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"Al Helm (The Dream): Martin Luther King in Palestine"

Jewish Voice for Peace - DC Metro Chapter invites you to a Special Preview screening and discussion of the new film by the award-winning filmmaker Connie Field:"Al Helm (The Dream): Martin Luther King in Palestine"
Sunday February 9, 2014 from 6:30-8:30 PM
 
Arlington County Central Library
2nd Floor Meeting Room
1015 N. Quincy St.
Arlington, VA 22201
Light refreshments will be served

An African-American gospel choir travels to the West Bank of the Occupied Palestinian Territories to sing in a play about Martin Luther King Jr. and the American civil rights struggle. During their visit, Juliano Mer-Khamis, the director of the Freedom Theatre in Jenin, is assassinated, sending shock-waves throughout Palestine and the world. Over the course of the choir’s journey, a deeply personal and cultural exchange takes place, and pre-conceived notions on the part of the choir’s members and the Palestinians who meet and work with them are radically transformed.
Nothing lights a fire like a dream deferred.” -Bernice Johnson Reagon “If you don’t have anything worth dying for, find something.” -Martin Luther King Jr.

Sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace - DC Metro ChapterFor further information, please contact:  240-425-7581 or jvpdcmetro@gmail.com

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