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Our first project is disseminating resources and knowledge created through the Acting Together project, a partnership with Theatre Without Borders, New Village Press and Brandeis University’s Program in Peace Building and the Arts.
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Anthology
Documentary (Trailer)
From the boundary of human suffering and human possibility emerges a story that offers hope to our war-weary world. It is a story that arises on a contested boundary, but not the kind of boundary that divides people at war. It is rather the border between the violence and inequity of our current condition and the more just and peaceful world we seek, terrain where artists and peacebuilders engage people in creative acts of courage and moral imagination.
Acting Together has been exploring this terrain for the past six years. The project documents peacebuilding performance, highlighting artists, peacebuilders, and community leaders from every continent whose rituals and theatrical works speak truth to power and support communities to mourn losses and build bridges across differences.
In the fall of 2011, the project launches a feature-length documentary (“Acting Together on the World Stage“); a toolkit of videos and printed guides to aid educators, practitioners and policy-makers; and the first of two volumes of an anthology entitled “Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict” (New Village Press, 2011).
This coming October, in cinemas, bookstores, theatres, community centers and classrooms on every continent, educators, students, practitioners and policy-makers from fields related both to the arts and to peacebuilding will be engaging with the resources of the Acting Together project.
Witness the courageous acts of artist-peacebuilders in the documentary. Read their stories in the anthology. plan peacebuilding performances using the toolkit. Join the Acting Together conversation, with your own acts of courage, compassion and resolve.
“Acting Together on the World Stage” is an exploration of how performance engages conflict, nurtures constructive change, and builds peace. It artfully places before us the human story unfolding and invites us to penetrate through the mask to find our way back to humanity.– John Paul Lederach.
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