Event Title
Voices of Gaza
Location
State Farm Hall 108
Start Date
27-2-2015 4:30 PM
End Date
27-2-2015 5:30 PM
Description
Voices of Gaza is an education based documentary theatre project profiling women within, and affected by, the Israeli - Palestinian conflict. Events involving Gaza continue to influence as well as question the way that the world views entitlement to self-defense, military action, and basic human rights. Something that can be traced back to the tribes of Isaac and Ishmael has escalated to a human rights violation where no one person is correct and the death toll continues to rise. It is worth exploring the escalation of unfair conditions that questions how exactly the world as a whole defines violation of a group's basic human rights. I chose to work through my findings by establishing them in non-fictitious dramatic form, anchoring spliced narratives in characters. As I sifted through endless history and personal stories about what life in Gaza is like, I quickly discovered an extreme inequality of rights/privilege as well as a very human element of desperation. It is my belief that we must engage in the things that challenge our values and personal sense of security and thus I created Voices not as somebody who has any answers, but rather an engaged twenty-two year old theatre artist who is desperate to understand.
Voices of Gaza
State Farm Hall 108
Voices of Gaza is an education based documentary theatre project profiling women within, and affected by, the Israeli - Palestinian conflict. Events involving Gaza continue to influence as well as question the way that the world views entitlement to self-defense, military action, and basic human rights. Something that can be traced back to the tribes of Isaac and Ishmael has escalated to a human rights violation where no one person is correct and the death toll continues to rise. It is worth exploring the escalation of unfair conditions that questions how exactly the world as a whole defines violation of a group's basic human rights. I chose to work through my findings by establishing them in non-fictitious dramatic form, anchoring spliced narratives in characters. As I sifted through endless history and personal stories about what life in Gaza is like, I quickly discovered an extreme inequality of rights/privilege as well as a very human element of desperation. It is my belief that we must engage in the things that challenge our values and personal sense of security and thus I created Voices not as somebody who has any answers, but rather an engaged twenty-two year old theatre artist who is desperate to understand.