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Members of Illinois Theatre along with the EU Center, the Russian East European Eurasian Center, and FAA worked with Belarusian playwright Andrei Kureichik on a reading and film version of his play, VOICES OF THE NEW BELARUS, last spring. In the summer of 2022, Andrei presented this work on Orwell Day at the Center for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona and then online with professor and department head, Valleri Robinson, at the Ukrainian Theatre Festival Melpomene of Tavria, where over 6,000 viewers tuned in. The filmed version of the performance of VOICES OF THE NEW BELARUS will be presented as part of an installation at the Oslo Freedom Forum in June 2023. Andrei Kureichik continues to collaborate with both UIUC and UIC faculty he met last spring as part of his George A. Miller Visiting Artist residency.