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HONEY BROWN EYES Audience Enrichment  

Theater J offers a variety of programs to engage our audience beyond the stage.  Below is the current schedule of Artistic Director Roundtables, Peace Cafes and Cast Talk Backs.  You can learn more about these programs by clicking here.  We can also develop additional programs tailored for your group to be held either here at the theater or we can bring the program to you. 

Contact Shirley Serotsky at (202) 777-3228 or email her with any further questions.

THESE ARE FREE DISCUSSIONS AND OPEN TO ALL 

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Thursday, October 23 at 9:30 pm: Post-show discussion with Artistic Director Ari Roth


 

Sunday, October 26 at 5 pm: Women and Children in the Wars of Man: Giving Voice to the Unheard       

Moderated by Jessica Lefkow
          
Elmina Kulasic, Executive Director of the Bosniak-American Advisory Council for Bosnia and Herzegovina

Elizabeth Hammond, Institute for Global Leadership Fellow 2007

Patty Pina, Grassroots Marketing Officer for Women for Women International

Stefanie Zadravec, Playwright



Thursday, October 30 at 9:30 pm: Cast Talk-Back


 

Sunday, November  2 at 5 pm : In the Name of Religion: The Role of the Pulpit in Prosecuting and Protesting War

Senator William Cohen: Former Senator and Secretary of Defense under Bill Clinton; author and expert on European affairs and counter-terrorism

Reverend John Wimberly, Pastor at Western Presbyterian Church in Washington, DC, and an author and advocate for interfaith dialogue.

Stephen Schwartz: Executive Director of the Center for Islamic Pluralism

 

Thursday, November 6 at 9:30 pm: Peace Café with Andy Shallal

 

Sunday, November  9 at 5 pm:   Responding to Genocide: The US, the UN and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum


Iain Guest, Adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and Executive Director of the Advocacy Project, who conducted missions to Rwanda and Bosnia for the UN, USAID and UNHCR.

Dr. Edib Korkut, Bosnian and nephew of Dervis Korkut, Islamic scholar responsible for the rescue of the Sarajevo Haggadah

Motti Lerner, Israeli Political Playwright, active in the Israeli Peace Movement

 

Thursday, November 13 at 9:30 pm : Being Dragan: Spotlight on Artistic Associate Alexander Strain

 

Sunday,  November 16 at 5 pm:  Being Bosnian—Identity, Memory and the Trial of Radovan Karadzic

 

Tom Gjelton, NPR Correspondent currently covering intelligence and other national security issues; His reporting from Sarajevo from 1992 to 1994 was the basis for his book Sarajevo Daily: A City and Its Newspaper Under Siege.


Jonathan Landay, national security and intelligence correspondent. 

Ambassador R. W. "Bill" Farrand, Former Deputy High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Supervisor of Brcko (a Bosnian municipality); a career member of the Senior Foreign Service of the United States with the rank of Minister-Counselor


Marshall Breger, law professor at the Institute of Faith and Values at The Catholic University of America


Tarik Bilalbegovic, Vice-President of the Board at the Bosniak-American Advisory Council for Bosnia and Herzegovina.  

 

 

 

 

Thursday, November 20 at 9:30 pm: Peace Café with Cast Talk-Back

 

Sunday, November  23 at 5 pm:   East Meets West: Adapting War Stories in our Popular Culture    

Moderated by Artistic Director Ari Roth


Readings and discussion panel led by students from the University of Michigan and the University of California at Berkeley. 

 

Sunday, November  30 at 5 pm:   Post-Conflict Reconciliation with the Balkans

            
Laura Zam, solo-performance artist and writer who worked with young people in Bosnia through the Seeds of Peace Organization

Andy Shallal, who co-founded several peace movement organizations, holds leadership positions in numerous others and is a Peace Fellow for Seeds of Peace.

Andrea Powell: Co-founder and Executive Director of FAIR Fund, an organization working internationally to engage youth, especially young women, in civil society in the areas of anti-human trafficking, domestic violence and sexual assault prevention, and the development of youth capacity-building programs.

Alison Sluiter, Outreach Coordinator for the Srebrenica Quilt, The Advocacy Project

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