THEATER: Artists increasingly use their skills across professional boundaries--effecting change and fostering dialog as citizens of their nations and the world. Exploring uses of the arts in times of extremity, the fourth annual Arts in One World conference will convene at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) from January 14-18, 2009. The event is open to the public.

"At CalArts, we believe profoundly in the potential for the arts to help us reconnect over even the deepest cultural and historical chasms," said CalArts' President Steven Lavine. "The Arts in One World conferences bring together artists who are risking their lives to work in areas of conflict--offering invaluable opportunities to learn from one another and to inspire our students to future lives as citizen artists."

The international conference is a project of The More Life: Cultural Studies and Genocide Initiative, an on-going series of collaborations between CalArts and the Interdisciplinary Genocide Study Center (IGSC) in Kigali, Rwanda. For six years, The More Life Initiative has facilitated exchanges between the United States, Rwanda and Uganda--employing the arts as powerful tools of grass roots diplomacy, reconciliation and education.

Women have assumed vital roles in Rwanda's recovery and reinvention, with its parliament numbering the most female members in the world. Inspired by this example, the conference theme is Motherhood and Revolution: how women, and mothers in particular, are innovating in conflict and post conflict circumstances--and in the process, expanding ways in which one is an artist/activist in the world.

The upcoming Arts in One World conference addresses issues in Rwanda, Palestine, and Kurdistan through workshops, panel and roundtable discussions, readings, films and live performance. The keynote speaker is contemporary Kurdish poet, Choman Hardi, who will discuss Genocide, Rape and Silence in Kurdistan/Artistic Practice in Response to the Anfal.

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2009 Arts in the One World Agenda

THEATER: Artists increasingly use their skills across professional boundaries--effecting change and fostering dialog as citizens of their nations and the world. Exploring uses of the arts in times of extremity, the fourth annual Arts in One World conference will convene at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) from January 14-18, 2009. The event is open to the public.

"At CalArts, we believe profoundly in the potential for the arts to help us reconnect over even the deepest cultural and historical chasms," said CalArts' President Steven Lavine. "The Arts in One World conferences bring together artists who are risking their lives to work in areas of conflict--offering invaluable opportunities to learn from one another and to inspire our students to future lives as citizen artists."

The international conference is a project of The More Life: Cultural Studies and Genocide Initiative, an on-going series of collaborations between CalArts and the Interdisciplinary Genocide Study Center (IGSC) in Kigali, Rwanda. For six years, The More Life Initiative has facilitated exchanges between the United States, Rwanda and Uganda--employing the arts as powerful tools of grass roots diplomacy, reconciliation and education.

Women have assumed vital roles in Rwanda's recovery and reinvention, with its parliament numbering the most female members in the world. Inspired by this example, the conference theme is Motherhood and Revolution: how women, and mothers in particular, are innovating in conflict and post conflict circumstances--and in the process, expanding ways in which one is an artist/activist in the world.

The upcoming Arts in One World conference addresses issues in Rwanda, Palestine, and Kurdistan through workshops, panel and roundtable discussions, readings, films and live performance. The keynote speaker is contemporary Kurdish poet, Choman Hardi, who will discuss Genocide, Rape and Silence in Kurdistan/Artistic Practice in Response to the Anfal.

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2009 Arts in the One World Agenda

THEATER: Artists increasingly use their skills across professional boundaries--effecting change and fostering dialog as citizens of their nations and the world. Exploring uses of the arts in times of extremity, the fourth annual Arts in One World conference will convene at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) from January 14-18, 2009. The event is open to the public.

"At CalArts, we believe profoundly in the potential for the arts to help us reconnect over even the deepest cultural and historical chasms," said CalArts' President Steven Lavine. "The Arts in One World conferences bring together artists who are risking their lives to work in areas of conflict--offering invaluable opportunities to learn from one another and to inspire our students to future lives as citizen artists."

The international conference is a project of The More Life: Cultural Studies and Genocide Initiative, an on-going series of collaborations between CalArts and the Interdisciplinary Genocide Study Center (IGSC) in Kigali, Rwanda. For six years, The More Life Initiative has facilitated exchanges between the United States, Rwanda and Uganda--employing the arts as powerful tools of grass roots diplomacy, reconciliation and education.

