Every Weekend
JULY 25 - AUGUST 30
Performing Our Mental Health | Sun. July 26, 5:00 pm New York Time (UTC-4)
Dance & Song of Bethel House Philosophy
Mana Mukaiyachi, Japan

Musical actress, social worker & coordinator of Open Dialogue Network , Japan. Bethel House is a community of people diagnosed with schizophrenia and other psychiatric diagnoses with an alternative approach rooted in communal living, collective work, a meaningful engagement with “voices” rather than an attempt to mute them with medication.
The Power of the Spoken Word to Reshape the Mental Health System
Steven Licardi, USA

Social worker using the power of the spoken word to create empathic dialogue to confront the realities of, and assist communities in dismantling the stigma surrounding, mental health & mental illness. As a child, Steven was diagnosed on the Autism Spectrum, an experience that has deeply informed his professional work.
Performing Youth Development |  Sat. July 25, 5:00 pm New York Time (UTC-4)
Theatre of the Unknowable
Rita Ezenwa-Okoro, Nigeria

Using the power of play and performance in building cognitive, learning and emotional development working with at-risk youth in communities located in Northern Nigeria, a region that has had its fair share of terrorist attacks from Boko Haram.
EscuchArte: Violence Transformed into Creation
Laura Chacón Echeverría, Costa Rica

EscuchArte, an award-winning community mental health model working with youth created in response to the violence, drug-trafficking, homicide and suicide in their communities and to offer alternatives to drugs and gangs.
Clowning Around w/ PTSD
Sat. Aug. 22, 5:00 pm New York Time (UTC-4)
Humanitarian Clowning
Mark Kane, USA

Dr. Mark Kane, licensed psychologist and clown, Michigan Warrior Clowns and their clown supporters will share their unique performance therapy programs followed by a live panel and conversation with the audience.

Creators of the award-winning documentary  Clownvets  that tells the story of combat veterans facing PTSD, traumatic brain injury, and military sexual trauma engaging with others using humanitarian clowning. This session will include the premier of a 10-minute video on the Warrior Clowns.
Don't miss the
OPENING CEREMONY
Lois Holzman, director of the East Side Institute and Dan Friedman, artistic director of the Castillo Theatre of the All Stars Project invite you to join people from all over the world in kicking off your summer of playful, developmental Performing the World Happening(s). 
Saturday, July 25
10:00 am  New York Time (UTC-4)