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Hi members & friends of WPI,
hope you all are fine, creative and prosperous!
 
Here's the latest WPI News Letter.
 
It contains info on how to suggest workshops for the next Conference.
 
Also, our historical surveyance has reached the 7th Conference in Indonesia in 2006.
 
Enjoy!
 
All the best, Mireille
 
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Since there has been war work, there has been peace work. This year, one hundred years since the start of World War One, we are more heavily surrounded by commemorations and memorials of war than usual. It is more important than ever that we mark our many years of peace work and continue to challenge the glorification of wars past and present, with the hope of preventing the potential wars of the future.

Entertaining performances brought voting issues to life for rural Afghans.
 
New York, NY, April 8, 2014.  Six Afghan theatre troupes - including three all-women's groups - brought news about voting rights to villages in six provinces in Afghanistan over the last nine months to promote the April 5th elections.  Performing for thousands of citizens in a wide range of locations, even in homes, the groups presented entertaining plays that demonstrated the value of every vote.

Winner 2014 PATRICIA ARIZA

In October 2014, The League of Professional Theater Women (LPTW) will honor Patricia Ariza, legendary producer, director, actress, playwright and poet who has worked on the front lines for justice and social change in Colombia for almost 50 years, with the Gilder/Coigney International Theatre Award.

Drop your city armor with Sara Shelton Mann & Abby Crain in Dos Rios California

teatro – danza – performance

VERDECOPRENTE FESTIVAL.02 

Residenze artistiche creative

12 – 21 settembre 2014  Comprensorio Umbro-Amerino (Tr) Italia

Invito a presentare proposte / Open call
progetti di teatro – danza – performance (vocal e musica, lecture, street, multimedia)

deadline 28 marzo 2014 / march 28

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Dear friends,

We are delighted to announce Dunedin's award-winning Ake Ake Theatre Company has been accepted for Creative NZ's International Collaboration fund for WW100.

Women at the Front (working title) honours NZ's first women war surgeons, Dr Jessie Scott and Dr Agnes Bennett who studied at Edinburgh Medical School circa 1910 and served in the Suffrage funded Scottish Women's Hospitals on the Serbian Front.

Dear friends,

Here I send the links to the galeries with images from the Festival created by La Jiribilla a Cuban online cultural magazine.

In the home page of magazine you will find artlces, interviews and comments related to the Festival and also a link to the Magdalena sin Fronteras III 2011 dossier. They also recomended the Magdalena Project site on their page.

Hug,
Alejandro

http://www.lajiribilla.cu/galeria/talleres-en-el-magdalena-sin-fronteras

Marion Coutarel announces that she will organize a Magdalena Event in Montpellier in Septembre 2015, with her theatre company, Theâtre de la Remise.

Further information will be available soon.

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