1119 Eighth Avenue (enter on Eighth Avenue), Seattle
Doors open at 6 p.m.
TICKETS AVAILABLE online at https://www.kinderusa.org/events/
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TICKETS AVAILABLE online at https://www.kinderusa.org/events/
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Today, Friday, March 16, 6:00 p.m. at the Eagles Ballroom (805 Fourth Ave. E, Olympia)
Join Us to Celebrate the Ninth Anniversary of Rachel Corrie’s Stand for Human Rights in Gaza!
Emmet Whitaker of Corvallis, Oregon, member of Gaza Exchange, will speak of his experiences teaching art in Gaza in 2011, and about the children’s art that has been exchanged between children in Gaza and Corvallis.
Kit Kittredge, Washington state resident, will share her experience on the most recent flotilla to Gaza. In a Democracy Now! interview, Kit noted, “I’ve been to Gaza five times in the last three years. …and the Palestinian people got to my heart…they were basically saying, ‘Tell the world what’s going on. The world doesn’t know. We want peace.’ And truly, in my five returns there, that is what I’ve seen them working for.”
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Embroidery Craft: Circle
SATURDAY, JULY 7, 3 PM – 6 PM
Join Amani Inshasi in conversation and learn Palestinian embroidery. We will each make a small Palestinian flag necklace pendant or keychain. There will be a small fee for materials. For location and details, contact [email protected] or call 360.754.3998 . Space is limited.
Middle Eastern Cooking Class
SUNDAY JULY 8, 11 AM – 2 PM, GRuB Farmhouse, $5
The Rachel Corrie Foundation has teamed up with the Olympia Food Co-op to offer an authentic Middle Eastern cooking class taught by Amani Inshasi. Learn how to prepare – and sample! – her family’s favorite Palestinian recipes. Recipes will include hummous, traditional avocado salad, and chocolate pistachio cake. Join us as we welcome Amani to our community while participating in this cultural cooking extravaganza! Register for this class online here. There is a $5 dollar fee.
Arab Fest Art Workshops for Youth
FIRST SESSION – MONDAY JULY 9, 6 PM – 8 PM, Rachel Corrie Foundation Office, Free
Calling All Youth – Explore the Arab World and Help Bring it Home through Olympia Arab Festival! The Rachel Corrie Foundation is offering a series of summer activity workshops for middle and high school youth to explore the Arab world – the language, food, peoples, arts, and more. Creatively contribute to Olympia’s first Arab Festival by painting and creating collages for Arab countries with images and input from interviews with Arab Americans in Olympia. Participants will create activities and materials for young children and youth at this fall’s Olympia Arab Festival, October 6th, at the Olympia Center — and become part of our Arab Festival summer youth volunteer club. Weekly workshops will run through July and August.
The first workshop meets Monday July 9th, 6 PM at the Rachel Corrie Foundation office where we will meet with young teacher, Amani Inshasi, an English teacher in Gaza. Space is limited so reserve a spot today by contacting [email protected] or 360.754.3998 .
Basic Conversational Arabic Class
TUESDAY JULY 10, 11 AM, Traditions Cafe, Free
Learn from visiting teacher Amani Inshasi basic Arabic greetings, numbers, foods and more in Palestinian dialect. Spend lunchtime at Traditions Fair expanding your language horizon and connecting with an energetic young woman from Gaza.
Life Under Siege In Gaza
WEDNESDAY JULY 11, 7 PM, Traditions Cafe, Free
Visiting teacher Amani Inshasi will speak about life in Gaza and her experience teaching there. This is a rare opportunity to meet Amani during her short visit to the US as she shares the story of her life and work. Join Amani and the Rachel Corrie Foundation for this very special opportunity.
