Spotlight on Bangladesh and Cambodia

Spurred by the Rana Plaza Garment Industry accident in Dhaka, where thousands of workers were killed or badly hurt Kaiulani travelled to Bangladesh and Cambodia for two months in 2014 to perform 'Can't scare me' for garment workers, labor organizers and Universities. She taught and lectured in the major Universities; worked closely and ran workshops with two of Dhaka's leading theater companies who, in turn, helped set up performances in places rarely reached by Westerners. She was invited to be a keynote speaker at the International Theater Symposium and to perform 'Can't Scare Me' at the National Theater. Her goal was to see if we could  wrestle Globalization from the stranglehold of economics to learn to see one another as fellow Global citizens, identifying with, learning from and working with one another across boarders and differing religions.
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The tour was successful beyond her dreams and Kaiulani was offered funding to return in 2016. She focused this trip on Bangladesh, and brought her play on Rachel Carson as well. This time she performed, taught and researched not only in Dhaka but in remote areas of the country. She was able to tour work places, including factories and tea plantations. She stayed with families in rural villages and on islands in the Bay of Bengal meeting with farmers, fishermen and honey gatherers.

Today, as Kaiulani performs around the globe, she shares with her audiences what she learned from the people of Bangladesh, their stories, their warmth and generosity, their labor struggles in an unregulated global market, and the massive environmental crisis they face as the Bay of Bengal continues to rise in the south and the rivers begin to dry in the north, forcing millions of people to leave their homes and become climate refugees.