Home > Rubriques > Languages - International > English > VOICES FOR BETHLEHEM
Palestine Solidarity Campaign
VOICES FOR BETHLEHEM
De nos amis anglais
Friday 24 November 2006
A PSC Christmas Concert
14 December 2006, 7:30pm
Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church
235, Shaftesbury Avenue
London
Performances by:
The London Finzi Consort, spectacular Choir performing music by Sheppard, Poulenc, Lauridsen and classical audience choral music.
Nizar Al-Issa; Acclaimed Palestinian singer, songwriter and Oud (Arabic lute) player. Accompanied on tabla by Kayed Hussein.
Rev. Garth Hewitt; Acclaimed folk and roots singer/songwriter, director of the Amos Trust and Canon of St George’s Cathedral in Jerusalem.
Organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
Tickets: £10/£7 (Conc.)
From the PSC:
By phone: 02077006192 or on the door on the night.
By cheque: Send to PSC, Box BM PSA, WC1N3XX, London
Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church: Nearest Underground Stations: Tottenham Court Road and Holborn. For location please visit: www.bloomsbury.org.uk
********************
********************
LSESU Palestine Society Presents:
Mafateeh (Keys)
Followed by a Q&A session with the Director Salim Daw
Thursday the 7th of December
6:30pm Room U8
A documentary about the uprooted Palestinians living in Israel today, living as refugees in their homeland.
For the uprooted, the key symbolizes the dream and the hope of returning to their villages, some of which were eradicated from the face of the earth, and some on which Jewish settlements were built. The uprooted hang on to the keys of their homes as a symbol. They hang the keys on the living room wall, around their necks, place them under their pillows. Others, who did not have time to take their keys with them, sustain them as a memory in their heart.
At LSE, Room U8, Tower One, London School of Economics
Houghton Street, London WC2, nearest Tube Holborn.
Organised by the LSESU Palestine Society in collaboration with the PSC.
***
Mafateeh (Keys)
A 60 min. documentary - 2006
The film “Keys” recounts the story of the “uprooted” population fighting and dreaming for many years of returning to their homes. People fluctuating between despair and hope, pain and longing, dreams and reality. For the uprooted, the key symbolizes the dream and the hope of returning to their villages, some of which were eradicated from the face of the earth, and some on which Jewish settlements were built. From some of the villages remain only the rubble of destroyed homes, abandoned cemeteries, prickly sabras cactus, almonds, figs, pomegranates, olive groves and orchards - a mere reminder of the full, vibrant life that was lived in these areas until the year 1948.
There are 300,000 uprooted living in Israel and still struggling to return to their homes. The uprooted hang on to the keys of their homes as a symbol. They hang the keys on the living room wall, around their necks, place them under their pillows. Others, who did not have time to take their keys with them, sustain them as a memory in their heart.
“Keys” is made up of a sequence of human stories that take place in demolished villages and the villages in which the main characters currently reside.
Director Salim Dow embarks on a journey to the Galilee, his personal memories confronted with past memories of the main characters, the difficulties they have contending with the present and their dream of returning in the future.
The renewed encounter that Dow creates for the uprooted with their lands and the rubble of their abandoned homes, ignites in them a powerful stir of emotions. Thus, the physical contact with the land, the fruit, the vegetation and nature conveys with great intensity their dream, their hope and their desire to return to their villages, to build them anew and live a harmonious, equal life beside their Jewish neighbors.
This is a review of the film when it was shown on the Chicago Palestine Film Festival
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0406/S00184.htm
Director of Mafateeh (Keys): Salim Dow
Graduate of the Beit Zvi School of Stage and Cinema Arts
Graduate of International Theatre School Jacques Lecoq, Paris, France
Actor of the Haifa Theatre, Cameri Theatre and more. Guest actor at theatres worldwide.
Cinema: main roles : “Avanti Popolo”, “The Flying Camel”, “World Cup”, “Swallows do not die in Jerusalem”, “The Shelter”, “James’ Travels in the Holy Land” and more.
********************
********************
LOBBY OF PARLIAMENT
WEDNESDAY 29TH NOVEMBER
House of Commons, London SW1
Please make an appointment with your MP NOW!
Stop Starving the Palestinians - Stop Arming Israel
Restore Aid to the Palestinian Authority
Release Palestinian Parliamentarians
Respect Palestinian Democracy
A BRIEFING PACK FOR THE LOBBY CAN NOW BE FOUND ONLINE: http://www.palestinecampaign.org/events.asp?d=y&id=1955
Called by:
Palestine Solidarity Campaign
CAABU
And organisations including:
Arab Media Watch
Jews For Justice For Palestinians
Pax Christi
Palestinian Return Centre
Friends of Al Aqsa
Amos Trust
Palestinian Forum in Britain
ICAHD UK
Friends of Lebanon
War on Want
Midlands Palestinian Community Association (MPCA)
Campaign Against the Arms Trade
British Muslim Initiative
RMT
PCS
UNISON
CWU
AMICUS
GMB
FBU
Jewish Socialists’ Group
Stop the War Coalition
Anglican Pacifist Fellowship
BRICUP
Come and meet us in the briefing room W4 from 3 to 6pm.
The lobby of Parliament will be followed by a meeting in Committee room 12, Westminster Palace at 7pm
With Dr Manuel Hassassian, Palestinian General Delegate to the UK, Jeff Halper ICAHD, Barry Camfield Asst. General Secretary TGWU, Phyllis Starkey MP, Richard Burden MP, Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari, Secretary General Muslim Council of Britain, Betty Hunter General Secretary PSC, Gerald Kaufman MP, Emily Thornberry MP, Jeremy Corbyn MP and Colin Breed MP.
Palestinians are facing a humanitarian catastrophe following the blockade imposed by the EU, US and Israel, suffering what the World Bank describes as an ’unprecedented economic depression’. Access to food, water and electricity is severely restricted in the Gaza Strip. Israel is assaulting basic democratic rights by imprisoning elected representatives of the Palestinian people, launching military assaults on the West Bank and Gaza which have killed over 260 Palestinians since June, and continuing to build the Apartheid Wall and settlements.
The lobby of Parliament is taking place on the UN’s international day for Palestine. We are calling urgently for everyone to contact their MP to tell the British government to work to end the blockade on the Palestinian people, act on the decision of the Inter-Parliamentary Union to release the Palestinian parliamentarians held by Israel, and to end its arms trade with Israel.
The purpose of the lobby is to meet your MP and explain to them why you feel that these issues must be addressed immediately, calling on them to take action.
Please come along, whether you have spoken to your MP before, or have never contacted them before. Showing there is strong support for Palestinian human rights makes a difference!
To lobby your MP:
Firstly, contact your MP as soon as possible and arrange a meeting with them on Wednesday 29 November. If you don’t know who your MP is, go to www.faxyourmp.com or phone 020 7219 3000. Briefly explain to your MP what you would like to speak to them about.
Secondly, please let us know when you have an appointment with your MP so we can co-ordinate with other people in the same constituency - phone 020 7700 6192 or email info@palestinecampaign.org
Even if you do not manage to contact your MP in advance, you can still try to meet them on the day - just come along to the lobby and ask for a ’green card’ which you then fill in to request that your MP meets you.
We will be able to brief you on how to lobby your MP on 29 November in the House of Commons.
Contact your MP today to make an appointment for the 29th November.
For more information please contact us:
Tel: 02077006192
Email: info@palestinecampaign.org
**************************
For more information on events, protests and news about Palestine in the UK please visit:
***********************************************
info@palestinecampaign.org
Tel: 020 7700 6192
