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 Darfur Voices
Understanding the African Genocide
An aural collage of stories and
testimonies
woven together
to help us understand the conflict in Darfur.
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An account of - refugees and displaced persons -
- civilians and fighters - resisting the Sudanese government
of teachers, students, parents, and children
- community leaders -
and
members of international humanitarian organizations.
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Fall 2008, this 30 minute presentation was presented in Living
Literature's unique readers theatre style. Initial funding for the
program came from a grant from the State of Rhode Island and Providence
Plantations.
In its unique readers theatre style, a trio of Living Literature
performers explore the tangled story of the government sponsored military
operation aimed at annihilating the African tribes in the Sudan region of
Darfur. An aural collage of stories and testimonies of refugees and
displaced persons, civilians and fighters resisting the Sudanese
government, teachers, students, parents, children, community leaders and
members of international humanitarian organizations woven together to
provide a much-needed account to help understand the conflict in Darfur.
Ruth Messenger, of the the American Jewish World Service, has said, "Hope
rests in the certainty that some people in Darfur are going to escape this
genocide and be able to continue to live. And why would you not be part of
that effort? There's a Chinese philosopher who once said, "Hope is like a
path in the countryside. Originally there is no way to walk, but if
people move all the time in the same direction, a path appears.'"
This 30 minute presentation intends to provide a clearer view of
this path and raises questions on the journey.
Living Literature is listed in the Education Roster of the Rhode Island
State Council of the Arts.
Alice Walker
New York Times June 10, 2007
Naropa University
"When it is all too much, when the news is so bad meditation itself feels
useless, and a single life feels too small a stone to offer on the altar
of peace, find a human sunrise. Find those people who are committed to
changing our scary reality. Human sunrises are happening all over the
earth, at every moment. People gathering, people working to change the
intolerable, people coming in their robes and sandals or in their rags and
bare feet, and they are singing, or not, and they are chanting, or not.
But they are working to bring peace, light, compassion to the infinitely
frightening downhill slide of human life."
