Aluna Theatre

Photo Diaries – working with children caught up in war

Posted on 11 October 2009

This morning a group of seven women left Canada for the City of Eternal Spring: Medellin, Colombia.  We have put together a 12-day theatre and photography workshop with our  partners from Kahaniya, Rakhi Mutta and Natasha Daniel, to bring to a group of former child soldiers who are working with the Fundacion Imaginacion.

The project came together from a desire to create a piece of theatre grounded in the reality facing child soldiers – particularly girls – in Colombia today.  We believe it must be genuine, it must be current, and it must give something back to its subjects.  When we stage our upcoming show, La Communion, we will have done so with the benefit of getting to know a handful of commited young people who have lived in the trenches of Colombia’s 45-year-old civil conflict.  Their stories, told through interviews (of each other and by each other) and their own photography, will be part of an installation at the Theatre this coming January, 2010.

In the following clip Writer / Director Pizano speaks about her plans, and how she sees the place of Art in creating the possibility for change in people’s lives.