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<DIV><FONT size=2><STRONG><U><FONT size=3>FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE<BR><BR></FONT></U></STRONG>
<DIV class=gmail_quote><STRONG>An exhibit of photographs by Skip Schiel about
Gaza, along with 2 multi media presentations, at the University Lutheran Church
in Harvard Square, Cambridge MA.</STRONG><BR><BR><B>Photo exhibit: "Gaza is home
to one & one-half million human beings: How do they live?"<BR><BR>January 15
– April 12, 2009<BR><BR>University Lutheran church, Cambridge, Harvard Square,
66 Winthrop St, Cambridge, MA 02138 (<A href="http://www.unilu.org/"
target=_blank>www.unilu.org</A>)<BR></B>(off JFK St, near
Staples)<B><BR><BR>Hours: Mon – Thurs, 10 AM – 4, Sun 9 AM – 12<BR><BR>Forum:
"Eyewitness Gaza," a multi media presentation about Schiel's trip in January
2008, Sunday, January 25, 10 am<BR><BR>With a second showing of "Eyewitness
Gaza," Wednesday, January 28, 7 pm <BR><BR>617-876-3256, x 201 or
617-441-7756</B><BR><BR>Until recently we didn't hear much about Gaza, a narrow
sliver of land in Palestine-Israel that is home to 1.5 million Palestinians—some
75% of them refugees since 1948 when the state of Israel was founded, and 1967,
after the Six Day War. With the carnage reported daily—rocket attacks by
militants against Israeli civilians and Israel's air, sea, and land attacks on
Gaza, as Israel has killed more than 1000 Palestinians, half of them civilians,
with more than 4000 injuries—the region is now in the anguished hearts of many.
Skip Schiel, a photojournalist from Cambridge Massachusetts, offers the exhibit
and multi media presentations about Gaza.<BR><BR>Mr. Schiel has traveled and
photographed in Israel-Palestine over a five-year period, usually three months
each year. Using photographs and stories, he will present his experiences
from his last journey to the land of troubles in January 2008. The photographer
visited the apparent site of the 2003 killing of Rachel Corrie, a young woman
working with Palestinians in Rafah. He toured the area near the Egyptian border
wall which four days later Gazans breached in a nonviolent attempt to break the
siege. While in Gaza Mr. Schiel worked with the American Friends Service
Committee youth program, teaching and photographing.<BR><BR>His professional
life has been in filmmaking and photography, plus teaching of those topics. For
10 years he taught filmmaking at Boston College, and since 1990 he's taught
photography thru the Cambridge Center for Adult Education and Harvard
University's Landscape Institute. His photography ranges between
landscape, abstract, experimental, portraiture, and socially engaged. Which
means he tries to link much of his photography to social issues. These have
included American Indians, African Americans, poverty, environmental issues, and
since 2003 Israel-Palestine. His photos have appeared in the Boston Globe,
Christian Science Monitor, and Progressive Magazine, and are in the collections
of Harvard University. He's had exhibitions in numerous venues across the
country. Photos are on his website, <A href="http://teeksaphoto.org/"
target=_blank>teeksaphoto.org</A>, and his blog, <A
href="http://skipschiel.wordpress.com/"
target=_blank>skipschiel.wordpress.com</A>.<BR><BR>Free and open to the public.
Donations accepted at the door for the January 28th show. Photographs on
sale.<BR><BR>Attached: flyers for the exhibit and presentations.<BR><BR>Please
feel free to circulate.<BR></DIV><BR>+++++++++++<BR><BR>Skip Schiel (a.k.a Ein
al-Nour)<BR><BR>9 Sacramento St<BR>Cambridge MA 02138-1843 USA<BR><A
href="mailto:skipschiel@gmail.com"
target=_blank>skipschiel@gmail.com</A><BR>617-441-7756, land
line<BR>617-230-6314, mobile<BR>Website: <A href="http://teeksaphoto.org/"
target=_blank>http://teeksaphoto.org</A><BR>Blog: <A
href="http://skipschiel.wordpress.com/"
target=_blank>http://skipschiel.wordpress.com</A><BR><BR>To join my email list
about my recent (2007-8) experiences in Palestine-Israel, along with postings
related to that issue, please reply with SUBSCRIBE in the subject
line.<BR><BR>"They are a nation without sense, there is no discernment in them.
If only they were wise and would understand this and discern what their
end will be!" <BR><BR>--Deuteronomy 32:
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