>Endless war or fragile peace? >CHALLENGING THE BUSH DOCTRINE ~ Working for global security >with >JOSEPH CIRINCIONE, Director for Non Proliferation at the >Carnegie Endowment for International Peace >and >MONIQUE C. HARDEN >Co-Founder of Advocates for Environmental Human Rights > >Thursday March 16, 2006 >6:30 pm Dinner >UCLA Faculty Center, California Room >Hilgard and Westholme, Westwood > >Physicians for Social Responsibility is hosting one of country's GREAT >speakers on peace: the Carnegie Endowment's Joe Cirincione. He is the most >frequently quoted disarmament analyst on the airwaves today. Also speaking >is THE voice on environmental justice in the nation (and New Orleans), >Monique Harden. > >Tickets are $55 with dinner. For more information call (213) 689-9170, or >visit http://www.psrla.org/forms/membership2006.php
******************************* Saturday, March 11 at 8:00 PM -Performance Art (Eagle Rock CA) Hector Aristizabal performs "NIGHTWIND", the solo show about his arrest and torture by the US-supported military in Colombia. For those of you who haven't yet seen this remarkable and harrowing performance, here's a chance to witness it for FREE and also see a powerful exhibit of art for human rights and social justice. Hector, accompanied by Enzo Fina providing live music, is offering his show in conjunction with The New Normalcy, an art exhibit now open at Carlotta's Passion Fine Art, 2012 Colorado Blvd. Eagle Rock (cross street North Maywood) For information about the artists represented in the show, and other events taking place at the gallery, please go to <http://www.art-for-a-change.com/exhibits/normalcy.htm>http://www.art-for-a-change.com/exhibits/normalcy.htm --------------- I have seen this and it is truly EXTRAORDINARY. Even tho' its a distance to Eagle Rock from Santa Monica, THIS is worth it. Hope to see you there. Come early to get a seat. Mona ------------------- >Hector Aristizabal was born in Medellin, Colombia where he had a >distinguished career as director, actor, playwright, and psychologist. He >has lived in exile in the U.S. since 1989. Aristizabal currently serves >on the board of the Program for Torture Victims and brings theatre skills >to his psychotherapeutic work with survivors. As a therapist, he also provides services to prisoners at the Youth Authority, AIDS patients and their families, emotionally disturbed youth, and low-income immigrant communities. He co-founded Center for Theatre of the Oppressed and Applied Theatre Arts, Los Angeles and leads TO workshops, based on the ideas and techniques of Brazilian theatre artist and activist Augusto Boal, and aimed at using theatre to encourage creative solutions to address injustice. He has performed on stage and screen and his most recent solo work has been featured in theatrical venues including REDCAT, conferences including the Human Rights Committee/United Teachers of Los Angeles, and festivals including the Delphi Games in Delphi, Greece. ********************** >MARCH 12, SUNDAY 2PM TO 5PM > >Addressing Torture through Healing and Activism > >A Political Theatre Workshop led by Hector Aristizabal >using theatre to encourage creative solutions to address injustice. >SUNDAY, MARCH 12, 2006 >FROM 2PM TO 5:00PM This is not just a watch and listen event, here is an opportunity to participate. It can be life-changing! >At USC PED Building, Room #207 >(Directions & Accessibility info below) > >ALL are welcome: Activists, Artists, Educators, Students, >Adults, Youth (18 and older), Community Members, etc.,. > >No skills needed. > >Maximum: 35 Participants. > >$10 suggested donation > >RSVP to BJ Dodge at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: >We will start the workshop with a 25 minute performance piece by Hector >that deals with his personal experience with torture. Nightwing is an >exploration of performance which invites each spect-actor to respond >individually - as an aesthetic experience, an act of political witnessing, >and/or as an invitation to healing. The performance, will offer images >that serve as windows through which witnesses can enter the story >imaginatively. Invisible threads connect the performer to the witnesses, >and they may find opportunities-directly or indirectly-to process some of >their own wounds. > >Following the performance segment of the workshop, we will use dynamic >meditation techniques to process some of the feelings that may arise. We >will then invite the group participants (or spect-actors) through the use >of image-theater to create a personal response to the existence of torture. > >Finally as a group we will explore the possibility of creating an action >project to be used in different scenarios to denounce the current use of >torture by the US government in places like Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, >Afganistan and many other places. This