Gerri has worked in many international contexts
including Eritrea, Ethiopia, Uganda, New Zealand, Japan and Turkey.
Gerri has spent several years working in East Africa – in Uganda, Eritrea and Ethiopia. In Ethiopia, she worked
with Adugna, a young people’s contemporary and Ethiopian dance company founded by Royston Maldoom and Mags Byrne and
supported by the Gemini Trust. Gerri trained the company in community theatre and Forum Theatre techniques and helped them
to deliver projects throughout the country. One of the most challenging of these involved using theatre as a training tool
with members of the Ethiopian Police Service. Members of the company have gone on from strength to strength and two of its
choreographers will be working at Sadler’s Wells in London this year.
In
2009, Gerri will be developing a new link with KISF in India
In 2005, she worked for the British Council in
Oman, exploring the theme of leadership using drama
techniques with an all-female group of trainee teachers. Participants were very
enthusiastic about the potential of drama in teaching and learning and used the opportunity to develop a range of approaches
for the class-room.
In
2002, Gerri worked in Malta on a collaborative project between women from three domestic abuse refuges in Malta, the Maltese Ministry of Culture, the Ministry
of Women’s Affairs, and the British Council. Participants created and performed a piece of theatre which examined the
challenges women faced in having the abuse they faced taken seriously by the police, their neighbours and their families.
