THAW Benefit for Al-Rowwad Children's Theater Group From Palestine

Kathleen Chalfant, Tony Kushner, Denis O'Hare, Danny Hoch, Malachy McCourt, Betty Shamieh, Andre Gregory, Anne Waldman, Kia Corthron, & Robert O'Hara invite you to

BEAUTIFUL RESISTANCE
A benefit evening in support of the Al-Rowwad Palestinian Children's Theater

Monday, June 13
7:30 pm
(Doors open at 7 pm)
The Culture Project
(45 Bleecker Street - between Lafayette and The Bowery)


Music Performances *** Readings *** Drinks *** Hors-d'oeuvres*** Silent Auction
$30 with reservation/$35 at the door!
Reserve by email at: [email protected] Reserve by phone at: 212 615 6964

This summer, 11 Palestinian children - five girls and six boys, aged 10 to 16 - will be coming to the US to perform in four American cities: New York City; East Norwich, Connecticut; Burlington, Vermont; and Louisville, Kentucky. [For more information about the tour dates in NYC, click on Performances Around Town on the left!] They are students of the Al-Rowwad Cultural and Theatre Training Center in the Aida Refugee Camp, outside Bethlehem in the West Bank, where they were born. The Al-Rowwad children will be led by the Center's founder and artistic director, Dr. AbdelFattah Abu-Srour who has tried to create a special place to give these refugee children an alternative to the violence that surrounds them. Central to curriculum at the Al-Rowwad Center is the idea that peace and hope must rule the children's lives, and that opposition to oppression must be creative non-violence, a "beautiful resistance", as Dr. Abu-Srour calls it.

Taking place courtesy of THAW Member Theater Nevada Shakespeare Company during a dark night of their run of A Single Woman, the benefit features an array of acclaimed playwrights, poets, theater performers and musicians, all in support of this extraordinary troupe of young people.

Scheduled Benefit performers include: Denis O'Hare, Henry Chalfant, Anne Waldman, Kia Corthron, Betty Shamieh, Juliana Francis, Matana Roberts, Alan Licht, Mahina Movement, Paul Brill, Nibras Theater's Maysoon Nayid and Najla Said, Adam Matta, Betsy Andrews, Brian Satz & Jose Joaquin Garcia and many many more……

Silent Auction items include gift certificates to performances at SoHo Rep; Artwork by Richard Foreman, Vanessa Roe, Heidi, Elbow Toe; Dinners for two at Cafe Florent, Aliseo, Read Cafe, Amorina; Sessions at the Pilates Garage and more!!!

Please help contribute to the funding of this wonderful tour by coming out to this special THAW benefit night!


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