CalArts Hosts Fifth Annual 'Arts in the One World' Conference, 1/21 - 1/24

California Institute of the Arts' (CalArts) School of Theater will host the fifth annual Arts in the One World conference from Thursday, January 21 through Sunday, January 24, 2010.

Currently, CalArts is accepting artistic and academic presentation applications for the Arts in the One World Conference. The conference committee will accept project proposals until December 15.

Guhahamuka is a Rwandan word which has come into wide use since the Tutsi genocide. Meaning "the breathless attempt to articulate the inexpressible," "guhahamuka" will be the theme of the 2010 conference. Arts in the One World brings together theater professionals from Europe, America and the African Diaspora; international human rights activists; writers; historians and students to confront the repercussions of genocidal conflicts and explore the intersection of human rights activism and cultural practice.

The Arts in the One World (AOW) Conference encourages presentations, performances and workshops that demonstrate how survivors, artists and scholars give testimony and bear witness to circumstances of conflict and social injustice, opening imaginative space for participation in the recovery of historical memory and social renewal. The 2010 conference will consider together how these articulations represent experiments in interdisciplinary public practice, expanding the models for being an artist/activist in the world. Applications to present at the 2010 AOW are available at www.artsintheoneworld.org.

AOW is an annual gathering hosted by California Institute of the Arts' School of Theater and executed in collaboration with the Institute. Students and faculty from CalArts and around the world, as well as the general public, discuss and present on the various ways artistic, political and historical purposes intersect. The conference is the local anchor of an ongoing artistic exchange CalArts conducts with the Interdisciplinary Genocide Studies Center (IGSC) in Rwanda. The conference is free and open to the public.

The 2010 Arts in the One World Conference will be held at California Institute of the Arts in Valencia. Further information and applications to present or volunteer at the conference are available at www.artsintheoneworld.org.

California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is recognized internationally as a leading laboratory for the visual, performing, media and literary arts. Housing six schools--Art, Critical Studies, Dance, Film/Video, Music, and Theater--CalArts educates professional artists in an intensive learning environment founded on artmaking excellence, creative experimentation, cross-pollination among diverse artistic disciplines, and a broad context of social and cultural understanding. CalArts also operates the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT) in the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex in downtown Los Angeles.