neworldtheatre presents...

Here and There:
Panel Discussion & Community Forum on My Name is Rachel Corrie
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. This Panel comes one week before My Name is Rachel Corrie opens in Vancouver.

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