Event: 'Free Screening Of: Acting Together On The World Stage' Print
  Greater Boston
Events taking place in the Boston area.
Date: Friday, June 22, 2012 At 12:30 pm
Contact Info:
To learn more about Acting Together Project, please visit www.actingtogether.org.
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Location: 

The Boston Foundation – South Boston Room
75 Arlington Street, 10th Floor; Boston, MA
Free and open to the public
TCG conference participants welcome to join

 

Description: 12:30–1:30pm Screening of  "Acting Together on the World Stage"

 

1:30–2:00pm Post-screening conversation with Cynthia Cohen, co-creator of film and director of Acting Together project, Brandeis University; Kathleen Bitetti, artist, policy expert and chief curator at Medicine Wheel Productions; Charles Mulekwa, playwright from Uganda and a curator of Acting Together project.

 

2:10–3:30pm Balancing aesthetics and social transformation: Conversation, video clip from toolkit & activities exploring how artists and peacebuilders balance attention to aesthetic and socio-political imperatives.

 

Dr. Cynthia Cohen, director of Brandeis University's Peacebuilding and the Arts Program, will present the one-hour documentary, which chronicles the work and thoughts of performing artists, playwrights, educators and activists engaged in the transformation of conflict in places as far-flung as Serbia, Peru, Uganda, the Middle East, the United States and elsewhere. Dr. Cohen and Kathleen Bitetti will answer questions following the screening. Dr. Cohen will then facilitate a conversation and activities about balancing aesthetics and social transformation in the field of peacebuilding.

 

For more information, please email Naoe Suzuki at  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

 

Watch the trailer on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0Xj8eELbcg

 

**Space is limited. Please RSVP, especially if you want to stay for the 2:10pm conversation.