Jenin Freedom Theater performs Arna's Children

Recommended by Sam Bahour at ePalestine


Dear friends,

If you are in the WASHINGTON D.C. or BALTIMORE area, I strongly recommend you take the chance to see Arna's Children -- heart-wrenching, but speaks volumes of the deep humanity that still exists in this world.

SALUTING CULTURE AS RESISTANCE as we approach 42yrs of Israeli military occupation,
Sam

THE JENIN FREEDOM THEATRE TODAY

JULIANO MER KHAMIS and DR. MERVAT AIASH
of the JENIN FREEDOM THEATRE present
CULTURE AS RESISTANCE

at the Amercian-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) Convention,
June 14-15

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Please join us at these public events in the Washington/Baltimore area:

WASHINGTON:

BUSBOYS AND POETS, 14th and V NW, Sun. June 15th, 7–9:00pm

Screening "Arna's Children", discussion and fundraiser in the Langston Room,
free admission

THE JERUSALEM FUND, 2425 Virginia Avenue, NW, Mon. June 16th, 6:30-8:30pm
Dinner and discussion, $25 admission

BALTIMORE:

MISSION HELPERS CENTER, 1001 W. Joppa Road, Towson, MD, Tue.
June 17th, 7pm

Screening "Arna's Children", discussion and fundraiser, free admission
Sponsored by Baltimore Tikkun, Mission Helpers of the Sacred Heart,
AFSC Baltimore Urban Peace Program, and the Morgan State University
Muslim Students Association


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JULIANO MER KHAMIS is a Palestinian Israeli; Jew, Arab, actor, director and political activist born in Israel to an Arab father and a Jewish mother. His film "Arna's Children" is a moving and critically praised documentary about the children's theater founded in the Jenin refugee camp by his late mother Arna—and the fate of 3 of the young troupe members.

"Speechless. Silent. I cannot move. I just sit here, watching the screen, reading the names of Arna's children."

—Arjan El Fassed, The Electronic Intifada

DR. MERVAT AIASH, professor of fine arts at the Arab American University in Jenin, is Chairperson of the Board of The Freedom Theatre. She provides an important leadership model and is a link between the theater and the university community. She understands the role of culture and the arts as social development, healing and resistance to the occupation.

THE JENIN FREEDOM THEATRE was destroyed in 2002 by the Israeli Occupation Forces but in 2006 Juliano returned to Jenin to rebuild and renew Arna's work. The Jenin Freedom Theatre now runs a full program of computer skills, photography, acting, psychodrama, and visiting theatrical productions in the refugee camp. Plans are underway for an accredited drama school to begin in the fall. See www.thefreedomtheatre.org for more information.

For more information or to schedule an interview,
contact Dorothy Zellner, Friends of the Jenin Freedom Theatre
at dorothyzellner@gmail.com or 917 439 3470Recommend this Post

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