Healthy Careers
According to a 'lite' article by Allan Hoffman, choreography is one of the ten healthiest careers. "Why it's healthy: Choreographers are often dancers themselves, so they practice their craft on a daily basis, while focusing on a group endeavor." If you link, notice that the healthy careers are not necessarily high paying careers.
Monday, March 10, 2003
Artist's and Writer's Retreats
Thank you Rebecca, for sending this link. This website lists artist's retreats in the United States and abroad. There is another list of workshops/classes. Costs vary widely.
http://www.shawguides.com/?p=residencies.html&s=1&a=f .
I found a retreat in my ancestral region of Italy:
Vasto Artist's & Writer's Retreat
Vasto, Italy
June 20-June 30. Est. 1999. Retreat. Length: 10 days. Applicants: Artists.
Costs: $990 double, $890 single occupancy includes room, breakfast & lunch, guided museum tours, language courses.
Location: On the central Adriatic coast in the Abruzzi region, three hours from Rome, two hours from Naples.
Contact: Syed A. Haider, Vasto Artist's & Writer's Retreat, 517 Sherman Ave., Evanston, IL 60202; 847-328-6957 (phone/fax).
The email contact was outdated.
Thank you Rebecca, for sending this link. This website lists artist's retreats in the United States and abroad. There is another list of workshops/classes. Costs vary widely.
http://www.shawguides.com/?p=residencies.html&s=1&a=f .
I found a retreat in my ancestral region of Italy:
Vasto Artist's & Writer's Retreat
Vasto, Italy
June 20-June 30. Est. 1999. Retreat. Length: 10 days. Applicants: Artists.
Costs: $990 double, $890 single occupancy includes room, breakfast & lunch, guided museum tours, language courses.
Location: On the central Adriatic coast in the Abruzzi region, three hours from Rome, two hours from Naples.
Contact: Syed A. Haider, Vasto Artist's & Writer's Retreat, 517 Sherman Ave., Evanston, IL 60202; 847-328-6957 (phone/fax).
The email contact was outdated.
Lysistrata
According to Democracy NOW!, over 1000 readings of the ancient Greek anti-war comedy, Lysistrata were held in 59 countries and every state in the U.S. on March 3, 2003. Conceived just 6 weeks ago by New York actors Kathryn Blume and Sharron Bower as a way for actors the world over to register their opposition to a war on Iraq, the global theatrical protest will raise money for aid groups working in the Middle East.
Background on the play can be found in a related link, the Lysistrata Project. Written by Aristophanes in 413 B.C., Lysistrata may have been based on an actual revolt by Athenian women against the debilitating Peloponnesian wars. The heroine, Lysistrata (meaning "releaser of war"), organizes women on both sides of the war who are tired of losing sons and husbands. In order to force their men to abandon the war between Athens and Sparta, she proposes that the women refuse to have sex with their husbands and lovers until the men made peace. In the play, the men give in and the play ends in a pan-Hellenistic celebration. Historically, Athens, weakened by years of war, is defeated in 404 B.C.
I must admit that my interest in the Lysistrata project was peaked because it reminded me that I had agreed to my husband's idea of naming our child Lysistrata if we had a girl. While I had misgivings of burdening a little child with a name so long and hard to spell, I decided that Lys was an unusual name and I could live with that. I spoke to the child in my growing stomach as Lyssie. I also feared that a child named Lysistrata may have a hard roe to hoe in later years if people referred to the inspirational character in only the most base ways. We had a boy.
Are You a Cultural Creative?
Cultural Creatives, a term coined by Paul Ray and Sherry Anderson, refers to a growing subculture of optimistic and altruistic millions. It describes people who value social justice, peace, spirituality, and ecology above getting and spending. Paul H. Ray, Ph.D., a macro-sociologist concerned with the evolution of culture, discovered this group during 13 years of research on values and lifestyles using surveys and focus groups. Along with Sherry Ruth Anderson, Ph.D., a psychologist focusing on the qualities of inner experience and his wife, they published The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People are Changing the World (Harmony, 2000).
"As of the year 2000, there are 50 million adults in the United States who have the worldview, values and lifestyle of the Cultural Creatives. (There are probably about 80-90 million Cultural Creatives in the European Union as well.)"
They wrote the book to help this group recognize their power. "Cultural Creatives are not yet aware of themselves as a collective body, they do not recognize how powerful their voices could be."
Take the quiz on the site and discover whether you are part of this promising group.
According to Democracy NOW!, over 1000 readings of the ancient Greek anti-war comedy, Lysistrata were held in 59 countries and every state in the U.S. on March 3, 2003. Conceived just 6 weeks ago by New York actors Kathryn Blume and Sharron Bower as a way for actors the world over to register their opposition to a war on Iraq, the global theatrical protest will raise money for aid groups working in the Middle East.
Background on the play can be found in a related link, the Lysistrata Project. Written by Aristophanes in 413 B.C., Lysistrata may have been based on an actual revolt by Athenian women against the debilitating Peloponnesian wars. The heroine, Lysistrata (meaning "releaser of war"), organizes women on both sides of the war who are tired of losing sons and husbands. In order to force their men to abandon the war between Athens and Sparta, she proposes that the women refuse to have sex with their husbands and lovers until the men made peace. In the play, the men give in and the play ends in a pan-Hellenistic celebration. Historically, Athens, weakened by years of war, is defeated in 404 B.C.
I must admit that my interest in the Lysistrata project was peaked because it reminded me that I had agreed to my husband's idea of naming our child Lysistrata if we had a girl. While I had misgivings of burdening a little child with a name so long and hard to spell, I decided that Lys was an unusual name and I could live with that. I spoke to the child in my growing stomach as Lyssie. I also feared that a child named Lysistrata may have a hard roe to hoe in later years if people referred to the inspirational character in only the most base ways. We had a boy.
Are You a Cultural Creative?
Cultural Creatives, a term coined by Paul Ray and Sherry Anderson, refers to a growing subculture of optimistic and altruistic millions. It describes people who value social justice, peace, spirituality, and ecology above getting and spending. Paul H. Ray, Ph.D., a macro-sociologist concerned with the evolution of culture, discovered this group during 13 years of research on values and lifestyles using surveys and focus groups. Along with Sherry Ruth Anderson, Ph.D., a psychologist focusing on the qualities of inner experience and his wife, they published The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People are Changing the World (Harmony, 2000).
"As of the year 2000, there are 50 million adults in the United States who have the worldview, values and lifestyle of the Cultural Creatives. (There are probably about 80-90 million Cultural Creatives in the European Union as well.)"
They wrote the book to help this group recognize their power. "Cultural Creatives are not yet aware of themselves as a collective body, they do not recognize how powerful their voices could be."
Take the quiz on the site and discover whether you are part of this promising group.
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