Adong Judith: How I use art to bridge misunderstanding
Adong Judith: Cara saya menggunakan seni untuk mengatasi kesalahpahaman
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,
bercerita tentang perubahan sosial,
touch and move us.
dan menggerakkan kita.
and teach us to empathize.
kita berempati.
menyutradarai drama,
of disadvantaged groups,
kelompok yang kurang beruntung,
away from social, political theater
Uganda dari teater sosial, politik
by former Ugandan president, Idi Amin.
mantan presiden Uganda, Idi Amin.
I am breaking the silence
saya mematahkan kebisuan
conversations on taboo issues,
bermakna mengenai isu tabu,
is the rule of thumb.
"Diam itu emas".
and challenge our minds to think,
kita untuk berpikir,
is its often one-sided nature
aktivisme adalah sifatnya yang berpihak
pemikiran alternatif,
empati kita,
who see issues differently
yang memiliki pandangan berbeda
sellout or plain stupid.
pengkhianat atau bodoh.
only in different fields.
hanya bidangnya saja yang berbeda.
"stay in your truth" is misleading.
"peganglah kebenaranmu" itu menyesatkan.
kebenaran Anda,
you believe is wrong
yang Anda anggap salah
avenues of conversations.
terjadinya pembicaraan.
to touch, humanize
provokatif untuk menyentuh, memanusiakan
to the conversation table
menuju pembicaraan
will not magically solve all problems.
tak akan seketika mengatasi semua masalah.
to create avenues
many of humanity's problems.
banyak masalah kemanusiaan.
of the Northern Uganda war
korban perang Uganda Utara
and Joseph Kony's LRA rebel group,
pemberontak LRA Joseph Kony
political leaders, religious leaders,
pemimpin agama,
and transitional justice leadership
dan kepemimpinan keadilan transisi untuk
of justice for war crime victims --
bagi korban kejahatan perang --
in the history of Uganda.
dalam sejarah Uganda.
cover them all right now.
sebutkan semua di sini.
to sit at the table
duduk bersama
the big injustice they suffered
ketidakadilan yang mereka alami
mengabaikan mereka
of the war perpetrators.
para penjahat perang.
acknowledged the victims' pain
penderitaan para korban
behind their flawed approaches.
di balik pendekatan tercela mereka.
that has stayed with me
saya pikirkan adalah
tour of the play,
Uganda Utara,
memperkenalkan dirinya
pimpinan Joseph Kony
feeling disappointed,
pergi dengan rasa kecewa,
inappropriate laughter.
sebagai tawa yang tidak pantas.
was a laughter of embarrassment
adalah tawa malu
of his own embarrassment.
para aktor di atas panggung
of his past actions.
tindakannya di masa lalu.
a more powerfully uniting truth
yang lebih kuat dan menyatukan
would be shocked at my ignorance
akan ketidaktahuan saya
like lasagna, for instance.
lasagna, misalnya.
mereka adalah,
about malakwang,
tentang malakwang,
tentang lasagna.
richer and fuller individuals.
orang yang lebih kaya pengetahuan.
hidangan Anda.
Anda jadi lebih baik.
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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