17 October 2008, by Jean Pierre Karegeye
A group of students and faculty from the School of Theater at the California Institute of the Arts, along with other working artists, traveled this past summer to Rwanda to study that African nation’s tragic experience of genocide and explore ways art participates in reconciliation and rebuilding. This was our second such trip, en route to an annual pattern; plans are underway for next summer’s project. We spoke with survivors, perpetrators, artists (overlapping categories: artists were among (...)
17 October 2008, by Jean Pierre Karegeye
Theatre and the Rwandan Genocide
Chantal Kalisa
In 1994, Rwanda was the scene of genocide, or more precisely in French, “le théâtre du génocide” (theatre of genocide). Perpetrators and victims played their role while the rest of the world watched the “spectacle” live on television. Perhaps because of its spectacular aspect, the Rwandan genocide has inspired a number of artistic materials. In the last decade, we have indeed witnessed the growth of literary and artistic expression in relation to the (...)