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January 2016
Kultar’s Mime: Dramatic Presentation
Kultar’s Mime, set in New York City, follows a collective of young Jewish artists influenced by Hebrew poet Haim Nahman Bialik’s “In The City of Slaughter,” describing the 1903 Kishinev pogrom. As the play progresses, they turn their focus on the anti-Sikh pogrom of 1984 in Delhi, using words from Sarbpreet Singh’s “Kultar’s Mime” to remind us that in the end, all innocent victims are the same, regardless of which God they worship or what tongue they speak. The play…
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Veils
Set in the weeks just prior to the Egyptian revolution known as Arab Spring, VEILS follows Intisar, an African-American Muslim student, who enrolls for a year abroad at the American Egyptian University in Cairo, thinking she will finally feel like she belongs. Her new Egyptian roommate, Samar, has different views – particularly about the practice of veiling – and yearns to have greater freedom of expression as a journalist. As the political and personal turmoils build, the two young women…
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April 2019
Children’s Festival, 04/27/2019, 10am-6pm, Pacifica Institute
For more Info : http://www.childrensfest.org/ RSVP Required. FREE Admission The Pacifica Institute brings together diverse faith communities to build bridges of understanding and respect. We stand together with humility to acknowledge our common values, learn from one another and serve our wider world.
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