[van-announce] Jan 20th Here & There - Panel on My Name is Rachel Corrie & Other Related Events

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Please find below and attached information about the play* My Name is Rachel
Corrie*, being mounted in Vancouver Jan. 25th - Feb. 2nd by *neworld*theatre.
Please also find information about all related events being organized around
the play, listed here in chronological order.

*neworld*theatre* presents...*
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Here and There:
Panel Discussion & Community Forum
January 20th, 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
SFU Harbour Centre, Labatt Lecture Hall (Room 1700)
515 West Hastings
FREE*

This event comes in large part as a response to the innumerable attempts
that have been made to censor the play My Name Is Rachel Corrie; and out of
a need to question what this means for public discussion of the
Israel-Palestine conflict that runs counter to mainstream characterizations
of the situation. The panel will examine the motivations behind, and the
complexities of international solidarity activism in Palestine; and the
central role of artists and educators in the work of realizing justice in
the Middle East.

*Panelists will include:*

   - Sobhi al-Zobeidi, Palestinian filmmaker, scholar and founder of
   reFugee Camp Productions
   - Jon Elmer, Canadian freelance writer and photojournalist
   specializing in the Middle East
   - Itai Erdal, Lighting designer and former Israeli Defense Forces
   soldier
   - Johanna Mazur, International Solidarity Movement Activist
   - mia amir, Israeli-born, Vancouver-based Activist and
   Poet

        ….and others
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*Occupied Palestine
An Exhibition of drawings by Freexero.com
January 20th – February 2nd
Havana Gallery, 1212 Commercial Drive
FREE
*
OCCUPIED PALESTINE provides a perspective on the Middle East seldom seen in
Canada's mainstream media. The Drawings register the aftershocks of Israel's
brutal occupation of Palestine – revealing ordinary people whose lives are
thwarted and suffocated by occupation.

FREEXERO.COM is a collective committed to confronting cultural and political
elitism.
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**MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE
January 25th – February 2nd, 9:30 pm
(Additional 7pm shows on Fridays and Saturdays)
Havana Theatre, 1212 Commercial Drive
Box Office: *http://www.ticketstonight.ca*
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About the play:
In March, 2003, 23 year old Rachel Corrie, of Olympia, Washington, was
crushed to death by an Israeli Defense Forces bulldozer in the Gaza strip. A
volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement, Corrie was protesting
the destruction of Palestinian homes. With the permission of the Corrie
family, actor Alan Rickman and Guardian journalist Katharine Viner accessed
Rachel Corrie's diaries and emails and edited a huge volume of written
material  into a 90 minute one-woman show.

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**I Want This to Stop
A Public Conversation with Cindy and Craig Corrie
February 3rd 3:00 pm
SFU Harbour Centre (Room to be announced)
515 West Hastings
FREE*

My Name is Rachel Corrie Collaborating Director Marcus Youssef and Performer
Adrienne Wong will speak with Rachel's parents Cindy and Craig Corrie,
visiting from their home in Olympia, Washington. They will talk about the
intersections between life and art, the play and Rachel's work, their own
relationship to Palestine and the ongoing work of the Rachel Corrie
Foundation.


For more information on My Name Is Rachel Corrie and related events please
contact newworldtheatre:
(p) 604-602-0007
(e) info at neworldtheatre.com
(w) http://www.neworldtheatre.com