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The First Annual Global Playback Event:

World Kindness Day
November 13, 2005

Join us in sharing your story on World Kindness Day, November 13, 2005. Playback Theatre companies on six continents, in widely diverse settings and communities, will be performing personal stories of “Acts of Kindness”.

This global event aligns two movements - Playback Theatre, with its hundreds of companies worldwide, and groups focused on promoting and celebrating actions based on kindness. The performances will remind us of what can happen when people behave kindly towards each other.

Playback Theatre invites personal stories, told in community, and honors the storytellers through enacting their experiences. These enactments have promoted compassion and understanding in challenging arenas around the world. Groups in conflict and people divided by race, class or caste have found new attitudes of acceptance through sharing experiences in playback performances.

The transformational power of kindness presents an alternative to the negativity of fear and division that is so prevalent in our world today. Fear leads to secrecy, violence and chaos. We can choose to reframe our perceptions and remind ourselves of the common meeting place that kindness creates, a place where our civil society is strengthened, and where people are empowered to take back their communities.

This event is a moment in time when we can stop, take a breath, and focus on what is working in our lives. What are we grateful for? How do acts of kindness make a difference in our lives? What does that suggest for enlightened ways of addressing the challenges we face as a human race, together?

The Second Annual Global Playback Event:

Human Rights Day
December 10, 2006

Join us in sharing your story on Human Rights Day, December 10, 2006. Playback Theatre companies on six continents, in widely diverse settings and communities, will be performing personal stories of “Listening, Speaking Out, and Taking Action”.

This global event aligns two movements - Playback Theatre, with its hundreds of companies worldwide, and groups focused on promoting human rights. The performances will remind us of what can happen when people give their attention to our common humanity.

Playback Theatre invites personal stories, told in community, and honors the storytellers, through enacting their experiences. These enactments have promoted compassion and understanding in challenging arenas around the world. Groups in conflict and people divided by race, class or caste have found new attitudes of acceptance through sharing experiences in playback performances.

This event is a moment in time when we can stop, take a breath, and focus on the rights which are fundamental to all human beings. How have we experienced those rights in our own lives, in the lives of loved ones, of acquaintances, of strangers? What has happened to our lives, the lives of loved ones, or the lives of strangers, when those rights are withheld?

The mission of this event is to use the power of Playback Theatre to:

• Affirm the positive potential of our shared humanity
• Focus attention on human rights, to create hope and positive change
• Unite people across the world through an event with a shared theme
• Give voice to people everywhere and honor their/our human experience
• Build relationships, teamwork and trust
• Promote an effective tool for upliftment that all can use.

Spread the word, attend or host a playback performance, support the project with a contribution, or join us in spirit---let's keep hope alive together!

For further information, email info@globalplayback.org or call Raphael Peter at 828-670-5881 (USA). Global Playback is a project of EarthStage Productions, a 501(c)(3) non-profit; within the United States all donations are tax deductible to the full extent of the law.

Send donations to:
EarthStage Productions, Inc., PO Box 567, Asheville, NC 28802, USA.

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