Thanks to everyone who attended and made the 2012 Symposium a success!
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Symposium 2012 Speakers and Presenters:
Eric Bartlett, cellist and member of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Judith Burton, Professor and Director of Art and Art Education, Columbia University Teachers College
Billy Childs, Grammy Award-winning jazz pianist
Sheryl Connelly, Ford Motor Company's in-house Futurist
ETHEL, America's premier postclassical string quartet
Jack Ferver, choreographer, writer, performer and teacher
Guillermo Figueroa, Artist Director of the Figueroa Project
Carolyn Forche, poet, teacher and activist
Andrea Gibson, inaugural winner of the Women's World Poetry Slam
Steven Goodman, MacArthur Award-winning conservation biologist
Tony Kushner, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
Liz Lerman, MacArthur Award-winning choreographer and performer
Cory McAbee, musician, actor and filmmaker
Panelists:
Matt Bell, writer and author of "How They Were Found."
Jeremiah Chamberlin, publisher, Fiction Writers Review
Steve Hayden, Vice Chairman and Worldwide Creative Director, Ogilvy & Mather, New York
Annie Martin, senior acquisitions editor, Wayne State University Press
Mary Palmer, president, Mary Palmer & Associates
Stephanie Perrin, co-founder of the National Arts and Learning Collaborative
Doug Stanton, New York Times bestselling author of In Harm's Way and Horse Soldiers
Stanford Thompson, musician and executive director of Play On, Philly!