Join us for a night of solidarity through music to raise aw areness about Israel'\;s ongoing crimes against Gaza and the people of Palestine. The featured musical acts are:
\; \; Son o
f Nun
\; \; Sabreena Da Witch
\; \; Ryan Har vey
\; \; Koma Agir
Open mic for you to share your th
oughts and words. The evening will be MC'\;d by Dave Zirin. There is a
requested $10 donation at the door...if you can\, please donate more! We a
re collecting funds at this event to contribute to the emergency relief ef
forts in Gaza.
Bread and Puppet return to Baltimore\, this time \;with Dirt Cheap Opera! \; The story of the gangster Mac the Knife and his brand new wife Polly consists of fragments stolen from the famous Brecht/W eill\, "\;Three Penny Opera"\;\, newly mixed and freshly re-baked to suit the taste of the citizens of our divine republic which is reigned over by the Gods of Love\, Money\, Justice\, and Revenge. Even in this tru ncated form\, the opera presents nothing but eternal truths\; truths which are as cheap as the cardboard from which the Gods as well as the main cha racters of the play are made\, and as bright as the bright paint that pain ted them. \; The opera is one hour short and is dirt-cheap ($5 - 10 sl iding scale!) \;and not suited for children or other innocent bystande rs.
DTEND:20090108T220000 DTSTART:20090108T200000 SUMMARY:Bread and Puppet Theater presents: Dirt Cheap Opera! UID:redemmas.org/event/1366 URL:http://redemmas.org/event/1366 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Tovio was born into an Athapascan Indian village in Alaska\, r aised partially in rural Kenya\, in an 8 story commune in Chicago\, at a n ew age retreat center in BFE Michigan\, and in a poisonous factory town cl ose to Flint\, Michigan. He has dropped out of college numerous times and has traveled extensively around the world playing shows\, performing in ci rcuses and busking. He writes songs about the fallacy of the American Drea m\, sea life\, dinosaurs and other important topics.Iraqi-born artist Wafaa Bilal has been behind some of the m ost amazing critical artistic practice addressing the US invasion and occu pation of Iraq. \; When his brother was killed at a U.S. checkpoint in 2005\, he responded with "\;Domestic Tension\,"\; an unsettling i nteractive performance piece: for one month\, Bilal lived alone in a priso n cell-sized room in the line of fire of a remote-controlled paintball gun and a camera that connected him to internet viewers around the world. Vis itors to the gallery and a virtual audience that grew by the thousands cou ld shoot at him 24 hours a day. \; Bilal'\;s experiences with this exhibit and the theory behind it are chronicled in his new book on City Li ghts\, \; Shoot an Iraqi: Art\, Life and Resistance Under the Gun.
Bilal'\;s subsequent work\, "\;Virtual Jihadi"\;\, generated even more acclaim and controversy: remaking an Al-Qaeda remake called "\;Night of Bush Capturing"\; of an America n video training game\, "\;Quest for Saddam"\; to express his own perspective on the war and occupation\, Bilal'\;s exhibit was censored twice in Troy\, NY. \; Besides a reading from Shoot an Iraqi and a Q&\;A with Bilal\, we'\;ll be screening "\;Art is Not Terr orism\,"\; a short documentary about the "\;Virtual Jihadi"\; censorship story. \;
The event is free\, donations welcome.
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DTEND:20090123T210000 DTSTART:20090123T190000 SUMMARY:Wafaa Bilaal presents SHOOT AN IRAQI Art\, Life and Resistance Under the Gun UID:redemmas.org/event/1314 URL:http://redemmas.org/event/1314 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR