Waging Peace, Darfuri Children's Drawings

Authors

TheatreUSF
Fanni Green
Jeane Travers

Document Type

Video

Publication Date

8-24-2014

Keywords

University of South Florida, TheatreUSF, Darfur

Abstract

In 2009, Fanni Green and Jeanne Travers, faculty members in the USF School of Theatre and Dance, were touched by the USF Tampa Library's digital collection of Darfuri children's drawings. The drawings illustrate the children's memories of their villages being attacked in the Darfur region of Sudan from 2003 through 2006. With this inspiration, Green and Travers wrote, directed, and choreographed a theatre production entitled "What the heart remembers: The women and children of Darfur." The video clip from a performance at USF shows women in a village mourning the death of a child who members of a militia group killed. This original production was first staged at the University of South Florida in November 2010, and the cast were mainly students of Theatre and Dance at the University of South Florida. "What the heart remembers" was well received in the Tampa Bay area of Florida and went on to win the 2010 Creative Loafing Best Dance Performance Award. In August 2012, the production was restaged and performed at the prestigious Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland, where it was nominated for the Festival's Amnesty International Freedom of Expression award.

Scholar Commons Citation

TheatreUSF; Green, Fanni; and Travers, Jeane, "Waging Peace, Darfuri Children's Drawings" (2014). USF Libraries' Web Archive. 2.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/libraries_web_archive/2