Adong Judith: How I use art to bridge misunderstanding
آدونگ جودیت: چطور از هنر برای پل زدن بر سوءتفاهم استفاده میکنم
Adong Judith uses art as a vehicle to drive social change and trains aspiring makers to create art that dares to ask serious questions. Full bio
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who tells social-change stories,
متحول کننده جامعه تعریف میکند،
touch and move us.
بر ما اثر میگذارند و ما را تکان میدهند.
and teach us to empathize.
و به ما یاد میدهند که همدردی کنیم.
و کارگردانی میکنم،
of disadvantaged groups,
away from social, political theater
توسط رئیس جمهور سابق اوگاندا، ایدی امین
by former Ugandan president, Idi Amin.
از نمایش اجتماعی، سیاسی دور کرده است.
I am breaking the silence
conversations on taboo issues,
درباره مسائل تابو دامن میزنم،
is the rule of thumb.
قانون انگشت شصت است.
and challenge our minds to think,
و به فکر وامیدارد
is its often one-sided nature
طبیعت معمولاً یک طرفانه آن است
who see issues differently
که نگاه متفاوتی به مسئله دارند را
sellout or plain stupid.
خود فروخته یا ساده و احمق بدانیم.
only in different fields.
منتها در زمینههای متفاوت.
"stay in your truth" is misleading.
باقی بمانید» گمراه کننده است.
you believe is wrong
که فکر میکنید اشتباه میکند هم
avenues of conversations.
برای گفتگو را میبندند.
to touch, humanize
تا تأثیر بگذارم، انسانی کنم
to the conversation table
will not magically solve all problems.
به طرز معجزهآسایی مشکلات را حل نمیکند.
to create avenues
many of humanity's problems.
شروع کنیم و با هم کار کنیم.
of the Northern Uganda war
قربانیان جنگ اوگاندای شمالی
and Joseph Kony's LRA rebel group,
ارتش مقاومت خدای جوزف کنی بود،
political leaders, religious leaders,
and transitional justice leadership
و رهبری قابل انتقال قضایی را
of justice for war crime victims --
برای قربانیان جنایات جنگی گرد هم آوردم --
in the history of Uganda.
cover them all right now.
همه آنها را اینجا پوشش بدهم.
to sit at the table
سر یک میز بنشینند،
the big injustice they suffered
رنج میبردند را بیان کنند
of the war perpetrators.
جنگ را تسهیل میکرد.
acknowledged the victims' pain
رنج قربانیان را تصدیق کرد
behind their flawed approaches.
معیوبشان را شرح داد.
that has stayed with me
tour of the play,
برگزاری تور شمال اوگاندای نمایش،
جوزف کنی معرفی کرد.
feeling disappointed,
به خاطر آنچه فکر میکردم خنده بیموقع بود،
inappropriate laughter.
was a laughter of embarrassment
of his own embarrassment.
of his past actions.
حقایقتان را به اشتراک بگذارید.
a more powerfully uniting truth
would be shocked at my ignorance
like lasagna, for instance.
مثل لازانیا شوکه میشدند.
about malakwang,
برای آنها توضیح میدادم،
richer and fuller individuals.
وقتی یکدیگر را ترک میکردیم.
به اشتراک بگذارید.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Adong Judith - Playwright, filmmakerAdong Judith uses art as a vehicle to drive social change and trains aspiring makers to create art that dares to ask serious questions.
Why you should listen
Founder and artistic director of Silent Voices Uganda, a nonprofit performing arts company, Adong Judith creates art that provokes meaningful conversation on issues often considered taboo.
Notable among her training programs is the annual Summer Theater Directors Apprenticeship, a two-tier program that combines production and training of ten aspiring theater directors. Originally only for Ugandans, Judith has opened the 2018 and future apprenticeships to aspiring theater directors across the African continent, who she believes share the same challenges in practicum gaps.
In 2018, Judith will be in residence at Illinois State University, where she will direct her 2016 social media buzz-stirring play, Ga-AD!, which explores spirituality and the place of women in Pentecostal churches. Her first social change play, Silent Voices, which she wrote after accidentally encountering the inescapable stories of war crime victims in her hometown of Gulu, developed at Sundance Institute’s Theater Lab, received its world premiere in 2012 at the National Theater of Uganda and was described by the Ugandan media as "the spiritual rebirth of theater since its decline due to political persecution of artists by the Idi Amin regime."
Adong’s plays are taught at Ivy League Universities including Dartmouth College and Princeton University, and she recently signed a contract with Methuen Publishers UK to publish Silent Voices in an anthology of Contemporary African Women Playwrights.
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