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New York Times  Edu­ca­tion Blog, Octo­ber 8, 2008. Play­ing Roles for a Real Education

This past week­end my col­leagues and I gave a pre­sen­ta­tion at the Per­form­ing the World con­fer­ence in Man­hat­tan, which brought together edu­ca­tors, artists, ther­a­pists, schol­ars and activists from dozens of coun­tries who are inter­ested in using per­for­mance and drama in a vari­ety of ways. Our  Read More

North Shore News, Sep­tem­ber 28, 2008. Lit­vak to per­form in NYC

Elly Lit­vak will be per­form­ing her one-woman play Now Who’s Crazy Now? at Per­form­ing the World 2008, an inter­na­tional con­fer­ence and fes­ti­val in New York City, Oct. 2–5. Lit­vak has worked with North Shore com­mu­nity mem­bers for more than 12 years as the co– ordi­na­tor of vol­un­teer  Read More

Abbots­ford Times, Sep­tem­ber 26, 2008. Novice pro­ducer has a huge hit on her busy hands

Valerie Lowe of Abbots­ford is at the tail end of fin­ish­ing her first inde­pen­dent edu­ca­tional doc­u­men­tary, and it is already gar­ner­ing inter­est from uni­ver­si­ties around the world. Lowe, who holds a Bach­e­lor Degree in Adult Edu­ca­tion from the Uni­ver­sity of the Fraser Val­ley in Abbots­ford  Read More

Demopo­lis Times, Sep­tem­ber 22, 2008. Eutaw group to per­form in NYC

EUTAW — Greene County has a com­mu­nity the­atri­cal com­pany that not only serves its cit­i­zens, it has also been invited to per­form in New York City. The Sto­ry­Tree Act­ing Com­pany is a the­atri­cal group begun by New York native Malik Brown and brought to Greene County to help extend cul­tural ties Read More

WJLD Radio. Sep­tem­ber 20, 2008.  Bob Fried­man inter­views Lois Holz­man on WJLD radio (Serves the Birm­ing­ham, Alabama met­ro­pol­i­tan area).

Day­break Atlanta. Sep­tem­ber 19, 2008. Terri Camp­bell, CBC Radio, Alberta, Canada inter­viewed Ramona Big Head about her play, “Strike Hard” to be pre­sented at PTW 08.

Mex­ico Pre­miere, Sep­tem­ber 9, 2008. Dzul Dance Brings Mex­i­can Cul­ture to Life in New York
Dzul Dance fuses dance with aer­ial arts as a means to com­mu­ni­cate pre-Hispanic and Mex­i­can cul­ture and cre­ate dia­logue between con­tem­po­rary art and his­tor­i­cal her­itage. By trans­form­ing bod­ies into earth­bound and airb­borne forces of nature Dzul breaks phys­i­cal, cul­tural and polit­i­cal  Read More

Wales Online, Sep­tem­ber 4, 2008. Tak­ing a bite out of the Big Apple

BROADWAY is call­ing for one uni­ver­sity lec­turer who’s swap­ping Tre­for­est for a stage in the Big Apple next month. Rea Den­nis, a senior lec­turer in drama at the Uni­ver­sity of Glam­or­gan, will star at the Per­form­ing the World ’08 (PTW ’08) fes­ti­val in New York from Octo­ber 2–5. Read More

Uni­ver­sity of Glam­or­gan web site, August 29, 2008, Drama Lec­turer in New York Performance

Rea Den­nis, a senior lec­turer in drama at the Uni­ver­sity of Glam­or­gan is tak­ing part in a per­for­mance as part of ‘Per­form­ing the World ’08’ (PTW ’08), an inter­na­tional con­fer­ence and fes­ti­val that will take place from 2nd – 5th Octo­ber in New York City. Rea will join with Brazil­ian actress Magda Miranda Read More

The Leth­bridge Her­ald, August 22, 2008, Kainai Youth to Per­form on New York Stage

A south­ern Alberta woman is bring­ing a for­got­ten piece of North Amer­i­can his­tory to the stage in New York City this fall, with a cast of 24 young­sters from the Blood Reserve. Ramona Big Head, a teacher at Kainai High School, has writ­ten a play about the Baker Mas­sacre — also known as the Marias Read More

Show­biz, August 14, 2008, Bukom Drums and Voices Storm America

Throb­bing drums, ener­getic singing and move­ment of agile bod­ies will be part of the score when the famous Bukom Ensem­ble from Accra leads a work­shop at Per­form­ing the World 2008. Read More.

Daily Graphic, August 9,2008, Bukom Ensem­ble leads Work­shop in US

The famous Bukom Ensem­ble from Accra will lead a work­shop at Per­form­ing the World 2008, an inter­na­tional con­fer­ence on per­for­mance and social devel­op­ment being held in New York City from Octo­ber 2 to Octo­ber 5. A state­ment from Human­i­tar­ian Foun­da­tion Net­work, a cul­ture and Read More

The Mon­i­tor, July 22, 2008, Mukono to Rep­re­sent Uganda at US Meet
A mem­ber of a Mukono-based youth orga­ni­za­tion is to rep­re­sent the nation at a four-day human devel­op­ment and com­mu­nity build­ing con­fer­ence to be held in New York City in October.