The Somali multimedia artist Ifrah Mansour, Minnesota-based Somali playwright and performer IN HER ONE WPOMEAN SHOW HOW TO HAVE FUN IN CIVIL WAR, revisitED her childhood memories during the 1991 Somali civil war to confront violent history with humor, and provide a voice for the global refugee stories of children. How to Have Fun in a Civil War, is a one-act multimedia play, which explores war from an idyllic viewpoint of a seven-year-old Somali refugee girl. The play weaves puppetry, poetry, videos and multiple oral stories taken from community interviews to tell a captivating story about resilience while pushing the audience to engage in a healing process that is still raw for survivors of the war. .. NOW talks about her life as a Somali Woman artist in the middle of Pandemic.
