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Nov 8 & 9: My Name is Rachel Corrie returns to the Pacific Northwest! Performances in Olympia and Portland!
The one-woman play chronicles the life of American human rights defender Rachel Corrie who in 2003 traveled to the Middle East as part of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) in non-violent support of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation. On March 16, 2003, Rachel was killed by an Israeli military, Caterpillar D9R bulldozer in the Gaza Strip as she tried to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian family’s home.
Crafted from Rachel Corrie’s writings by actor and director Alan Rickman and Guardian journalist Katharine Viner, My Name is Rachel Corrie premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London in April 2005. It has been translated into multiple languages and performed for hundreds of audiences on every continent except Antarctica, including in Arabic in Haifa and Nazareth and in Hebrew in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Cindy Corrie states, “The play is a gift through which Rachel’s message and words continue to reach people and to inspire.”
Performance in Olympia, WA:
Date: Saturday, Nov. 8th Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Lecture Hall 1, The Evergreen State College, 2700 Evergreen Parkway NW, Olympia, WA.
Hosted by: The Mideast Solidarity Project – Students for Justice in Palestine
Event Description: The visit to Rachel Corrie’s alma mater is part of actor Ashley Malloy’s three-month play tour to communities and colleges across the United States. The Evergreen performance will be followed by a “talkback” with the actress and, also, with Craig and Cindy Corrie, parents of Rachel Corrie.
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Performance in Portland, OR:
Date: Sunday, Nov. 9th Time: 6:00 PM light refreshments. Performance 7:00 PM.
Location: Eliot Chapel, 1011 SW 12th Ave., First Unitarian Church, Portland, OR. Click here for directions and parking info.
Admission: Suggested donation$10. Funds raised in excess of expenses will be donated to the Freedom Theater in Jenin.
Cosponsored by: First Unitarian Church Peace Action Group, Jewish Voice for Peace – Portland, Americans United for Palestinian Human Rights, Friends of Sabeel Portland Action Group, Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights, Lutherans for Justice in the Holy Land, KBOO Community Radio 90.7 FM, Tree of Life Educational Fund and others.
Event Description: Ashley Malloy takes her production of My Name is Rachel Corrie to First Unitarian Church in Portland. The play is preceded by a reception with light refreshments. There will be discussion following the performance with Cindy and Craig Corrie, the actress, the producer, and Portland based professor and international human rights attorney Gwynne Skinner, who on behalf of the Ronald A. Peterson Law Clinic at Seattle University School of Law, was a lead attorney for the Corrie’s U.S. lawsuit against Caterpillar Inc. in 2005-2009.
About the Actor: Ashley Malloy is a recent BFA graduate of Central Connecticut State University (CCSU). She connected to Palestinian rights issues through her professor and director, Josh Perlstein’s work with The Freedom Theatre, a professional company in the Jenin Refugee Camp in the West Bank. Self-described as “someone who believes in the power of creative resistance,” Malloy first produced and performed My Name is Rachel Corrie in 2013. She continues to direct her performance effort in support of The Freedom Theatre, where young people’s frustrations with long-term occupation are channeled into creative expression.
Statement From Actor Ashley Malloy:
In April 2013, I was sitting with two close friends from The Freedom Theatre, located in the Jenin Refugee Camp in the West Bank. They were calmly detailing the horrors of everyday life under occupation: senseless violence, child prisoners, hunger strikes, family members murdered and the hours lost waiting at checkpoints. Although ashamed of my ignorance and my over-zealousness in wanting to absorb all the information I could, I asked question after question.
“If they’ve identified overpopulation as a problem in the camp, why does it persist?”
“Families will have 7 children because 3 of them will die.”
I had never felt more betrayed by my government and the international media than in that moment. I knew that I had to do something to educate others like myself who had remained in the dark for too long about the truth of this apartheid. I knew that the best way to deliver the Palestinian narrative to an American audience was through performing My Name is Rachel Corrie. Within a couple months, I started the rehearsal process and have since performed the play at Central Connecticut State University, at the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation annual meeting in Washington D.C., in New Hampshire, Michigan, and Hartford, Connecticut. But the most meaningful performance was on March 16, 2014, (the 11th anniversary of Rachel’s stand in Gaza) in her hometown of Olympia, Washington, where I was invited to perform by the Rachel Corrie Foundation. The warmth and graciousness of the diverse community made it obvious that Rachel Corrie would come from a place like this, where people are tenacious in their commitment to seeking justice for Palestinians, and always looking to learn how they can best serve the community at large through progressive action and education, but never without patience, persistence, and compassion.
