Hope Azeda (Mashirika Creative and Performing Arts Group)
- Position
- Phase 1 Project Partner
- Location
- Rwanda
- School
- Mashirika Creative and Performing Arts Group
- Faculty profile link
- https://www.mashirika.com
- Position
- Artistic Director, Mashirika
- @HopeAzeda @ubumuntuArtFest @mashirikarwanda
- Additional Websites
- https://www.ubumuntuartsfestival.com
Hope Azeda is one of the leading figures in contemporary Rwandan theatre. She is the founder, artistic director of Mashirika Creative and Performing Arts, a leading theatre company in Rwanda. Under her direction, the group collaboratively created Africa's hope, which was performed in Kigali at the 10th anniversary commemoration of the genocide, and also at the G8 World Summit in Edinburgh in 2005. The play also toured in the UK in 2006 and 2008 and also featured in the biennial festival in Sweden in 2008. In 2012 Africa’s hope made it’s premier in Los Angeles USA.
Ms. Azeda’s work as a writer, performer and teacher has taken her to many theatres and universities around the world, including the Biennial Festival in Stockholm and the Caravan Festival in Copenhagen, the International Festival of the Arts in Sophia-Bulgaria and tours of the USA, Canada, Austria, Italy, Germany, South Korea, Japan, Italy Australia, South Africa and Northern Ire- land. She has also been an artist-in-residence at the Institute for the Arts and Civic Dialogue in Cambridge-Massachusetts, an alumni of Brown University International advanced research institute in 2013, and a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab , Ms Azeda is also a fellow of the Africa Leader- ship Initiative (ALI-ASPEN-Institute) .Hope Azeda was also the creative direc- tor for the 20th genocide commemoration 2014. 
In addition to her theatre work, she served as a casting director for the films Sometimes in April, Shake Hands with the Devil, Beyond the gates, white light Africa United . Hope is also currently the curator of UBUMUNTU ARTS FESTIVAL.
Hope is a project delivery partner on the Phase 1 project 'Mobile Arts for Peace' (Rwanda).
Resource Archive
Search or browse the resource archive for films, reports, toolkits and other resources produced by the Changing the Story and its commissioned projects. Items written by Hope Azeda are listed below:
| Title | Summary | Author | Categories | Tags | doc_categories_hfilter | doc_tags_hfilter |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mobile Arts for Peace – Rwanda | Blog (2018/03/12) Mobile Arts for Peace – Rwanda | Hope Azeda, Kurtis Dennison, Prof Ananda Breed | Rwanda | format: blog, language: english | rwanda location | blog language-english |