ACTING TOGETHER ON THE WORLD STAGE Conference Held At Ellen Stewart Theatre
By: Gabrielle Sierra Sep. 15, 2010
Theatre Without Borders and the Coexistence Program at Brandeis University launches a year of gathering and distributing information about ongoing theatre work - research, performance, workshops, and artists' exchanges - centered on the relationship between the arts and peace building.
Artists from: Afghanistan, Argentina, Belarus, Burma, Cambodia, Colombia, Cyprus, England, Germany, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Kenya, Korea, Pakistan, Palestine, Peru, Romania, Serbia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Uganda, United States, and Zimbabwe will discuss their work, give workshops and perform from their work.For artists, students, service organizations, funders and diplomats, this is the place to meet the International Artists at the front of this innovative approach to peacebuilding.Conference highlights include performances, workshops and roundtable discussions:Keynotes: "Conflict & Trauma: Strategies for Transformation & Healing," Dr. Barbara Love (UMass Amherst); and "An Incident of Cutting & Chopping: the Bindunuwewa Child Soldier Massacre," James Thompson (University of Manchester, UK);
Screening of the World Premiere ACTING TOGETHER Documentary Film;
Performances of Buckworld One (USA); Ieng Sithul & Chhon Sina reading a play by Morm Sokly (Cambodia); Discover Love, Belarus Free Theatre; Crossing the Line, DAH Theatre (Serbia); Theatre of Festivity, Albugaa Theatre (Sudan).
La Galleria Exhibit: Culture on Canvas: Contemporary paintings from Myanmar.
September 23 through 26, 2010
Ellen Stewart Theatre, La MaMa ETC, 66 E. 4th Street, NY, NY 10003
Suggested donation for entire conference: $25.00
Presented by La MaMa ETC; Ellen Stewart, Artistic Director and Theatre Without Borders
With support from 651 ARTS/Africa Exchange; Brandeis University; Fordham University, The Public Theater and the Romanian Cultural Institute of New York.
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