Last date for submission of paper: unknown; Contact person: Melissa Meyer; Through performance and play (the arts, theatre, music, dance, improvisation, poetry, storytelling), people can bring new social-cultural-psychological-political possibilities into existence. PTW will be a gathering of, by and for people who are, in so many beautiful ways, creating a heart.We invite participation from performers and performance scholars, psychologists and social workers, physicians and nurses, educators and youth workers, policy makers and humanitarian aid workers, community organizers and political activists, and all others for whom performance offers possibility.