Interview with David Schwartz Independent Moldova. Erratum By: Ion Borș, David Schwartz, Dumitru Stegărescu, Doriana Talmazan, Irina Vacarciuc Production: Teatrul-Spălătorie in Kishinev, Moldova The performance constructs a subjective history of the Republic of Moldova which functions as an addendum and a correction of official history. It is the unwritten, untaught history of the perspectives of ordinary people on the political and economic changes. The performance combines the anti-heroic representation of the main public events with the voices of those who never make it into the history textbooks except as statistics. In a context where political leaders, agents of capital and…

Interview with Adrian Newell Păun Adrian Newell Păun was born in Bucharest, in 1958. He is a graphic designer and gay rights militant. In 8th grade, he drew an anti-Soviet caricature on the blackboard. He was detained by the Vice division of the Bucharest Militia for homosexuality while attempting to pick up an undercover cop. In 1979, he was forced to give up his Romanian citizenship (which he regained in 1996). In 1980, he fled to the US as a political refugee. In 1984, he started working for Hayward Daily Review. He published poetry in local cultural magazines. Between 1987…

Interview with Adrian Schiop Adrian Schiop (born 1973, Porumbacu de Jos, Sibiu County, Romania) graduated from the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Science at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj and has an MA in Linguistics from the Faculty of Letters at the same university. In 2013, he completed his PhD dissertation on manele (Romanian turbo-folk) at the National School of Political and Administrative Studies in Bucharest. He worked as a teacher of Romanian language and literature (1997-2001, at Tehnofrig Industrial High-School in Cluj), painter (2002, Paintech LTD in Auckland, New Zealand) and journalist (2004-2010, at Evenimentul Zilei and România Liberă). He…

Interview with Danilo Cajazeira Preparations for major sporting events are often accompanied by the gentrification process enabled by the construction of infrastructure. Brazil is very relevant for this kind of issue, considering that in the next two years I will host two major events – the World Cup of 2014 and the Summer Olympics of 2016 in Rio de Janeiro. 2013 brought with it a surge in protests and resistance to the abuse and injustice inherent in the preparations for these events. I talked about all this with Danilo Cajazeira, a geography teacher and amateur footballer, member of the Sao…

Interview with Enikő Vincze In Decemver 2010, 76 families from Coastei Street in Cluj-Napoca (most of them Roma) were relocated in the vicinity of the city garbage dump at Pata Rât, alongside other ghettoized communities: the one from Dallas and the one from Cantonului Street. Shortly thereafter, the houses from Coastei Street were demolished so that no trace of them would be left. In late May 2011, next to where the houses once stood, authorities and priests laid the foundation for a campus for the Faculty of Theology. The dislocated inhabitants who were now living next to the garbage dump…

Interview with Florence Kirubi Florence Kirubi is a teacher, educationalist, drama writer and director based in Nairobi, Kenya. She was trained in Teaching, Communication, Leadership and Counseling. She has worked extensively with people in numerous community-based activities in rural and urban Kenya. She has also worked in several other places outside Kenya, including other African countries, Europe, Jamaica and Japan. How did you get involved in doing theatre and community work? I was trained as a teacher and became a classroom teacher for 16 years. During the time I also involved myself with drama, even though it was very negligible…