{"id":138309,"date":"2024-10-09T14:44:29","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T12:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/?post_type=event&p=138309"},"modified":"2025-01-13T13:55:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T12:55:03","slug":"the-children-of-amazi","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/programm\/termin\/theatre\/the-children-of-amazi-138309\/","title":{"rendered":"The Children of Amazi"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You will look for water here in vain. Where the Great Lakes once were, there is now only drought. It spread over\u00a0night, so they say. Lakes and rivers have dried up. As has the water tank which stands on stage.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Children of Amazi<\/em>, an adventurous theatre piece for young people, is set in imaginary worlds yet focuses on a real issue: water and its disappearance. Accompanied with puppets, singing, dance and rhythm, this collective theatre work stages the scarcity of this vital resource. Performers from Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo draw upon their diverse artistic languages to tell a story about water and raise the question: Can the end of this story still be rewritten?<\/p>\n

The Children of Amazi<\/em> is the result of the initiative SMALL CITIZENS, a coproduction of Ishyo Arts Centre in Kigali, Rwanda and Th\u00e9\u00e2tre du Papyrus in Belgium. The initiative aims to reinvent and implement youthful theatre in East Africa on an intercultural level. The Children of Amazi<\/em> focuses on joint management of crises and the continuing environmental emergency in the African Great Lakes region. This humorous and captivating show is a gentle ode to the power of solidarity.<\/p>\n

Bernard Chemin, Carole Karemera, Denis Mpunga (Rwanda \/ DR Congo \/ Burundi \/ Kenya \/ Belgium):<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

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By and with<\/strong>
\nKento Juma, Abdul Mujyambere, Claudia Shimwa, Eliane Umuhire, Rivardo Niyonizi giye<\/p>\n

Idea
\n<\/strong>Rivardo Niyo nizigiye<\/p>\n

Artistic direction<\/strong>
\nBernard Chemin, Carole Karemera, Denis Mpunga<\/p>\n

Technical direction<\/strong>
\nFred Postiau<\/p>\n

Artistic collaboration<\/strong>
\nDidier de Neck<\/p>\n

Musical direction<\/strong>
\nHerv\u00e9 Twahirwa<\/p>\n

Production management<\/strong>
\nVal\u00e9rie Kohl<\/p>\n

Photos<\/strong>
\nKira Kynd<\/p>\n

Production<\/strong>
\nTh\u00e9\u00e2tre du Papyrus (Belgien), Ishyo Arts Centre (Ruanda)<\/p>\n

Coproduction
\n<\/strong>FULL-FUN (Belgium), th\u00e9\u00e2tre Les Bambous \u2013 Sc\u00e8ne conventionn\u00e9e d\u2019int\u00e9r\u00eat national (Saint-Beno\u00eet), Pierre de Lune \u2013 Centre Sc\u00e9nique Jeunes Publics de Bruxelles (Belgium)<\/p>\n

In collaboration with
\n<\/strong>Buja Sans Tabou (Burundi)<\/p>\n

Financial Support
\n<\/strong>La Commission internationale du th\u00e9\u00e2tre francophone (CITF), Wallonia-Brussels International (WBI), Pierre de Lune \u2013 Centre Sc\u00e9nique Jeunes Publics de Bruxelles (Belgium), Institut fran\u00e7ais \u2013 Visas for Creation, La F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Wallonie-Bruxelles (FW-B), French Community Commission (COCOF)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

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