Break the Silence Mural Project presents

Art and Action:
Collaborative Murals on Rachel Corrie Center for Children and Youth

Presentation

Time:7:30 PM (more…)

By Jeremy Gerard
Bloomberg.com

Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) — Independent publisher W.W. Norton this week acquired the complete writings of Rachel Corrie, the young American killed in March 2003, while trying to prevent an Israel Defense Forces bulldozer from razing a Palestinian home in Gaza. (more…)

Inspired by Rachel’s story, Peter Schumann, founder and director of the internationally celebrated Bread and Puppet Theater, created this large, mixed-media art installation. Six primitive life-size figures painted with excerpts of Rachel’s e-mails describing the misery of occupation are juxtaposed with dozens of smaller portraits suggesting ignorant and complicit members of the U.S. Senate. Schumann is renowned for his use of simple, affordable, or free materials to elucidate social and political themes. The exhibit’s images are all on recycled corrugated cardboard, many painted with latex paint. (more…)

Listen to two selections from the 7-movement cantata “The Skies are Weeping,” by Alaskan composer Philip Munger.

Movement No.2: “Dance for Tom Hurndall.” (This piece will be performed under a new title, “Recently Untitled Dance” on Tuesday, April 27 at 7:30 p.m. in the Recital Hall of the UAA Arts Building.)

Movement No.7: “Rachel’s Words.”

by Tamra Spivey
and Ronnie Pontiac
Newtopia Magazine

What does America mean? To much of the world we are the dominant predator on our political planet. We talk about freedom but we are also a ruthless exploitation machine reducing cultures to products as we homogenize the world into an undifferentiated mass of consumers. With our Christian fundamentalist president we talk about morality but our actions speak louder. >From the gleeful sadism of Abu Ghraib to Disney’s profiteering on porn, everywhere we prove daily that insatiable greed rules our universe. Some would argue that we are at our best when we celebrate it without shame. Then we are truly transformative, potent as interplanetary invaders beaming into cultures clinging to their ancient prohibitions. (more…)

A cantata by Philip Munger

(Published: April 25, 2004) 1. Choral Prelude: Psalm 137 (King James Version)

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when
we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in
the midst thereof. (more…)