Arts in the One World – 2010 Conference – Brown University
Arts in the One World
March 17-21, 2010
Brown University
Providence, RI
The Arts in the One World conference comes to Brown University for the first time in March of 2010. We will look at how the sense of home – the ways it is defined and enacted – is useful as a political and esthetic argument for fidelity, trust, immanence, the safe store of memory and the reconstitution of identity (as against? in dialogue with…? industry and the nation-state). These interrogations build on themes that have been emerging through previous conferences.
Please check back for upcoming information on conference events and speakers.
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Theatre_Speech_Dance/about/oneworld.html
Home: Composing the Rooted Local
in the
Rapid Global Environment
How the arts and social services compose, consider,
and translate community
We are looking at how the sense of home – the ways it is defined and enacted – is useful as a political and esthetic argument for fidelity, trust, immanence, the safe store of memory and the reconstitution of identity. (As against? in dialogue with? industry and the nation-state.)
AOW is an annual gathering; this is our fifth convening. We pull together students, faculty, practitioners and activists across disciplines, from immediate and international communities, framing presentations and conversations open to the school and the general public. We explore various ways artistic, political, and historical purposes intersect (through reconciliation, the recovery of historical memory, and advocacy for justice).
Our partner in hosting the conference is the Interdisciplinary Genocide Study Center (Rwanda) – where the Tutsi Genocide is researched, testimony is gathered, negationism is resisted, and social space for survivors is afforded.
Wednesday, March 17
5-6 Introductions
6-7 Keynote A
Thursday, March 18 – Rwanda/Uganda: The Current Scene
8-8:30 Coffee
8:30-9 Reflections and Forecasts: a review of Wednesday, a view to today
9-10:30 The Interdisciplinary Genocide Study Center: Jean-Pierre Karegeye, Aloys Mahwa
10:30-11 Break
11-12:30 IGSC Session 2
12:30-2 Lunch
2-4 Contemporary Performance, Rwanda: Hope Azeda, Carole Karemera
4-4:30 Break
4:30-6 Panel
Arts, service initiatives: Africa/Africa-US
Jen Capraru: Isôko
Jesse Hawkes: RAPP, Global Youth Connect
Emily Mendelsohn: More Life
Rachel Yassky, Christopher Talbot: Hope North
Carl Rux: Negerplastik
Ken Urban: Rethinking Political Theatre; or, The Importance of Failure (Sense of an Ending)
Cynthia Croot: on Suzan-Lori Parks' play Venus
4:30-6 Film – Jen Marlowe: Rebuilding Hope
6-7:30 Dinner
7:30-10 Performances, Presentations
Jill Pribylova: Okulamba Dance Company
Colleen Wagner: The Monument
Film – Abigail Disney: Pray the Devil Back to Hell
Friday, March 19 – Palestine, Israel, The Mid-East: Conversations
8-8:30 Coffee
8:30-9 Reflections and Forecasts: Yesterday, today
9-12:30 Michael Devine: Session A – BoxWhatBox (“exercises and etudes in non-traditional performance creation and the training of the artist as intercultural citizen”)
9-12:30 Panel
Neery E. Melkonian: Becoming a Diasporic Cluster: Surviving the Legacy of a Catastrophe, Consolidating Utterances Across Time and Space
12:30-2 Lunch
2-4 Presentations, with Q+A
Jennie El-Far, Tracy Francis: Selections from The Generations Project
Lisa Schelssinger: US/Palestinian performance projects
Ed Mast, Hanna Eady: Seven Days from a Gaza Diary
passages from the diary of Khulood Ghanem
adapted and arranged by Edward Mast
Laura Zam: from Collaterally Damaged
Guitta Tahmassebi – Operation Blackout
4-4:30 Break
4:30-6 Conversations
Brown U Faculty on Israeli/Palestinian relations
Rula Awwad-Rafferty, Neery E. Melkonian, Dorit Cypis: on Zochrot and the Nakba; more
Norma Musih: on the town of Sumeil
6-7:30 Dinner
7:30-10 Performances
Laura Zam: Collaterally Damaged
Crime Against Humanity – Michael Anthony Reyes Benavides, Luis Rosa
Lauren Weedman: Bust (tent.)
Saturday, March 20: Opening out
[All day: Film Festival – including:
Kate Perotti: MOMz Hot ROCKs
Carl Rux: Shirley Clarke: Harlem, Race and Oppression in Cinema Verité
(a conversation)
Nancy Buchanan
Jen Marlowe: Rebuilding Hope
Stella Ma: The Quest for the Moon Fairy
and
Podcast
Heather Woodbury: As the Globe Warms
These projects will be shown on a rolling basis throughout the day.]
8-8:30 Coffee
8:30-9 Reflections and Forecasts – Yesterday, today
9-12:30 Workshops
Elaine Avila, Kate Weiss: generative theatre exercises, both in the use of creating theatre for social justice in community and as a tool for playwrights.
