We’re pleased to be joined by Hector Aristizabal, an ICUJP member during his many years in Los Angeles. Back home in Colombia since 2017, he’ll update us on the current situation there, with extreme police repression against peaceful demonstrators. Hector will discuss the challenges in implementing the peace agreement signed by President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón’s administration and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas. Hector will also share about his work with RE-CONECTANDO, a project that accompanies the work of the Truth Commission, and his newest play, Territorio Sagrado (Sacred Territory). Using theater for reconciliation, the work weaves the voices of seven women and Mother Earth around the desacralization of the feminine. Hector grew up in Medellín, Colombia, when it was the world’s most dangerous city. As he witnessed many friends killed by factions including the military, guerrillas, paramilitaries and cocaine traffickers, he chose a different path. Hector worked his way out of poverty to become a theater artist and pioneering psychologist - then survived civil war, arrest and torture at the hands of the US-supported military. Violence and death threats forced him into exile in 1989. In Los Angeles, Hector struggled to overcome his rage and desire for vengeance, channeling his energy into social action. For many years he worked as a therapist and developed original plays with immigrants, torture survivors, incarcerated youth, gang members, AIDS/HIV patients and people in hospice. He founded ImaginAction in 2000 to help people tap into the transformative power of theater in programs throughout the US and five other continents. Working mainly in war-torn and post-conflict zones, the program uses theater to explore healing rituals and alternatives to conflict.
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Courtesy of Re-Conectando
In 2017, following the peace agreement between FARC guerrillas and the government, he returned to Colombia to join the reconciliation process. Currently, with Reconectando, he accompanies the truth commission using deep ecology, theater and ritual to help victims and ex-combatants clarify truth, create spaces for reconciliation, and imagine a new country without violence. Hector has received the prestigious Otto René Castillo Award for Political Theatre. He and Diane Lefer are co-authors of The Blessing Next to the Wound: A Story of Art, Activism, and Transformation.Created with NationBuilder, software for leaders.
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