MECA & the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC)
Celebrate his new book: "Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine"
Remi Kanazi's poetry presents an unflinching look at the lives of Palestinians under occupation and as refugees scattered across the globe. He captures the Palestinian people's refusal to be erased, gives voice to the ongoing struggle for liberation, and explores the meaning of international solidarity.
His new book also examines racism in America, police brutality, US militarism at home & wars abroad, and Islamophobia.
MC: Sharif Zakout from AROC
"Kanazi's haunting poems are not written to be consumed. They reserve a place in one's conscience, in one's memory, and-hopefully-in one's praxis."
-Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the Boycott/Divestment/Sanctions movement
"Each verse made me sink deeper into my chair and helped unleash a cascade of relieving tears: in anger, in mourning, and in hope."
-Noura Erakat, George Mason University
Tickets: $15, $10 low-income - available soon!
12 midnight to 9pm, BerkeleyFellowship of Unitarian Universalists 1924 Cedar Street @ Bonita
First half: Solo Piano with Elizabeth Lin performing Debussy Suite Bergamasque
Second half: Divisa Ensemble performs Casterèdé Ombres et Clartes; Arthur Bliss Conversations
Performers include: Stephanie Ng, viola; with Tomiko Tsai, flute; Meave Cox, oboe; Eugenia Wie, violin; Sara Styles, cello.
Tickets not required
12 noon to 1pm, Hertz Concert Hall UC Campus
Stories from families of victims brutalized and
murdered by the police in the Bay Area
Gerald, facilitator of the Oscar Grant Committee, along with parents of police victims.
Moderator Gerald will help focus on questions like:
o How often have incidents of brutality occurred, and have they increased or decreased in the past few years?
o What can we in our communities do to stop this madness?
o What would a just outcome be like?
Sponsored by the Berkeley-East Bay Gray Panthers.
All welcome. Wheelchair Accessible.
CONTACTS
Edie Hallberg
[email protected]
510-367-1522.
Leeza Vingradov
[email protected],
510-845-6156
1:30pm to 2:30pm, North Berkeley Senior Center, 1901 Hearst
$20 adv / $22 door. 644-2020. www.thefreight.org
8pm, Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, United States
Thollem will play from his latest project, "Operation Sunbeam" which uses Modified Electric Pianos, Rhodes, Hammond Organ, and Analog Effects. Butoh dance artist Christina Braun perform a structured improvised dance to Thollem's music.
As a keyboardist Thollem performs and records both solo and in collaboration with many different musicians, dancers, filmmakers across the stylistic spectrum from agit rock to experimental rock/pop to blues to noise to ambient to drone and...His mainfocus at the moment is with Silver Ochre and preparing for a 7-month tour throughout the lower 48 states.
www.thollemelectric.com
Lifelong dancer Christina Braun's choreography with collaborating composers has been presented regularly since 2002. Her core teachers in the Butoh form are local treasures Hiroko and Koichi Tamano. As SF Butoh LAB and with BUTOH San Francisco, she has produced Butoh Dance symposia, performances, workshops, and festivals.
8pm to 10pm, 2133 University Ave.
$13. 525-5054. www.ashkenaz.com
8pm, Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center, 1317 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, CA, United States