Russian/Eurasian Studies Program Presents
Voices of the New Belarus:
Two Plays of Revolution
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Andrei Kureichik,
World Fellow, Yale School of Global Affairs
World Fellow, Yale School of Global Affairs
Following the contested presidential elections and their brutal aftermath in Belarus in August 2020, the prominent Belarusian playwright, director, publicist, and civil activist Andrei Kureichik gained an international following as a political playwright. At Bard, he will speak about the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatsky, who is a political prisoner of Lukashenko's regime. The lecture on protest art is part of Kureichik's "Insulted. Belarus(sia)" project -- the documentary play about the 2020 presidential elections, subsequent protests, and the violent crackdown on dissent. Translated into 29 languages, the play was read and performed across the globe more than 200 times. Publicity about it appeared in Plays International, Contemporary Theatre Review, the Boston Globe, Dialog, and Theatre Journal.
Kureichik was recently forced to flee for safety. As a member of the Coordination Council of Belarus, he was awarded the 2020 Sakharov Prize by the European Parliament. The YouTube civil rights channel “Alternative Blogovision,” which he founded in 2020, quickly became one of the leaders of the Belarusian segment of YouTube with more than two million of views per month.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Location: Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium
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