International Performance Conference Joins Artists from 31 Countries, 9/30-10/3

September 30th through October 3rd, 350 artists, activists, young people, educators, scholars, practitioners and business people from 31 countries, all who use performance in their work as a new way of relating to, transforming and understanding the world, will gather at the All Stars Project headquarters at 543 West 42nd Street for the Performing the World Conference; Can Performance Change the World?  The All Stars Project and the East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy are co-sponsors of the conference.
 
One hundred presentations over the three-day conference will showcase work being done with performance in the fields of health, wellness, education, mental health and theatre.   
 
Plenary session panelists include: Patch Adams, Founder and Director, Gesundhiet Institute; Andrew Burton, Founder and Artistic Director, Street Spirits, British Columbia; Lois Holzman, Co-Founder and Director, East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy; Woodie King, Jr., Founder and Producing Director, New Federal Theatre; Fernanda Liberali, Catholic University of Sao Paulo and SIAC - Simposio Acao Cidad; and Judith Malina, Co-Founder and Artistic Director, The Living Theatre and moderater Dan Friedman, artistic director of the Castillo Theatre.  A second plenary session on "The Performance of Blackness" will be facilitated by Dr. Lenora Fulani, co-founder, All Stars Project.
 
Workshop leaders include Huizhu Sun, President of the Shanghai Theatre Academy; Eva Brenner, artistic director of Projekt Theater Studio in Vienna, Austria; Dan Baron Cohen, an advisor to the Secretary of Cultural Citzenship in the Brazilian Ministry of Culture; Miguel Cortez, director of the Fred Newman Social Therapy Center in Juarez, Mexico; Jim Mangia, president and CEO of St. John's Well Child and Family Center in Los Angeles, CA; and Shahid Nadeen, Pakistan's leading playwright and director and founder and playwright in residence for Ajoka Theatre.
 
Letters of welcome for Performing the World have been received from New York Governor David Patterson; Osmar V. Chohfi, Consul General of Brazil in New York; Daniel Sullivan, Consul General of Canada; Philippe Lalliot, Consul General of France; Felix Augustin, Consul General of the Republic of Haiti; and Asaf Shariv, Consul General of Israel.
 
What:     Performing the World Conference
Who:      350 artists, educators, scholars, young people from 31 countries
When:    Thursday, September 30th - Sunday, October 3rd
Where:   All Stars Project, 543 West 42nd Street (bet. 10th & 11th Avenue)
 
                           R.S.V.P.   To Gail Peck, 212-356-8449 (917-371-5008)