From
Requiem to Renewal
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Wednesday,
April 3
Sonatas
of War & Peace
By Vuk Kulenovic
7:30 p.m.,
St. Ignatius Church
28 Commonwealth Ave., Boston College
(Across from the Boston College Green Line T stop)
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here for map.
Musicians:
Cynthia
Forbes, has performed solo cello with the
New England String Ensemble and the Boston Virtuosi
Todd
Brunel,
principal clarinet with the Opera Ebony of Harlem, the
American Opera Musical Theatre Company and the Butch
Morris Ensemble, NYC
Biliana
Voutchkova, violin, assistant concertmaster
of the Boston Philharmonic and BMOP (Boston Modern Orchestra
Project)
Synthia
Sture, piano
Composer:
Vuk
Kulenovic, Born in Sarajevo, studied in
Belgrade and Ljubljana. Former professor at the Belgrade
Faculty of Music. Currently professor of composition
at Berklee College of Music.
“[Kulenovic]
is one of the most important and interesting composers
working in the area—or anywhere—today.”
Richard Dyer, Boston Globe
Tickets:
Advance: $15
regular/$10 students
At door: $18 regular/$12 students
$50 for “Composers Seats” (Front two rows)
Tickets available
at:
• Call 1-800-THE TICK
• Boston College at the McElroy Commons Box Office
or Dept. of Slavic and Eastern Languages, Lyons 210
• Dreams of Freedom Box Office, One Milk Street,
Boston
• Tickets also available at the door but seating
is limited
This event is a fundraiser
for Friends of Bosnia’s reconstruction work in
the former Yugoslavia.
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Thursday,
April 4
Requiem
or Renewal—A Decade of Balkan Conflict
A panel discussion
with three experts on the the former Yugoslavia
Old South Meeting
House
310 Washington Street, Boston
6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Free and open to the public
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here for map
Dr.
Westy Egmont, Welcoming remarks:
Executive Director, International Institute of Boston
and New Hampshire
Stephen
Walker, Moderator:
Board member, Friends of Bosnia
Mirza
Kusljugic: Bosnian Ambassador to the United
Nations, former Dean of Electrical Engineering Faculty
at the University of Tuzla.
John
Shattuck: Former Assistant Secretary of State
for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor; currently CEO
of Kennedy Library Foundation
Edita
Tahiri: Negotiator for Kosovo
at Rambouillet, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kosovo,
and former member of Presidency, LDK.
Since hosting the
Boston Tea Party in 1773, Old South Meeting House has
been a vital center for diverse intellectual and cultural
thought in the city of Boston.
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Friday,
April 5
Writing the Siege
of Sarajevo: Poetry and Prose on the Bosnian War and
Its Aftermath
7:00 p.m. –
9:00 p.m.
Devlin Hall 101, Boston College
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here for map.
Muharem Bazdulj, Sarajevo, author of
One Like a Song
Christopher Merrill, Director, International
Writing Program, The University of Iowa, author of Only
the Nails Remain
Dubravka Ugresic, Amsterdam, author
of The Culture of Lies
Fahrudin Zilkic
Admission is free
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Saturday,
April 6
War
Crimes, Forensic Science, & International Justice
2:00 p.m. –
4:00 p.m.
Cushing Hall 001, Boston College
Admission is free
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here for map.
Samantha
Power, Executive Director
of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University. Author of Problem
from Hell
Susannah
Sirkin, Deputy Director, Physicians for Human
Rights
Anne-Marie
Slaughter, Professor of International, Foreign
and Comparative Law at Harvard Law School
Party
to Celebrate the Future of the Balkans
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9:30 p.m. until closing
Sabur Restaurant, 212 Holland St. Somerville, MA
Hors d’oeurves, music and cash bar
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Film
Festival
All
films at Dreams of Freedom, International Institute of
Boston,
One Milk Street, Boston
Admission: Donation requested
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All films shown
in VHS Video
Saturday, April 6
6:15 p.m.: Bosna!
(90 min)
8:00 p.m.: Calling
the Ghosts, a Story of Rape, Women & War
(63 min), Postcards
from Peja (15 min)
Sunday, April 7
2:00 p.m.: Pretty
Village, Pretty Flame (115
min.)
4:30 p.m.: Before
the Rain (112 min.)
7:00 p.m.: Shot
Through the Heart (115
min.)
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Exhibits
Paintings
by Deryk Houston from Echoes from the Square
A book by Elizabeth Wellburn about Vedran Smailovic,
the Cellist of Sarajevo
April 4- April
22
Dreams of Freedom
International Institute of Boston
One Milk Street, Boston, MA
Hours: 10 a.m.-6 p.m., daily
Free with museum admission
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Sarajevo
War Posters
Posters made by artists and designers in Sarajevo during
the first two years of the siege
March 25 –
April 8
Academic Development Center
O’Neill Library, 2nd Fl, Boston College
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here for map.
Hours: Mon.–Thurs., 9 am -9 pm; Friday, 9 am–5
pm; Sunday, 12–9; Saturday, closed.
Selections
from Zones of Separation: The Struggle for a Multi-ethnic
Bosnia and Reconstructing Kosovo
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Two documentary
photography exhibits produced by Friends of Bosnia. Photos
by Glenn Ruga and Frank Ward, text by Barbara Ayotte
For online versions of exhibits, click on the links below:
Zones
of Separation: The Struggle for a Multi-ethnic Bosnia
Reconstructing
Kosovo
March 25–April 8
Social Work Library, McGuinn Hall, Boston College
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here for map.
Hours: Monday–Thursday, 8 a.m. – 10 p.m.; Friday,
8–5; Saturday, 9–5; Sunday, noon–10.
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For
more information, contact:
Glenn Ruga
(away March 8-14)
Friends of Bosnia/Center for Balkan Development
978-461-0909
glenn@friendsofbosnia.org
www.friendsofbosnia.org
Barbara Ayotte
Physicians for Human Rights
617-695-0041x210
bayotte@phrusa.org
www.phrusa.org
Beth Nolan
International Institute of Boston
617-695-9990
bnolan@iiboston.org
www.iiboston.org
Dreams of Freedom
617-338-6022 X 187
www.dreamsoffreedom.org
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