To perform this play, and for an Olympia audience, was a tremendous honor for a young actor and activist who remains inspired by Rachel every single day – by her incredible insights not just about life, but about death, about the mysterious beyond that she dared to ponder even from such a young age. Her colonies of half filled coffee cups that littered her bedroom, and her wit and tendency to lose things, and her self doubt, and immense wonder and deep humanity redefine for an actor and an audience what it means to truly be awake and living. Rachel Corrie is still changing the world, nearly from every corner of it, with her words that demand we look at suffering, and hold ourselves accountable as people who have the power to either heal it or perpetuate it.
This fall I embark on a national tour of My Name is Rachel Corrie to colleges and organizations that support our struggle for peace and justice. I aim to cover the cost of present and future students’ education at The Freedom Theatre to promote an artistic, cultural intifada as a non-violent but direct response to the occupation. Since first performing the play, over $3,000 has been raised to support the education of Palestinians enrolled in creative programs at The Freedom Theatre, which aims to equip young people with the artistic tools necessary for changing their narrative to claim authorship over their lives. To learn more about the tour or to book a performance in your state, contact Ashley Malloy at [email protected]
Jan 20 @ 1:30 PM: WA State Supreme Court to hear Olympia Food Co-op Boycott Case
Feb. 23: Peace Works 2015 with Omar Barghouti
Join the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace Works 2015: Justice Rising! A gathering of related struggles that will explore systematized oppression and inspire learning and action for local and global justice and peace.
LOCATION:
The Evergreen State College, Olympia WA 2700 Evergreen Parkway Northwest, Olympia, WA 98505
DAY EVENTS:
Lecture Hall I
12:00 – 1:00 “The BDS Movement Explained” With Omar Barghouti, author and cofounder of the BDS movement (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions)
Seminar II – E1105
1:30 – 3:00 “Children at the Borders” Workshop with MEXA (Movimiento Estudiantil Xicano de Aztlan)
3:30 – 5:00 “Gaza in Arizona: How Israeli High Tech Firms will Up-Armor the U.S.-Mexican Border” Workshop with Gabriel Schivone
Seminar II – E1107
1:30 – 3:00 “Update on Indigenous Struggles” Workshop with Kanahus Manuel (Secwepemc Nation)
Seminar II – D1107
1:30 – 3:00 “Imagination = Resistance” Workshop with Sarah Stockholm (Olympia-Rafah Solidarity Mural Project)
3:30 – 5:00 “Conversations on BDS” Workshop with Students for Justice in Palestine
EVENING EVENT:
7:00 – 9:00 – Evergreen Longhouse
“Justice Rising: From Palestine to Ferguson, from First Nations to the US Borderlands”
A panel discussion connecting voices across politics and identities. With Omar Barghouti and activists Jesse Hagopian, Gabriel Schivone, Kanahus Manuel, and moderator Sarah Eltantawi
Admission is free and open to the public!
SPEAKER BIOS:
Omar Barghouti is an independent Palestinian researcher and human rights activist. He is a co-founder of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and the Palestinian Civil Society-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israeli occupation. Omar is a Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Columbia University and a master’s in philosophy (ethics) from Tel Aviv University. He is the author of, BDS: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights. His commentaries and interviews have appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, and on Bloomberg, CNN, and BBC, among others.
Jesse Hagopian teaches history and is the co-adviser to the Black Student Union at Seattle’s Garfield High School, the site of the historic boycott of the MAP test in 2013. He is the ditor and contributing author of More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing, an associate editor of the acclaimed Rethinking Schools magazine, and a founding member of Social Equality Educators (SEE). Jesse was the recipient of the 2012 Abe Keller Foundation award for “excellence and innovation in peace education,” and won the 2013 “Secondary School Teacher of the Year” award and the Special Achievement “Courageous Leadership” award from the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences. In 2011, he participated in the Interfaith Peace Builder’s historic first African heritage delegation that brought fourteen African Americans ages 28-79 to Israel and Palestine to meet with civil society organizations, human rights groups, and grassroots activists to better understand the conflict.
