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Summerhall in Edinburgh, founder-directorRobert McDowell, is Europe’s biggestprivate multi-arts centre, where visitorscan find theatre and gallery spaces,libraries, art collections. It also hosts theDemarco European Arts Foundation, withvarious developing educational andresearch programmes, studios, laboratories,workshops, and manufacturies, following inthe footsteps of Joseph Beuys, RichardDemarco and other comparable geniuses.It is an internationalist multiculturalvillage where arts, philosophy, economicsand science talk to each other. Among its500 spaces are high tech start-ups andothers including Scotland’s UN office.Summerhall is open all year round andannually presents 800 shows and events tohalf a million visitors. It exists to furtherthe founding principle of the EdinburghFestival, in Richard Demarco’s words “to heal the wounds of war through thelanguage of the arts!”.

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Beyond Borders Scotland

Beyond Borders Scotland is a Scottish basedinitiative dedicated to fostering peace andgreater understanding between peoples,small nations and different cultures fromaround the world. Beyond Borders worksacross a variety of mediums such asliterature, film, the visual and performingarts, heritage and the rule of law. We run aseries of cultural and dialogue programmesboth at home and abroad, culminating eachAugust with our summer festivals held inEdinburgh and at Traquair House, in theScottish Borders.

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The European Institute of Peace (EIP) is anew initiative at the heart of Europe with a global scope. The EIP is an independentpartner to the European Union and Europe,augmenting its global peace agendathrough mediation and informal dialogue.The Institute pursues multi-trackdiplomacy and acts as a flexible, externaltool in support of EU mediation effortswhere the EU has limited freedom to act. It also serves as an operational hub, and connects existing expertise, sharesknowledge and lessons on Europeanmediation.

Film

the 2015 Beyond Borders Film Festivalexplores some of the most crucial andimmediate changes happening in themodern world, with a special focus onwomen and conflict, the changes broughtby modern warfare, and the changesexperienced by those at the epicentre ofconflict. On September 5, the Film Festivaldedicates itself to Women: Agents ofChange. For the full programme see theBeyond Borders & Filmhouse website.

Burden of PeaceJoey Boink/Sander Wirken - 2015 -Netherlands/Guatemala

Burden of Peace follows Guatemala’s firstfemale Attorney General Claudia Paz y Pazin her fight against impunity. After takingoffice, Claudia obtains spectacular resultsand many high level arrests are made. But her determination encounters strongresistance from powerful elites that haveup to then felt above the law. Will Claudiabe able to win this battle?

5 September | 4-6pm | Filmhouse |£7.20(5.70) | 12+

God is Not Working on SundayLeona Goldstein - 2014 - Germany/Rwanda

The film tells the story of Godelieve andFlorida, who represent thousands of womenwho, without financial means or anyspecific education, have managed to build a vibrant, independent women’s networkreconstructing their communities andreconciling relationships. Rwandans cannotsimply wait for other forces – godly orgovernmental. They see themselves as theonly guarantors of a better present andfuture.

5 September | 6-8pm | Filmhouse | £9(7.20) | 12+

I Came to Testify Pamela Hogan - 2011 - 55min - Bosnia/USA

I Came to Testify is the moving story of how a group of 16 women, who had beenimprisoned and raped by Serb-led forces inthe Bosnian town of Foca, broke history’sgreat silence - and stepped forward to takethe witness stand in an international courtof law. Their remarkable courage resultedin a triumphant verdict that led to newinternational laws about sexual violence inwar. Narrated by Matt Damon.

20 August | 6-6.55pm | Summerhall: RedLecture Theatre | £5 | 16+

The War We Are Living Orina Zill de Granados - 2011 - 55min -Colombia/USA

The War We Are Living travels to Cauca, amountainous region in Colombia’s Pacificsouthwest, where two extraordinary Afro-Colombian women are braving a violentstruggle over their gold-rich lands. Theyare standing up for a generation ofColombians who have been terrorized andforcibly displaced as a deliberate strategyof war. Narrated by Alfre Woodard.

21 August 6-6.55pm | Summerhall: RedLecture Theatre | £5 | 16+

Beyond Borders Film Festival Elements of Change1-5 September 2015 at Edinburgh Filmhouse

The annual Beyond Borders Film Festivalexhibits documentary-style films aboutindividuals and communities caught inconflict and change, to shed light onthemes often overlooked by mainstreammedia. Hosted by the Edinburgh Filmhouse,

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Film

the 2015 Beyond Borders Film Festivalexplores some of the most crucial andimmediate changes happening in themodern world, with a special focus onwomen and conflict, the changes broughtby modern warfare, and the changesexperienced by those at the epicentre ofconflict. On September 5, the Film Festivaldedicates itself to Women: Agents ofChange. For the full programme see theBeyond Borders & Filmhouse website.

