[Peace-discuss] Flyers tonight at the Art Theatre

[Carl G. Estabrook]

This is the film for Tuesday, May 9.  What flyers should AWARE distribute?  —CGE
   
"THE ART THEATER CO-OP
Part of THE SEVENTH ART STAND, our film series against Islamophobia & the #MuslimBan
Post-show discussion led by Niloofar Shambayati, Cynthia Buckley, & Ghassan Moussawi.

"Two-time Sundance Film Festival award winner Sonita tells the inspiring story of Sonita Alizadeh, an 18-year-old Afghan refugee in Iran, who thinks of Michael Jackson and Rihanna as her spiritual parents and dreams of becoming a big-name rapper. For the time being, her only fans are the other teenage girls in a Tehran shelter. And her family has a very different future planned for her: as a bride she’s worth $9,000. Iranian director Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami (Going Up the Stairs) poignantly shifts from observer to participant altering expectations, as Sonita’s story unfolds in this personal and joyful portrait. An intimate portrait of creativity and womanhood, Sonita highlights the rarely seen intricacies and shifting contrasts of Iranian society through the lens of an artist who is defining the next generation. (2015, Iran, Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami, 90 min, NR, English subtitles).”
	

> On May 2, 2017, at 8:23 PM, Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Niloofar
> 
> Thank you for sending the two young men to help, we managed to distribute all of the flyers related to Egypt. After they left I finished up 15 of the ones I printed out in relation to “The US Illegally Making War in the Mideast” with a map, the map has Iran in the center. A good one that Carl created, and then I began passing out your flyers. This resulted in a really good conversation with a young man, of Syrian heritage, who was really grateful for what we are doing. 
> 
> Austin went by later and explained that everyone in the building had a flyer in their hand and he couldn’t be seen as being political, and that was the only reason he asked me to take everything outside. We had a nice conversation too. So the young woman who questioned me, not rudely or even negatively, may have just been curious. 
> 
> I think all went very well, and a lot of flyers were disseminated. 
> 
> I’m looking forward to next week.