Adong Judith: How I use art to bridge misunderstanding
Адонг Джудит: Как с помощью искусства преодолеть недопонимание
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,
истории о социальных переменах,
touch and move us.
трогают и расшевеливают нас.
and teach us to empathize.
и учат нас сопереживать.
of disadvantaged groups,
away from social, political theater
дали от социального, политического театра
by former Ugandan president, Idi Amin.
бывшим президентом Уганды, Иди Амин.
I am breaking the silence
conversations on taboo issues,
разговоры на запретные темы там,
is the rule of thumb.
это основное правило.
and challenge our minds to think,
и заставляют задуматься,
is its often one-sided nature
в его односторонней природе,
для альтернативной точки зрения,
who see issues differently
кто с нами не согласен,
sellout or plain stupid.
мозгов, продажность и просто глупость.
only in different fields.
"stay in your truth" is misleading.
своём мнении» вводит меня в заблуждение.
при своём мнении,
you believe is wrong
которого вы считаете неправым,
avenues of conversations.
пути для переговоров.
to touch, humanize
чтобы затронуть, смягчить
to the conversation table
за стол переговоров,
will not magically solve all problems.
как по волшебству решить все проблемы,
to create avenues
построить дороги,
many of humanity's problems.
решить многие проблемы человечества.
«Молчаливые голоса»,
of the Northern Uganda war
войны в северной Уганде
and Joseph Kony's LRA rebel group,
группой повстанцев Джосефа Кони LRA,
political leaders, religious leaders,
лидеров, религиозных и культурных лидеров,
and transitional justice leadership
и правосудия переходного периода
of justice for war crime victims --
для жертв военных преступлений.
in the history of Uganda.
столь многим важным событиям,
cover them all right now.
все перечислить сейчас.
to sit at the table
сесть за стол переговоров
the big injustice they suffered
несправедливости, которую они испытали,
of the war perpetrators.
переселению военных преступников.
acknowledged the victims' pain
боль и страдания жертв
behind their flawed approaches.
своих небезупречных методов.
that has stayed with me
tour of the play,
по Северной Уганде
из команды Джосефа Кони.
feeling disappointed,
чтобы я уходила разочарованной
inappropriate laughter.
неуместным смехом.
was a laughter of embarrassment
of his own embarrassment.
of his past actions.
a more powerfully uniting truth
would be shocked at my ignorance
были шокированы моим неведением
like lasagna, for instance.
как, скажем, лазанья.
about malakwang,
из моей культуры.
richer and fuller individuals.
обогатившиеся люди.
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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