“We Are Talking to You” – a street performance shown in various locations in Luxembourg, including at the Centre Hamilius in 2023, at the Human Rights Defender Exhibition – Abbaye de Neumünster and at the headquarters of Amnesty International in 2024. Its theme is the right to demonstrate and freely express one’s opinion.

 In association with Amnesty International Luxembourg, Dana Rufolo is seeking 2 additional actors (male or female) to join the group developing a play on how global warming negatively affects human rights. Participants must become members of Amnesty Luxembourg and be available to perform on 1 July, 2025. Dana Rufolo is the author of the script being used as a basis for this outdoor street-theater performance, and she will lead the preparatory workshops. Rehearsals will begin in April 2025. If anyone can offer a rehearsal space accessible by bus or tram, this will be appreciated. The present rehearsal space is inadequate for a larger cast. 

    The Heimweh/Exile/Nostalgie du pays/Saudade Project

This project is two staged. Initially, people who feel they are living far from home, as foreigners in a strange land, are invited to join once-a-month writing workshops where the group writes out various aspects of the pain they experience as a result of the alienation they feel. These pieces will be gathered and honed and turned into a string of performance pieces that work together to create a whole performance. In the performance when it is staged, there will initially be a ritual burial of objects symbolizing home, to be followed by individual performances of pieces chosen from the writing project. It is the goal of the Heimweh Project to find a museum or institution here in Luxembourg that will host the Heimweh Performance, so as to raise an awareness of the homesickness that afflicts non-native residents in Luxembourg and which offers a chance for transformation and integration through group bonding and through consciousness raising.

The next writing session of the Heimweh Project last took place on 23 January, 2025 in the Café littéraire le Bovary, 1 rue de Laroche, L-1918 Luxembourg-Weimerskirch, at 6.30 in the afternoon. For additional information, send an email to TRIE, asbl with your name, questions and telephone number to:

“I am Viola da Gamba of the Singing Building”

– a Performance and Concert based on the book by Dana Rufolo and music composed by Philippe Partridge