Women have assumed vital roles in Rwanda's recovery and reinvention, with its parliament numbering the most female members in the world. Inspired by this example, the conference theme is Motherhood and Revolution: how women, and mothers in particular, are innovating in conflict and post conflict circumstances--and in the process, expanding ways in which one is an artist/activist in the world.

The upcoming Arts in One World conference addresses issues in Rwanda, Palestine, and Kurdistan through workshops, panel and roundtable discussions, readings, films and live performance. The keynote speaker is contemporary Kurdish poet, Choman Hardi, who will discuss Genocide, Rape and Silence in Kurdistan/Artistic Practice in Response to the Anfal.

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2009 Arts in the One World Agenda

THEATER: Artists increasingly use their skills across professional boundaries--effecting change and fostering dialog as citizens of their nations and the world. Exploring uses of the arts in times of extremity, the fourth annual Arts in One World conference will convene at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) from January 14-18, 2009. The event is open to the public.

"At CalArts, we believe profoundly in the potential for the arts to help us reconnect over even the deepest cultural and historical chasms," said CalArts' President Steven Lavine. "The Arts in One World conferences bring together artists who are risking their lives to work in areas of conflict--offering invaluable opportunities to learn from one another and to inspire our students to future lives as citizen artists."

The international conference is a project of The More Life: Cultural Studies and Genocide Initiative, an on-going series of collaborations between CalArts and the Interdisciplinary Genocide Study Center (IGSC) in Kigali, Rwanda. For six years, The More Life Initiative has facilitated exchanges between the United States, Rwanda and Uganda--employing the arts as powerful tools of grass roots diplomacy, reconciliation and education.

Women have assumed vital roles in Rwanda's recovery and reinvention, with its parliament numbering the most female members in the world. Inspired by this example, the conference theme is Motherhood and Revolution: how women, and mothers in particular, are innovating in conflict and post conflict circumstances--and in the process, expanding ways in which one is an artist/activist in the world.

The upcoming Arts in One World conference addresses issues in Rwanda, Palestine, and Kurdistan through workshops, panel and roundtable discussions, readings, films and live performance. The keynote speaker is contemporary Kurdish poet, Choman Hardi, who will discuss Genocide, Rape and Silence in Kurdistan/Artistic Practice in Response to the Anfal.

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2009 Arts in the One World Agenda

THEATER: Artists increasingly use their skills across professional boundaries--effecting change and fostering dialog as citizens of their nations and the world. Exploring uses of the arts in times of extremity, the fourth annual Arts in One World conference will convene at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) from January 14-18, 2009. The event is open to the public.

"At CalArts, we believe profoundly in the potential for the arts to help us reconnect over even the deepest cultural and historical chasms," said CalArts' President Steven Lavine. "The Arts in One World conferences bring together artists who are risking their lives to work in areas of conflict--offering invaluable opportunities to learn from one another and to inspire our students to future lives as citizen artists."

The international conference is a project of The More Life: Cultural Studies and Genocide Initiative, an on-going series of collaborations between CalArts and the Interdisciplinary Genocide Study Center (IGSC) in Kigali, Rwanda. For six years, The More Life Initiative has facilitated exchanges between the United States, Rwanda and Uganda--employing the arts as powerful tools of grass roots diplomacy, reconciliation and education.

Women have assumed vital roles in Rwanda's recovery and reinvention, with its parliament numbering the most female members in the world. Inspired by this example, the conference theme is Motherhood and Revolution: how women, and mothers in particular, are innovating in conflict and post conflict circumstances--and in the process, expanding ways in which one is an artist/activist in the world.

The upcoming Arts in One World conference addresses issues in Rwanda, Palestine, and Kurdistan through workshops, panel and roundtable discussions, readings, films and live performance. The keynote speaker is contemporary Kurdish poet, Choman Hardi, who will discuss Genocide, Rape and Silence in Kurdistan/Artistic Practice in Response to the Anfal.

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2009 Arts in the One World Agenda