[act-ma] FW: Al-Rowwad Fundraiser Sat. May 2, 3:30pm - 7:00pm: film, art exhibit, live music, Debke and Arabic food

Tue Apr 21 09:13:29 PDT 2009

Richard Colbath-Hess LICSW

79 Amory Street 

Cambridge, MA  02139

617.354.6471

Maserve at bluebottle.com

From: Salma Abu Ayyash [mailto:salmamilia at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 4:59 PM
To: Marla Erlien; Richard Colbath-Hess LICSW; Jean Entine; Phyllis Bretholtz
Subject: Al-Rowwad Fundraiser Sat. May 2, 3:30pm - 7:00pm: film, art
exhibit, live music, Debke and Arabic food

Please forward widely! Thanks.

THE AL-ROWWAD CHILDREN'S THEATRE TROUPE HAS A DREAM 

Right of the wall, the olive trees, now out of reach, on lands annexed by
Israel

''The wall in Aida' by Husam, a teenager from Al-Rowwad 

Left of the wall,  overcrowded Aida Refugee camp

Help bring the 12-student troupe from the Aida Refugee Camp Al-Rowwad Center
<http://alrowwad.virtualactivism.net/>  in Bethlehem to the USA for a July
tour. Proceeds will also go to support the center in Palestine.

Date: Saturday, May 2, 2009
Time: 3:30pm - 7:30pm
Host: Palestine Cultural Center for Peace (PCCP)
<http://palestinianculturalcenterforpeace.org/about.html> 
Address: 41 Quint Ave. Boston MA 
Green line B-line Harvard Ave stop/ on 66 bus route. For Parking go
to:http://palestinianculturalcenterforpeace.org/about.html#b
email: contact.pccp at gmail.com

Description

*	3:30 Movie Driving to <http://www.drivingtozigzigland.com/>
Zigzigland; Nicole Ballivian, Writer/Director *PG13 - for language 
*	5:30 Dinner: Delicious Food: Donated by Algiers Cafe, Andala Cafe,
Sepal, The MiddleEast
*	Live Music, Debke
*	Naji Al-Ali Art Exhibit with prints for sale: all proceeds go to the
Al-Rowwad Center/ tour 

Suggested donation: $25, children 12 and under are free.

Sponsored by Friends of Al Rowwad, Bethlehem/Cambridge People to People
Project and Tawassul.org <http://www.tawassul.org> 

If you cannot attend and would like to make a tax deductible donation please
make your check to:

Al-Rowwad USA Inc.   (a 501 (c) (3) organization)  and mail to: 

79 Amory Street
Cambridge, MA 02139

Al-Rowwad Center is an Independent Center for artistic, cultural, and
theatre training for children in Aida Camp. The center fosters essential
values such as justice, peace and freedom, respect for others,
open-mindedness, and a sense of belonging. Their work builds on the idea
that opposition to oppression can be creative non-violence, a "beautiful
resistance," as Dr. Abdelfattah Abusrour, the creator of the Theatre and
Ashoka fellow <http://www.ashoka.org/node/3922>  , calls it. Abed hones the
skills of his pupils and gives them a healthy and creative way of
confronting the trauma of living in a refugee camp that is surrounded on
three sides by Israel's "Separation Wall". 

Exciting opportunities for the troupe if we can raise the required funds: A
week of classes with local youth at the Underground Railroad Theater in
Cambridge. Public performances by Al-Rowwad at the PCCP and URT. Traveling
to the Bread and Puppet Theatre in Vermont to work with this internationally
renowned company over a weekend. Public performances in Connecticut, NYC and
possibly Cape Cod and Maine. 

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