A Middle Eastern Dinner & Silent Auction
THURSDAY JULY 12, 5:30 PM, Huber’s Gasthaus, 2312 Friendly Grove Road NE, $30 per person/$100 for a table of four
Amani will speak to benefit Shuruq – Olympia’s first Arab Festival coming in October! Also Tarik Bentlemsani, a local guitarist, will be performing from 5:30-6:30pm. Auction opens at 5:30 PM. Dinner starts at 6:30 PM. To purchase tickets, contact 360.754.3998 or [email protected] by July 6. Unable to attend? Support Shuruq with a donation to RCF, 203 East 4th Ave., Suite 402, Olympia, WA, 98501
BIO
Amani Inshasi holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Language from the Islamic University, Gaza City, and shows an extensive and dedicated work history in the areas of education and fostering cultural ties between communities. While working at the United Nations Public Information office, Ms. Inshasi volunteered to work with the Gaza Cultural Exchange in 2011 as translator and teaching assistant at the United Nations elementary school in the Beach Refugee Camp, Gaza City. Ms. Inshasi also handled translation and logistical support between the United Nations public relations office and the exchange program.
Ms. Inshasi currently works with the Holy Family School in Gaza City as an English language tutor to elementary children and volunteers with the NGO Save Youth Future Society, providing English language instruction to young adults. Ms. Inshasi is the Gaza coordinator for a Skype program between volunteers in Europe and the United States and students at Save Youth Future Society.
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Saturday, March 16, 2013-
Sylvester Park & The Olympia Ballroom (116 Legion Way SW, downtown Olympia)– Expect a dynamic day of social action, speakers, music, dance, food, reflection, remembrance, and community!
Writer, analyst, and activist on U.S. foreign policy related to the Middle East and the UN, Phyllis Bennis directs the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC and is also a fellow of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. A journalist at the UN for ten years, Bennis remains a special adviser to top-level UN officials on Middle East and UN democratization issues. In the U.S., she works actively on global peace and with Palestinian rights movements and was a co-founder of the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. Bennis has authored eight books on the Middle East and the United Nations and is a frequent contributor to U.S. and global media at the BBC, Democracy Now!, Al-Jazeera, NPR, the Nation, AlterNet, Common Dreams, TomPaine.com. and more.
Ramzy Baroud, originally from Gaza, is a Palestinian-American journalist, author, editor, former producer for al-Jazeera, and currently Editor in Chief of The Palestine Chronicle. Baroud’s work has been published in hundreds of newspapers, including The Washington Post, The International Herald Tribune, and nearly every English-language publication throughout the Middle East. He has been a guest on CNN, NPR, and other broadcast media. Baroud’s third book, My Father was a Freedom Fighter, Gaza’s Untold Story, published in 2010, narrates his family’s history from 1940 to the present.
Check the Rachel Corrie Foundation website for schedule and performance updates!
http://rachelcorriefoundation.org/ or call 360-754-3998 for more information.
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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:
Remi Kanazi, Palestinian-American poet, writer, and human rights activist based in New York City will bring his spoken word to Olympia in a performance and BDS workshop Sunday, March 3rd.
From 2-4 PM, Kanazi will provide a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) workshop about the Palestinian call for academic and cultural boycott of Israel, misconceptions about this call, and how to mount BDS campaigns.
Author of Poetic Injustice: Writings on Resistance and Palestine and editor of Poets For Palestine, a hip hop, poetry, and art anthology, Kanazi is a recurring writer in residence and advisory board member for the Palestine Writing Workshop. He has taught, lectured, and performed extensively throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and the Middle East. A member of the organizing committee of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, Kanazi has been a featured political commentator for news outlets throughout the world. Through spoken word, he inspires audiences to discover their power to act for justice and peace in Israel/Palestine. An American-born son of Palestinian refugees who deeply feels his roots, Kanazi states, “This isn’t about me being a Palestinian or me being an Arab. It’s about a system of oppression and what’s being done to a people.” Kanazi will be available for book signing.
Admissions to both events are free to the public.
The events are sponsored by the Rachel Corrie Foundation. For more info, call 754-3998.
The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace & Justice
203 East Fourth Ave., Suite 402
Olympia, WA 98501
Phone: 360-754-3998
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