Flash info - Novembre 2020 (III) #EFRJ

Newsflash November 2020 / III View this email in your browser REstART Festival Opens on Monday There are only 3 days left and REstART will open! The presented artworks (even the films and the recordings of the performing art productions) will be available during the entire week of the festival (30/11 - 5/12/2020). Additionally, there will be live talks scheduled with the contributors and special guests. For details download the programme booklet from here. There are already almost 300 participants who registered. Registration remains open until the end of the festival. REstART is organised to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the EFRJ with the wider public. EFRJ members and partners are invited also for a more intimate celebration on 8/12/2020, also online. REstART: Repair REstART is centred around the notions of justice, solidarity and repair. This Newsflash presents the events linked to 'repair'. These include presentations of unique arts-based practices of restorative justice by Gemma Varona (ES) and her mother on Bookbinding as a metaphor for restorative justice; Marian Liebmann (UK) will talk about art therapy and deliver a workshop on The use of comic strips for storytelling for a limited group of participants only. Clouds (IT) is a play adapted on film; it is about The wounds of the land of Sardinia. The pre-recorded piano concert of Beethoven's Choral Fantasy op.80 will introduce the talk on the links between Beethoven and restorative justice (IT) with the artists and Grazia Mannozzi, restorative practitioner. The film The Worst Thing - To Germany, With Love (USA - DE), tells a story of a woman who travels to Germany to engage in a dialogue with former members of the Red Army Faction, a violent leftist group responsible for her brother’s murder. Finally, you can take part in a workshop delivered by Maria Lucia Cruz Correia (BE). Correia has conceived a series of art projects on restorative environmental justice, and this time the workshop's theme will be "earth contact". #RJWeek Events This year’s Restorative Justice Week inspired 17 countries, from 4 different continents to organise more than 40 events, including webinars, moderated and panel discussions, video conversations, presentations, lectures, live streamed sessions, meetings and debate sessions. The EFRJ celebrated the week by opening new pages on our website presenting information on the specific areas where restorative justice can be beneficially applied, including violent extremism, sexual violence, children’s justice, restorative cities, criminal justice alternatives and environmental justice. The pages overview principles, safeguards, recourses and key considerations. The contents can be downloaded as thematic or policy briefs from our website. We also released videos of our Kintsugi project and organised a live project closing webinar. The recording is available on Facebook. The International Journal of Restorative Justice The new issue of The International Journal of Restorative Justice (TIJRJ) is out with many interesting contributions in it. The Annual Lecture of the Journal on 'A Restorative Approach for Social and System Transformation' will take place online via zoom on 7/12/2020. The speaker of the event will be Jennifer Llewellyn, with respondents Carl Stauffer and Fania Davis, it will be introduced by Ivo Aertsen and chaired by Estelle Zinsstag. See more information here. The event is free. Don’t miss out on registration before 3/12/2020. The journal can be accessed here. Insight Talks of the Winter Academy If you couldn't dedicate yourself to attend one of the courses at the EFRJ's 2020 Winter Academy, yet you are still interested to learn about the topics, the Insight Talks are available and will remain online even beyond the period of the Winter Academy. You can watch them whenever it suits you. At the end of the Winter Academy period there will be a live Q&A with the presenters on 7/12/2020 at 5 pm CET. Topics and presenters are: Christina de Angelis and Sarri Bater on Integrating a Consciousness of Systemic Power and Privilege into Restorative Justice; Tim Chapman about The application of restorative justice to different contexts and Tehmina Kazi on Restorative justice and LGBT hate crime. Moment of Inspiration A Giant on the Bridge is a project from Fergus McNeill and Jo Scott, two of our plenary speakers for the 11th international EFRJ conference (Sassari). The film's production was delayed because of the pandemic, yet the trailer is out and it looks and sounds brilliant. The piece is part of the Distant Voices: Coming Home project, a ‘gig with stories’. The central image of the show is a giant standing on a bridge that represents the strange neither-here-nor-there space, a difficult transition. The film aims to present the really wide variety of perspectives, viewpoints and types of experience of homecoming. The artists, only communicating virtually, created a film of a kind of ‘read-through’ of the script of ‘Giant’ featuring solo acoustic performances of the songs. We cannot wait for the time when ‘A Giant on the Bridge’ will finally come to life properly on stage.