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<DIV style="MARGIN-LEFT: 40px"><I>For Gaza now very few people are coming. They
face danger here to know the truth and tell about what they have seen. This is
very important for us to feel sympathy, support and solidarity from others.
Therefore Skip must show people what he has learned and not worry about
opposition. The few people will gradually increase and eventually, knowing our
truth, more people will support us Palestinians.</I><BR><BR>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: right">—Amal Sabawi, director of the Quaker Youth
Program in Gaza (edited)<BR></DIV></DIV><B><BR> "Eyewitness Gaza," a multi
media presentation about Schiel's trip in January 2008, <U>Thursday, March 5, 7
PM</U><BR><BR>617-876-3256, x 201 or 617-441-7756</B><BR><BR><B>At the
University Lutheran Church in Harvard Square, Cambridge MA.</B><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote><BR><B>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></B><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></B><B>Hours: Mon – Thurs, 10 AM – 4, Sun 9 AM – 12<BR><BR></B>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>Please feel free to
circulate.</DIV></DIV></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">skipschiel@gmail.com</A><BR>617-441-7756,
land line (not answering until Feb 15)<BR>617-230-6314, mobile<BR>Website: <A
href="http://teeksaphoto.org/">http://teeksaphoto.org</A><BR>Blog: <A
href="http://skipschiel.wordpress.com/">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>"What I Have Learned So Far"<BR><BR>Meditation is old and
honorable, so why should I<BR>not sit, every morning of my life, on the
hillside,<BR>looking into the shining world? Because, properly<BR>attended
to, delight, as well as havoc, is suggestion.<BR>Can one be passionate about the
just, the<BR>ideal, the sublime, and the holy, and yet commit<BR>to no labor in
its cause? I don't think so.<BR><BR>All summations have a beginning, all
effect has a<BR>story, all kindness begins with the sown seed.<BR>Thought buds
toward radiance. The gospel of<BR>light is the crossroads of -- indolence,
or action.<BR><BR>Be ignited, or be gone.<BR><BR>—Mary Oliver<BR><BR>(Thanks to
Wendy Geiger)<BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>