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At Mythic Journeys, we hope to reach as wide an audience as possible and create a community of seekers. For that reason, the main Mythic Journeys conference, June 5 and 6, 2004, will be a festival of conversation, workshops, and performance.
However, we understand that some prefer a smaller, more intimate experience where they can interact directly with the guest speakers and performers, and participate in much smaller workshops with a closer community.
For that reason, you’re invited to Mythic Journeys In-Depth, an intimate pre-conference, on June 3 and 4, 2004. Here, everyone has “front-row seats,” so to speak - a chance to interact in small groups, and even one-on-one, with some of the very best minds keeping myth alive and relevant. We’ll even provide breakfast, lunch, and dinner, as well as warm social gatherings, on both days of the pre-conference.
Registration for the pre-conference includes admission to all events and performances over all four days including priority seating at two very special Friday evening performances; the first featuring poets Robert Bly and Coleman Barks, along with Armenian musicians; and the second with Grammy Award-winning Janis Ian!.
Admission to the Mythic Journeys In-Depth Pre-conference is limited to 250 people, so please don’t miss this very special opportunity. Be sure to register early.
In-Depth Conference
Wednesday, June 2nd
Ancient Spirit, Modern Voices
| 6:30 p.m. |
Air-conditioned motor coaches depart for the DeFoor Centre Gallery where our comunity and cultural outreach project "Ancient Spirit, Modern Voice: the Mythic Journeys Art Exhibition" is on display. Come join us (along with many of the participating artists) in an evening of multi-cultural art and music. Surround yourself with museum quality paintings, photography, prints and sculpture in a mythically-charged atmosphere of transformational art. |
| 9:00 p.m. |
Motor coaches return to the Hyatt Regency Atlanta |
Mythic Journeys officially opens on June 3 and 4, 2004, with Mythic Journeys In-Depth, a very special 2-day pre-conference with admission limited to only 250 participants. At Mythic Journeys In-Depth you’ll be able to interact very closely with our guest speakers and performers, and participate in smaller, more intimate in-depth programs, performances, workshops, and social gatherings.
Enjoy breakfast, lunch, and a banquet dinner buffet provided both days of the Mythic Journeys In-Depth pre-conference. Registration for the pre-conference includes admission to all four days and to all events and performances. (Note: $1000 of your In-Depth registration fee qualifies as a charitable contribution for tax purposes.)
In-Depth Conference
Thursday, June 3rd - Creation
sources, art, image, archtype/individuality, creating symbols, gnosis, birth of evil, sacrifice, meaning...
| 8:00 a.m. |
Breakfast, light movement (tai chi, yoga, dance) and meditation |
| 9:00 a.m. |
The Big Story with Finnish flutist and storyteller Ulla Suokko - Creation Stories from the Kalevala |
| 11:00 a.m. |
Workshops and presentations including Academy Award winner Alan Lee, poetry from Galway Kinnell, reading from Peter Beagle, a discussion of the Kaballah with Rabbi Yossi New, a lecture and performance of Godiva from Nor Hall and Carran Waterfield, and Wendy Doniger speaking on Magic Rings. |
| 12:30 p.m. |
Lunch |
| 2:00 p.m. |
The Big Conversations
- Sources: Where does myth come from?
- Birth of Gnosis, Evil, Sacrifice
- Body: Incarnation
Conversation participants will include James Hillman, Huston Smith, Robert Bly, Marion Woodman, Michael Meade, J. Pittman McGehee, and more, more, more!
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| 4:00 p.m. |
Workshops and presentations including In Search of the Green Man with Caitlin and John Matthews, performed by James Flannery, stories from Sobonfu Some, confab with James Hillman, screenwriting by Christopher Vogler and many many more! |
| 6:30 p.m. |
Drum Cafe presents the most extraordinary drumming event with 350 drums! |
| 7:30 p.m. |
Campbell Centennial Banquet |
| 9:30 p.m. |
Carrie Newcomer and Emerald Rose kick off the evening's late night jam sessiuns (which may very well go until dawn!) |
In-Depth Conference
Friday, June 4th - Metamorphosis
seduction, media, synthetic myth, money, body, disguise, illusion, sacrifice, techno-totemism, sorcery, aging, transformation...
| 8:00 a.m. |
Breakfast, light movement (tai chi, yoga, dance) and meditation |
| 9:00 a.m. |
The Big Story told by Michael Meade |
| 11:00 a.m. |
Workshops and presentations including Michael Tobias' film Mad Cowboy, Sam Keen on The Dark Side of Myth, the poetry of Betty Sue Flowers, Nightingale, a play by Ellen Hemphill, and a discussion of Myth in Fantasy with several members of the Endicott Studio. |
| 12:30 p.m. |
Lunch |
| 2:00 p.m. |
The Big Conversations
- Metamorphosis
- Cloning, Techno-totemism, and the Double
- Aging as Metamorphosis
Conversation participants will include Marina Warner, Wendy Doniger, James Hillman, Joyce Carol Oates, Jane Yolen, Nor Hall, Bradd Shore, Timothy Renick and more, more, more! |
| 4:00 p.m. |
Workshops and presentations including The White Bear King with Robert Bly, Myth in Gaming from the perspective of Daniel Greenberg, Little Red Riding Hood, Anthiogens and Metamorphosis, a discussion lead by Scott Livengood on Running a Company with Soul and many many more! |
| 6:00 p.m. |
Dinner Break |
| 7:00 p.m. |
Ecstatic Poetry with Robert Bly, Coleman Barks, Armenian singer Arto Tuncboycyan and cellist Eugene Friesen |
| 9:30 p.m. |
A concert from Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter Janis Ian! |
The much larger main conference and festival, open to between 1500 and 3000 attendees, begins Friday evening with the above mentioned concerts, and follows with even more exciting conversations and presentations on June 5 and 6, 2004.
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