[Peace] No Place Called Home-(Iraqi refugees) Oct. 14, 2011 / 7pm / Music Building

[Karen Medina]

"No Place Called Home" [stories from talking to Iraqi refugees] -- a
one-woman play AND a panel discussion

7:00 pm on Friday, Oct. 14 in the Music Building Auditorium, located
at 1114 W. Nevada St, Urbana.

“No Place Called Home.”  This is a one-woman play, written and
performed by Kim Schultz.  In 2009, Kim Schultz was part of a
delegation of American artists who 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.   She has just started going on tour with the play
this fall.  You can read more about it
here:http://www.omarwashisname.blogspot.com/

 The performance will be at 7:00 pm on Friday, Oct. 14 in the Music
Building Auditorium, located at 1114 W. Nevada St, Urbana, and will be
followed by a discussion with Kim, Raad Ismail, and hopefully a staff
person from the East Central Illinois refugee assistance program.
After the performance, each panel member will give a brief comment
about their reaction after seeing the play, and how that relates to
their own knowledge of the refugee crisis.  Then we will basically
open it up to the audience for discussion.

Free and open to the public
Sponsor CSAMES; 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

For more information, you can contact Angela Williams, Associate
Director for the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
aswillms at illinois.edu
www.csames.illinois.edu
--
"How can one person summarize so much pain, pride trauma, love and
suffering like an Iraqi refugee while she is, in fact, not an Iraqi
refugee herself? As a refugee myself, I gave up to the fact, that no
one can hold the complexity of the crisis, it's so complicated and
different. Yet I was wrong. In this event, I was captured from the
first word until the end. It was brilliant."
Ibrahim, Iraqi refugee

While traveling to Jordan, Lebanon and Syria to interview Iraqi
refugees and hear their stories, Kim never expected to fall in love.
She did. This is that story.

“Over the course of Ms. Schultz's performance, the Iraqi refugee
population of New York City increased virtually by something like 10%,
as she brought stories of urban refugee life into the spare rehearsal
room...Ms. Schultz transformed herself...”
The New York Times

"Under Sarah Cameron Sunde's perceptive direction, Schultz gains our
sympathies for a people who many people automatically suspect are our
enemies. That alone is no small achievement."
The Star Ledger

“A surprising love affair...”
Huffington Post

“...within just a few minutes of this one-woman show, written and
performed by Kim Schultz-I was genuinely hooked.”
Diplomancyandpower.com
--
7/19/11
Just back from 4 shows in Minneapolis at the Illusion Theater. How
great to bring the stories of Iraqi refugees to audiences in
Minnesota, a place thousands of refugees call home. We brought the
stories to over 200 audience members and filled out hundreds of
advocacy postcards as part of the "Postcards to the President"
campaign. Now is the time more than ever, after the incidents in
Bowling Green have caused legislators to govern with fear and
ignorance, holding up the visa process for thousands of Iraqis who
worked for US forces. Now is the time to match that with humanization
of Iraqis through personal stories, which is what I hope this play
does. Special thanks to Illusion Theater, and Center for Victims of
Torture and Iraqi American Reconciliation Project for participating in
the talk backs after each show.
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