Afghan Voices at the Oregon Country Fair
July 8 Rabbit Hole 3 PM
July 10 The Front Porch 12:30 PM
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Afghan Voices
October 15, 2011 8 PM, The Firehouse Performing Arts Center, Bellingham, WA - the multi-media presentation features the writing of Afghan students, performed by Bellingham actors: Carolyn McCarthy, Jeff Braswell, Ben Eisner and Aurora RuPert.
October 20, 2011 6:45 PM, Wantman Family State Of The World Speaker, Northfield Mount Herman School, Mt Herman, MA http://www.nmhschool.org/state-world-speakers-announced
October 15, 2011 8 PM, The Firehouse Performing Arts Center, Bellingham, WA - the multi-media presentation features the writing of Afghan students, performed by Bellingham actors: Carolyn McCarthy, Jeff Braswell, Ben Eisner and Aurora RuPert.
October 20, 2011 6:45 PM, Wantman Family State Of The World Speaker, Northfield Mount Herman School, Mt Herman, MA http://www.nmhschool.org/state-world-speakers-announced
Afghan Voices creates a backdrop, tells some of their stories and features the dramatic work of Afghan students, who write about everything from street children to government corruption. As a professor, I used Anna Deveare Smith's Fires in the Mirror to inspire students to write their own monologues about the characters of Kabul.
Afghan Voices is intended to be an alternative to information gleaned from embedded journalists who travel in armored vehicles for a couple of weeks or a month, reporting on the devastation of thirty years of war on people in thirty-second sound bites.
This is an opportunity to hear what young Afghans, many likely to be the country's future leaders, are thinking and writing.
Afghan Voices is intended to be an alternative to information gleaned from embedded journalists who travel in armored vehicles for a couple of weeks or a month, reporting on the devastation of thirty years of war on people in thirty-second sound bites.
This is an opportunity to hear what young Afghans, many likely to be the country's future leaders, are thinking and writing.