PING CHONG & COMPANYCHILDREN OF WAR, 2002

Washington Post article · Ping Chong & Children of War featured on NOW with Bill Moyers · for more information about Undesirable Elements, please visit http://www.undesirableelements.org

Ping Chong and Company and the Center for Multicultural Human Services present the world premiere of Ping Chong's CHILDREN OF WAR, a new multi-disciplinary theatre work based on the personal testimonies of a diverse group of young people who have experienced war, civil turmoil, and/or domestic trauma. Youth participants range in age from 12-19 and in origin from El Salvador, Somalia, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Kurdistan and the United States. Joining the young people on stage will be a child-trauma therapist from CMHS. CHILDREN OF WAR is the latest work in Ping Chong's Undesirable Elements series. CHILDREN OF WAR is produced with the support of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Ford Foundation.

· Ping Chong & Children of War featured on NOW with Bill Moyers, PBS 2/14/03
· Out of the Mouth of Babes, Washington Post 2/2/03
· Transcript of interview with Ping Chong, Washington Post 2/3/03
· How Children Experience War and Its Consequences, New York Times 12/7/02

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