Interview [live and online] after the performance TERRA within the festival ART AND HUMAN RIGHTS.

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Jadranka Andjelic, director, Ljubica Damcevic, musician and performer in the project TERRA.

Violet Luna, actress and performer (Mexico/USA - online), actress / performance artist / activist. Her work activates the relationship between theatre, performance and community engagement. Created several performances dedicated to the problem of migration and violence on the border of Mexico and the USA.

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

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

Moderated by: Diana Milosevic

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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 conflicted communities, 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 an art director Bond Street Theatre which, since 1984, has been globally realizing theater projects for the improvement of society. The company primarily works in post-war or disadvantaged communities, collaborating with local artists, applying art in peace-building, with a focus on refugees, women and marginalized populations [Afghanistan, Myanmar, Malaysia, Egypt and South Africa].

Eveline Costa (Brazil) is the founder Sequence Films 2001, which, in addition to film, has also developed theatrical activities since 2007 [Cenicas]. Film director, playwright and producer who was also the Director of Production and Director of the International Festival of Women in the Performing Arts – MULTICIDADE. Director of the new film project NEVENA, about trafficking in women. He will speak with  Jadranka Andjelic about the project with children TERRITORY SCENE that they led in Rio de Janeiro.

Diana Kržanić Tepavac (Serbia), actress and drama pedagogue, president of the Executive Board Assitej Serbia. ASSITEJ is an international association of theaters for children and young people. Founder and artistic director of the Studio for Performing and Visual Arts "Iskorak", which applies theatrical practice to work for and with teenagers. She is a passionate advocate of children's right to culture and participation in society.

Diana Milosevic director i Ivana Milenović Popović, actress, DAH Teatro play, ZA TVOJE DOBRO, about children's rights (Serbia).

IN COOPERATION WITH THE PROJECT RIGHT4KIDS

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Eric Ann [USA] is a playwright and director. Visiting Professor at the University of New Mexico. Master of Theological Studies. Founder and Co-Artistic Director of the 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 20th century US relationship to genocide in Central America and East Africa. Anne is the founder of the annual Arts in One World conference, 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. Created the play "Familia - About fascism and other calamities", which is played in indoor spaces for a small number of spectators. 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 Shtiks [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 published award-winning and translated novels "Castle in Romagna" (2000), "Elijah's Chair" (2006), "Slaughterhouse" (2017) and "W" (2019). The play "Elijah's Chair", directed by Boris Liješević, won the BITEF Grand Prix 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 edited the collection "Welcome to the desert of post-socialism" (2015).

I DAH Theatre:  Dijana Milosevic, Ivana Milenović Popović

Moderated by: Jadranka Andjelic

Translation from Italian: Nataša Novaković