This year's "Performing the World 5" conference will be co-hosted in New York by the All Stars Project, known for its performance-based, out-of-school youth-developmental programs. Performing the World describes itself as "an international community of people who recognize performance as a powerful developmental activity for social-cultural transformation." Co-sponsored by the East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy, the fifth PTW conference, October 2-5, 2008, will "showcase innovative practice and scholarship and provide a rich context for learning and performing together." Workshops and performances will be based out of the All Stars’ performance and development center on 42nd Street near Times Square, and hosted by young New Yorkers there and at theaters, schools and other venues throughout Manhattan and other boroughs. Proposals for "examinations/explorations of the shift from a cognitive to a performative approach to understanding" are due April 1. [LINK] Posted by Linda Frye Burnham