No Place Called Home will be performed in Washington D.C. at the famous Busboys and Poets on 5th and K on March 17 at 830pm. Fred Johnson will be joining Kim onstage to help tell the stories of Iraqi refugees with story and song. Suggested donation at the door: $15
Hope you can join us or help us spread the word to your DC friends!
Read a UNHCR interview with playwright/actress Kim Schultz about No Place Called Home.
The playwright/actress, director and project director all speak about the IVAP play, No Place Called Home. Take a peek.
Video edited by Garlia Cornelia Jones.
No Place Called Home, the new play written by Kim Schultz, will have a reading in Washington D.C in hopes of securing partnerships for a continuation of the nomadic run starting here in NYC October 8.
We will be meeting with potential partners and interested parties on MONDAY , SEPTEMBER 13 from 2-4pm at George Washington University.
Please contact Sam Simon if you would like to attend or would like to assist us in developing connections in D.C.
ssimon@intersectionsinternational.org
Prior to the New York opening, Kim Schultz will be reading a segment of her new play No Place Called Home at Alwan for the Arts on FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 at 8pm. Admission is free and a discussion will follow.
Alwan for the Arts serves the Arab community and educates the broader public by showcasing a range of cultural events, thereby enriching the cross- cultural and artistic encounter. Alwan is committed to maintaining a space for reflection, dialogue, and growth in the arts and cultures of the peoples of the Middle East, North Africa, and the diaspora.
The play opens October 8 at Wild Project.
IVAP is proud to announce that 3LD, The Cell, and The Wild Project are each hosting a week of the play!
We are grateful to have such committed, experienced and enthusiastic partners on this project that recognize the power that art has to evoke compassion, build understanding and initiate the human transformation necessary to motivate social action.
Stay tuned!
No Place Called Home, the play written and performed by IVAP artist Kim Schultz, announces the addition of SARAH CAMERON SUNDE as director of the play. Kim and Sarah have been working in development for the past few months on the play. Intersections is thrilled that Sarah joined the project and is collaborating on the piece that will go up in the fall.
Sarah Cameron Sunde is a New York-based director/translator specializing in new American work and contemporary plays in translation. She has directed four U.S. debut productions of plays by international master playwrights: THE ASPHALT KISS by Brazil’s Nelson Rodrigues (Drama Desk nominated production at 59E59*), and her own translations of NIGHT SINGS ITS SONGS, DEATHVARIATIONS and SA KA LA by Norway’s Jon Fosse – who considers her “his American voice” (all with Oslo Elsewhere). Other directing includes premieres of: THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL by Marielle Heller with Rachel Eckerling (3LD), THE AMISH PROJECT by Jessica Dickey (Rattlestick), WHAT MAY FALL by Peter Gil Sheridan (The Guthrie), GOOD HEIF by Maggie Smith and VELMA, DEAR by Carson Kreitzer (New Georges), MIRITA by Christopher Dunkley (Cherry Lane), ECHO’S LONGING and THE ALBATROSS AT SEA by Steven Gridley (Spring Theatreworks). Other work with: 52nd Street Project, New Dramatists, New Harmony Project, HERE, among other places. Sunde is the Associate Director of New Georges, one of NYC’s premiere downtown theater companies. She is also co-founder of Oslo Elsewhere and Translation Think Tank, and has spoken in venues throughout the country on the art of translation. Her work as a translator has been published by PAJ (Performing Arts Journal) and Words Without Borders. Alumni: Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, Women’s Project Directors Forum, Lincoln Center Directors Lab. Awards/Honors include: a Voice & Vision Residency, an Hermitage Foundation Residency, an American Scandinavian Society Artist Award, a NYtheatre.com Person-of-the-Year Award, and a Princess Grace Directing Award.
On Monday, December 14, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton highlighted the importance of the arts and artists in her remarks at Georgetown University on the Human Rights Agenda for the 21st Century. During a question and answer session, Secretary of State Clinton was asked about the importance of the arts and artists in helping to promote human rights. In her reply, Clinton stated:
“I remember some years ago seeing a play about women in Bosnia during the conflict there. It was so gripping. I still see the faces of those women who were pulled from their homes, separated from their husbands, often raped and left just as garbage on the side of the road. So I think that artists both individually and through their works can illustrate better than any speech I can give or any government policy we can promulgate that the spirit that lives within each of us, the right to think and dream and expand our boundaries, is not confined, no matter how hard they try, by any regime anywhere in the world. There is no way that you can deprive people from feeling those stirrings inside their soul. And artists can give voice to that. They can give shape and movement to it. And it is so important in places where people feel forgotten and marginalized and depressed and hopeless to have that glimmer that there is a better future, that there is a better way that they just have to hold onto.”
I recently had the privilege of watching our first artistic piece from IVAP “go public”. Paul Emerson and CityDance premiered their new piece, “Wishes of the Sailor” at the Capitol Visitors’ Center.
The piece was amazing- moving and powerful, which was no surprise coming from the talented Paul and fellow sojourner Kathryn Pilkington. What did surprise me was what relief I felt to not be alone on this issue—to be in the company of those who also wanted movement on this issue.
Coming back home after this amazing trip to the Middle East and trying to share with people the importance and complexities of this issue has been challenging to say the least. Mostly, because no one seems to know anything about it! (It is INDEED one of the most underreported crises of this century.) I certainly didn’t before this trip! So I have felt a great weight to inform people and tell the stories of the Iraqis I met. So, you can imagine the relief to hear senators and congressmen and generally people of high status speaking to this issue, all caused and inspired by the artistic piece performed.
I felt it was a real tribute to not only the work of CityDance, but also Intersections and what they have created here with IVAP. It is ALREADY making a difference! ART is helping to make a difference, to give voice to those who have none. We are creating conversations and opening doors for change around this issue.
Keep talking about the Iraqi refugee crisis. Keep the conversation alive. The Iraqis are counting on us.
…another outcome of our war in Iraq and another tragedy for the Iraqi refugee women…
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1259243063998
Alissa Everett
Ami Gaston
C. Eduardo Vargas
Kathryn Pilkington
Kimberly Schultz
Kathryn Schulz
Megan Hoelle
Michael Jordan
Paul Emerson
Timothy Frakes