IPTN News West Europe

Dear IPTN-Members,

hopefully you have had a good start to Year 2012. May it be full of wonderful playback theatre activities!

With this email I want to say good bye as membership secretary West Europe and announce some important IPTN-News:

1. New membership secretaries in West Europe
2. European Playback Theater Conference 2012 in England - Early booking until January 20st
3. New Website - fill in your profiles

1. New membership secretaries in West Europe

As I have been elected as IPTN-President in Frankfurt last November, I can not go on working as membership secretary. I am very happy that we found three wonderful persons who agreed to support IPTN as local membership secretaries.

IPTN Secretary for North-West-Europe:
Nike Brandt Poulsen
Ørholmvej 15
DK 2800 KGS LYNGBY
DENMARK
Phone: +45 4587 8627
Email: nike@tdcspace.dk

Nike will be membership-secretary for Denmark, Ireland, Norway, Sweden and further northern countries.

IPTN-Secretary for South-West-Europe:
Paulien Haakma
Buiksloterdyk 302
NL-1034 ZE Amsterdam
NETHERLANDS
Phone: +31 621867259
paulien@dezaakinbeweging.nl

Paulien will be membership-secretary for Belgium, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain.

IPTN-Secretary German Language Countries:
Andrea Schulze
Woorke 11
D-18528 Patzig / Rügen
GERMANY
Phone: +49 3838313538
Email: an.andrea@t-online.de

Andrea will be membership-secretary for Austria, Germany and Switzerland.

2. European Playback Theater Conference 2012 in England - Early booking until January 20st
30 August - 2 September 2012

Early bird registration: Deadline payment received by 20st January 2012, Registration deadline: Registered and paid no later than May 30, 2012

Held on the beautiful and historic Dartington Hall Estate, South Devon, the festival will bring together people interested in Playback Theatre from across Europe and beyond. We will celebrate explore how the simple act of coming together, sharing and re-enacting stories through the ritual of Playback Theatre can inspire change, build community and promote social justice.

Please find more information: http://www.europeanplayback2012.com/index.html

3. New Website - fill in your profiles
Our new website is online since late Novembre 2011. Most of you are already listed as IPTN-Members. To make the new website more interesting for yourself and for others, it would be great if you could fill in your profiles as soon as possible. If you forgot your password to log in, there is an automatic request-function to help you. If you are still not listed on the website, please contact our webmaster Martin directly: Martin Wolf

And if you are interested to learn more Plaback Theatre please have a look on Playback centres website: http://www.playbackcentre.org/training-program

Best wishes,
Juergen Schoo
IPTN-President
former IPTN Membership-Secretary West Europe

Juergen Schoo
Ceciliengaerten 8
D-12159 Berlin
Germany
Phone +49 30 23 36 71 05
Mailto: iptn@gmx.de