part of the workshop doesn't >necessarily imply the commitment of the image creators to participate in >future actions. The images discovered however, may be use by Hector is >his work with other activists' groups such as SOAW, (School of the >Americas Watch) Veteran's for Peace, The American Friends Service >Committee and other groups engaged in denouncing the use of >torture. During the workshop, we will together enact questions of agency >and witnessing, providing opportunities for each individual to reflect on >his or her stance towards the new US parameters with regard to the >treatment of prisoners. > >Please wear comfortable clothing. >*Please note: We may video tape the latest part of the workshop for >action planning. > >******LOGISTICS******* > >* Please note: PED #207 is a dance rehearsal space and there are very few >chairs. There will be times during the workshop when everyone will need >to sit together on the wood floor. If this is not comfortable or possible >for you, > >please bring a cushion with you and/or let us know and we'll see if >there's any >way we can be of assistance. >* Also, please note: The workshop will begin promptly at 2:00pm. >------------------- >DIRECTIONS TO PED BUILDING, USC CAMPUS: > >USC is located in the heart of south Metropolitan Los Angeles, south of the >10 and west of the 110 freeways. > > From 110 (Harbor) North: >Take the Exposition exit. Go straight through the 37th Street light. Keep >left. Go under the freeway bridge. Cross Flower at the light and go >straight on Exposition through Figueroa. Turn right at the light at USC >Watt Way and enter at that gate or park at the meters (4 hour) near this >gate. > >110 (Harbor/Pasadena) South: >Take the Exposition exit. Cross Flower at the light and go straight the >light past Figueroa. Turn right at the light at USC Watt Way and enter at >that gate or park at the meters (4 hour) near this gate. > >10 (Santa Monica): >Take the Hoover exit, turn south at the light. Go all the way to where >Hoover ends at Jefferson. Turn left on Jefferson, right on Figueroa. Turn >right again on Exposition and go about a quarter mile. Turn right at the >light at USC Watt Way and enter at that gate or park at the meters (4 hour) >near this gate. > >Parking at USC: $7 > >Off campus: Usually free on Sundays! >Parking is available on Figueroa, Vermont, >Exposition and Jefferson > >On Vermont, south of Jefferson, near Taco Bell, >at 36th Street, there's an entrance to campus >that's very near the PED building where we'll be! > >Public Transportation to USC: >DASH Route C (line starts at 7th Street Metro Center station): Runs every >15-30 minutes from 6:30 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. Mon-Sat. Drops and picks up on >Figueroa Street. Cost: 25 cents. For more information about DASH routes, >call 1-800-COMMUTE. > >Metro Bus and Metro Rail: Bus service is provided from Union Station to the >University Park Campus on bus lines 444, 445 and 446. Bus line 71 provides >transportation between Union Station and the Health Sciences Campus. For >information about these and other routes and schedules, call 1-800-COMMUTE. >Single zone fare: $1.10. > >Tram Services: Union Station: The shuttle picks up passengers outside of >the main lobby, adjacent to the taxi and tram pick-up area at Union Station, >and in front of the JEP House located on 34th Street at Trousdale on the >University Park Campus. Operates Mon-Fri, morning trams run from Union >Station to UPC, afternoon trams run from UPC to Union Station. NOTE: Tram >services are provided at no charge to USC students, faculty, staff and >guests. For further information regarding tram route locations and >schedules, call Transportation Services at (213) 740-3575. > >***THE PED BUILDING**** > >Proceed north from the entrance at USC Watt Way on foot and take Watt Way >past the bookstore (on your right) until you see the track and field (up >ahead, on your left). The PED (Physical Education Department) building is >opposite the Track and Field on your right hand side (East). Enter through >the front doors. > >The workshop is in room 207, upstairs and all the way down on the right. >Restrooms in the building are downstairs on the left and right side (men's >and women's, respectively). > >Fringe Benefits and Center for Theatre of the Oppressed >and Applied Theatre Arts, Los Angeles (CTO/ATA/LA) >are sponsoring this series of skills-sharing workshops > > >PLEASE NOTE: >If you have any questions about ACCESSIBILITY, >please ask us when you RSVP. ** > >The PED Building is wheelchair accessible ONLY with advance >notice for those who need access. Please e-mail Brent Blair at >[EMAIL PROTECTED] should you need assistance. His cell phone is (323) >356-2552, and campus security (who possess the key to the elevator) are >reached at (213) 740-6000. 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