Burden of PeaceJoey Boink/Sander Wirken - 2015 -Netherlands/Guatemala

Burden of Peace follows Guatemala’s firstfemale Attorney General Claudia Paz y Pazin her fight against impunity. After takingoffice, Claudia obtains spectacular resultsand many high level arrests are made. But her determination encounters strongresistance from powerful elites that haveup to then felt above the law. Will Claudiabe able to win this battle?

5 September | 4-6pm | Filmhouse |£7.20(5.70) | 12+

God is Not Working on SundayLeona Goldstein - 2014 - Germany/Rwanda

The film tells the story of Godelieve andFlorida, who represent thousands of womenwho, without financial means or anyspecific education, have managed to build a vibrant, independent women’s networkreconstructing their communities andreconciling relationships. Rwandans cannotsimply wait for other forces – godly orgovernmental. They see themselves as theonly guarantors of a better present andfuture.

5 September | 6-8pm | Filmhouse | £9(7.20) | 12+

I Came to Testify Pamela Hogan - 2011 - 55min - Bosnia/USA

I Came to Testify is the moving story of how a group of 16 women, who had beenimprisoned and raped by Serb-led forces inthe Bosnian town of Foca, broke history’sgreat silence - and stepped forward to takethe witness stand in an international courtof law. Their remarkable courage resultedin a triumphant verdict that led to newinternational laws about sexual violence inwar. Narrated by Matt Damon.


The War We Are Living Orina Zill de Granados - 2011 - 55min -Colombia/USA

The War We Are Living travels to Cauca, amountainous region in Colombia’s Pacificsouthwest, where two extraordinary Afro-Colombian women are braving a violentstruggle over their gold-rich lands. Theyare standing up for a generation ofColombians who have been terrorized andforcibly displaced as a deliberate strategyof war. Narrated by Alfre Woodard.

21 August 6-6.55pm | Summerhall: RedLecture Theatre | £5 | 16+

Beyond Borders Film Festival Elements of Change1-5 September 2015 at Edinburgh Filmhouse

The annual Beyond Borders Film Festivalexhibits documentary-style films aboutindividuals and communities caught inconflict and change, to shed light onthemes often overlooked by mainstreammedia. Hosted by the Edinburgh Filmhouse,

Summerhall, 1 Summerhall Edinbugh EH9 1PL www.summerhall.co.uk www.beyondbordersscotland.com

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Women in Conflict Initiative

Beyond Borders, in partnership with theEuropean Institute of Peace andEdinburgh’s Summerhall, is delighted topresent the Women in Conflict Initiative.The Initiative seeks to highlight andcapture the experiences and different rolesthat women play in conflict. To that end weare running a series of events in Edinburghand the Scottish Borders employing a rangeof different mediums, as well as a shortresidential Fellowship programme over the Beyond Borders International Festival(BBIF). Nicola Sturgeon MSP, First Ministerof Scotland and Staffan de Mistura, UNSpecial Envoy to Syria, will launch theinitiative during the Festival weekend.

Women’s Peace and Recovery Fellowship ( in partnership with the European Institute of Peace )

The Women’s Peace and RecoveryFellowship will discuss issues facingwomen in conflict around the world over the BBIF weekend, and will featurerenowned facilitators, mediators andgender specialists. The aim of theFellowship is to build and support asustainable community of women activistsworking in mediation and dialogue, orissues relating to gender based violence in countries affected by the Arab Spring,including Iraq, Syria, and Yemen.

Bringing together eight women fromconflict-affected regions, the Fellowshipwill create a network of Women in Conflictthat can then be built upon in the futureand that will feed into the other projectwork conducted by EIP and Beyond Bordersin the Middle East.

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Women, War and PeacemakingBeyond Borders International Festival

Listen to a distinguished panel ofinternational speakers, including award-winning filmmaker Pamela Hogan andUnited Nations diplomat Robert Dann, as they discuss the important and diverseroles that women can play in conflict, inwarfare and in peacemaking.

Following the panel debate, join FirstMinister Nicola Sturgeon, UN Special Envoyfor Syria Staffan de Mistura, ScottishConservatives Leader Ruth Davidson MSP,and Founder of Beyond Borders ScotlandMark Muller Stuart QC at the launch theWomen in Conflict Initiative and Fellowshipas they welcome this year’s Peace andRecovery Fellows from around the world to Traquair House, and to Scotland.

