August- 20084th Edition: Summer exchange programm: American, Ugandan and Rwandan Students

July 2008 International Research Conference: Tutsi genocide and Reconstruction of Knowlege. At Novotel Hotel, July 22-25

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 RwandaIncluding lectures, conversations, art-making workshops, visits to genocide sites, and press conference. Guests included the Minister of Communication and the President of Ibuka.