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!
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 sessions (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 2000 attendees, begins Friday evening with the above mentioned concerts, and follows with even more exciting conversations and presentations on June 5 and 6, 2004.

Main Conference
Saturday, June 5th - Yang
initiation, war, apocalypse, senex, silence, light, anima mundi, cultural reimagination, union...
8:00 a.m. Breakfast, light movement (tai chi, yoga, dance) and meditation
9:00 a.m. The Big Story Kennesaw State University's Department of Theatre and Performance Studies presents The Hero's Journey: Mythic Stories of the Heroic Quest created and directed by John Gentile
11:00 a.m. Workshops and presentations including mask-making with Brian and Wendy Froud, Ellen Kushner's live radio show Sound & Spirit a discussion of Myth and Sports with Phil Cousineau, Joey Reiman tackles The Superhero's Journey Myth and Dreams, Jumping Mouse with Mary Elizabeth Marlow, Joseph Campbell's Journal as a Guide.
12:30 p.m. Lunch Break
2:00 p.m. The Big Conversations - Out of Balance
  • Evil
  • Apocalypse
  • War
  • Cross-Cultural Endings: Why do we have these stories?
  • Body: Warrior and Wound
  • Shadow
  • Alternatives to Catastrophe
  • Livelihood
  • Breaking the Round Table
Conversation participants will include Elaine Pagels, James Hillman, Marina Warner, Tim Renick, Greg Stafford, Sam Keen, Gregory Schremp, Chip Sullivan, Coleman Barks, Richard Smoley, Eddie Patton, Alan Dundes, Verlyn Flieger, Ari Berk, Chief Jake Swamp, Sobonfu Some, Alan Pittman, Dennis Patrick Slattery, Michael Meade, Phil Cousineau, Joyce Carol Oates, J. Pittman McGeHee, Ginette Paris, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Jane Yolen, Guy Corneau, Matthew Fox, Scott Livengood, Joey Reiman, Steve Nygren, Carol Pearson, John and Caitlin Matthews, Greg Stafford, James Flannery, Heather Dale and more, more, more!
4:00 p.m. Workshops and presentations including C.S. Lewis by Tom Key, Pan, the Great God Alive with WIlliam Todd-Jones, Academy Award winning artist Alan Lee, Michael Meade, storytellers, personal reminiscences of Joseph Campbell, Cinema as Sacred Art, Rituals for Grief and many many more!
6:00 p.m. Dinner Break
7:00 p.m.
  • A conversation with Marion Woodman and Coleman Barks
  • Talking With Angels, a one-woman show by Shelly Mitchell
  • 9:30 p.m. The Ladder a rock opera!
    9:30 p.m. Dancing, drumming, and more late night jam sessions (which, again, may very well see in the dawn!)

    Main Conference
    Sunday, June 6th - Yin
    silence, reception, voice, resonance, intimacy, darkness, animals, descent, earth, body, senex, union, cultural reimagination, anima mundi...
    8:00 a.m. Breakfast, light movement (tai chi, yoga, dance) and meditation
    9:00 a.m. The Big Story Lost & Found
    11:00 a.m. The Big Conversations - From Silence to Voice
    • Union
    • Body as Landscape: the Human as Nature
    • Tikkun Olam: Healing the World
    • Images of Return, Resurection, Renewal
    • Money as a Mystery School
    • Healing
    • The Rape of Persephone
    • Women in Arthurian Myth
    Conversation participants will include Robin and Stephen Larsen, Marion Woodman, Guy Corneau, Michael Adams, Ginette Paris, Steve Aizenstat, John Matthews, Meinrad Craighead, Ellen Hemphill, Elaine Pagels, Carol Pearson, Matthew Fox, Scott Livengood, Parker Johnson, Jean Shinoda Bolen, William Todd-Jones, Gayle Ross, James Hillman, Greg Stafford, Chief Jake Swamp and more, more, more!
    12:30 p.m. Lunch Break
    2:00 p.m. Workshops and presentations including Isis and Osiris, Godiva, John and Caitlin Matthews presenting Fairy Wives and Diamond Lovers, Michael Vannoy Adams A Resurrection of Birds: Soul Dreams and more!
    4:00 p.m.
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