[Peace] Jim Loewen and From Tel Aviv to Ramallah residency next week!

[Laura Haber]

We have a week packed with great events: Jim Loewen's book release and talk on Monday and 3 days of workshops and performances with Yuri Lane, Rachel Havrelock, and Sharif Ezzat! See below for details and feel free to forward widely:
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Unit One/Allen Hall, The Martin Luther King Commemorative Committee, The Office of the Chancellor, and the Office of the Provost present: 

"Sundown Towns - All-White Communities Across Illinois and the Nation"

Book premiere, talk, and book signing by James Loewen, author of Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of Segregation in America and the best-selling Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your High School History Textbook Got Wrong

Monday, Sept 19
7pm 
Main Lounge of Allen Hall
1005 W. Gregory, U
Free and open to the public
www.housing.uiuc.edu/living/unit1 for more info or call 244-2317

James Loewen wrote the best-selling Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your High School History Textbook Got Wrong, in part a critique of existing textbooks, but also an account of American history as it should be taught. He taught race relations for 20 years at the University of Vermont and previously taught at Tougaloo College in Mississippi. He now lives in Washington, D.C., continuing his research on how Americans remember their past. *******************************************************************************************************
Sharif Ezzat, Rachel Havrelock, and Yuri Lane are going to be Guests-in-Residence at Unit One/Allen Hall 9/19-9/21. 

They are doing presentations, workshops, and discussions each night, culminating in a performance of their groundbreaking work: From Tel Aviv to Ramallah: A Beatbox Journey. This performance by actor and human beatbox Yuri Lane brings to life fifteen characters - each materializing as a three-dimensional person with an individual soundtrack over the course of one hour. This spellbinding hip hop theater piece written and directed by Rachel Havrelock also features live sets generated by video artist Sharif Ezzat whose shifting visual projections are timed according to Lane's hypnotic beats. All programs are open to the public and take place in Allen Hall, 1005 W. Gregory, U.

Schedule:

Monday, Sept 19
9pm - Opening Program Showcase: The Art and Theater of Yuri, Rachel and Sharif 
south rec room of Allen Hall

Tuesday, Sept 20
7pm - concurrent workshops
Multimedia Workshop with Sharif in the Allen computer lab
Hip Hop Theater Workshop with Yuri in the South Rec Room
Playwriting Workshop with Rachel in room 65

9pm - Bringing Jews and Muslims Together Through Art
South Rec Room of Allen Hall

Wednesday, Sept 21
7pm - From Tel Aviv to Ramallah: A Beatbox Journey

Following the Performance, there will be a Question-and-Answer Session with Yuri Lane and Sharif Ezzat
Moderator: David McDonald (Music, UIUC)
Main Lounge of Allen Hall

9pm - Open Mic - hosted by Yuri Lane and UC Hip Hop
Main Lounge of Allen Hall
Sharif Ezzat is an Egyptian-American multimedia artist based in San Francisco. He has produced several collaborative projects through his involvement with the international arts group Renaissance 2001, activist design group ActionPixel, and community arts center CELLspace, and continues to collaborate on digital video, installation, music, poetry, and performance art projects. Ezzat maintains an evolving multimedia project at www.youwerehere.com.


Rachel Havrelock is Assistant Professor of Jewish and Diaspora Studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She is the co-author of Women on the Biblical Road: Ruth, Naomi and the Female Journey (1996) and the author of academic articles and contemporary fiction based on the Hebrew Bible. The script of From Tel Aviv to Ramallah reflects the years she lived in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Ramallah.


Yuri Lane grew up in San Francisco where he began his acting career at age twelve. His television credits include Nash Bridges (1997-2000), Party of Five (1998), Mix It UP (2003) and PBS' Independent Lens (2004). Film appearances include Playing Mona Lisa (1999) and Farmer and Chase (1997). Lane is a human beatbox with the ability to generate the sounds of a band, dj, or city street wth his lips alone. His first solo show, Soundtrack City ran in San Francisco and New York in 2002, and in New Jersey in 2003. It is currently on show at the Viaduct Theater in Chicago. His beatbox play, From Tel Aviv to Ramallah, was inspired by travels in Israel and the West Bank in 1998 and 2000.


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