenai Art Therapy
Institute
#201 Front Street, Nelson, BC,
V1L 4B6
Email:
kati@netidea.com
Phone 250 352
2264 Fax 250 352
5911
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