Hanin Cafe: Gaza Fundraising Event
| February 20, 2010 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 10:30 pm |
St Paul’s Church and Centre
Hills Road Cambridge CB2 1JP
FOOD - MUSIC - CRAFTS
Local musicians and some from further afield
Folk - Georgian - Arabic Song
Tickets £15/£10 concessions from
Janet - 01223 690157 0r 07751 600315
Mo - 07792 320416
Proceeds to Medical Aid for Palestinians and
al Beit al Samed (grassroots Gaza charity)
Talk: Dancing with the Enemy
| February 9, 2010 | ||
| 7:30 pm |
St Catherine’s College, Rushmore Room
Tuesday 9th February, 7.30pm
(Organised by CU Shirley Society)
Samir El-Youssef is a Palestinan writer and critic. Next week he comes to Cambridge to deliver a talk entitled: ‘Dancing with the Enemy: Fiction and the Palestine/Israel Political Landscape’
Samir was born in Rashidia, a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, where he lived until he was ten, before moving to Sidon.
His father father is a Sunni and his mother is from the only Shi’ite Palestinian family.
He writes in both Arabic and English. In 2004, he co-authored ‘Gaza Blues: Different Stories’ with Israeli author Etgar Keret. Since then he has written two novels in English: ‘The Illusion of Return’ (2007) and ‘A Treaty of Love’ (2008)
Vigil: Remember Gaza
| January 16, 2010 | ||
| 12:00 pm | to | 2:00 pm |
Market Square
Cambridge
Organised by Cambridge Stop the War
Gather at 12 noon with banners and placards
Speakers and petitioning to be followed by Vigil
Please join us for all or part of the time
Film: On the Verge
| January 10, 2010 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
The Cafe Project
22 Jesus Lane
A documentary film about the Brighton Smash EDO campaign.
Using activist, police and CCTV footage plus interviews with those involved in the campaign, On The Verge tells the story of one of the most persistent and imaginative campaigns to emerge out of the UK’s anti-war movement and direct action scene.
This is ahead of the Remember Gaza - Smash EDO march in Brighton on Monday 18th January,
For more details see http://www.smashedo.org.uk/remember-gaza.htm, transport will be going from Cambridge - email gandhi_hands@riseup.net
Cafe open from 7:30pm, film begins at 8pm, stay around for discussion afterwards.
Film: Occupation 101
| January 8, 2010 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
The Cafe Project
22 Jesus Lane
Cafe open from 7:30pm, film begins at 8pm, stay around for discussion afterwards
A documentary covering the history of the Israel Palestine conflict, and some of the day to day experiences of people there. Presents several sides of the story, including Israeli peace movements.
This week’s Discussion: Gaza and Occupation
We can explore some of the themes of the film, and look back at the events of last year, and the quite brutal incursion into Gaza over last Christmas/New Year. We can also look forward, at what we can do this month, and onwards in solidarity with those struggling for peace.
Film: Bethlehem Hidden from View
| December 16, 2009 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Wesley Methodist Church
Cambridge
A short film about Bethlehem from the Amos Trust followed by a discussion
Filmed during the June 2008 Amos Trust pilgrimage to the Holy Land by Tim Neeves, (co-produced by Mairie Neeves) it tells the story of what is happening to Bethlehem and its neighbour, Hebron, through the eyes of Palestinians and Israelis. The film is just under half an hour long and before the discussion there will be a brief perspective from someone with direct experience of Palestine.
Open Meeting: Clare College Choir visit to Israel
| December 2, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Latimer Room (Old Court)
Clare College (entrance next to Kings College Chapel Gate)
Organised by members of the University, students and academics
A meeting to discuss the opposition to the tour
The Clare College Choir has arranged to tour Israel at the end of December 2009. Many concerns and objections have been privately and increasingly publicly raised, both within and beyond Clare College and the University. This meeting will be a platform which allows concerned and dissenting voices to be heard and we have asked a range of speakers from within and outside the University to join us in discussing the reasons for concern and opposition, by offering their own personal perspectives, these include:
- Yazeed Said (Chaplain, Corpus Christi College)
- Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi (Teacher and activist with Jews for Boycotting Israeli Goods)
- Nancy Elan (Violinist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra)
We hope you will join us; whether to hear and better understand the reasons for concern and opposition to this tour, to support the choir’s stance, or to be part of and learn from the discussion.
ALL WELCOME
Carols and Prayers: Bethlehem and the Holy Land
| December 3, 2009 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
St Paul’s Church
Hills Road Cambridge CB2 1JP
http://www.centrestpauls.org.uk/
AS IF
Carols and Prayers for today’s Holy Land’
Refreshments and cake available afterwards
All welcome
Further details: janet.walker3@googlemail.com
Singer: Reem Kelani
| November 10, 2009 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
The Junction
Cambridge
Outstanding Palestinian singer, Reem Kelani blends Arabic and Palestinian music with jazz rhythms. She will be appearing with her band, singing songs from her first album, Sprinting Gazelle and featuring new songs from the Egyptian poet, Sayyed Darwish.
“…delicate, joyous, trancy, austere, boisterous and beautiful” Time Out
7pm for 7.30
£14, concessions £10
Talk: Journey Through Thorns
| November 3, 2009 | ||
| 7:30 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
Emmanuel United Reformed Church
Trumpington Street Cambridge
Organised by Cambridge PSC
Written and Presented by Mohamed Altawil, David Harrold and Sylvia Pepper
This presentation will take the form of a dramatised reading with video clips, slides and music. It is the story of Mohamed Altawil’s early life and aims to give some personal insights into what it has been like to be a Palestinian in Gaza, not just in recent months but over the past few decades.
Dr Mohamed Altawil came to the Univeristy of Herts on a Ford Foundation
Scholarship to do a PhD on the efects of Chronic Traumatic Experience
on Children of Gaza.
David Harrold is a member of Windows for Peace UK, which brings
together Palestinian and Israeli children. He is also a trustee of
the Palestine Trauma Centre. Theatre work includes performances in
West End and Edinburgh Festival, he formed Cadco Production to tour
regional theatres, schools and universities.
Sylvia Pepper is a signatory of Jews for Justice for Palestinians and
a member of PSC. Sylvia has been Artistic Director of Barn Theatre
in Welwyn Garden city and served on various theatrical awards panels.
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