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Positive Stories For Negative Times, Volume Three

Six Plays For Young People to Perform in Real Life or Remotely

By: Tim Crouch,Sara Shaarawi,Bryony Kimmings,Lewis Hetherington,Robert Softley Gale,Leyla Josephine

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Positive Stories For Negative Times, Volume Three

Six Plays For Young People to Perform in Real Life or Remotely

By: Tim Crouch,Sara Shaarawi,Bryony Kimmings,Lewis Hetherington,Robert Softley Gale,Leyla Josephine

Six exciting new plays by some of the best artists working in the UK today written with and for young people. Created as part of Wonder Fools' international participatory project Positive Stories for Negative Times which has reached over 8000 young people from 16 different countries including UK, South Africa, India, USA, Canada, Italy and Sweden. Co-commissioned by Wonder Fools and the Traverse Theatre these six plays offer a variety of stories, styles and forms for ages 10 to 25. These original and innovative plays are: The Day the Stampers United by Sara Shaarawi Ages 12+ Ms Campbell's Class Fifth Period by Leyla Josephine Ages 14+ And The Name for That Is?... by Robert Softley Gale Ages 16+ Are You A Robot? by Tim Crouch Ages 10+ Revolting by Bryony Kimmings Ages 13+ Thanks for Nothing by The PappyShow with Lewis Hetherington Ages 11+ Positive Stories For Negative Times was initially created in response to the lack of physical spaces for young people to participate in creative activities due to the pandemic, and instead allowing them to come together and be inspired through making new work. The project has now grown into a programme of work that includes hundreds of participating groups across the world, a youth board who dramaturg all the commissioned plays from inception to final draft, a continuing professional development programme for group leaders and four regional Scottish youth theatre festivals taking place in summer 2023. Supported by Creative Scotland, the Gannochy Trust, Hugh Fraser Foundation, William Syson Foundation, Trades House of Glasgow Commonweal Fund and Gordon Fraser Foundation. www.positivestories.scot

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350411116

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9781350411111

Contemporary Plays by African Women

Niqabi Ninja; Not That Woman; I Want to Fly; Silent Voices; Unsettled; Mbuzeni; Bonganyi

By: Sophia Kwachuh Mempuh,JC Niala,Adong Judith,Thembelihle Moyo,Koleka Putuma,Sara Shaarawi,Tosin Jobi-Tume

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Contemporary Plays by African Women

Niqabi Ninja; Not That Woman; I Want to Fly; Silent Voices; Unsettled; Mbuzeni; Bonganyi

By: Sophia Kwachuh Mempuh,JC Niala,Adong Judith,Thembelihle Moyo,Koleka Putuma,Sara Shaarawi,Tosin Jobi-Tume

This volume uniquely draws together seven contemporary plays by a selection of the finest African women writers and practitioners from across the continent, offering a rich and diverse portrait of identity, politics, culture, gender issues and society in contemporary Africa. Niqabi Ninja by Sara Shaarawi (Egypt) is set in Cairo during the chaotic time of the Egyptian uprising. Not That Woman by Tosin Jobi-Tume (Nigeria) addresses issues of violence against women in Nigeria and its attendant conspiracy of silence. The play advocates zero-tolerance for violence against women and urges women to bury shame and speak out rather than suffer in silence. I Want To Fly by Thembelihle Moyo (Zimbabwe) tells the story of an African girl who wants to be a pilot. It looks at how patriarchal society shapes the thinking of men regarding lobola (bride price), how women endure abusive men and the role society at large plays in these issues. Silent Voices by Adong Judith (Uganda) is a one-act play based on interviews with people involved in the LRA and the effects of the civil war in Uganda. It critiques this, and by implication, other truth commissions. Unsettled by JC Niala (Kenya) deals with gender violence, land issues and relations of both black and white Kenyans living in, and returning to, the country. Mbuzeni by Koleka Putuma (South Africa) is a story of four female orphans, aged eight to twelve, their sisterhood and their fixation with death and burials. It explores the unseen force that governs and dictates the laws that the villagers live by. Bonganyi by Sophia Kwachuh Mempuh (Cameroon) depicts the effects of colonialism as told through the story of a slave girl: a singer and dancer, who wants to win a competition to free her family. Each play also includes a biography of the playwright, the writer's own artistic statement, a production history of the play and a critical contextualisation of the theatrical landscape from which each woman is writing.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350034533

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Spacious Minds

Trauma and Resilience in Tibetan Buddhism

By: Sara E. Lewis

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Spacious Minds

Trauma and Resilience in Tibetan Buddhism

By: Sara E. Lewis

Spacious Minds argues that resilience is not a mere absence of suffering. Sara E. Lewis's research reveals how those who cope most gracefully may indeed experience deep pain and loss. Looking at the Tibetan diaspora, she challenges perspectives that liken resilience to the hardiness of physical materials, suggesting people should "bounce back" from adversity. More broadly, this ethnography calls into question the tendency to use trauma as an organizing principle for all studies of conflict where suffering is understood as an individual problem rooted in psychiatric illness. Beyond simply articulating the ways that Tibetan categories of distress are different from biomedical ones, Spacious Minds shows how Tibetan Buddhism frames new possibilities for understanding resilience. Here, the social and religious landscape encourages those exposed to violence to see past events as impermanent and illusory, where debriefing, working-through, or processing past events only solidifies suffering and may even cause illness. Resilience in Dharamsala is understood as sems pa chen po, a vast and spacious mind that does not fixate on individual problems, but rather uses suffering as an opportunity to generate compassion for others in the endless cycle of samsara. A big mind view helps to see suffering in life as ordinary. And yet, an intriguing paradox occurs. As Lewis deftly demonstrates, Tibetans in exile have learned that human rights campaigns are predicated on the creation and circulation of the trauma narrative; in this way, Tibetan activists utilize foreign trauma discourse, not for psychological healing, but as a political device and act of agency.

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Cornell University Press

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1501712209

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9781501712203

Contemporary Plays by African Women

Niqabi Ninja; Not That Woman; I Want to Fly; Silent Voices; Unsettled; Mbuzeni; Bonganyi

By: Sophia Kwachuh Mempuh,JC Niala,Adong Judith,Thembelihle Moyo,Koleka Putuma,Sara Shaarawi,Tosin Jobi-Tume

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Niqabi Ninja; Not That Woman; I Want to Fly; Silent Voices; Unsettled; Mbuzeni; Bonganyi

By: Sophia Kwachuh Mempuh,JC Niala,Adong Judith,Thembelihle Moyo,Koleka Putuma,Sara Shaarawi,Tosin Jobi-Tume

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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Positive Stories For Negative Times, Volume Three

Six Plays For Young People to Perform in Real Life or Remotely

By: Tim Crouch,Sara Shaarawi,Bryony Kimmings,Lewis Hetherington,Robert Softley Gale,Leyla Josephine

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Positive Stories For Negative Times, Volume Three

Six Plays For Young People to Perform in Real Life or Remotely

By: Tim Crouch,Sara Shaarawi,Bryony Kimmings,Lewis Hetherington,Robert Softley Gale,Leyla Josephine

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1350411124

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Positive Stories For Negative Times, Volume Three

Positive Stories For Negative Times, Volume Three

Contemporary Plays by African Women

Contemporary Plays by African Women

Spacious Minds

Spacious Minds

Contemporary Plays by African Women

Contemporary Plays by African Women

Positive Stories For Negative Times, Volume Three

Positive Stories For Negative Times, Volume Three

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