For those of you in the DC area. The Czech Embassy does amazing programs!! Hope you will be able to attend. Gail
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Czech Embassy <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 9:34 AM Subject: Invite: Stories of the Holocaust: Art for Healing and Renewal on Tuesday, March 25, 2025, at 6:30 PM To: <[email protected]> Join us for a moving and impactful event at the Embassy of the Czech Republic, in collaboration with IPBooks, the Dr. David M. Milch Foundation, and Viener & Partners, as we present a performative book preview of *Stories of the Holocaust: Art for Healing and Renewal* on *Tuesday,* *March 25, 2025*, at *6:30 PM*. Book Editors: Dr. Karen Berman & Dr. Gail Humphries Artistic Director: Dr. Gail Humphries Director: Laurie Mufson *About the Books:* *Stories of the Holocaust: Art for Healing and Renewal* is a two-volume collection edited by *Karen Berman, PhD*, and *Gail Humphries, PhD*. The books feature 33 chapters from an extraordinary international group of authors, artists, and scholars, who use art as a powerful means of combating hatred, bullying, and antisemitism. “*Stories of the Holocaust* offers a rich constellation of artistic responses to the Holocaust. Editors Berman and Humphries have assembled a dynamic team of scholars and artists who tackle this weighty subject with clarity, confidence, and urgency.” ~ Henry Bial, PhD, author of *Acting Jewish * *About the Editors of Stories of the Holocaust:* *Karen Berman, PhD*, is Dean Emerita of the College of Fellows of the American Theatre, former Chair of Theatre at GCSU, and Co-Artistic Director of Washington Women in Theatre. She has directed over 150 productions, including in the Czech Republic and Off-Broadway. *Gail Humphries, PhD*, a Likhachev/Yeltsin Cultural Fellow, St. Petersburg, Russia and Fulbright Senior Scholar at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Czech Republic, has directed more than 180 productions. She is Dean Emerita of Stephens College and Professor Emerita at American University, with a long history of advocacy for social justice through the arts. Both editors are passionate advocates for the role of art in promoting social change and preserving historical memory. *About the Performative Book Preview: * The performative book preview, under the artistic direction of Dr. Gail Humphries and directed by Laurie Mufson, will feature a unique blend of music, readings, theatre, and dance performed by guest artists on March 25, 2025. 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