Palestine Awareness Week

national | miscellaneous | news report Wednesday September 11, 2002 15:47 by Justin Moran - Sinn Fein maigh_nuad at yahoo dot com

9 days of film, lectures, discussion and events about contemporary life in Palestine. All events are free unless otherwise stated. For more information please call the IPSC on 01 677 0253.

The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign presents:

Palestine Awareness Week, Dublin 20-29 September 2002

9 days of film, lectures, discussion and events about contemporary life in Palestine. All events are free unless otherwise stated. For more information please call the IPSC on 01 677 0253.

Friday 20th Sept.
1-2pm @ Ionad Buail Isteach na Gaeilge,
43 Straid Essex Thoir, BÁC 2.
"Géarchéim sa Phalaistin"
Le Colm Breathnach, díreach ar ais ó Jenin sa Phalaistín.

8pm @ The Project Arts Centre
Essex Street, Temple Bar
"Palestine Live."
Opening of the Palestinian Awareness Week. A night of Poetry, Film, and Talk.

Saturday 21st Sept.
5.30 @ The Seminar Room, Islamic Cultural Centre, 19 Roebuck Road, Clonskeagh, Dublin 14
"The Palestinian Challenge to the Israeli Ethnic Solution"
Public Lecture by Dr Daud Abdullah from the Palestine Return Centre

Sunday 22nd September
2pm - 5pm @ Silk Road Café, Chester Beatty Library
Fundraising Lunch for the IPSC
Palestinian food, music and wine. 25 EURO
Numbers are strictly limited, you have to book for this! Call IPSC 01 677 0253 NOW for tickets.

Monday 23rd September
7.30pm @ The Connolly. 1st Floor, Liberty Hall.
'Eyewitness Palestine'
Colm Breatnach - IPSC member recently returned from volunteering with the ISM in Hebron and Jenin.
Salah Afifi - IPSC member deported from the Occupied Territories in August.
Vincent O' Reilly: CEO of refugee Trust International, just returned from fact finding mission in the OT's (TBC)

Wednesday 25th September
2pm - Turas ar Ionad Chultúrtha Isolamach
(as Araibis agus Gaeilge)
Ionad Chultúrtha Ioslamach, 19 Bóthar Roebuck,
Cluain Sceach, BÁC 14.

8pm @ Wynn's Hotel, Abbey Street, Dublin 1
'Disputed Territories - Media Myth and Reality'
Dr Nazih El Din
Philip Boucher-Hayes - RTE Broadcaster
Niall Stanage - Editor of Magill Magazine
Michael McCaughan - Freelance Journalist

Thursday 26th September
8pm - The IFC Meeting Room, 6 Eustace Street, Temple Bar
"Tale of the Three Jewels"
Film by Palestinian director Michael Khalifi, 1995 Arabic with English subtitles. 107 mins.
"Yussef, a 12 year old Palestinian child of the first Intifada. Even though his life is constantly marked by violence he lives in his imagination, often escaping from the refugee camp to the countryside. One day as he is hunting for birds he becomes the hero of a modern day fairy tale."

Saturday 28th September
10.30-1pm Theatre Workshop - Interactive Arts
Activism from Palestine to Ireland (venue tbc)
With writer, performer, director and teacher Mojisola Adebayo
This session will provide a rare insight into powerful theatre for liberation / 'Theatre of the Oppressed' techniques used by Mojisola with groups in Palestine and all over the world. Participants will also have an opportunity to experience the work at first hand through games, exercises and images. There
will also be video clips shown featuring examples of theatre for change, development and empowerment in Palestine. This session will be open, fun and accessible to all.
Please call for more details and venue.

Sunday 29th September
8.pm @ IFC Meeting Room. 6 Eustace Street, Temple Bar
Documentary Film Night
"Frontier of hopes and dreams"
A documentary by Mai Masri. 2001. 55mins. Arabic with English subtitles
Mai Masri has been making films about the lives of Palestinian refugee children for over 20 years. This her most recent film travels from Shatila Camp in Beirut to Dhehisha camp in Bethlehem, It is the story of two Palestinian refugee girls and their extraordinary journey to the borders of exile separating them from their homeland and from each other.

"Eyewitness Bethlehem"
Talk and screening by Khaled Abu Agamia, cameraman and film-maker from Dheshia Refugee Camp near Bethlehem.
Khaled presents his own work that covering the last 6 months of the Intifada including the siege of the Church of the Nativity. Khaled has worked for Bethleham TV, Reuters, AP and the BBC.

*** From 20-29th September there will be an exhibition in the Central Library in the ILAC Centre on Palestinian History, Culture and Literature.