July 30, 2017
Laurel Borisenko - “Arts-based Strategies for Peacebuilding”
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TOPIC
Dr. Laurel Borisenko returned to summarize one aspect of the summer course she taught last week at Regent College based on concepts in John Paul Lederach's book, The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace. Transcending violence requires imaginative storytelling by communities with four characteristics: organic interdependence (web of relationships), dynamic curiosity (understand the causes of conflict), artistic creativity, and risk-taking (by including your enemies). She gave examples of artists working in defiance of war: the Leningrad première of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7, the Sarajevo Film Festival, and the Sevdah Cafe movement in Mostar, Bosnia. Her Ph.D. dissertation is available from the University of Amsterdam: Arts-based peacebuilding: Functions of Theatre in Uganda, Kenya, and Zimbabwe (2016). [KH]
SERVICE DETAILS
Passage: Proverbs 24:10-14; Joshua 10:28-40; Matt. 5:3-12; 1 Peter 3:8-12a
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Speaker: Laurel Borisenko
Worship Leader: Andre Pekovich
Song Leader: Michael Despotovic
Pianist: Ruth Enns
Usher: Henry Neufeld
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