Green Mountain Global Forum presents “Rwandan Stories of Hope: An Afternoon of Storytelling and Conversation,” on Sunday, April 12, from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Big Picture Theater, 48 Carroll Road, Waitsfield.
Ned Castle of the Vermont Folk Life Center, teacher Steve Rand of Harwood Union High School, and Harwood students who have just returned from this year’s Rwanda Travel Study Program will participate.
Castle and Rand will briefly explain the program’s history and philosophy and give their views on how Rwandans continue to understand and practice forgiveness 20 years after the genocide there. Students will show their media projects and discuss their experiences.
Castle, development coordinator and program associate at the Vermont Folk Life Center, is also a photographer who work focuses on documentary and ethnographic subjects including “In Their Own Words,” a collection of stories from refugees resettled in Vermont; “Indigenous Expressions,” portraits of native peoples from the Lake Champlain Basin; and the “HighLow Project,” capturing high and low moments of the lives of at-risk youth in Vermont. Rand, who teaches English and history at Harwood, has been leading the Stories of Hope Travel Study Program to Rwanda for 10 years.
Information: gmgf.org and Facebook.
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