Kanahus Manuel is a mother and warrior from the Secwpemc Nation in the Shuswap region of so-called British Columbia, Canada. She has been active in fighting against development projects and corporations such as the Sun Peaks Ski Resort and Imperial Metals. Recently, she has been involved in organizing to raise awareness about the Mount Polley gold-copper mine tailings spill, possibly the worst mining pollution disaster in Canadian history. She helped to set up the Yuct Ne Senxiymetkwe camp at the disaster site. For her efforts, she has been named as a defendant by Imperial Metals in a court injunction to stop blockades of the mining company’s operations.
Gabriel M. Schivone (@GSchivone on Twitter) is a writer from Tucson, Arizona, and has worked as a humanitarian volunteer in the Mexico-U.S. borderlands for more than six years. He is also co-coordinator of UNIDOS, an indigenous-based ethnic studies youth group. Schivone blogs at Electronic Intifada and Huffington Post’s “Latino Voices”. His articles have appeared in The Arizona Daily Star, The Arizona Republic, Student Nation, The Guardian, McClatchy newspapers, The Chicago Tribune and others. Gabriel is a founding member of the ad hoc National Students for Justice in Palestine conference steering committee.
MODERATOR
Sarah Eltantawi is faculty of Comparative Religion at Evergreen, with a specialty in political Islam and the contemporary Muslim world. A graduate of Harvard, she recently held post-doctoral fellowships in Berlin and at UC Berkeley, and has provided political commentary on Al-Jazeera and PRI radio.
Justice Rising! is cosponsored by The President’s Diversity Fund at The Evergreen State College, Evergreen Students for Justice in Palestine, and the following Evergreen Programs: Power in American Society; Cultural Landscapes; Landscapes of Faith and Power in the Eastern Mediterranean; Political Economy and Social Movements; Diversity and Dissent in Education and The Media and What Does it Mean to be an American?
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Can you or your organization help with publicity or financial cosponsorship support? We’d love to announce you as a consponsor at the event and in our print and web publications.Contact Ray at [email protected] for more info!
Recently Featured on CNN’s Parts Unknown with Anthony Bourdain-The Gaza Kitchen Tour is Coming to Olympia!
Come watch the demonstration, have lunch and learn how to make traditional Gazan cuisine while being taken on a cultural journey through life in Gaza. Laila El-Haddad and Maggie Schmitt are co-authors of the award winning documentary cookbook The Gaza Kitchen: a Palestinian Culinary Journey, which has been praised by the likes of Anthony Bourdain, Claudia Roden, and Nancy Harmon Jenkins.
Nov.3rd @ 11am-1pm at The Flaming Eggplant in The Evergreen State College (2700 Evergreen Parkway NW- CAB 304, Olympia, WA. 98505)
Author Laila El-Haddad, a key voice for understanding the situation in Gaza, was recently featured in a segment of CNN’s Parts Unknown with CNN food and travel host Anthony Bourdain. Bourdain says of The Gaza Kitchen,
“An important book on an egregiously under appreciated, under-reported area of gastronomy. This is old school in the best possible meaning of the term.”
Through her blog and book Gaza Mom and her work as a journalist, documentarian, media activist, public speaker and policy advisor, El-Haddad provides rare insight into the human experience of the region. Originally from Gaza, she now lives in Maryland.
Maggie Schmitt is a researcher and activist working in various media (writing, photography, video, and participatory methodologies) on the intersections between ‘big’ politics and ordinary daily life. Based in Madrid, she has worked in various countries around the Mediterranean.
When their cookbook project launched in 2009, the authors wrote,
“…food is the essence of the everyday. Beyond all the discourses, the positions and the polemics, there is the kitchen. And even in Gaza, that most tortured little strip of land, hundreds of thousands of women every day find ways to sustain their families and friends in body and spirit. They make the kitchen a stronghold against despair, and there craft necessity into pleasure and dignity.”
This event, sponsored by The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice and TESC Students for Justice in Palestine, is FREE and open to the public. Parking at The Evergreen State College is free on weekends. There will be food and cookbooks for purchase at the venue. Come learn to make traditional Gaza cuisine and be taken on a cultural journey through life in the Gaza Strip!
For more information, please contact [email protected] or call 360-754-3998.
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