The exhibition A Mile in Their Shoes sharesthe stories of eight girls who fled theconflict with Daesh (ISIL) in Northern Iraq. The exhibition traces the road theirshoes have travelled by displaying theirtestimony and explores themes ofentrapment, separation, conformity,escape, home, suicide and retreat. Theexhibition seeks to raise awareness of thefate of thousands of women in NorthernIraq, and to raise support for a day centertaking care of 400 escapees. All proceedsfrom donations made via the exhibitionwill go directly to the Jinda center, run byWADI Dohuk and supported by UNICEF.

This exhibition is curated by The KnittingCircle and supported by Beyond Borders.

22 August | 6-7.30pm | Traquair House |£9

Debate

Beyond Borders International Festival of Literature & Thought

In the tranquil setting of Traquair House in the Scottish Borders, come and exploreworld cultures and new ideas at thiseclectic international festival of debate,books, art, film, music and nature. TheFestival offers the chance to engage with a host of international writers, artists, and diplomats on some of the mostpressing issues of our time.

The Scottish political landscape takescenter stage as the Festival welcomes threeFirst Ministers, past and present. OtherFestival panels will discuss the tragicevents in Srebrenica; Europe; India in the21st century; the Rise of Islamic State; and many more. Elements of the Women in Conflict Initiative will be featuredthroughout the weekend.

22-23 August | 9.30am - 7.30pm | Traquair House | £9 - £45

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Visual Arts

A Mile in Their ShoesExhibition for Yazidi Victims of Daesh [ISIL]

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7-19 August | Mon-Fri: 12 - 7pm Sat: 10 - 2pm Sun: Closed | The Forest Centre + | Free

22-23 August | 11am-7pm | Traquair House | Free

Manal Al DowayanI AM Revisited

A chance to revisit some of the stunningphotographs of Saudi Arabian Artist ManalAl Dowayan’s powerful I AM showexhibited by Beyond Borders at the ClintonPresidential Library in Little Rock USA. The photographs explore the tensionsarising from increasing numbers of Saudiwomen entering the workforce. Theargument that women should only work injobs “suited to their nature” is questionedin this exhibition. The photographsshowcase Saudi women in importantsocietal roles alongside obstructivelyplaced traditional jewellery questioninglimitations imposed by cultural traditionthat prevent Saudi women from expandingtheir roles in society.

First shown in April 2002, Beyond Conflictis an exhibition of individual works bytwenty-two Scottish artists, conceived as a cultural dialogue between Scotland andIslam, in wake of September 11. The result,a truly remarkable range of images –abstract, figurative, sketchy, carefullyexecuted, heraldic, alarming - arecelebratory of the coming together ofdisparate cultures.

This is a permanent exhibition of theDemarco European Art Foundation andRichard Demarco’s Archive in Summerhall.

August 5-31 | 11-7pm | Summerhall:Anatomy Lecture Theatre Foyer | Free

Women at WarPhotographic Exhibition

August 5-31 | 11-7pm | Summerhall: Long Gallery | Free

Beyond Conflict Demarco European Art Foundation

August 5-31 | 11-7pm | Summerhall: Demarco Gallery A | Free

Women at War is a collection ofphotographs about the challenging andsometimes brutal situations faced bywomen in times of war. Women and girls in conflict-affected countries faceunimaginable risks, danger and challenges,experiencing war as victims and survivors,combatants, and peacemakers.

The Women at War exhibition showcasesthe active role women play in conflicts,challenging the image of women ashelpless victims. The exhibition gives amoving and thought-provoking perspectiveon the experience of women duringconflict, whether as survivors, fighters, or agents of peace. It features powerful and moving images from Middle East-basedphotographer Jacob Russell, Iranianphotojournalist Maryam Ashrafi andAmerican photographer Heidi Levine, aswell as from the International Committeeof the Red Cross Collection.

A Reason to TalkKunstZ, Big in Belgium, Richard Jordan Productions, Theatre Royal Plymouth inassociation with Summerhall

Is this a story of extremes, of biculturalupbringing, or is it simply the story of allmothers and daughters? SachliGholamalizad, a young Belgian actress ofIranian descent, questions her troubledrelationship with her mother. Throughfusing together recordings, diary excerpts,memories, novels and soundscapes fromboth Belgium and Iran, Sachli dives intoher family’s history and the contradictionsin the lives of three women, confrontingboth her mother and grandmother in athrilling and unruly multimediaperformance.

