Soliya - global network between the "West" & "Arab/Muslim World"

Soliya is developing a global network of young adults and empowering them to bridge the divide between the "West" and the "Arab & Muslim World."

Soliya is a pioneering non-profit organization using new technologies to facilitate dialogue between students from diverse backgrounds across the globe. Our flagship program, the Connect Program, uses the latest web-conferencing technology to bridge the gap between university students in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and the United States. In a time when media plays an increasingly powerful role in shaping peoples’ viewpoints on political issues, Soliya provides students with the opportunity, skills, and tools to shape and articulate their own viewpoints on some of the most pressing global issues facing their generation. more

watch this for an overview

Creativity in Schools

A humorous and thoughtful talk about how creativity is cultivated or suppressed in our current education system. Good to listen to if you're doing mindless internship work, like stuffing envelopes.

2009 WEBSITE LAUNCH

www.photoandimaging.net/coco

Augusto Boal

International Theater of the Opressed Organization
Augusto Boal, Founder of the The ater of the Oppressed, Dies at 78

Story and Interview from Democracy NOW : Augusto Boal, the legendary Brazilian political playwright and popular educator, died Saturday at the age of seventy-eight. He was the founder of the Theater of the Oppressed, a popular international movement for a participatory form of theater as a means of promoting knowledge, democratic forms of interaction, and transformation. We play a never-before-aired interview on his life and work. [includes rush transcript]May 03, 2009

Augusto Boal Passes

CAN website
Augusto Boal, the Brazilian theater director and playwright known for the interactive genre called the "Theater of the Oppressed," died Saturday, May 2, 2009. He was 78. Boal died of respiratory failure following a long battle with leukemia, says an AP story (5/3/09). Boal, who studied theater arts at New York City's Columbia University, created Theater of the Oppressed in the early 1960s as a way to establish a dialogue between audience, playwright, director and actors that encouraged political activism. Seen as a threat to the dictatorship that ruled Brazil between 1964 and 1985, Boal was arrested, jailed and tortured before being exiled to Argentina. He returned to Brazil after the fall of the military regime. His impact on the field of community-based art is incalculable. [LINK]

Finally, the NYTimes Obit on Boal

2009 Web Launch & Party