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Do schools kill creativity?

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Sir Ken Robinson, PhD

Sir Ken Robinson is an internationally-renowned expert in the field of creativity and innovation in business and education, especially the use of drama and theatre. He has served as advisor to a succession of high-profile public and private organizations - including governments, the European Commission, and Paul McCartney's Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. His latest book is Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative. He is working on "Catalyzing Creativity", a forum for the discussion and exchange of ideas on innovation and creativity in business.

This is a 20 min video from TED conference (www.ted.com) Jan 7, 2007 re the importance of teaching creativity in schools as a way of approaching the uncertainty of our present, and future, times.

Preserving Indigenous Spirituality

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David Lukoff, PhD

David Lukoff, PhD, is Co-President of the Association for Transpersonal Psychology and on the faculty of the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology. The Spiritual Competency Resource Center (www.spiritualcompetency.com) created by David, provides access to online resources that enhance the cultural sensitivity of mental health professionals. In August 2008 he taught a 7 day course on transpersonal psychology in Kyrgyzstan at the Aigine Research Centre for traditional healers and other cultural practitioners.

ARC Arts - the Art of Poetry

Jacob Scheier

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Jacob Scheier (www.jacobscheier.com) is a Toronto born poet and journalist currently living in Brooklyn. His More to Keep Us Warm (ECW Press), won the 2008 Governor General's Award for English language poetry. He is a regular contributor to Toronto alternative weekly NOW and NYC’s progressive newspaper The Indypendent. He is the winner of an "Ippie" award, for best feature article in an ethnic or community publication in New York City, for his article "The Anti-Bloomberg: Can I Get An Amen?" (The Indypendent, Issue #139, Aug. 14, 2009), co-written with John Tarelton.

Robert Priest

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Robert Priest (www.poempainter.com), is the author of fifteen books of poetry, 3 plays, 2 novels, lots of musical CDS, one hit song and many columns for Now Magazine. His words have been debated in the Ontario legislature, posted in the Toronto Transit system, quoted in the Farmer's Almanac, and sung on Sesame Street. His most recent book, Reading the Bible Backwards (ECW), from which these poems are taken, can be purchased online http://www.ecwpress.com/books/reading_bible_backwards

The Wandering Poem

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Poetry wanders the world of lost continents, cordless babies, mystical roses and divine-human erotic union with no regard for transcendent morality or social convention, preferring to imagine reality as it dreams to us. Poems by Thomas R. Verny, Caroline Mardon, Jim McNamara, Lisa Cowen.

Recombinant Poetry

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These audio poems are from a 1998 HEP workshop entitled Vajra Cabaret. Drawing on the esoteric theme in surrealism, Lewis Caroll's Alice in Wonderland, Dzogchen Buddhism and a rock'n'roll tape mix, participants were asked to write a poem with the restriction of using certain given lines from the readings and music along with their own chosen lines - much in the same way we use other people's DNA to make our own unique bodily creation. The poems are by Rowan McNamara, Jim McNamara, Tina Lopes, Dunstan Morey.

The Poetic Moment

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Written in a Living Institute class, The Reality of the Imaginal, Feb 4th, 2009, looking at the work of Marcilio Ficino, James Hillman and C.G. Jung on imagination. Poems by Lisa Cowen, Nadine Saxton, Megan Palmer.