[Peace-discuss] AWARE cosponsor a play giving voice to Iraqi refugees? "No Place Called Home", Kim Schultz, Fri Oct 14th
Brussel, Morton K
brussel at illinois.edu
Fri Sep 30 23:07:15 CDT 2011
It seems worthwhile…
--mkb
On Sep 28, 2011, at 6:13 PM, Stuart Levy wrote:
> Should AWARE co-sponsor this play, presented by CSAMES?
>
> No Place Called Home
> a play giving voice to Iraqi refugees
> written and performed by Kim Schultz
> Friday, Oct 14, 7pm
> UofI music building auditorium
>
>
> For AWARE to co-sponsor, all they ask is that we help publicize the event.
> I don't know anything about Ms. Schultz, but the subject seems very important
> and too-little discussed. In short, this looks good to me. Any opinions?
>
>
> There is a draft flyer, though they ask that we *not* broadcast/post that yet,
> since it includes the current list of co-sponsors which is liable to change
> (including adding AWARE if we say Yes).
>
>
> Here's the text of the flyer-to-be:
>
> NO PLACE CALLED HOME
> A play giving voice to Iraqi refugees
>
>
> Kim Schultz is the playwright and actress of No Place Called Home,
> a one- woman play based on the vignettes of Iraqi refugees living
> in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. In 2009, Schultz was part of a
> delegation of American artists who visited Iraqi refugee camps. The
> delegation met with hundreds of refugees at community centers and
> in their homes. Upon their return, the artists began creating a
> series of artistic pieces designed to humanize the crisis and give
> voice to the millions of refugees whose plight has yet to enter
> broad public consciousness. No Place Called Home is a result of
> this effort.
>
> WHEN Friday, Oct. 14, 7:00 pm
> WHERE Music Building Auditorium,
> 1114 W. Nevada St., Urbana
>
> This event is free and open to the public.
>
> Written and performed by Kim Schultz with music by Amikaeyla Gaston.
> Directed by Sarah Cameron Sunde
> Commissioned by Intersections International
>
> CO-SPONSORED BY Religion, School of Music, Cline Center for Democracy, Sociology, History, School of Literatures,
> Cultures and Linguistics; Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program, Program in Jewish Culture and Society, Theatre,
> Political Science, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
> University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
>
>
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