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Children of Conflict
The G-STAR School of the Arts International Collaborative Project
Children of Conflict: Anything Earth-Shaking, the culminating performance of the Children of Conflict project, was seen at Florida Stage on April 21, 2008. Thank you to everyone who came to support the first year of this groundbreaking project.
DVDs of the performance can be purchased from Artist-in-Residence Robert Goodrich. Click here to print the order form, then send it to the address specified on the left side of the page.
To read audience feedback from the performance and view the students' online discussions from the entire year, follow this link to the project's Google Group website.
"Children of Conflict" Project Overview:
Under the guidance of professional filmmakers and playwrights Robert Goodrich and Jeffrey Bower, students at G-STAR are cultivating a dialogue via a Google Groups website with young people in Rwanda and Kosova about their experiences growing up in regions touched by conflict.
ASSITEJ, the International Association of Theatre for Children and Young People, is assisting in connecting the students. Their exchange will culminate in the collaborative creation of a multi-media theatrical performance to be performed at Florida Stage by students from G-STAR School of the Arts.
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The Current Globe
This section of our website will provide more in-depth information about the project and its partners. Check this page frequently for updates.
Jeton Neziraj is a playwright, director and the executive director of the Children's Center for Theatre Development in Prishtina, Kosova. He has put us in touch with the young people participating there and shared this article. It tells the history of his organization and is based on a speech he gave at an international conference in 2004.
He has also shared a CCTD project did in which children were asked to imagine they were writing to someone they knew who had gone missing. In some cases, the missing people were fictional; in some cases, they were real. The letters do not indicate which is which.
For Mr. Neziraj's article about Kosova's Dodona Theatre and the heroic role it played in the tragic events of 1998, click here.
Click on the interview links below to hear a conversation between Hope Azeda, Executive Director of Mashirika Creative and Performing Arts Group in Kigali, Rwanda, and Kim Peter Kovac, Director of Youth and Family Programs at the Kennedy Center and current president of Theatre for Young Audiences/USA (the U.S. chapter of ASSITEJ).
Ms. Azeda discusses her play, Rwanda My Hope, and what it means to create theatre that addresses the past and inspires hope for the future. This interview was conducted as the basis for an article in the Fall 2007 edition of TYA Today.
Hope Azeda is a theatre director, playwright, actress and filmmaker. She founded the Mashirika Creative and Performing Arts Group in 1987 and is currently the troupe’s director. She was the casting director for the acclaimed 2005 film Beyond the Gates, starring John Hurt and Hugh Dancy. Ms. Azeda also played the role of “Brigitte” in Sometimes in April, an HBO film starring Deborah Winger.
The interview links below may take some time to load - please be patient.
Interview with Hope Azeda, Part I
Interview with Hope Azeda, Part II
Participating organizations and their links:
G-STAR School of the Arts
Mashirika Creative and Performing Arts Group
Center for Children's Theatre Development
ASSITEJ: International Association of Theatre for Children and Young People
For more information, or if you have questions about the program, email Susan Hyatt, Director of Education or call 561-585-3404, etx. 115
Florida Stage wishes to thank the Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties and The Heckscher Foundation for Children for their generous support of this project.
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