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The Anne Frank Project is proud to welcome Hope Azeda to this year's conference. Azeda will deliver the keynote address “Walking the Walk: Using Art to Face History” live from Rwanda via streaming video. At the conclusion of her address, her theater company Mashirika will perform their play Echoes of Peace, also live via streaming video.

For the full conference schedule and free registration visit www.theannefrankproject.com/2011.htm.

More about Hope Azeda:

Hope Azeda is one the leading figures in contemporary Rwandan theater. She is the founder, artistic director, and choreographer of the Mashirika Creative and Performing Arts Group, one of the major theater companies in Rwanda. Under her direction, the group collaboratively created Africa's Hope, which was performed in Kigali at the 10th anniversary commemoration of the genocide and also at the G8 World Summit in Edinburgh in 2005. It toured the UK in 2006 and 2008. Azeda’s work as a writer, performer, and teacher has taken her to many theaters and universities around the world, including the Biennial Festival in Stockholm, the Caravan Festival in Copenhagen, and the International Festival of the Arts in Sofia, as well as tours of the USA, Canada, Austria, Italy, Germany, South Korea, Japan, Italy, Australia, South Africa, and Northern Ireland. She has also been an artist-in-residence at the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In addition to her theater work, she served as a casting director for the films Sometimes in April, Shake Hands with the Devil, Beyond the Gates, White Light, and Africa United. She is currently the president of ARTEJ/ASSITEJ Rwanda (International Association of Theaters for Children and Young People) and vice president of IRIZA CART (the Rwandan Association for Cineastes) and serves on the executive committee of the ASSITEJ International.