page_title: Prince Claus Fund
section_title: The 2007 Prince Claus Awards
hierarchical_section_title: Prince Claus Fund / The 2007 Prince Claus Awards
caption_attribution_description: Augusto Boal in the Abbey Theatre (Dublin) receives the 'Crossborder Award for Peace and Democracy'. April 3rd 2008. It was a great talk, amazing to see and listen to the man himself...The day before the Abbey Theatre previews The Burial at Thebes, Seamus Heaney’s version of Sophocles’ Antigone, Augusto Boal will talk about his own life as a theatre director growing up and working in times of political upheaval, military coups, censorship, imprisonment, torture, exile and return. He talks of his work with actors and the training he developed with and for them; his choice of plays which could speak through a censored time; his production of The Plough and The Stars many years ago in Brazil - his love of Shakespeare and his commitment to new writing which can speak to a people of themselves.
context_page_description: The Prince Claus Fund was established in 1996, named in honor of Prince Claus of the Netherlands. It receives an annual subsidy from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
  The Fund has presented the international Prince Claus Awards annually since 1997 to honor individuals and organizations reflecting a progressive and contemporary approach to the themes of culture and development. Recipients are mainly located in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
context_section_description: Theme
  "Culture and Conflict"
  Laureates
  Faustin Linyekula (D.R. Congo) (Principal Award), dancer and choreographer
  Patricia Ariza (Colombia), poet and actress
  Augusto Boal (Brazil), theater maker
  Emily Jacir (Palestine), visual artist
  Hollis Liverpool, alias Chalkdust (British Virgin Islands), calypso singer and writer
  Sudanese Writers Union (Sudan)
  Ars Aevi (Bosnia and Herzegovina), museum of art
  Oscar Hagerman (Mexico), architect and designer
  Harutyun Khachatryan (Armenia), filmmaker
  Godfrey Mwampembwa, alias Gado (Kenya), cartoonist
  Radio Isanganiro (Burundi), human rights promoter and radio station
  Committee
  Peter Geschiere, Manthia Diawara, Pablo Ortiz Monasterio, Mick Pearce, Virginia Pérez-Ratton, Selma Al-Radi.
caption: Augusto Boal
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