Archive for April, 2009
Salt of This Sea – Screening at the Tribeca Film Festival
Annemarie Jacir’s award-winning directorial debut represents a fresh, viscerally affecting, and definitive statement from second-generation Palestinian Americans. Rife with symbolism, director of photography Benoit Chamaillard’s color-saturated lensing of Palestinian landscapes and composer Kamran Rastegar’s evocative score make palpable the yearning and frustration of a quest to reclaim what was stolen. –Roya Rastegar
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Daniel Barenboim in Cairo debut
“For 60 years they have been trying with force and they haven’t solved anything..Every military victory of Israel has left it politically weaker… I hope very much that this, my first visit to Egypt, will maybe allow another way of thinking to come,” Daniel Barenboim, April 2009
“In a rare performance by a prominent Israeli musician [...]
London Concert for MAP – with Gilad Atzmon
Benefit Concert NOT TO BE MISSED! Gilad Atzmon performs with his renowned quartet and with SPECIAL GUEST NIGEL KENNEDY. If that were not enough, someone we love and a true rising star, Sarah Gillespie will be showcasing her highly-acclaimed debut release. Add to the mix other original musicians and the exciting atmosphere of the 606 Club, [...]
Rana Bishara – Wounds of the Heart – Documentary
Wounds of the Heart – An Artist and Her Nation
Born and raised in the village of Tarsheha in the Galilee, Rana Bishara is a Palestinian Visual Artist whose creative practice includes sculpture, installation work and performance art. Her artwork functions simultaneously as an elegy to the Palestinian Nakba (the Arabic term for The Great Disaster [...]
The Longest Letter – Farid Esack begins
“My dear Palestinian brothers and sisters, I have come to your land and I have recognized shades of my own…”
Lemon Tree – NY Film Premiere
Salon: “Something like a cross between a torn-from-the-headlines docudrama, a Middle East conflict rendered in miniature and Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard,” this latest film from the terrific Israeli director Eran Riklis revolves around the amazing lead performance of Palestinian-French actress Hiam Abbass. Playing a dignified, lonely Palestinian widow who carries a land dispute [...]
Hands Off Palestine – NYC Benefit Performance
Hands Off Palestine
Featuring performances by:
Shadia Mansour
G.O.D.
A-Alikes
Marcel Cartier
Mohammed Yahya
S.O.U.L. Purpose
Poetry by Remi Kanazi
Music by Vega Benetton
Sunday April 19th, 2009
6pm – 8pm
PNC Studios
10 Jay Street
Suite 206
Brooklyn, NYC
(F Train to York Street)
Presented by:
The Hands Off Gaza Adhoc Committee
Existence is Resistance
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