Beginning Acting Workshop

Intro to Acting Workshop 
By Golden Thread Productions

Beginning Acting Workshop
with Torange Yaghiazarian, founder and Artistic Director of Golden Thread Productions

When:  Sundays, 3-5pm June 9 – July 28
Where: La Pena Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley

The “Introduction to Acting” workshop will introduce participants to improvisation, scene study and solo performance using plays by Middle-Eastern and Middle Eastern American playwrights as well as Middle Eastern performance traditions.…

Berkeley, CA: “Tears of Gaza” film screening and discussion

Berkeley, CA: “Tears of Gaza” film screening and discussion

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February 28, 2013

“Perhaps the ultimate anti-war film. A compelling film about war.”
–Kirk Honeycutt, The Hollywood Reporter
Winner: Human Rights Award – Al Jazeera International Documentary Festival
 
Disturbing, powerful and emotionally devastating, Tears of Gaza is less a conventional documentary than a shocking record: of the 2008-2009 3-week bombing of Gaza by the Israeli military (backed by the U.S., using US-made weapons).…

Upsurge in repression challenges nonviolent resistance in Western Sahara

Aminatou Haidar and Sahrawi activists
Written by Stephen Zunes, on www.OpenDemocracy.net

On November 8, Moroccan occupation forces attacked a tent city of as many as 12,000 Western Saharans just outside of Al Aioun, in the culminating act of a months-long protest of discrimination against the indigenous Sahrawi population and worsening economic conditions.  …