[Jewish] Art and Social Action/Women and War

[Gideon Bass]

Thought you all might be interested in this event happening two weeks from now.

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    Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 21:26:52 -0500
    From: Jill Lewis <jlewis at hampshire.edu>
Reply-To: Jill Lewis <jlewis at hampshire.edu>
 Subject: Info for your organisation
      To: tnm06 at hampshire.edu, gpb05 at hampshire.edu, rls05 at hampshire.edu

Can you circulate this through your network? She is an amazing
performer/ speaker...

Thanks

Jill


NOT TO BE MISSED.
Art and Social Action/ feminist studies/ conflict resolution
Women and War

HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE WELCOMES
PERFORMER, WRITER, HEALER, TEACHER, ACTIVIST
  DEBORAH LUBAR
AS ARTIST-IN- RESIDENCE - week long presence on campus, visits in
classes, individual work sessions with students (contact Elly Donklin
or Deb Gorlin)


* Wednesday, February 21
7:30 pm   Lecture/demonstration "Women and War" in the Mainstage Theater, EDH
Women and War - Selected monologues showing women maintaining their
humanity in the midst of war, featuring excerpts from You Do What You
Do (World War II), Naming the Days (Bosnia), and Blood and Stones
(Israeli/Palestinian conflicts)

* Friday, February 23:
Lecture/Demonstration, 4:30 - 6pm, Women's Center (currently known as
Enfield House Living Room)
Blood and Stones: Stories of a Promised Land - Based on true stories
of Jewish and Palestinian women today, these tales reflect the
courage, fears, pain and hopes of women on both sides of the conflict.


Performer, writer, teacher, activist and healer, Deborah Lubar will
be featured as this year's artist-in-residence at Hampshire College,
from Monday, February 19 to Friday, February 23, sponsored by the
School for Interdisciplinary Arts as part of its Arts and Social
Action Initiative. During her residency she will present two of her
compelling character studies about unusual women who maintain their
humanity in spite of bitter and oppressive circumstances of current
conflicts. These lecture/demonstrations are: Women and War, 7:30 p.m.
on Wednesday, February 21, Main Stage, Emily Dickinson Hall; and
Blood and Stones, 4:30 to 6 p.m., on Friday, February 23, at the
Enfield Living Room. These events are free and open to the public on
a first-come, first-served basis. In addition, she will discuss the
field research involved in gathering material for her portraits, and
her interviews with women in such war torn places as Bosnia, Israel,
Palestine, Vietnam, and Cambodia.

As Deborah Lubar writes in her artist's statement, the subjects of
her dramatic portraits are women who, though living in violent,
troubled times and places, survive and emerge as "voices of sanity."
Their individual experiences create "theatre that embraces both the
pain and the beauty, the humor and the tears of our human story right
now, those we have forgotten, ignored or silenced."

Women and War consists of selected monologues by female characters
struggling with their lives during situations of intense violence and
suffering, including World War II and the Holocaust, the war in
Bosnia, and the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Blood and
Stones: Stories of a Promised Land is based on true stories of Jewish
and Palestinian women today, reflecting their courage, fears, pain
and hopes, on both sides of the conflict.

Lubar's travels to gather these women's stories of "wild sanity,
humanity and survival" have taken her to such places as the former
Soviet Union, Berlin, Bosnia, Israel and the West Bank. Most
recently, she was in Cambodia and Syria, and is creating from those
stories and experiences new monologues for other actors. In her two
trips to post-war Bosnia, she worked with (taught) displaced women of
all backgrounds, including a group of doctors and nurses, helping
them develop fundamentals of hands-on healing techniques. She will be
returning to Cambodia to work with a women's rights organization and
to teach theatre for an organization helping street children reshape
their lives. Some of her Cambodian dramas will eventually be
performed by Cambodian-American youth, beginning with the large
Cambodian community in Lowell, MA.

With extensive training in spiritual healing traditions, Lubar is
interested in theatre as a conscious healing force in our troubled
times. She teaches both performers and writers a system that combines
theatre, writing and performance with the theory and technique of the
healing arts.

Her solo pieces include A Story's a Story, about the cross-cultural
friendship between two old immigrant women on the Lower East Side;
Naming the Days, inspired by the stories of Bosnian women refugees;
and Eve's Version, a retelling of the Garden of Eden story from Eve's
perspective.

Lubar has taught theatre across the country and has been on the
faculties of Oberlin, Rutgers, Hampshire and Smith Colleges. She is
currently writing a book on the interface of healing and theatre, and
she has started to gather monologues based on true stories from
around the world for a series called Voices of Sanity for Thirsty
Souls.

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Professor of Literature and Gender Studies
School of Interdisciplinary Arts
Box DB
Hampshire College
Amherst, MA 01002-3359, USA

Office: +1 413 559 5671 (leave messages here)
Home:    +1 413 253 9648

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