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2011 in Lima, Peru

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IEATA and TAE Peru present the next IEATA International Conference, August 10-14, 2011 in Lima, Peru with post-conference sessions in Cusco on August 16. We will post more information as it becomes available.

We live in a time in which social and environmental destruction threatens us all. There are no clear answers to the problems of the world, but the arts offer possibilities and perspectives that can help us find new pathways towards healthful solutions.

Can we live with uncertainty? Multiplicity of arts, ancient traditions and contemporary ways of living, from a myriad of cultures, can invite us to find new possibilities of healing. The expressive arts can be our guide in the unknown future that awaits us as therapists, educators, consultants and peace-builders. We hope that this multi-cultural and inter-cultural event will help us learn from each other to find new ways towards health and well-being.

We would also like to offer new ways of thinking and sense-making from Peru – Latin America: a multicultural-particular context, a diverse land filled with ancient wisdom, mostly poor, violent, corrupt yet beautiful, with the traditional arts still living and with a great variety of ways of healing. We invite the expressive arts community to join us in this effort.

TAE PERU in Lima, Peru, will host the conference: an institution where training, therapy and creativity are joined. TAE promotes the use of the arts in therapeutic contexts, educational settings, and the wider community, and for social change. Tae Peru is the first Latin American-based global network of training in Expressive Arts Therapy ISIS (International Network of Expressive Arts Therapy Training Centres) and is affiliated to the European Graduate School. Read more on the TAE Peru website>

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The Cusco Experience

Experiential workshop:
An encounter between the expressive arts and traditional Andean culture
August 16, Ollantaytambo, Cusco
(Participants will need to flight from Lima to Cusco city)

This Seminar will be held in Ollantaytambo, in the Sacred Valley of the Incas. Ollantaytambo is located between Cusco and Machu Picchu at 2800 meters above sea level. The Incas between the XV and XVI century built Ollantaytambo. Today the stone streets are still in use by the people. They have also built their houses on top of Inca foundations. From the city one can see the great temple of the Sun, the last place where the Incas fought against the Spaniards.

TAE Peru has been doing an international seminar in this city for several consecutive years exploring and investigating the encounter of traditional Andean arts with the expressive arts. (See: www.taeperu.org/programa.htm )

Participants will need to flight from Lima to Cusco on August 15. Here they will be transfer to their hotels. At night, participants will share a dinner and an Andean ceremony that will enable us to contact the ancient world of the Incas preparing for the next day. The 16 in the morning, we will start early in the archaeological site of Moray, an important Inca site used as an agricultural laboratory. Here participants will have an unforgettable experience where they will respond to the sacred place with arts and movement. This experience will be facilitated by the entire team of TAE Peru. To make the reservation for the hotel in Cusco click write us at conference@ieata.org To find out about flights to Cusco from Lima write to Isabel Rios irr@limatours.com.pe Phone (51-1) 6196933

Pollinating Path Postcard Project

IEATA Student Committee and The Orchesis Expressive Arts Honor Society invite you to join us in an international mail art round robin!

Participants will enjoy: Getting art in the mail! Creating mail art! Contributing to a collaborative piece that will be displayed at the 2011 IEATA conference! Participation is simple: After signing up you will receive a postcard book in the mail containing a prompt and the previous completed postcard, which you will send back to us to be part of the collaborative piece. You will create a visual and verbal response to the prompt on your own postcard, and then send your postcard and the next prompt on to someone else. Please be willing to donate postage costs for one postcard and one postcard book. Sign up now>

2009 Conference Highlights

8th International Conference August 12-15, 2009 Hosted by Lesley University Cambridge, MA

More than 475 participants from around the globe attended the IEATA 2009 Biennial International Conference in Cambridge, MA, making this truly an international event.

Hosted by Lesley University over six days in August, the event featured 71 conference presentations, plus seven full-day pre-conference and eight half-day post-conference offerings. Robert and Dicki Macy, and David Gere delivered the two keynote addresses.

Other events included an IEATA business meeting, regional meetings, a banquet and Shining Star Award ceremony, and an engaging performance by Paolo Knill and Elizabeth McKim followed by an open mic. Participants also enjoyed a special celebration honoring Lesley University’s centennial.

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2011 Conference Photos

Closing ceremony for the
2011 International Conference

Plaza de Armas in Lima