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March 19, 2006
What I Heard About Iraq - March 20
"WHAT I HEARD ABOUT IRAQ" ~
a multimedia performance"
Join us in a world-wide "artistic act of dissent" on the third anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq!
Monday, March 20, 2006 7:00pm
First Unitarian Universalist's Church, 5200 Fannin at Southmore
FREE staged production. Multi-media production presents astounding historical quotes from politicians and military officials, US and Iraqi citizens, media footage music.
Los Angeles director and producer Simon Levy adapted Eliot Weinberger's article by the same title, published in the London Review of Books, (3/14/05). Weinberg's text was the most-visited article ever on the magazine's website, linked on some 100,000 other websites and translated in over 20 languages. The Peter Weiss Foundation for Art and Politics (International Literature Festival Berlin) are coordinating performances of WHAT I HEARD ABOUT IRAQ in over 40 cities.
The Community Involvement Committee of First Unitarian Universalist Church, invites the public to also participate in a candlelight vigil on Fannin Street and build a memorial rock cairn 5:00 to 7:00 pm to honor those who have died in the war on Iraq.
Sponsored by Pacifica Radio KPFT, Voices Breaking Boundaries, the Miranda Project, the Community Involvement Committee of the First Unitarian Universalist Church, Code Pink, Houston Peace News.
See a review WIHAI performance: http://www.neworleansvfp.org
Los Angeles reviews: http://www.fountaintheatre.com/press.html
Europe cities and review: http://www.literaturfestival.com/news1_3_2_48.html
Posted by Lyn Wall at March 19, 2006 08:44 AM | Permalink
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