**FILM SCREENING: "Beloved Freedom"
**THURSDAY 6/11 @ 7:00 PM
Bassam and his friends have secretly fled Gaza to look for work in Ramallah in the West Bank. But in occupied Ramallah, they must hide in the small clothing factory which employs them, sheltered from Israeli patrols which roam the city during curfew. Two years ago, they have installed their mattresses among the machines, while awaiting the day the siege of Ramallah is lifted.
(Dir. Fabrice Losego, documentary, Arabic - English subtitles, 33 min, 2002)

**ART FILM SCREENING: "Monet: Legacy of Light"
**TUESDAY 11/11 @ 7:00 PM
Light and color flood the canvasses of Claude Monet with beauty beyond compare. Graceful images of his home at Giverney, the seasonal, timeless charm of the rustic haystack, and the loveliest of scenes –luminous waterlilies in a pond- endure as Monet's legacy to the world of art. This film brings to you Monet's story as an artist and giant of the Impressionist movement using his own words with excerpts from journals, personal interviews and, of course, his magnificent paintings.
(Nar. Kathryn Walker, documentary, English, 28 min, 1989)

**TRIO EXHIBIT: Maha Al Dayyeh, Mohammed Dabbous & Mohammed Musallam
**SATURDAY 15/11 @ 7:00 PM
This group of young Gazan artists will exhibit a number of paintings executed in Acrylics & Oil colors, and they deal with a variety of topics such as nature and the sea, all in impressionist & abstract colors and styles. Those three young artists have participated in several group exhibits. And now the Centre has offered them the chance to present their work in Ramallah through this group exhibit, in an attempt to distinguish young talented artists and preserve the connection with other Palestinian cities.
**The Exhibit is open daily from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM until the 28/11.

**DISCUSSION OF TRIO EXHIBIT
**THURSDAY 20/11 @ 7:00 PM
The Sakakini Centre attempts through this discussion to elevate and enrich the visual artistic critical movement in Palestine, by incorporating various ideas from the young generation of artists and the veterans in the Palestinian art movement. We aim to create a tradition from this activity, where every monthly art exhibit will be followed by a critical debate. The discussants will be the two artists Samir Salameh & Hussni Radwan.

**FILM SCREENING: "Bowling for Columbine"
**THURSDAY 22/11 @ 7:00 PM
"Bowling for Columbine" is an alternately humorous and horrifying film about the United States. It is a film about the state of the Union, about the violent soul of America. Why do 11,000 people die in America each year at the hands of gun violence? The talking heads yelling from every TV camera blame everything from Satan to video games. Is the USA that much different from many other countries? What sets it apart? How has it become both the master and victim of such enormous amounts of violence?
"Bowling for Columbine" was the first documentary film accepted into competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 46 years. The Cannes jury unanimously awarded it the 55th Anniversary Prize, in addition to its being awarded the Oscar for Best documentary, 2002.
(Dir. Michael Moore, documentary, English, 125 min, 2002)
**In cooperation with The International Center of Bethlehem (Dar Annadwa Addawliyya)

**OPEN DAY FOR CHILDREN
**FRIDAY 28/11 from 11:00 AM till 2:00 PM
The Sakakini will host this open day for the children during the Eid and will provide a multitude of various artistic & entertaining activities, such as face painting, writing workshop, clay work, a clown show and many more!
**Please reserve in advance- limited for only 150 children

**LAUNCH OF CALENDAR: "Palestinian Natural Heritage"
**SATURDAY 29/11 @ 7:00 PM
Palestine is a land of wild flowers, dotting its rolling hills and plains. The beauty of Palestinian flowers has been celebrated in various homegrown arts and crafts. This has motivated the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre to immediately adopt Lois Nakhleh’s and Joan Musgrave’s beautiful efforts of documenting Palestinian flowers in the form of botanical paintings, as part of our work to celebrate Palestinian cultural identity, and to increase appreciation for the visual arts. We have managed to create a calendar out of 12 of those beautiful botanical paintings of Palestinian wild flowers, with an accompanying text to each flower. Hopefully, this calendar will also serve as a window to a population which is isolated and besieged, and therefore, deprived from access to the beauty of the Palestinian countryside, and to its most precious feature, its wildflowers. These fragile and beautiful wildflowers, stubbornly re-flowering every year in hostile conditions, symbolize a whole people’s steadfastness.
**The Calendar Project is funded by the Heinrich Boell Foundation.
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**EXHIBIT: "Botanical Paintings" by Artists Lois Nakhleh & Joan Musgrave
**SATURDAY 29/11 @ 8:00 PM
Botanical illustration is one of the oldest watercolor genres and it describes in the clearest way, the structure of plants, their patterns of growth, colors and textures, and aspects of their life cycles. It presents combined views of the plant at different seasons with beauty and precision. Botanical illustration has remained one of the principal methods by which plants have been presented in scientific references. Currently, it is collected specifically for its art form.
The method is to produce self-effacing artwork that transparently communicates information. The art lies in the balance between artistic and technical values. Like botanical illustrators through the ages, Lois Nakhleh and Joan Musgrave bring to their work a love of nature, an interest in sciences, training in the arts, as well as skill and patience. They will be exhibiting the twelve botanical paintings used for the calendar, in addition to other samples of their work.
**The activity will be followed by a reception & sale of the calendar.