Our lives are attended by remarkable beauty, a beauty that extends to the dark things. I have come to see that light and darkness are dependent on each other. There is a tenderness that emerges when you come to love both. -Adam Wolpert, artist-presenter, Arts in the One World Conference, 2010 —————— Outside a rural classroom on a summer night in Uganda, four young women talk to a group of artists about the reign of terror they experienced under  The Lord’s Resistance Army.  Their only source of light is a single battery-powered bulb. “It was a theatrical setting,” says playwright and teacher  Eric Ehn. “One by one they spoke: Suzanne, Winnie, Belle Rose and Scovia. They were  part of a community of people who had experienced trauma at a level unknown to the rest of us. ” The community consisted of former child soldiers, war orphans, and others affected by war.  As part of their therapy, they were encouraged to speak freely about… Read more

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