From Ethnics to Ethics: Theatrical Facilitation in the Balkans & Middle East

When: Thursday, April 24, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Where: North Creek Events Center - View Map
Contact: Alex Webster, Alumni Relations Manager, awebster@uwb.edu, 425-352-3394
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From Ethnics to Ethics: Theatrical Facilitation in the Balkans & Middle East
Featuring Sonja Kuftinec, Associate Professor of Theatre at the University of Minnesota.

She has published widely on community-based theatre including her book Staging America: Cornerstone and Community-Based Theater (2003), which received honorable mention for ASTR’s Barnard Hewitt Award in theatre history. Professor Kuftinec also works professionally as a director and dramaturg. Since 1995 she has developed collaborative theatre projects with youth in the Balkans and Middle East. Her co-production Where Does the Postman Go When all the Street Names Change? won an ensemble prize at the 1997 International Youth Theatre Festival in Mostar. Professor Kuftinec also works as a conflict resolution facilitator with Seeds of Peace, an organization that brings together youth from the Middle East, South Asia, and Balkan regions. Her new book, Theatre, Facilitation and Nation Formation in the Balkans and Middle East, is contracted with Palgrave Macmillan Press.

Thursday, April 24
6:30-8:30 p.m.
North Creek Events Center, UW Bothell (reception to follow)

Sponsored by the UW Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas, the Hilen Professorship, and the University of Washington Bothell Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences and Master of Arts in Cultural Studies programs.