From Requiem to Renewal

Sat Mar 30 18:35:35 UTC 2002

FROM REQUIEM TO RENEWAL: A DECADE OF BALKAN CONFLICT
A Series of Programs to Commemorate the Tenth Anniversary of the Siege of
Sarajevo and the Wars in the Former Yugoslavia

April 3-7, 2002
Sponsored by Friends of Bosnia, the International Institute of Boston,
Boston College, the Global Citizens Circle, Physicians for Human Rights

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Wednesday, April 3
Sonatas of War and Peace
by Sarajevo-born composer Vuk Kulenovic

Musicians: Cynthia Forbes, cello; Todd Brunel, clarinet; Biliana Voutchkova,
violin; Synthia Sture, Piano

7:30 p.m., St. Ignatius Church, 28 Commonwealth Ave.,
Boston College (Across from the Boston College Green Line T stop)

³[Kulenovic] is one of the most important and interesting composers working
in the areaor anywheretoday.²
            Richard Dyer, Boston Globe

Tickets:
Advance: $15 regular/$10 students
At door: $18 regular/$12 students
$50 for ³Composer¹s Seats² (front two rows)

Tickets available at:
 1-800-THE TICK;
 Boston College at the McElroy Commons Box Office or Dept. of Slavic and
Eastern Languages, Lyons 210; or
 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 Bosnia¹s reconstruction work in
the former Yugoslavia.

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Thursday, April 4
Requiem or RenewalA Decade of Balkan Conflict
Old  South Meeting House
310 Washington Street, Boston
6:30 p.m.  8:30 p.m.
Admission is free

Mirza Kusljugic: Bosnian Herzegovina Ambassador to the United Nations,
former Dean, Electrical Engineering Faculty, 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, Kovovo, and former member of Presidency, LDK

Moderated by Stephen Walker, former State Department official who resigned
over US Balkan policy in 1993 and former Director of the American Committee
to Save Bosnia and the Balkan Institute

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

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

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

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Party to Celebrate the Future of the Balkans
Saturday, April 6
9:30 p.m. until closing
Sabur Restaurant, 212 Holland St. Somerville, MA
Hors d¹oeurves, music and cash bar

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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

 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
O¹Neill Library, 2nd Fl, Boston College
Hours: Mon.Thurs., 9-9; Friday., 95;  Sunday, 129; Saturday, closed.

 Selections from Zones of Separation: The Struggle for a Multi-ethnic
Bosnia and Reconstructing Kosovo
Two documentary photography exhibits produced by Friends of Bosnia. Photos
by Glenn Ruga and Frank Ward, text by Barbara Ayotte
March 25April 8
Social Work Library, McGuinn Hall, Boston College
Hours: Mon.Thurs., 8 a.m.  10 p.m.; Fri., 85; Sat., 95; Sun., noon10.

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Film Festival
All films at Dreams of Freedom, International Institute of Boston,
One Milk Street, Boston
Admission: Donation requested

All films in VHS video format

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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For more information, contact:
Friends of Bosnia
617-424-6906
www.friendsofbosnia.org

International Institute of Boston
617-695-9990, www.iiboston.org

Physicians for Human Rights
617-695-0041, www.phrusa.org

Dreams of Freedom
617-338-6022  x 187
www.dreamsoffreedom.org

For complete program details, directions, and up-to-date information, please
visit:
http://www.friendsofbosnia.org/requiem

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Friends of Bosnia
85 Worcester St., #1
Boston, MA 02118
Tel: 617-424-6906
Fax: 617-424-6752
info at friendsofbosnia.org
www.friendsofbosnia.org
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