Alwan for the Arts Presents

Benefit for

The Us-Palestine Youth Solidarity Network

Friday, April 20, 2007, 8:00 PM $5-20 donation at the door

Join PEP (The Palestine/Israel Education Project) and We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon for an evening of digital media, live poetry and music, food and drink...

*Palestinian youth digital stories screening *Poetry readings from We Begin Here- Kathy Engel, co-editor, Nathalie Handal, Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz *Spoken word performance by Remi Kanazi, editor of Poets for Palestine hip hop performance by Invincible *Live auction of digital story DVDs and copies of We Begin Here

In January 2007, US-based facilitators and youth educators joined an intergenerational team of Palestinian youth organizers and completed a six-day digital storytelling workshop with two youth centers based in refugee camps in the West Bank. (For more info: www.youthsolidarity.net

We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon contains poems written in response to the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon together with new ones from the 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon. (www.interlinkbooks.com)

This event is hosted by PEP (The Palestine/Israel Education Project). Learn more about us from our website: www.thinkpep.net

Last updated: 2007-09-12 08:01:40