Craig and Cindy Corrie are scheduled to speak about their late daughter’s peace efforts in Gaza during the Tuesday meeting of the Democratic Study Group at Panorama.
The event starts at 1:30 p.m. in the Quinault auditorium, 1835 Circle Lane S.E., in Lacey. It is open to the public, regardless of political viewpoint. [Read more…]
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My Name Is Rachel Corrie: Oregon State Univ. October 21-24
The Department of Anthropology, the office of the Vice President for Student Affairs, the Center for the Humanities, and the University Theatre of Oregon State University will present Alan Rickman’s and Katherine Viner’s My Name is Rachel Corrie, October 21-24, 7:30 PM, and October 25 at 2:00 PM in the Lab Theatre of Withycombe Hall, 30th and Campus Way. There will be free pre-show lectures (listed below) in the Green Room of the theatre at 6:30 PM exploring the events that formed some of the background of the play (Sunday talk begins at 1PM). There will be post-show discussions following every performance. Tickets are available at the door. A two dollar donation is suggested.
The play relates the story of Rachel Corrie, a student at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, who went to Gaza to work for Palestinian human rights and was tragically killed there on March 16, 2003. Rachel was a vital young woman driven by her need to make a positive difference in the world. Inspired by her story, and with permission from her family, Rickman and Viner edited Rachel’s diaries, journals, and e-mails to create this fascinating and moving portrait of this dynamic young woman. Newsweek said the play is “theater that not only stirs our hearts but sticks in our heads.” Time Out (London) said of the original production that it had “extraordinary power” and was funny, passionate, bristling with idealism, and luminously intelligent. The London Guardian reported that when theater is as “good as this,” it will “send us out enriched by other people’s passionate concerns.” USA Today noted that the play was “deeply, authentically human.” Rachel Corrie’s story has moved audiences around the world and there have been productions throughout the United States.
The role of Rachel will be performed by Elizabeth Helman, director of the 2009 Bard in the Quad’s Twelfth Night and faculty member in Theatre Arts at Oregon State. The play is directed by Charlotte Headrick and design is by George Caldwell. Cassandra Kornman is stage manager for the production.
Due to the design of the Lab Theatre, latecomers cannot be admitted. The play is performed without intermission. Box office opens at 6:15 PM on nights of performance and at 1:30 PM for the Sunday matinee. This play contains language and situations that are not suitable for young audiences.
For further information on the production, contact the director at [email protected] or 737-4918 or David McMurray of the Department of Anthropology [email protected] at 737-4515.
Preshow talks are in Withycombe Hall 62 (the Green Room) and are listed below:
Wednesday, October 21st, 6:30 PM
Theresa May, Theatre Arts, University of Oregon
Radical Theater versus Theater about Radicals:
Thoughts on My Name Is Rachel Corrie
Play follows at 7:30 PM in Withycombe Lab Theater.
Thursday, October 22nd, 6:30 PM
Steve Niva, Government and International Studies, The Evergreen State College
Student Activism and Rachel Corrie
Play follows at 7:30 PM in Withycombe Lab Theater.
Friday, October 23rd, 6:30 PM
Smadar Lavie, Anthropology, University of Virginia
Israel, Palestine, and Rachel Corrie
Play follows at 7:30 PM in Withycombe Lab Theater.
Saturday, October 24th, 6:30 PM
Joel Beinin, History, Stanford University
Historical Context of My Name Is Rachel Corrie
Play follows at 7:30 PM in Withycombe Lab Theater.
Sunday, October 25th, 1:00 PM
Craig and Cindy Corrie (Rachel¹s parents)
Olympia, Washington
Continuing Rachel¹s Work in the Gaza Strip
Play follows at 7:30 PM in Withycombe Lab Theater.
Ali Abunimah to speak at South Puget Sound Community College
Ali Abunimah, author and co-founder of the online publication “Electronic Intifada,” will speak. Abunimah is a Palestinian-American journalist, a graduate of Princeton and the University of Chicago, and the author of One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. South Puget Sound Community College, March 8 7pm. SPSCC Building 26, Room 105. It is free to the public and is sponsored by The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice, BRICK, Islamic Circle of North America, and People for Peace, Justice and Healing .
For more information, please visit www.rachelcorriefoundation.org, www.spsccbrick.org, or call (360) 754-3998.
