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Kauthar recently wrote us about her current situation in Dadaab. She feels unsafe as her home is consumed with violence and instability. She wrote this poem in hopes that people will continue to listen...

Richard E. Hess, the A.B., Dolly, Ralph and Julia Cohen Chair of Drama at CCM, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to teach and research at Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya during the 2013-­14 academic year, the United States Department of State and the...

How the Hurt Helped And How the Help Hurt And Why Go Through It All Again Dadaab and Beyond: The Challenges of Global Outreach in a Changing World On Thursday January 17th, The Great Globe Foundation in partnership with CCM Drama conducted a Dadaab Theater Project symposium at the University...

By: Ojullu Opiew Ochan Ojullu is currently continuing his education at a boarding school in Nairobi. He spoke to us over the phone this past weekend. He wrote another poem, he says. He tells us to post it on the website. "Let...

You know that saying, "To wear your heart on your sleeve?" There really should be one about wearing your baggage on your sleeve, too. This is the altered truism Julianna Bloodgood inspired in me when I first saw her perform three years ago. When I saw Bloodgood,...

Due to the most recent attacks at the Dadaab Refugee Camp, all activities other than life saving programs have been discontinued until further notice. Ojullu Opiew Ochan, member of the Dadaab Theater Project, has taken it upon himself to teach poetry to his fellow homeboys...

It was in the noon and river was churning against the bridge. It could have been worse for us, to drink from cup of the sorrow and endurance, bitter of poision and sour of the yellow lemon trees. We thought it was a time for us, a time to...

Dadaab and beyond is a student organized arts outreach group created in response to this summer's Dadaab Theater Project. The goal of the group is to continue with objectives that made the dadaab theater project so inspiring. We search to find ways in which we...

Last June, as I pulled in to the Sears parking lot in Florence, Kentucky to fight with the store about a refrigerator delivery, I received a phone call on my mobile phone from Michael Littig, a former student. I am an acting teacher and theatre...

Darkness covers the day As the old woman goes to roost Always numb with sorrow Her limbs withered by both age and starvation As her lean body sears the pain against the bare floor Her heart giving her a leap to contrast her present with her past The past that she thrilled...