**FILM SCREENING: "Grapes & Figs are in Season: A Palestinian Women's Story" Stand-up comedian Emily Mansur Shihadeh
**THURSDAY 4/3 @ 7:00 PM
"She laughs and cries and the audience laughs and cries with her." - Nabella Shunnarah, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
Emily Shihadeh’s Grapes & Figs Are in Season is a nostalgic dream of tattered memories woven together by her unique blend of humor, storytelling, and song. Using her gift for intimate conversation with an audience, Emily paints a vivid picture of her youth in the village of Ramallah, which is now a part of the occupied West Bank. It is a story told with love and laughter, despite the loss of family and homeland
(Dir. Victoria Rue, Documentary, English Language, 67 minutes, 1999)
-To be followed by a discussion with the artist

**Poetry Reading: “Vision of a Square: POETRY & PHOTOGRAPHY" by artist Aurore Reinicke
** SATURDAY 6/3 @ 6:00 PM
Artist Aurore Reinicke will read poetry in French, written by herself, based on the last exhibit "Vision of a Square: POETRY & PHOTOGRAPHY", which was shown at the Centre in February, as a culmination to this exhibit. The poems will also be presented in Arabic.

**Lecture: "Political Posters from Central & Eastern Europe" by Writer Daoud Sarhandi & Professor Dana Bartelt
**MONDAY 8/3 @ 7:00 PM
Daoud Sarhandi started collecting political posters and visual propaganda in 1997, 2 years after the Bosnian war ended. Many of these images were published as a book entitled "Evil Doesn't Live Here" in 2002 in New York & London. Together, these images provide a unique view of the worst conflict in recent European history.
Art as Activist is a collection of political posters created by artists from Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Russia, Latvia, and other Central European countries for the revolutions which toppled totalitarianism in 1989-91. When the media was controlled by the communist regimes, one means was left to reach the people were posters created by artists, designers and everyday people.
Lecture in English with Power point presentation

**EXHIBIT: "The 3rd Annual WALL ZONE SALE" by Artist KHALIL RABAH
**SATURDAY 13/3 @ 6:00 PM
The Wall Zone Sale Auction is an operational concept conceived by THE PALESTINIAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY & HUMANKIND in order to seek support for alternative contemporary projects that promotes the dematerialization of the art object, engaging in conceptual, information and idea art, and the aesthetic territories of minimal, anti-form, systems, process and earth art.
Human Beings are connected –to each other, to communities, to other species, and to Earth. As humans increasingly influence natural systems, it is critical that we understand these relationships. This understanding, in the context of contemporary events, the history of the Earth and its inhabitants, guides our approach to investigation and interpretation. Special consideration has been given to the study of endangered cultures, species, and habitats, and their conservation. In 2002, a major project in the study of the environments of the WALL ZONE was launched, with the Museum's Biology and Geology unites taking a leading role in the urgent task of researching an enormous catastrophe of life on earth, the WALL ZONE commonly referred to as THE APARTHIED WALL, THE SEPERATION WALL, THE WEST BANK WALL, THE SEAM ZONE, ALJIDAR ALFASSEL, SECURITY FENCE, THE WALL IN PALESTINE, THE OCCUPATIONAL WALL, etc.- ecosystems last disappearing under the encroachment of rapidly increasing human exploitation.
Exhibit will remain until the 28th of March.

**MEMORIAL CEREMONY: Renowned Arab novelist Abdel Rahman Munif
**MONDAY 15/3 @ 7:00 PM
In the opinion of many, Abdel Rahman Munif is the most important author working in the Arab world today. His magnificent trilogy, Cities of Salt, has been described by Edward Said as "The only serious work of fiction that tries to show the effect of oil, Americans and the local oligarchy on a Gulf country."
Abdel Rahman Munif was born in Jordan in 1933 into a trading family of Saudi Arabian origin. He was stripped of his Saudi citizenship for political reasons. He studied law at Baghdad and Cairo universities and took a PhD in oil economics at the University of Belgrade. Until his death, he was a full-time writer and lived in Syria. His writings include: Cities of Salt Trilogy: A Novel, Story of a City: A Childhood in Amman, Variations on Night and Day, etc.

**CHILDREN'S ACTIVITY: International Art Competition "Hans Andersen Fairytales"- Poland
**FRIDAY 19/3 @ 12:00 PM
The Children’s Art Centre in Poland has organized this art competition that aims to teach about the world’s fairytale literature, to promote various artistic techniques and to integrate the youngest generation though art.
“A fairytale is a primer, from which the child learns how to read in its own mind, a primer written in the language of pictures. This is the only language that allows us to understand ourselves and others before me mature intellectually.” Bruno Bettelheim
The children participating in this event will listen to fairytales of Hans Andersen and which will be followed by a hands-on arts workshop. The Sakakini Centre will see to it that their art works are submitted to the organizers of the competition before the deadline.
**For Children Ages 3-6

**ART FILM SCREENING: "PIET MONDRIAN: Mr. Boogie-Woogie Man"
**WEDNESDAY 24/3 @ 7:00 PM
Dutch Painter Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) is one of the most enigmatic as well as seminal figures in 20th century art. Neoplasticism, the spare, severely geometric style for which he is known, exerted international influence on painting, architecture, interior dιcor, furniture, design, and typography. Mondrian: Mr. Boogie-Woogie Man traces the artistic growth of this extraordinary man from his childhood in the Netherlands to his years in Paris and New York. Raised in a Calvinistic family, Mondrian nonetheless reveled in bold colors, dance and jazz. He followed a unique spiritual path that led him to Theosphy ad the belief that Cubism would connect people to a "sublime harmony". Contributors, such as Robert Hughes and designer Terence Conran, discuss Modrian's works, from his early paintings of rural scenes to his masterpiece Broadway Boogie-Woogie.
(Dir. Janice Sutherland, Documentary, English Lang., 49 minutes, 1995)

**PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT by French Photographer Ann Paquier/ Al Haq Institute
**TUESDAY 30/3 @ 6:00 PM
Accompanied by a film screening of "In the Spider's Web" for the director Hanna Musleh
For more information about this activity please contact Al Haq at either alhaq@alhaq.org or on there telephone: 2954646.

 

Thank you and hope to see you at all these events!

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