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<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-3" color="#000000"><b>Can you
circulate this through your network?</b></font> She is an amazing
performer/ speaker...</div>
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<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-3" color="#000000"><b>NOT TO BE
MISSED.</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-3" color="#000000"><b>Art and
Social Action/ feminist studies/ conflict resolution</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="+2" color="#000000"><b>Women and
War</b></font></div>
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<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-3" color="#000000"><b>HAMPSHIRE
COLLEGE WELCOMES<br>
PERFORMER, WRITER, HEALER, TEACHER, ACTIVIST</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-3"
color="#000000"><b> </b></font><font face="Lucida Grande"
size="+3" color="#000000"><b>DEBORAH LUBAR</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-3" color="#000000"><b>AS
ARTIST-IN- RESIDENCE - week long presence on campus, visits in
classes, individual work sessions with students (contact Elly Donklin
or Deb Gorlin)</b></font></div>
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<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="+1" color="#000000">* Wednesday,
February 21</font></div>
<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="+1" color="#000000">7:30
pm <b> Lecture/demonstration "Women and War" in the
Mainstage Theater, EDH</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="+1" color="#000000">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)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="+1" color="#000000">* Friday,
February 23:</font></div>
<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="+1"
color="#000000"><b>Lecture/Demonstration, 4:30 - 6pm, Women's Center
(currently known as Enfield House Living Room)</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="+1" color="#000000"><b>Blood and
Stones</b>: 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.</font></div>
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</b>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</font><font
face="Lucida Grande" size="-3" color="#FF0000"> of current
conflicts</font><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-3" color="#000000">.
These lecture/demonstrations are:<b> Women and War,</b> 7:30 p.m. on
Wednesday, February 21, Main Stage, Emily Dickinson Hall; and<b> Blood
and Stones</b>, 4:30 to 6 p.m., on Friday, February 23,
at</font><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-3" color="#FF0000"> the
Enfield Living Room</font><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-3"
color="#000000">. 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,</font><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-3" color="#FF0000">
Palestine,</font><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-3" color="#000000">
Vietnam, and Cambodia. <br>
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As Deborah Lubar writes in her artist's statement, the subjects of her
dramatic portraits are women who, though living in</font><font
face="Lucida Grande" size="-3" color="#FF0000"> violent,</font><font
face="Lucida Grande" size="-3" color="#000000"> troubled times and
places,</font><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-3" color="#FF6600">
survive and</font><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-3"
color="#000000"> 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."</font><br>
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<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-3" color="#000000"><b>Women and
War</b> 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.<b> Blood
and Stones: Stories of a Promised Land</b> is based on true stories of
Jewish and Palestinian women today, reflecting their courage, fears,
pain and hopes, on both sides of the conflict.<br>
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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</font><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-3"
color="#FF0000"> worked with (</font><font face="Lucida Grande"
size="-3" color="#000000">taught) displaced women of all backgrounds,
including a group of doctors and nurses,</font><font
face="Lucida Grande" size="-3" color="#FF0000"> helping them
develop</font><font face="Lucida Grande" size="-3" color="#000000">
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</font><font
face="Lucida Grande" size="-3" color="#FF0000"> children</font><font
face="Lucida Grande" size="-3" color="#000000"> 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.<br>
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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.</font></div>
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Her solo pieces include<b> A Story's a Story</b>, about the
cross-cultural friendship between two old immigrant women on the Lower
East Side;<b> Naming the Days</b>, inspired by the stories of Bosnian
women refugees; and<b> Eve's Version</b>, a retelling of the Garden of
Eden story from Eve's perspective.<br>
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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<b> Voices of Sanity for Thirsty
Souls.</b></font></div>
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Literature and Gender Studies</font></div>
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Interdisciplinary Arts</font></div>
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