UPDATE: On March 3rd, in partnership with the Middle East Solidarity Project, we hosted a BDS workshop and performance in Olympia, Washington featuring Remi Kanazi.  Below is the live video from that event: http://youtu.be/MvcUUmtHiic   Remi Kanazi, Palestinian-American poet, writer, and human rights activist based in New York City will bring his spoken word to […]

Tuesday, April 9th at 7 PM-- Traditions Café and World Folk Art Reem Kelani will provide an authoritative, captivating introduction to music of the Arab uprisings drawn from her experiences in Tahrir Square during the 2011 Egyptian revolution, with short demonstrations of song accompanied by jazz pianist Bruno Heinen. The singer's debut album “Sprinting Gazelle: Palestinian […]

The Olympia Film Society will be showing The Gatekeepers May 11th through May 16th. Join us following the film on Wednesday, May 15th for a Rachel Corrie Foundation hosted informal discussion of this important and provocative documentary. Meet us in the Legion Room of the Urban Onion at 8:30 pm to share your thoughts and […]

UPDATE: view photos from this event here Join the Rachel Corrie Foundation at Sylvester Park (corner of Capitol and Legion St.) in Olympia, Monday, May 13th from 11AM-2PM for Palestine: Remembering Al-Nakba, an installation of over 100 small tents inscribed with the names and details of Palestinian villages destroyed in 1948. The visiting display, created […]

In July 2012, young Amani Inshasi captured the hearts of our Olympia community when she spent a busy week sharing her cooking, Arabic teaching skills, and personal experiences living as a young woman in the Gaza Strip – a land under siege. We're thrilled that in coordination with Gaza Cultural Exchange (GCE) in Corvallis, Oregon, […]