IGSC Rwanda

ARTS IN THE ONE WORLD: TRAUMA, TESTIMONY AND ART

Kathy Carbone — 2010-01-19T20:39:14Z

ARTS IN THE ONE WORLD: TRAUMA, TESTIMONY AND ART

California Institute of the Arts in collaboration with the Interdisciplinary Genocide Studies Center

January 21-24, 2010

This year we consider the Kinyarwanda term guhahamuka: the breathless attempt to articulate the inexpressible, which has come into wide use in Rwanda since the Tutsi genocide. We invite presentations, performances, and workshops that demonstrate how survivors, artists, and scholars give testimony and bear witness to circumstances of conflict and social injustice, opening imaginative space for participation in the recovery of historical memory and social renewal. We will consider together how these articulations represent experiments in interdisciplinary public practice, expanding the models for being an artist/activist in the world.

First convened in January 2006 by Erik Ehn, Arts in the One World (AOW) is an annual gathering comprised of performances, lectures, exhibits, and screenings hosted by the California Institute of the Arts School of Theater, conceived and executed in collaboration with the broad participation of the Institute as a whole. Students and faculty from CalArts and around the world, along with the general public, are invited to discuss and present on the ways artistic, political, and historical purposes intersect (reconciliation, the recovery of historical memory, advocacy for justice, the formation and maintenance of sites for expression, and the creation of knowledge.) A sister conference: Arts in the One World, Providence will be convened in March 2010.

We hope that you will be able to join us either as a presenter, volunteer, or as an attendee.

The 2010 conference will take place Thursday, Jan. 21 – Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010, at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), located at 24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia, CA, 91355.

The conference is the local anchor of an ongoing artistic exchange CalArts conducts with the Interdisciplinary Genocide Studies Center (IGSC) in Rwanda, where each summer a group of students, faculty, and professionals travel to Rwanda and Uganda, to study genocide and acts of mass violence, exploring the ways in which art participates in processes of renewal.

http://theatercalarts.com/home/programs/artsintheoneworld

How to Use the Library

Kathy Carbone — 2010-01-13T22:56:01Z

The IGSC Library is open Monday through Friday from 7am-4pm. No appointment is necessary.

Our collections are non-circulating and may only be used within the library building.

Our library has 16 computers, a scanner and printer.

2009 summer session in parternarship with American Universities

Jean Pierre Karegeye — 2010-01-13T22:45:13Z

5th Edition of The IGSC summer university (Université d'été).

This time in parternarship with CalArts, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of Missouri at Columbia and Rwandan Universities.

IGSC LIBRARY: GRAND OPENING JUNE 2010 IN KIGALI

Jean Pierre Karegeye — 2010-01-13T06:11:00Z

The IGSC Library has nearly 400 volumes. The Interdisciplinary Genocide Studies Center (IGSC) has launched an ambitious book donation drive to have 1,000 books on the shelves in time for the library's grand opening in June 2010.

To donate books and materials, visit the library-amazon wish list by way of this link: http://tinyurl.com/3lcfoq

IGSC in the News

Kathy Carbone — 2009-08-19T21:39:06Z

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Sister Library

Kathy Carbone — 2009-08-04T19:13:42Z

California Institute of the Arts Valencia, California

CalArts' Library and Information Resources provides collections, programs, and services designed to encourage intellectual growth and artistic expression. The Library is a place for collaborative learning where students and faculty meet to discuss projects and debate ideas.

4th edition-summer programm 2008

Jean Pierre Karegeye — 2008-12-23T22:58:17Z

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International Research Conference 2008

Aloys — 2008-12-23T22:46:34Z

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Activities (2005-2007)

Jean Pierre Karegeye — 2008-12-23T22:05:10Z

June-August 2007 Rwanda: Récits du génocide, traversée de la mémoire Conference at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, Rue d'Ulm, June 15, 2007 Exchange trip to Rwanda Participants included Cal Arts students, faculty, professional artists and scholars from the US, Canada, Uganda, Tanzania, and Rwanda. Generation of plays, fiction, poetry, etc. in collaboration with Rwandan and international artists as a result of the exchange program. Included a two-week study tour on genocide in Rwanda for foreign students (July 13-30, 2007) and creative writing workshops with survivors in collaboration with Kigali Memorial Center (July-August 07), and teaching genocide through paintings and drawings with Professor Sonia Fournier

January 2007 Arts in One World Conference in Los Angeles, California October 2006 Gallery Show at CalArts Including photography, films and conversation recounting the summer's experience.

July-August 2006 Exchange trip to RwandaParticipants included faculty and students from CalArts, professional artists from the United States, Theatre Without Borders, as well as Rwandan students, artists and survivors. Guests included the President of Rwanda, Minister of State Soline Nyirahabimana with the office of the President, Executive Secretary of the National Service of Gacaca Domitilla Mukantaganzwa, Minister of Culture Joseph Habineza, former Rwanda Ambassador to the UN Joseph Mutaboba, the president of Ibuka François Xavier Ngarambe, and Prosecutor General Martin Ngoga, as well as other Rwandan officials and scholars, including Rakiya Omar, Dirctor of African Human Rights, and Tom Ndahiro, genocide scholar and former member of the Rwandan Human Rights Commission.

January 2006 Arts in One World: A Consideration of GenocideConference in Los Angeles, California, featuring members of the local Rwandan community, including Dr. Zac Senga - Rwandan Ambassador to the US, Eric Kabera - filmmaker, Kigali, testimony from Immaculee Ilibagiza - survivor and author of 'Left to Tell', Professor Chantal Kalisa - University of Nebraska Lincoln, Jean-Pierre Karegeye, and a number of American scholars, including Cynthia Cohen - Director of Coexistence International at Brandeis University and Erik Ehn, Dean of the School of Theater at CalArts. Participants included professional artists and scholars from within the United States and the international community.

October 2005 Gallery Show at CalArts Including photography, films and conversation recounting the summer's experience.

June 2005 Exchange trip to Rwanda Including lectures, conversations, art-making workshops, visits to genocide sites, and press conference. Guests included the Minister of Communication and the President of Ibuka.

January 2010: International Conference in Dakar-Senegal

Jean Pierre Karegeye — 2008-11-18T06:09:03Z

After the Kigali conference on "Tutsi genocide and reconstruction of Knowledge", the next IGSC Conference will take place in January 2010 at Cheikh Anta Diop University