Michael Devine: Session B – BoxWhatBox (See Fri)
9-10:30 Concurrent Roundtables
Systems (Theaters, Collectives, Social Initiatives)
A: Deborah Asiimwe/Sundance
John Bell/Great Small Works (tent.)
Lisa Dowda/Bond Street Theatre
Jane Hirshberg/Dance Exchange
Norma Musih/Zochrot
B Rhodessa Jones, Theresa Dickinson, Denny Riley/Cultural
Odyssey
Stella Ma/Children's Cantonese Opera (including an exerpt from The Quest for the Moon Fairy)
Susan McEwen/Irish Peace Centres
Nealy Noe/ArtAccess
Barbara Roberts/ActUp: Black on Black Crime
Aryeh Shell/Somos Mayfair
9-10:30 Special Topics
A: Actions for the Individual Artist
Karen Atkinson: The Hybrid Career
B: Art and Personal Identity
Mei Ann Teo: Rebuilding from Within – Mitigating Fundamentalism in Conservative Christian Communities – A Case Study in Reclaiming the Body in the Seventh Day Adventist Bubble
Betsy Shevey: Abuse; Recovery by Means of Creative Arts
Sarah Schulman: The Ties that Bind
C: Lili Bernard: Ceiba De Cuba – The artist’s work, and a conversation on race and civil rights in Cuba (from 9-11)
10:30-11 Break
11-12:30 Concurrent Roundtables
Systems (Theaters, Collectives, Social Initiatives)
A: Orlando Pabotoy, Laverne Duncan, Carlos Silveira
Sha Najak, Shaun Teo, Prashant Somosundram/Migrant Voices
Justine Williams/Glass Contraption: The Marias of Brazil
Christine Young/U San Fran: Theater of Place
Guy Zimmerman: Language and Space (Personal, Political)
B: Jerry Stropnicky/Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble: Higher
Ground
Mary Sherman/TransCultural Exchange
Alvin Tan/Necessary Stage
Hjalmar-Jorge Joffre-Eichhorn: Work in Afghanistan
Kathy Carbone: Libraries and Activism
11-12:30 Special Topics
Students and Activism
Torry Bend
Noam Shuster
Marissa Metelica
Amber Skalski
Liesl Spitz
Tanmay Misra
Murals and Performance
Jane Weissman/Urbecoart: The People's Blackboard: Community Murals & Neighborhood Identity [With Installation]
12:30-2 Lunch
2-4 Concurrent Panels
The Local and International in Continuum
A: John Emigh: I Made Bandem, The Scheilleins (the use of local place markers in New Guinean poetics and performance), Dennis Hlynsky at RISD, and Waterfire's Barnaby Evans
B: Patricia Ybarra: TBA
C: Naum Panovski: Writing and Exile – Dr. Boris Senker, Filip David, Kannan Menon
D: Playwrights Respond to Genocide
Moderator: Bianca Bagatourian, with:
Cynthia Croot
Stephanie Fleischmann
Elaine Romero
4-4:30 Break
4:30-6 Concurrent Panels
A: Art and Peacebuilding
Cynthia Cohen, Barbara Epstein: Alan B. Slifka Program in Intercommunal Coexistence, Brandeis University
Cynthia Croot
Pastor Muderhwa: the Peace and Collaborative Development Network
Susan Sgorbati, Bennington
Richard Kamler, Artist/Director – Seeing Peace: Artists Collaborate with the United Nations
Christian Doll/Peace Corps
B: The Visual Arts
Lili Bernard
Rochelle Shicoff, Janet Braun-Reinitz/Artmakers, Inc.
Jane Weissman/Urbecoart
Claudia Bernardi/Walls of Hope
Norma Musih: on Channel Aldwuara by Shlomit Bauman; also Hanna Farah
Dorit Cypis
C: Cultural Diplomacy
Martha Coigny
6-7:30 COMMUNAL DINNER
7:30-10 Testimony, Performances, Readings
Hector Aristizabal
Sandeep Bagwati: Transience
Paula Cizmar, Carol Mack: Seven
and Cklara Moradian: Tamam
Aaron Landsman: Open House
and Mia Rovegno: Apartment
Sunday, March 21
8-8:30 Coffee
8:30-9 Reflections and Forecast – Yesterday, today
9-10:30 Panel
Storytelling Now
Vinita Ramani Mohan: Cambodia
Aiste Ptakauske: Ownership and Distribution in a New Media Environment
Heather Woodbury (virtually)
10:30-11 Break
11-12:30 Home and Homelessness
Michelle McKenzie, Traci Green/Lifespan: Providence
Shelley Salamensky: Post-Postmodern Homefulness: Performing Culture, Time, & Space In The Global Age
Aaron Landsman: Home and Capital: Home as a performance site, by choice/necessity
Orlando Pabotoy, Laverne Duncan: Youth at Risk
12:30-2 Lunch, Review, and – Next?
