Anti-Conference Highlights

Morning welcome
& reception
"Framing the Discussion"

Artist/filmmaker Mel Chin screening his animated film "9-11/9-11: A Tale of Two Cities—A Tragedy of Two Times"

Community Performance, Inc.
"A Turning Point: Telling Our Own Human Rights Stories"

Installation artist Luzene Hill
Artist talk
"Human Rites
the body and blood…"
Installation in Highsmith Union Art Gallery

Hunger lunch

Special day-long art exhibits and live mini-performances

"A Jerusalem Between Us"
Aaron Davidman, Traveling Jewish Theatre
Lipinsky Auditorium onstage black box (Limited seating)

[SPECIAL EVENT] 
Putting a Human Face on Human Rights

Every day, ordinary people at home and abroad struggle to maintain their human dignity in the face of hunger, homelessness, ethnic, racial or gender oppression and the lack of adequate health care. Often these problems are due to repressive and neglectful actions and omissions of governments. What do these human rights abuses look like? How do they feel? How are human rights and wrongs experienced in personal terms and what difference do they make to our lives?

In an unconventional day-long forum, or "anti-conference," Visualizing Human Rights, we bring together 2-D and sculpture artists and photographers, spoken word and theatrical performers, writers and poets, musicians, dancers and filmmakers to put a human face on human rights in an effort to reach beyond traditional academic approaches.

A coalition of UNC Asheville programs and departments, together with many in the greater Asheville community, invite you to this free series of events. Experience the importance of human rights in the world today from a new perspective, celebrate the 61st anniversary of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and kick off International Week, November 16–20, 2009.