The Mural Speaks
The Olympia Rafah Solidarity Mural Project in coordination with the People’s Movement Assembly
When: Saturday, May 8th 2010, 6 – 10PM
Where: The Mural Site, Corner of State & Capitol
For more information visit http://olympiarafahmural.org/
To volunteer please email: [email protected]
This event is free of charge and open to the public! We will be gathering in front of the mural and are looking forward to this being a bridging of communities!
Evening’s Agenda
6:00pm: Gathering at the Mural
Food & Beverages
DJ Turtledove
7:00pm: Grupo Quetzalcoatl de Olympia!
7:30pm: Live Music
Southern Skies (Olympia)
AudioPharmacy (San Francisco)
8:30pm: The Mural Speaks!
An Introduction to the Mural Audio Components
With Live performances by Project Participants
- Books to Prisoners
- Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES)
- Garden Raised Bounty (GRuB)
- Gateways for Incarcerated Youth
- Indigenous Youth Delegation to Palestine (San Francisco)
- Industrial Workers of the World (Wobblies)
- Inmigrantes Unidos
- Movimiento Estudantil Chicano de Azatlan (MEChA)
- Olympia Movement for Justice & Peace (OMJP)
- Parents Organizing for Welfare & Economic Rights (POWER)
- SafePlace
- Stonewall Youth
- The Rachel Corrie Foundation
- The Olympia Rafah Sister City Project
- AND MORE!
10pm: Possible surprise guests!
The Mural Speaks event will be the finale to The People’s Assembly: Collaboration, Networking and Solidarity, a gathering of Olympia’s grassroots organizers to discuss the US Social Forum and other strategies moving forward in the struggle for social justice. For more information, visit http://omjp.net.
The Olympia Rafah Mural tells a tale of two cities linked through tragedy – Olympia WA and Rafah Palestine and is expected to be the largest public art project highlighting the experiences of the Palestinian people under Israeli occupation. The ultimate goal of the Olympia-Rafah Solidarity Mural Project (ORSMP) is to use art, culture and technology in innovative ways to increase the strength and visibility of the movement for social justice not only in Palestine and Israel, but also in the U.S. and throughout the world.
The 4,000 square foot mural/interactive project is the collective effort of Olympia locals, as well as over 150 artists, activists and social justice organizations from Olympia to the Bay Area, across the USA to the West Bank and Gaza in Palestine. Viewers can use a cell phone to call and hear a specific artist/group introduce themselves and talk about the meaning of their contributions to the mural. Some artists have included poetry and/or music to add cultural favor to the image and the audio soundscape.
The Olympia-Rafah project has successfully articulated the importance of creating cross-movement partnerships and highlighted the impact of transgressing boundaries. The project continues, and with each completed phase, more fully illuminates and strengthens a shared quest for justice and equality across continents, cultures and causes.
PeaceWorks: “There is a Field” staged reading
Peace Works is an annual project of the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice in the form of a lecture, conference, or other event that provides a forum for exploring the meaning and practice of justice and peace as they affect the social, economic, political, environmental, and spiritual aspects of people’s lives.
This October marks the ten-year anniversary of “Black October.” As the second Intifada erupted in the West Bank and Gaza, demon- strations also began in Arab villages and towns inside Israel. In October 2000, twelve Palestinian citizens of Israel were killed in these demonstrations by Israeli security forces.
One of those killed was a seventeen-year old boy named Aseel Asleh. Aseel was shot point blank in the neck by Israeli police at a demonstration outside his village. No eyewitnesses, including the Israeli policemen at the scene, claimed that Aseel had been violent in anyway. He was dead before reaching the hospital. Aseel had been a leading participant in a peace program called Seeds of Peace. He was wearing his Seeds of Peace t-shirt at the time of his killing and was buried in it.
There is a Field is a play about Aseel’s life and his death, through the perspective of his older sister, Nardeen. The playwright, Jen Marlowe, knew Aseel personally, and became close to his family following his killing. Jen worked with Aseel’s older sister, Nar- deen, and other members of the Asleh family on There is a Field for seven years. The play is entirely culled from interviews with Nardeen and other members of Aseel’s family, emails written between Aseel and Nardeen, emails between Aseel and his friends from Seeds of Peace, and transcripts from the Israeli government commission of inquiry established to investigate the killing of twelve Palestinian citizens during October 2000.
There is a Field also addresses the larger struggles facing Palestinians inside Israel. The ten-year anniversary of Black October, cou- pled with There is a Field, offers an important opportunity to inject these issues into the wider Israel/Palestine discourse.
When: Monday, October 25
Where: TBA (check back soon, or join the mailing list for updates)
This program is presented by The Rachel Corrie Foundation & donkeysaddle projects.
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