St. Thomas-Elgin Public Art Centre Features Beautiful Woman Project

"I found out that my daughter’s friend was saving money for breast implants. She was 13 years old! I knew I had to act."

Artist, Cheryl-Ann Webster

I had an opportunity to drop by the St. Thomas-Elgin Public Art Centre today where the "Beautiful Women Project" by Gananoque, Ontario, artist, Cheryl-Ann Webster, is currently on display. The decorated representations seemed to embody and reveal the model's personality and life story, each women 19 to 91 proud and strikingly beautiful in her own special way.

Webster describes the project as "a teaching and healing tool for women and girls, men and boys. The mission of the project is to raise awareness about the link between self-worth, self-identity and physical appearance. "

Tonight I would like to share with you a Youtube video about the "Beautiful Women Project"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCjRrS1GzYA

See "Beautiful Women Project" Artist Cheryl Ann Webster website:

http://www.beautifulwomenproject.com/healing/index.htm

Featured until July 6 at The St. Thomas-Elgin Public Art Centre.

Graduate Centre for Study in Drama, University of Toronto, Festival of Original Theatre

Call for Papers, Performances, and Workshops FOOT (Festival of Original Theatre)

(En)gendering Performance: Feminism(s) in Representation

February 28-March 1, 2008

The Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, University of Toronto

The Graduate Centre for Study of Drama at the University of Toronto is pleased to announce our annual student-run conference and festival, the Festival of Original Theatre (FOOT), running from February 28 to March 1, 2008 at the Drama Centre. Scholars and artists are invited to submit proposals for papers, performances and workshops for this year's theme,
(En)gendering Performance: Feminism(s) in Representation.

Possible topics might include: feminist performance theory. feminist performance/artistic strategies, representations of gender in theatre, film, art, or dance, feminist approaches to historiographic representation, feminist dramatic/art/dance criticism..

Please submit a 300 word proposal to foot.graddrama@utoronto.ca by Sunday, November 25 , 2008.

Transformative Learning Centre Transforms Lives, Raises Awareness about Power Relations, Class, Race and Gender

Circles of Transformation documents the Spirit Matters gathering, a landmark event organized by The Transformative Learning Centre in Spring 04. This package includes 6 hrs. of DVD's including reflective essays and commentary. See http://www.trafford.com/4dcgi/view-item?item=12215

The Transformative Learning Centre, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Fosters Individual and Social Transformation

The centre's main goals are:

• To provide an interdepartmental structure for community-university partnerships in research and field development.

• To provide a forum for the discussion of interdisciplinary issues related to learning in community and global transformation.

• To provide a means for faculty and students to participate in specific networks requiring membership from a community-university base...

• To support interdepartmental instruction in Transformative Learning Studies and related areas.

"Transformative learning involves experiencing a deep, structural shift in basic premises of thought, feelings, and actions. It is a shift of consciousness that dramatically and permanently alters our way of being in the world. This shift includes our understanding of ourselves and our self-locations and our relationships with other humans and with the natural world. It also involves our understanding of power relations in interlocking structures of class, race and gender, our body awareness, our visions of alternative approaches to living, and our sense of possibilities for social justice, peace and personal joy. "

"Transformative learning helps us understand the world in a different way, changing the way we experience it and the way we act in our day-to-day lives. Transformative learning has an individual and a collective dimension, and includes both individual and social transformation.
In the Transformative Learning Centre we are inspired by the notion of grounded hope. We believe that one of the best ways to predict the future is to actively create it, moving together towards our collective visions by developing viable alternatives that recognize the limitations and possibilities (especially the possibilities!) of each particular context."

Above excerpts from http://tlc.oise.utoronto.ca/about.html#contact


The following information was sent to us by
Michelle Currie M.Ed. , our Ontario based student regional liaison representative for CCAHTE Journal.

PARTICIPATE, MEDITATE, CREATE

with Michelle Currie M.Ed.

Participate, Meditate, Create is an experiential workshop that explores the use of Meditative Arts (meditation and art) as a tool for social change.

Date & Time:

Friday, June 22nd 6:00-8:00

Saturday, June 23rd 1:00-4:00

Facilitator: Michelle Currie is a graduate of the Masters of Education Program at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto, where she focused on the use of meditation and the arts for personal growth, social change and environmental consciousness.

INFO:

Transformative Learning Centre (Room 7-165)
Department of Adult Education and Counselling Psychology
Ontario Institute of Studies in Education
University of Toronto (OISE/UT) Fax (416) 926-4749

Email for info: Michelle Currie: meditativearts@yahoo.ca

More info: Transformative Learning Centre
http://tlc.oise.utoronto.ca/