Wednesday, April 2 at 6 p.m. The Fresno Center for Nonviolence will hold its monthly Board meeting. For more information call the Center at 559-237-3223 Mon-Fri 11-3.
Wednesday, April 9, 3 – 3:30 p.m.on KFCF 88.1The Center for Nonviolence monthly radio show will be hosted by Richard Stone. Guest to be announced later. For more information call 559-237-3223 Mon-Fri 11-3.This is a call-in show at 559-266-8888.
Wednesday, April 9 at 12 noon and at 7 p.m. (Potluck at 6:30) at the Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N. Van Ness Ave(SE Corner McKinley and Van Ness) Our 2nd Wednesday video will be “Al Helm: Martin Luther King in Palestine. “The glorious strains of gospel music wash over the West Bank in Connie Field’s potent film.”(Vancouver International Film Festival). An African American gospel choir is the Greek chorus for a Palestinian play on Martin Luther King which tours the West Bank preaching nonviolence. The choir is apprehensive about working with Palestinians whose American media image is that of angry, violent terrorist. For the Palestinians actors, Americans are unconditional supporters of their occupiers. It is a personal and cultural exchange where, over the course of the journey, their ideas about each other are radically transformed. Happy to finally visit the Holy Land, the choir witnesses life in the occupied territories, perform in a unique theater inside a refugee camp run by Juliano Mer-Khamis using art as an alternative to violence, and meet Fadi Quran, a young leader of a nonviolent movement for justice. At the end of their tour reality will astonishingly mirror the play on MLK, a man who died for his beliefs. On the very day of the anniversary of MLK’s murder, Juliano Mer-Khamis is assassinated, sending shock-waves throughout the country and the world. The very next day is the final night of the play where the actors perform in the shadow of his death, articulating their lines with a new and heartrending immediacy. As the choir leaves, King’s legacy lives on, as Fadi Quran and other young Palestinians board ‘settler only’ buses in an act of civil disobedience. Video is 93 minutes long. See our trailer/promo at: www.clarityfilms.org/mlk
Free and open to the public. Wheelchair accessible.
