Monday Night — 05.17.04 — Until When – special Guest — Sana Salameh
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Sunday Barbeque — 05-16-04 + 05-23-04 — noRNC Meeting – Majority Whipped
Contents:
1. About this Monday Night
2. About the Documentary”Until When”
3. About Sana Salameh
4. Submissions Call for Majority Whipped – noRNC
5. noRNC Meeting, Barbeque ++ Sundays, 05-16-04 + 05-23-04
6. What is Majority Whipped?
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1. About this Monday Night
When: 6:30, Monday May 17, 2004
Where: 16 Beaver, 4th floor
What: Documentary “ Until When “
Who: All are invited
We are happy to join forces with our neighbors at Alwan who planned this event.
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2. About the Documentary ”Until When”
falafel daddy productions invites you to a film screening of
UNTIL WHEN
Monday, May 17, 6:30 PM
followed by a Q&A with filmmakers and SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCE BY
SANA SALAMEH (film participant)
Directed by Dahna Abourahme
Produced by Annemarie Jacir & Suzy Salamy
Original music by Kamran Rastegar & Zafer Tawil
Set during the current Intifada, this documentary follows four Palestinian families living in Dheisheh Refugee Camp near Bethlehem. Fadi is thirteen and cares for his four younger brothers, the Hammash family pass on the lessons of life with humor and passion, Sana is a single woman who endures long commutes to do community work, and Emad and Hanan are a young couple trying to shield their daughter from the harsh realities of the occupation. They talk about their past and discuss the future with humor, sorrow, frustration and hope. “until when…” paints an intimate in-depth portrait of Palestinian lives today.
(Documentary, 76 min., Palestine/USA 2004)
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3. About Sana Salameh
SANA SALAMEH was very active during the 1st Intifada as part of the leftist group the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine). During the shooting of this film, she worked at the Women’s Center for Legal Aid and Counseling. She currently works at the Palestine Center for Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation in Bethlehem.
For more information, info@falafeldaddy.org http://www.falafeldaddy.org
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4. Submissions Call for Majority Whipped – noRNC
Submissions Call for Majority Whipped
Republican National Convention, August 2004
Feel free to forward to specific individuals, artists, and creative
collectives. There’s limited space, and we want to be sure that this isn’t
exclusively the usual suspects. Hope you can come, and even if you don’t
consider yourself an artist, read this through.there’s room (and a need)
for you to contribute. Also, Sunday we’ll be making art, mounting visuals
on foam core, sewing fabric (3 machines available!), screening videos,
painting a banner, and eating BBQ. It’s likely that we might also listen
to music. Inside the gallery and outside on the sidewalk. Stop by!! And
bring your artwork! (see #5 for details)
This is a call out to the artists of New York City and beyond: The moment
has come to present the full force of creative resistance. On the 26th of
May artists from far and wide will be converging on White Box Gallery to
display a picture of dissent that will be visible around the world.
This is your invitation to help make it happen.
Have you been working on a project that you want to present as a message
of resistance to the upcoming Republican National Convention?
The press has been waiting like wild horses at the gate to meet those who
will frame New York’s rejection of the Republicans in a positive and
meaningful way, and they’ve been invited to come and meet the artists
engaged in doing so. This convergence is designed to spread our message
and our vision.
We need your signs, banners, soapbox speeches, hats, flags, light-up
clothing, flash projections, music, invisible performance. Any and all
artwork that can be carried or worn or personified will be on display.
This is a show of artworks that move and flow from the inside of the
gallery to the outside; to the streets. A road that animates the people
and the place of New York and will pave the story of what a critical
response to the RNC will look like. “Majority Whipped” envisions the next
degree of political art show: the gallery walls turned inside out, the
whole city a gallery of creative resistance.
If you’ve got a project that is portable and can represent a picture of
resistance to the RNC you’ve got to come along. A poster perhaps that
you’ve been working on? Make it a sign and bring it. A performance that
can fit the theater of the street? This is the place to have it shown. A
bumper sticker or logo? Stick it or sew it onto your clothes and wear it.
The world is waiting on New York to make the RNC an event to
remember and this party marks the kick off for making that reality.
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5. noRNC Meeting Barbeque ++ Sunday, 05-16-04 + 05-23-04
Jason suggested we send this on our list.
This event is organized by The Change You Want To See Space. And is related to #4 above:
Submissions Call for Majority Whipped
Republican National Convention, August 2004
For the next two weekends at The Change You Want To See: Gallery and
Convergence Space in Williamsburg, noRNC arts in action is going to be
hosting an art production clearinghouse for groups and individuals who
want to be involved. Bring your materials, your ideas, and your
enthusiasm. It’s happening all day (11am-7pm) on Sunday the 16th and the
23rd. Barbeque and video screenings included.
The Change You Want To See: Gallery and Convergence Space – 84 Havemeyer
St, at Metropolitan
L train to Bedford Ave, walk south, left onto Metropolitan. Havemeyer is
4 blocks down on the right.
G train to Metropolitan, walk west toward the water, Havemeyer is a few
blocks down on the left.
Email: info@thechangeyouwanttosee.org, Phone: 917-202-5479
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6. What is Majority Whipped?
Majority Whipped
Republican National Convention, August 2004
Where Agitators and Culture-Shapers Converge.
A Political Art Show and Cocktail Party
White Box Gallery, 525 W. 26th St
Wednesday, May 26th, 2004
6:00-8:30pm
agitator: (n.) the center post in a washing machine that gets the dirt out
culture-shaper: (n.) an artist, performer, writer, dreamer, New Yorker, you
The Republicans are coming. You know them. They’re the friendly folks
who brought us Iraq Wars I and II, an Orwellian security state, the
undercutting of social services. George has decided to throw his party in
our fair city and he’s expecting to walk in here with his bunting and
military coterie, and traipse around on our holy ground of freedom of
expression. Well W, you’re not in Texas anymore! New York artists and
activists are firing off their first salvo in the coming publicity war–we
are preparing to meet the Republicans with full creative force. Corralling
our energy into a “free speech zone” just will not be
possible. The spirit of resistance runs too deep to ignore. Like whipped
cream from a can we will spray our brand of political fun all over their
political road show.
Artistic resistance has historically played a critical role in decisive
moments such as these. In this spirit we gather to celebrate and
disseminate with a happy hour for hell-raisers. As artists our mission is
not to simply regurgitate the over-represented picture- perfect postcard
of New York, but to personify the grinding engine that puts our city at
the center of the world stage.creativity, ingenuity, grit, social
conscience. Moving beyond the trite and traditional modalities of
fist-shaking “us and them,” creative resisters can paint a more
compelling picture of what a political party in New York looks like.
On Wednesday, May 26th, artists and creative activists will join forces
with signs, banners, soapbox speechifying, hats, flags, light-up
clothing, flash projections, apple pie, music, invisible performance. Over
drinks, we’ll meet each other and we’ll meet the press, and we will pave
the road for a summer of political dialogue. When we take to the streets
in anticipation of the Republican Convention, we do so as actors with a
noble lineage–that of people of conscience who stood up and made change.
The party/press event will be hosted at White Box Gallery, where
“Majority Whip”, a political art show, is currently on view. Designed to
represent the interior of the Senate Chamber, the show includes the work
of more than 40 political artists from around the country.
“Majority Whipped” envisions the next degree of political art show: the
gallery walls turned inside out, the whole city a gallery of creative
resistance.