Berkeley, CA: "Cultures of Resistance" Screening
The Middle East Children's Alliance & the Arab Film Festival present the Berkeley premiere of Bay Area filmmaker & activist Iara Lee's new feature film Cultures of Resistance: Thursday June 30 -- 7pm, Berkeley City College, 2050 Center Street. 1/2 block from downtown Berkeley BART. Parking available in lots across the street and down the block.
We expect this event to sell out, get your tickets NOW!
The film won Best Documentary at the Tiburon International Film Festival and is showing around the globe, from Portugal to China to Ethiopia. Journeying through five continents, it captures creative change-makers using art and activism to turn our upside-down world right-side-up, for peace with justice (including in Palestine and Lebanon). Their personal stories and strategies, told in many tongues, broaden our understanding of the geopolitical fault-lines behind modern day conflicts -- inspiring audiences to further engagement and action.
We will try to skype in Iara Lee via satellite from the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, for the Q & A afterwards!
Tickets $10 general, $8 students.
Benefit for clean water for children in Gaza. No one turned away for lack of funds. Wheelchair accessible. We regret that this film will not be ASL interpreted.
For info: 510-548-0542, events@mecaforpeace.org
Cosponsored by: Global Studies Department/Berkeley City College, Bay Area Labor Committee for Peace and Justice, US Palestinian Community Network, School of Unity & Liberation, Al-Awda, Jewish Voice for Peace, Bay Area Women in Black, Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC), Global Exchange, Students for Justice in Palestine - UC Berkeley, La Pena Cultural Center, Bay Area Video Coalition, International Jewish Solidarity Network, San Francisco Film Society and more!
