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Global: Reflections on Genocide

2006-03-08, Issue 245

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Reflections on Genocide features a historic public multimedia exhibition of the Rwandan genocide rape survivor's stories, most of them HIV-positive today. The oral history gallery exhibit, Speaking the Unspeakable, is part of a new grassroots oral history documentary project, The Tubeho ("To Live Again") Project, launched recently by the UK-based and Rwandan Survivor's Fund (SURF) and the US and Rwanda-based Women's Equity in Access to Care and Treatment (WE-ACTx), both focused on empowering women with HIV.

“Reflections on Genocide”
March 23 – 26, 2006
Theatre Artaud in San Francisco

Upcoming dance performance and traveling oral history gallery exhibit, Reflections on Genocide, which features a historic public multimedia exhibition of Rwandan genocide rape survivor's stories, most of them HIV-positive today. The oral history gallery exhibit, Speaking the Unspeakable, is part of a new grassroots oral history documentary project, The Tubeho ("To Live Again") Project, launched recently by the UK-based and Rwandan Survivor's Fund (SURF) and the US and Rwanda-based Women's Equity in Access to Care and Treatment (WE-ACTx), both focused on empowering women with HIV. The project will present the portraits, voices and testimonies of members of the Rwanda survivors network, AVEGA, among others.

Local Bay Area visual artists and AIDS groups are participating in the San Francisco event, which includes a staged performance of survivors stories, followed by a world premiere of Unsing the Song, by Anne Bluthenthal and Dancers (ABD) production company. An opening reception will be held Wednesday, March 23, 2006. All events take place at Theatre Artaud in San Francisco. Related events include a panel discussion on HIV and gender-based violence with local AIDS groups on Saturday, March 25, at 3 pm, and a Sunday interfaith commemorative service on Sunday, March 26, after the final matinee performance.

This important exhibition and related events will provide a public platform for Rwandan women's voices, and help educate the global public about the link of HIV and gender-based violence. The Tubeho Project will help support Rwandan women survivors of sexual violence now fighting AIDS, and their families.

Tickets are now available for the evening show. Note that group rates are available, including for classrooms. For reservations or tickets, contact the ODC Box Office: 415 863 9834. The gallery exhibition of survivor testimonies is free and open Tues 3/21-Sun 3/26 from 12 n - 6 pm.

A press release will be issued shortly. Do help us spread the word.
For more information or to request a poster, write to: acd66@hotmail.com

Anne-christine d'Adesky, Executive co-Director WE-ACTx,
Co-Curator, Speaking the Unspeakable

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