Karlo Sevilla: The Boy on the Hill

Written By Human Rights Art Festival

“I began imagining this long poem way back in 2018, then with only its germ, i.e., the initial versions of its first and last stanzas. I even mentioned “working on it” in three different interviews around that time. Being chosen as a 2024 International Fellow of the International Human Rights Art Movement - coupled with deeply disturbing and compelling international news - has provided me the strongest impetus to finally realize this long-held dream. I’m eternally grateful to IHRAM for the opportunity to produce poetry projects.”

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Human Rights Art Festival

Tom Block is a playwright, author of five books, 20-year visual artist and producer of the International Human Rights Art Festival. His plays have been developed and produced at such venues as the Ensemble Studio Theater, HERE Arts Center, Dixon Place, Theater for the New City, IRT Theater, Theater at the 14th Street Y, Athena Theatre Company, Theater Row, A.R.T.-NY and many others.  He was the founding producer of the International Human Rights Art Festival (Dixon Place, NY, 2017), the Amnesty International Human Rights Art Festival (2010) and a Research Fellow at DePaul University (2010). He has spoken about his ideas throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Turkey and the Middle East. For more information about his work, visit www.tomblock.com.

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