“Engaging Conflict: Transformations through the Arts” is a two-day symposium featuring film, movement, theater and storytelling. The conference, which begins Friday, Nov. 4, at 5 p.m. with a film screening and continues with a full day of activities on Saturday, Nov. 5, will be held at Syracuse University’s Warehouse Auditorium, 350 W. Fayette St., in downtown Syracuse. All events are free and open to the public.
Friday, Nov. 4
Cynthia Cohen, director of the Program in Peacebuilding and the Arts at Brandeis University’s International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life, will introduce the symposium and the film “Acting Together on a World Stage” beginning at 5 p.m. The film documents peacebuilding performance by highlighting artists, peacebuilders and community leaders from every continent whose rituals and theatrical works speak truth to power and support communities in mourning losses and building bridges across differences.
Saturday, Nov. 5
The conference is sponsored by the Maxwell School‘s Program for the Advancement and Research on Conflict and Collaboration, with Imagining America: Artists in Public Life and the College of Visual and Performing Arts. Support comes from the Central New York Humanities Corridor, generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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