Wednesday, April 29, 2009

The Poetics of Healing, May 8 and 9th, UCSF and Meridian Gallery

Saturday MAY 9
a symposium on
the Poetics of Healing: creative investigations in art, medicine, and somatic practice
project curated by ELENI STECOPOULOS
supported by the CREATIVE WORK FUND


Two distinct programs, with a break for dinner

Saturday MAY 9
4:00–6:00 pm AND 7:30–9:30 pm @ Meridian Gallery
535 Powell Street, $5 admittance per program
(park at Sutter– Stockton Garage; walk 4 blocks north from Powell St BART)

in collaboration with Meridian Gallery

Further details forthcoming...



the Poetics of Healing: creative investigations in art, medicine, and somatic practice
project curated by ELENI STECOPOULOS
supported by the CREATIVE WORK FUND


elenistecopoulos"What might happen if we asked doctors to look at the art of their practice? What might happen if we asked poets and other artists to consider the somatic and therapeutic dimensions of their art?"
Eleni Stecopoulos



Supported by a two-year project grant from the
Creative Work Fund, the Poetry Center will be hosting throughout 2009 a series of programs under the title The Poetics of Healing: creative investigations in art, medicine, and somatic practice. Curated by San Francisco poet and scholar Eleni Stecopoulos, the project will bring together innovative writers, artists, and medical practitioners doing parallel work within altogether different traditions and practices.

Guest participants will read, perform, and discuss their own work, talk with each other, and engage with audiences. Throughout the project, Eleni Stecopoulos will be writing an original book on the subject (incorporating material by other participants and as arising out of the public forum) to be published late 2010 by
Factory School.

Portions of our Spring 2009 program series are presented in collaboration with the
University of California San Francisco School of Medicine Medical Humanities Initiative, the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, and Meridian Gallery. For details on these programs:

Wednesday–Saturday MARCH 12–14
Barbara Tedlock and Dennis Tedlock

Thursday & Friday
APRIL 9–10
Raúl Zurita, William Rowe and Nuri Gené-Cos

Friday MAY 8
"Listening to listening . . ."

Saturday
MAY 9

a symposium on the Poetics of Healing

Under the heading The Poetics of Healing, our project seeks to cultivate an important dialogue that rarely happens across disciplinary borders; to highlight the role of poetic language, sound, and imagery in somatic practices, medical treatment, and patient experiences; and to formally acknowledge and encourage a conversation that is already occuring among writers and in various academic medical humanities and healthcare fields, but has not yet been formally established as a field of artistic and intellectual inquiry.

With the recognition that poetry and medicine share the sense of engagement in a practice, or calling, and work within multiple historic traditions, we’ll highlight the progressive, experimental communities that have been conspicuously prominent in San Francisco in the arts and medicine.

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