Global Arts Corps Highlights of 2014

Reflecting back not only on 2014, but on the past five years, we have seen an extraordinary movement emerge from what so many years ago began as a theatre production called Truth in Translation. We have witnessed how many of our films and stage productions have brought together young artists from around the world to join us, or with our help, strike out on their own. The momentum is alive and roaring as we enter 2015.

Looking back on the past year, we have covered much ground…

We are continuing to develop Landmines or The Good People in Cambodia, which will be ready to tour in the United States and to post-conflict areas by Spring 2016.

We launched an Indiegogo crowdsourcing campaign to help fund the Cambodia project, alongside a 25-minute film (password: GAC) documenting our second workshop in March 2013

We are currently in discussions with producing partners in Flint, Michigan; Dallas, Texas; Boston, Massachusettes; and with a transborder program at Arizona State University to organize an American tour of our North of Ireland project, Hold your tongue, Hold your dead.

Our feature documentary, A Snake Gives Birth to a Snake, had its official premiere at the Durban International Film Festival and its US preimiere at the Woodstock Film Festival where it was awarded two honorable mentions. We will soon be announcing screenings of the film as part of two festivals in early 2015, one on the West Coast and one for its European premiere.

Since the start of 2014, we’ve been invited to participate and present in a Culture and Conflict Summit by the British Council and US Institute for Peace at the Newseum in Washington, DC; The European Foundation Centre’s Annual General Assembly in Sarajevo; the Salzburg Seminar on Conflict Transformation through Culture; and a dialogue with the Carter Center and the Emory University Arts and Ethics program in Atlanta.

Finally, this past summer we launched our first fellowship program with an extraordinary group of four young women. We are looking forward to working with a new batch of fellows this upcoming summer.

Thank you all for your continued support, and we wish you a joyful and prosperous new year!