Online Registration Now Available! Youth work veterans Mary Meadows and Julie Reiswig will coordinate the youth morning sessions. Hector Aristizábal — artist, human rights worker, therapist, and actor — will serve as a special resource leader with the youth program, using innovative theatrical techniques to teach conflict transcendence and life …
Watch the interview with Hector on YouTube Interview by Scilla Wahrhaftig, American Friends Service committee Pittsburgh
Interview by ALICE OLLSTEIN, The Oberlin Review Actor and activist Hector Aristizabal had to leave his home country of Colombia in 1989 after enduring torture under the military regime. He has since worked in Los Angeles and around the world using a technique developed in Brazil in the 1960s called …
by Janice Kennedy, The Ottawa Citizen Twenty-five years after he landed in a Colombian torture ‘chamber,’ Hector Aristizabal has devoted his life to ending torture On a bare stage, armed with a few small props, Hector Aristizabal lures people into the darkest horror of his life. His one-man show is …
Dana Parsons, Los Angeles Times Torture is a juicy little lunchroom or talk radio subject. Should it be used? How would you react? How much could you take? But lunch ends and people go back to work. The radio host moves on to another topic. People get on with their …
by Joe Piasecki, Pasadena Weekly For Hector Aristizábal, the stage is a place of terror and rebirth. In 1982, soldiers took him and his brother, Juan Fernando, from their home in a war-torn Colombian village on suspicion of involvement with anti-government Marxist rebels. For a week they suffered physical and …
The Hindu ‘Theatre of the Oppressed’ uses games and exercises to create images of a situation of oppression for the target audience. Hector Aristizabal — Photo: N. Balaji Theatre can be used to heal, to teach and to bring about change. So, Hector Aristizabal, a Colombian who now lives in …