Janka to Be Part of 12th Annual Restorative Justice Conference

(Fresno, CA) September 26, 2006 – Janka, the drama about a woman victimized by the Nazi Holocaust, will be part of the 12th Annual Restorative Justice Conference: “The Victim in Focus” at Fresno Pacific University, 1717 S. Chestnut Ave. The performance will take place Friday, October 20th at 7pm in Ashley Auditorium. Tickets: Adults $10, Students $5 and free for the FPU Community.

The play stars Janice Noga, acclaimed actress and singer who has been portraying Janka since 2002. Noga has previously been cast in New York theater in Zorba, Fiddler on the Roof and Annie. Noga has also performed in numerous concerts from New York to Los Angeles as well as internationally.

Janka is written and produced by Oscar Speace, producer-director of Valley Press at Valley Public Television in Fresno. Speace created the one-character play based on letters his mother wrote following her liberation from Nazi concentration and slave-labor camps near Munich, Germany.

Conference speakers will include the Society of Victimology presidents, CSU Fresno Victimology faculty, and a panel of victims of serious crime, as well as workshops on topics such as restorative justice in prisons, victim recovery, church-based victim offender mediation programs, and others.

A conference brochure and a detailed two day schedule can be found online here. 12th Annual Restorative Justice Conference is organized by the FPU Center for Peacemaking & Conflict Studies and sponsored by Fresno Pacific University and the West Coast Mennonite Central Committee. Admission varies. For more information call: 559-453-3418 or 800-909-8677.