EXA FOR CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION & PEACEBUILDING W/ BONFACE BETI

REGISTER HERE: https://www.universe.com/events/expressive-arts-for-conflict-transformation-peace-building-workshop-tickets-NZ8P1D

1. Invitation to engage through artistic beauty, paradox and curiosity to find embodied meanings of peacemaking  

2. An affirmation to celebrate diverse and embodied peacemaking qualities and rituals

3. Create space for connection to evoke different pathways to peacemaking

4.  Use theatrical creativity to unleash individual and collective agency

Bonface Beti is an African artist, storyteller and multidisciplinary practitioner working with at intersections of theatre-based processes, peacebuilding and healing-centred approaches to social transformation. Since 2004 he worked with Amani Peoples’ Theatre, the Green String Network, WHEAT Institute and founded Mama Afrika Theatre Lab for Peace and Imaginable Futures. He holds an MA degree in peacebuilding from the University of Manitoba in Canada, Certificate in Use of Arts in Peacebuilding from Canadian School of Peacebuilding as well as being a certified holder of Theatre of the Oppressed and Playback theatre trainer qualifications. He’s currently admitted into the CAGs PhD program in use of Expressive Arts in Conflict transformation at European Graduate School in Switzerland and also pursuing PHD studies in Peace and Conflict Studies at University of Manitoba. He has co-published book chapter and journal article: Truth Comes in Many Colors: Theatre of the Oppressed for Conflict Transformation and Trauma Healing in Kenya, Grassroots Leadership and the Arts for Social Change (Building Leadership Bridges) and Forum theatre for conflict transformation in East Africa: The domain of the possible, African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review, 5(1), 136-151. He’s worked in Kenya, South Sudan, South Africa, Netherlands, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, US and Canada among others. He has served as a committee member for the Cultural Humility and Diversity Committee of the North America Drama Therapy Association, member of the board for the Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed (PTO) as well on the  International Expressive arts Association committee (EXA).He’s currently serving on the executive board of IMPACT an international organization working on role of the arts and culture on conflict transformation and has newly joined the Artisans for Peace at the UnRival Network as a facilitator to support the wellbeing of artistes and peacebuildlers worldwide.