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Vermonters
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Al
Rowwad Children's Theater Comes to Vermont!
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Join
us for an evening of children's theater and dance, and help support this extraordinary
example of working for peace. |
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About
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of Bethlehem's Al Rowwad Center present one of their plays. (Al Rowwad) |
Al-Rowwad Children's
Theater and Cultural Training Center is an independent organization dedicated
to serving the children of the Aida Refugee Camp in occupied Bethlehem. The Al
Rowwad center strives to provide a "safe" and healthy environment to
help children cope creatively with the stress of the war conditions in which they
are forced to live. The Center initiates children into the art of theatre and
drama, and trains them in acting and the preparation of plays that reflect their
situation and their rights and interests. Al Rowwad encourages the participation
of disabled children in its projects and promotes positive attitudes amongst their
peers in the community. Other
activities at the Al Rowwad Center include arts and crafts workshops (in collaboration
with local artists), animation-cartoon film-making workshops (in collaboration
with Theatre Day Productions), and English language courses (in collaboration
with Badil Center). Al Rowwad has developed a public library and computer center
for its children, as well as library and computer training activities. Al Rowwad
also provides of Medical assistance days for the people in the camp, in collaboration
with local organizations.
Al
Rowwad's 2005 Vermont Tour Schedule:
"We
Are The Children of the Camp"
Burlington,
June 30, 2005
Al
Rowwad Children's Theater and Cultural Training Center from the Aida refugee camp
in occupied Bethlehem, Burlington's sister city. Contois Auditorium, City Hall,
Church St, Burlington, VT Thursday, June 30 at 7:00 PM. Bring the family and join
us for an evening of children's theater and dance, and help support this extraordinary
example of working for peace.
"We
Are The Children of the Camp"
Montpelier,
July 1, 2005
Al
Rowwad Children's Theater and Cultural Training Center from the Aida refugee camp
in occupied Bethlehem, Burlington's sister city. Trinity Methodist Church, corner
of Main and School streets, Montpelier, VT Friday, July 1 at 6:00 PM.
"We
Are The Children of the Camp"
Glover,
July 3, 2005
Al
Rowwad Children's Theater and Cultural Training Center from the Aida refugee camp
in occupied Bethlehem, Burlington's sister city. Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover,
VT, Sunday, July 3.
Sponsored
by: Peace and Justice Center, Burlington-Bethlehem-Arad Sister City Project,
Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel, American Friends Service Committee
and the Unitarian Universalist Social Action Ministry. Our special thanks to VTJP
member Nancy Farrell, whose steadfast efforts and personal contributions made
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"We
Are The Children of the Camp"
NYC-Area
Performance Schedule  Self-expression
through peaceful means is a central theme in Al Rowwad's activities. (Al Rowwad)
Saturday,
June 18
Passaic Co. Technical Institute
45 Reinhardt Road, Wayne NJ
6PM / $15/$5 / 973.354.2521
nipac@optonline.net
Monday, June 20
Barrow Street Theatre
27 Barrow St., NYC
7:30PM / $25/$10 / 212.615.6964
alrowwadnyc@yahoo.com
Tuesday, June 21
Martin E. Segal Theater
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, NYC
7PM / $20/$10 / 212.615.6964
alrowwadnyc@yahoo.com
Wednesday, June 22
Al-Noor School
675 4th Ave. at 20th St., Brooklyn
7:30PM / $15/$5 / 212.615.6964
info@al-awdany.org
Friday, June 24
Housatonic Valley Regional High School
Warren Turnpike & Rt. 7, Town of Canaan (Falls Village), CT
Saturday, June 25
16th annual Grove Festival, Town Grove, Lakeville/Salisbury, CT
Click
for more info
Sponsors
in NY/NJ/CT, more detail on events and tickets:
http://www.pac-national.org/
http://www.al-awdany.org
http://www.al-awda.org/connecticut
http://www.newjerseysolidarity.org
http://thestruggle.org
for additional
details on the New York City Tour, see http://www.theater2k.com/
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About Aida
Refugee Camp
Aida Refugee Camp now accommodates about 6,000 people, who took refuge to it in
1948 and later in 1967 from 35 different villages in Palestine as the result of
the two Arab-Israeli wars. This camp, like the other 21 camps in West Bank and
the 8 camps in Gaza strip, as well as the other camps in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria,
was established with tents as an emergency and temporary camp. But they have been
transformed into permanent stages of refuge. Around
40% of Aida's population is children under the age of 18, with equal distribution
between males and females. The camp has two schools run by UNRWA, one for boys
and another for girls (till the end of preparatory classes- age 15). There is
also a youth center and a kindergarten run by the local community.
The camp is located at the
northern border of Bethlehem. Its main entrance is closed by cubes of cement,
placed by the Israeli Army at Rachel's Tomb (originally a mosque - Mosque of Bilal
Ibn Rabah - and converted into a synagogue in 1967), which composes a military
observation point next to the camp. The Gilo settlement, built mostly on the lands
of the Palestinian town of Beit Jala, which borders the camp on the north and
northwest, and the Rachel's tomb observation point at the eastern side, both constitute
serious threats to the people of the camp through frequent harassments, shooting
and shelling. more..
"We
Are the Children of the Camp": A Palestinian Song
By Amy Feigley - Fairoz Mustafa, Islam Online, July 6, 2003
Her eyes and the tattoo on her hands are Palestinian,
Her name, Palestinian,
Her dreams and sorrow, Palestinian,
Her kerchief, her feet and body, Palestinian,
Her words and her silence, Palestinian,
Her voice, Palestinian,
Her birth and her death, Palestinian.
Those verses of the great
Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish were the words Al- Rowwad Theatre Group used
as an introduction to all their performances in Cairo last week.
“We Are the Children
of the Camp” opened with playful gestures. The young actors and actresses
of the Palestinian Al-Rowwad Theatre Group entered the stage energetically greeting
and jesting with each other in a carefree pantomime.
The actors are life-long
residents of the Aida Refugee Camp in Bethlehem. Under the direction and guidance
of Dr. Abdel Fattah Abu Srour, the children of the camp put up a “beautiful
resistance” in the face of Israeli occupation.
“We Are the Children
of the Camp” juxtaposed video footage with live acting to give audiences
the opportunity to put a human face on the violence that often seems so far removed
from their realities. more..
More about
the Al Rowwad Center:
Al
Rowwad Center - http://alrowwad.virtualactivism.net/
Photos
- http://alrowwad.virtualactivism.net/gallery.htm
Latest news, US
tour - http://alrowwad.blogspot.com/
New York City Tour -
http://www.theater2k.com/
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