Acting Together on the World Stage

September 23 – September 26, 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.

Press and Media Contact: +1-347-512-5572 or conference@theatrewithoutborders.com.
For more information: www.theatrewithoutborders.com.
full 4-day schedule below

In Association With: 7 Stages, Atlanta; Brown University; Immigrants’ Theatre Project; Lark Play Development Center; New York University; TCG (Theatre Communications Group) – ITI (International Theatre Institute) U.S. Center, CUNY/Creative Arts Team, League of Professional Theatre Women