ASWM Conference May 5-6, Syracuse NY
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2:15-3:45 Saturday May 6 (schedule subject to change)
Panel 11: Seas of inspiration: Myths and Sacred Stories for Young People
- María Suárez Toro, ”Literary Creation of a Matriarchal Ancestral Character to Tell Stories”
- Rebecca Migdal Kilicaslan, “Improvisational Puppet Theater as a Space for Alchemical Transformation of Myth”
- Sarah Chandler, “Ancient Cisterns and Nabaten Irrigation: Water Injustice in Israel/Palestine as a Channel for Modern Jewish Spirituality”
PRESENTERS
María Suárez Toro is a PHD in Pedagogical Mediation of Holistic Paradigms, currently, a community underwater archaeology graduate, a feminist journalist, a human rights activist, an educator, a fisherwoman and scuba diver, and writer. She was born in Puerto Rico and has been a resident of San José, Costa Rica for close to 50 years. She is coordinator of a youth community diving center Ambassadors of the Sea in Costa Rica’s Southern Caribbean. She was a co-director of the Feminist International Radio Endeavor (FIRE) from 1991 to 2011, of which she is a co-founder.
Rebecca Migdal Kilicaslan, MA, MFA is an artist, performer and author working with dreams and myths. A co-founder of Book & Puppet Co., a bookstore and puppet theater in Easton, Pennsylvania, she studied Dream Tending with Steve Aizenstat, and is a doctoral candidate in Jungian Psychology and Archetypes at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Rebecca teaches visual art at East Stroudsburg University.
Sarah Chandler aka Kohenet (Hebrew Priestess) Shamirah teaches, writes and consults on a national level on issues related to Judaism, earth-based spiritual practice, the environment, mindfulness, and farming. Sarah is the founder and lead trainer of “Soft as a Rock: Public Speaking for Sensitive Souls.”
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