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DMA Arts & Letters Live presents - Clemantine Wamariya


Dallas Museum of Art

de-siècle France. Wednesday, June 20, 7:30 p.m. Location: Horchow Auditorium

In honor of World Refugee Awareness Day

The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After is a powerful narrative by Clemantine Wamariya about her survival after the Rwandan genocide. Six-year-old Clemantine and her fifteen-year-old sister, Claire, were two of the millions of people who fled Rwanda and were separated from family in 1994 while over 800,000 people were murdered. Displaced and having fled through seven African countries, Wamariya writes with breathtaking clarity about both the kindness and the cruelty she and Claire encountered. Upon receiving asylum in the United States in 2000, Wamariya recounts how she and her sister worked to build new lives amidst fresh difficulties. The Girl Who Smiled Beads is a disarmingly beautiful work that captures the personal aftershocks of war and displacement. But it is more than that—it is about owning your experiences, about the life we create.

Wamariya is a storyteller, public speaker, social entrepreneur, and human rights advocate. Born
in Kigali, Rwanda, Wamariya holds a BA from Yale University in Comparative Literature. A powerful public speaker, she has spoken at the United Nations, TEDxYale, and the US Department of Homeland Security Human Rights Law Conference. In 2016 Wamariya was reappointed by President Barack Obama to serve on the board of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

6:30 p.m. Explore art in the DMA’s collection from some of the African countries where Wamariya and her sister wandered and searched for safety after fleeing the genocide in Rwanda.

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Price
  • $10-$25


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