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<div><div><p style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><b><i><font face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Eyewitness Gaza<br>
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</span></font></i></b><font face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Arial;">a new slide show about Gaza<br>
by Cambridge
photographer<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Skip Schiel<br>
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<img src="cid:image001.jpg@01CBCABE.B070F1A0" border="0" height="360" width="480"><br>
</span></font></b><i><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;"></span></font></i></p><p style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><i><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;">Mural, Gaza City
, 2010<br>
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</span></font></i><font color="black" face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Thursday, February 24, 7:00 pm<br>
at the<br>
</span></font><b><font face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;">Cambridge Family YMCA Theater</span></font></b><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br>
</span></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><font face="Arial" size="4"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">820 Massachusetts Ave.
, Central Square , Cambridge </span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></font></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial;">
<font color="black"><span style="color: black;">public discussion moderated by<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dr. Nancy Murray<br>
</span></b>President of the Gaza
Mental Health Foundation</span></font></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">
<i><span style="font-style: italic;">“<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Eyewitness
Gaza ”</span></b></span></i> : a new slide
show about Gaza by Cambridge photographer <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Skip Schiel</span></b> with public discussion
moderated by <b><font color="black"><span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">Dr.
Nancy Murray</span></font></b>. Thursday, February 24, at 7:00
pm. Admission is free and open to all. Cambridge Family YMCA
Theater, 820 Massachusetts Ave.
, Central Square , Cambridge . Wheelchair accessible
and conveniently located near the Central
Square stop on the MBTA Red Line. For
directions, log onto <font color="black"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.cambridgeymca.org/directions.html" title="http://www.cambridgeymca.org/directions.html" target="_blank">www.cambridgeymca.org/directions.html</a>
or </span></font>contact Skip Schiel at <font color="black"><span style="color: black;">617-441-7756, <a href="http://mc/compose?to=skipschiel@gmail.com" title="mailto:skipschiel@gmail.com" target="_blank">skipschiel@gmail.com</a></span></font>.<br>
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<font color="black"><span style="color: black;">With the support of many in his
local and national Quaker community, <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Skip
Schiel</span></b> has been traveling since 2003 to Israel
and Palestine
to investigate and portray conditions and struggles. He has worked with
a variety of organizations, both Israeli and Palestinian and joint
organizations, volunteering to make photographs for them that he also can
circulate as slide shows and print exhibitions. Schiel’s hope is to
open eyes and doors and windows, encouraging awareness and action.<br>
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This presentation, </span></font>moderated by <b><font color="black"><span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">Dr. Nancy Murray </span></font></b><font color="black"><span style="color: black;">(<a href="http://www.gazamentalhealth.org/" target="_blank">www.gazamentalhealth.org</a></span></font>
and<font color="black"><span style="color: black;"> </span></font>author of <i><span style="font-style: italic;">Rights Matter: the Story of the Bill of Right</span></i>,
<a href="http://www.rightsmatter.org/" target="_blank">www.rightsmatter.org</a><font color="black"><span style="color: black;">), will be video recorded as the major
scene in a forthcoming movie, <i><span style="font-style: italic;">Eyewitness
Gaza</span></i>, and the evening will begin with a preview of the movie being
made by Tom Jackson of Joe Public Films in cooperation with Adham Khalil in
Gaza. Preview of the new movie here: </span></font></span></font><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMTjjoB3bW0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMTjjoB3bW0</a>. Other <font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><font color="black"><span style="color: black;">sample footage can be found at<b><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></b><a href="http://www.joepublicfilms.com/" target="_blank">www.joepublicfilms.com</a></span></font>,
as well as at <a href="http://vimeo.com/11551687" target="_blank">http://vimeo.com/11551687</a><font color="black"><span style="color: black;">.</span></font></span></font></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"><br>
<i><span style="font-style: italic;">What are the current conditions in Gaza and what
constitutes popular resistance <br>
to both the Israeli siege and the inter-factional violence? <br>
How does Gaza relate to Egypt and
other Arabic uprisings?</span></i></span></font></p>
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<img src="cid:image002.jpg@01CBCABE.B070F1A0" border="0" height="288" width="384"><br>
</span></font><i><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;"></span></font></i></p><p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;">Kanaan Samouni with camera, Gaza City,
2010, <br>
many of his family were massacred by Israeli forces <br>
during the assault on Gaza
2 years ago</span></font></i></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"><u>Further Background on Skip Schiel</u>:<br>
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A participatory photographer, photographing while engaging in struggles for justice,
peace, right treatment of the environment, and enlightenment, <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Skip Schiel</span></b> makes photos for
publications, exhibits, slide shows, and individual use. His primary
current project is a photographic examination of conditions in Palestine
& Israel. Other projects include retracing the Transatlantic
African slave trade journey (<i><span style="font-style: italic;">A Spirit
People</span></i>), the earth (<i><span style="font-style: italic;">Scent of
Earth</span></i>), prisons (<i><span style="font-style: italic;">Imprisoned
Massachusetts</span></i>), and a Buddhist-led pilgrimage from Auschwitz to Hiroshima (<i><span style="font-style: italic;">Passing Through</span></i>).<br>
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Schiel has also photographed environmental desecration, racism and racial
justice, South Africa ,
poverty, American Indians, the US South, and resistance to oppressive regimes
in the US
and abroad. He is exploring digital technology, curious about its
influence on photography — producing, consuming, and thinking about the
photograph.<br>
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Since 1990 Schiel has been teaching at the Cambridge Center of Adult
Education, ranging from basic photography to digital darkroom and
photographic field workshops concentrating on light in photography. He
has also taught photography at the Landscape Institute formerly at Harvard,
the Quaker Palestine Youth Program in Palestine
, filmmaking for 10 years at Boston
College , and various
workshops at Quaker gatherings. Schiel joins with others in various
campaigns for peace, justice, reconciliation, & truth-telling. He
plays, experiments, & contemplates — and for this he may get arrested and
imprisoned periodically. Maybe he joins a pilgrimage, a vigil, a rally
or a talk or an outing along a river; maybe he simply stays home and absorbs
the afternoon light.<br>
<br>
Skip Schiel is a socially engaged photographer, making photographs for the
viewer, for his family and friends, and for those not yet born, so that they
might know him more intimately. And he makes photographs for himself in
order to remember where and when he existed.<br>
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Visit <a href="http://teeksaphoto.org" title="http://teeksaphoto.org/" target="_blank">teeksaphoto.org</a> and <a href="http://skipschiel.wordpress.com" title="http://skipschiel.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">skipschiel.wordpress.com</a> for
more information on Skip Schiel. Go specifically to <a href="http://skipschiel.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/eyewitness-gaza-a-movie-thru-my-lens/" title="http://skipschiel.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/eyewitness-gaza-a-movie-thru-my-lens/" target="_blank">http://skipschiel.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/eyewitness-gaza-a-movie-thru-my-lens/</a>
for more on the movie making in Gaza
.<br>
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