OCTOBER 23, 2020, 9:30 PM

Tolerance–Coexistence–Migrant Experience




Live and online discussion after the performance of TERRA within the festival
ART AND HUMAN RIGHTS.

FEATURING:

Jadranka Anđelić, director, Ljubica Damčević, musician and performer in the project
TERRA.

Violeta Luna, actress and performer (Mexico/USA – online), actress / performance artist / activist. Her work activates the relationship between theater, performance and community engagement. She has created several performances dedicated to the problem of
migration and violence on the border between Mexico and the USA.

Karolina Spaic, ZID Theater [Netherlands – online] director and artistic leader of Theater ZID – Community Art and Performance Center in Amsterdam. In search of that universal theatrical language that could create a bridge between
actors and the audience, Spaić developed a passion for community and non-Western art forms. Initiator of the FATE project on the inclusion of emigrant artists on the cultural scene of Europe.

Gordana Vukašin, activist – Group 484. Active in the civil sector in Serbia through work in non-governmental organizations engaged in providing psychosocial support to migrants and asylum seekers in Serbia, primarily unaccompanied
minor migrants.

Moderated by:
Dijana Milošević



FEATURING [online]:

Frederique Lecomte (Belgium) is the founder and main facilitator of the Theater and Reconciliation method. She is a sociologist, writer and director. She is an expert in the field of rebuilding traumatized and communities in conflict,
organizes theater workshops and performances WITH the community and FOR the community. She is an assistant at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in the Department of Theater Studies.

Joanna Sherman (USA) is the artistic director
Bond Street Theatre, which has been implementing theater projects globally since 1984 to improve society. The company primarily works in communities that are in the post-war period or in unfavorable circumstances, collaborating with local
artists, applying art in peacebuilding, with a focus on refugees, women and marginalized populations [Afghanistan, Myanmar, Malaysia, Egypt and South Africa].

Eveline Costa (Brazil) is the founder
Sequencia Filmes 2001, which, in addition to film, also developed theater activities from 2007 [Cenicas]. Film director, playwright and producer who was also Production Director and Director of the International Festival
of Women in Performing Arts – MULTICIDADE. Director of the new film project NEVENA, about trafficking in women. Speakers with  
Jadranka Anđelić about the project with children TERRITORY OF THE STAGE that they led in Rio de Janeiro.

Diana Kržanić Tepavac (Serbia), actress and drama pedagogue, president of the Executive Board
Assitej Serbia. ASSITEJ is the international association of theater for children and young people. Founder and artistic director of the Studio for Performing and Visual
arts “Iskorak”, which applies theater practice to work for and with teenagers. She is a passionate advocate for the realization of children’s rights to culture and participation in society.

Dijana Milošević director
and
Ivana Milenović Popović, actress, DAH Teatar’s plays, FOR YOUR OWN GOOD, about children’s rights (Serbia).


IN COOPERATION WITH THE PROJECT
RIGHT4KIDS
















DECEMBER 14, 2020, 7:00 PM

REVOLUTION AND ITS “ENIGMAS”


FEATURING [online]:

Erik Ehn [USA] is a playwright and director. Visiting professor at the University of New Mexico. Master of Theological Studies. Founder and artistic co-director of Tenderloin Opera Company, Graduate, New Dramatists. His play “Maria
Kizito” is based on the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 and is the result of his research in that Central African country. “Our Genocides”, a series of 17 plays, explores the US relationship in the 20th century to genocide in Central America
and East Africa. Ehn is the founder of an annual conference called “Arts in a One World” which brings together artists, scholars and human rights activists who explore theater on the theme of genocide and reconciliation.

Norberto Presta [Argentina/Italy], actor and director who left Argentina to live and work in Germany, Italy, Brazil. He created the play “Familija – About Fascism and Other Disasters” which is performed in room spaces
for a small number of viewers. Social and political issues are the content and form of his creations in the theater where the body and image are the main characters.

Igor Štiks [Serbia, Croatia, BiH] writer and political scientist, lecturer at the Faculty of Media and Communications in Belgrade and research associate at the Faculty of Philosophy in Ljubljana. He has published award-winning and translated novels “The Castle in Romagna”
(2000), “Elijah’s Chair” (2006), “The Cutting Area” (2017) and “W” (2019). The play “Elijah’s Chair”, directed by Boris Liješević, won the Grand Prix of BITEF in 2011. London’s Bloomsbury published his study “Nations and
Citizens in Yugoslavia and the Post-Yugoslav States: One Hundred Years of Citizenship” (2016) in 2015. With Srećko Horvat he wrote the polemical essay “The Right to Rebellion” (2010) and prepared the collection “Welcome to the Desert of Post-Socialism”
(2015).

And DAH Theater:
Dijana Milošević,
Ivana Milenović Popović

Moderated by:
Jadranka Andjelić

Translation from Italian: Nataša Novaković




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