Metal claws into wood, with scrapingsounds that are surprisingly whisperingand soft, and through this slow destructiona startling disquisition emerges aboutfemale experience and the impossiblebalancing acts we are expected to maintain,by society, by other women, and byourselves. “Reduced to a single line, itsounds not only slight but preposterous:five women dressed like musicians in astring quartet sit on chairs which theygradually destroy using saws. In thatapparently pointless action the performersconjured up the two most tenacious imagesof womanhood.” Maddy Costa, This isTomorrow.

British Council Edinburgh Showcase 2015.

7-10, 12-17, 19-24, 26-30 August | 1.50-3.05pm | Summerhall: Cairns Lecture |£10(8) | 12+

Performing Arts Film

Martha GellhornJack Klaff

The work and life of Martha Gellhorn, thegreat war correspondent who coveredpractically every trouble-spot on earth forsix decades, including the Spanish CivilWar, D-Day, Dachau, Vietnam, Greenham, El Salvador and Mandela's inauguration.Gellhorn’s main message was, ‘War happensto PEOPLE.’ She married Hemingway,learned from him and then, journalistically,outstripped him. Presidents, geniuses andgenerals sought her friendship, but shenever lost the common touch. Scores oftoday’s foremost journalists were cheeredon, championed and inspired by her. JackKlaff recalls his own encounters withGellhorn in a piece interweaving her wildestand wittiest stories with her unmatchablewar reports.

10, 11, 12 August | 4.30-5.25pm |Summerhall: Red Lecture Theatre | £5 | 12+

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A String SectionLeen de Wilde, Reckless Sleepers

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22, 24, 27 August 8.30-9.25pm *24 August 10-10.55am *25 August 1-1.55pm & 6.10-7.05pm |Summerhall: Main Hall | £12(10) | 14+

12 August | 6-6.55pm | Summerhall: RedLecture Theatre | £5 |16+

21 August |7.30-9pm | Eastgate, Peebles | £9 | 16+

The Screening at the Eastgate features a Q&A with Pamela Hogan

War Redefined Oriana Zill de Granados - 2011 - 55min - USA

War Redefined, the capstone of Women, War & Peace, challenges the conventionalwisdom that war and peace is a man’sdomain through incisive interviews withleading thinkers, Secretaries of State andseasoned survivors of war and peacemaking. Interviewees include Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; Liberian peaceactivist Leymah Gbowee; Bosnian warcrimes investigator Fadila Memisevic; and globalization expert Moisés Naím.Narrated by Geena Davis.


4 September | 6-7.30pm | Filmhouse |£9(7.2) | 16+

Peace Unveiled Claudia M. Rizzi - 2011 - 55min -Afghanistan/USA

When the U.S. troop surge was announcedin late 2009, women in Afghanistan knewthat the ground was being laid for peacetalks with the Taliban. Peace Unveiledfollows three women in Afghanistan whoare risking their lives to make sure thatwomen’s rights don’t get traded away inthe deal. Narrated by Tilda Swinton.


Women, War & Peace Film Screening of 5-part documentary series

The vast majority of today’s conflicts are not fought by nation states and their armies,but rather by informal entities: gangs andwarlords using small arms and improvisedweapons. With depth and complexity, thedocumentary series Women, War & Peacespotlights the stories of women in conflictzones from Bosnia to Afghanistan andColombia to Liberia, placing them at thecenter of an urgent dialogue about conflictand security, and reframing ourunderstanding of modern warfare. Featuringnarrators Matt Damon, Tilda Swinton,Geena Davis and Alfre Woodard, Women,War & Peace is the most comprehensiveglobal media initiative ever mounted on theroles of women in war and peace.

Women, War & Peace is distributed internationallyby The Fremantle Corporation.

Pray the Devil Back to Hell Abigail E Disney (P) Gini Reticker (D) - 2011 - 55min - Liberia/USA

Pray the Devil Back to Hell is theastonishing story of the Liberian womenwho took on the warlords and regime ofdictator Charles Taylor in the midst of abrutal civil war, and won a onceunimaginable peace for their shatteredcountry in 2003. Their demonstrationsculminated in Taylor’s exile and the rise of Africa’s first female head of state, EllenJohnson Sirleaf. Inspiring and uplifting,Pray the Devil Back to Hell is a compellingexample of how grassroots activism canalter the history of nations.

Summerhall is hosting a fantastic variety of performances, exhibitions and events throughout August, please visit their website to find out more.

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