Israel-Palestine: Life In A Conflict Zone 6 Mar, 2011, 4pm. £5/C £3
Launch of Joint Exhibition Struggling To Share The Promised Land by David Lurie and Living In Conflict by Martyn Stanton Harris Featuring Talk by Martyn Stanton Harris Shira Geffenand _screening of short film 'What About Me?' Talk and reading by Rabai al-Madhoun Performance by Ivor Dembina Panel discussion moderated by Shaun Levin
To launch the photographic exhibition Struggling To Share The Promised Land by David Lurie and creative exhibition Living In Conflict by Martyn Stanton Harris, Woolfson & Tay are honoured to host a launch event with artist Martyn Stanton Harris, Israeli director, writer and poet Shira Geffen, Palestinian journalist and writer Rabai al-Madhoun, and performer and comedian Ivor Dembina. There will be a panel discussion moderated by writer and editor Shaun Levin.
This event includes a screening of What About Me? Shira's bitingly funny short film about a man and a donkey crossing a checkpoint in the Israeli desert. This film was made under the aegis of the UN and European Commission to promote awareness about human rights for a project called ART for the World.
This event and exhibition will explore the tensions underlying the Israel-Palestine conflict and its impact on everyday lives in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Gaza. To book your place, please scroll to bottom of this page.
David Lurie
Lurie’s work has been widely published in magazines and he has
exhibited in the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States, Australia,
South Africa and the Middle East. He is the recipient of numerous
awards including Pictures of the Year International; the World
Understanding Award; Nikon (UK); Ilford Pro Photo (SA); and Arts Council of
Great Britain Award Grants. Between 1995 and 2001, photographer David Lurie documented life on the streets in the Palestinian territories and Israel.
Martyn Stanton Harris
Martyn now lives in the Georgian City of Bath after spending his earlier
years in Canada, USA and Israel. He has a HND in Glass and an MA in Art
& Architecture and is a recipient of Year Of The Artist Award 2001
by the Arts Council UK. The Living In Conflict exhibition results from Martyn's six week residency in Israel and was exhibited in Herzliya in 2008.
Shira Geffen
Shira Geffen and Etgar Keret are known as "Israel's first couple of
literature." Together, they have co-directed several films. Shira is
also a poet, playwright and actor. She is a celebrated children’s books
author in Israel. Her latest film Jellyfish won the Cannes Camera D'Or award.
Rabai al-Madhoun
Rabai al-Madhoun was born in Al-Majdal Askalan in Palestine. He was previously senior
producer with WTN (World Wide TV News Corporation) and APTN (Associated Press
TV News). He is a journalist at Asharq Al Awsat newspaper, an international
Arabic newspaper based in London. He is the author of The Idiot of Khan Younis, The
Palestinian Uprising, The Taste of
Separation and more recently The Lady
from Tel Aviv, which was shortlisted for the 'Arabic Booker' - the International Prize for Arabic
Fiction 2010.
Ivor Dembina
Ivor Dembina is a London-based Jewish comedian
who spent time on the West Bank as a peace worker after the outbreak of the
second Intifada. Out of his visits arose his solo show 'This is Not a
Subject for Comedy' which he has performed for Palestinian and Israeli
audiences and for MPs and peers in the Houses of Parliament. For this
event he will deliver a 20-minute extract from the piece which uses
Jewish humour to describe how he was brought up in the UK to love
Israel but how his feelings about the Jewish state were challenged by the
time he spent at the heart of the conflict.
Shaun Levin
Shaun Levin grew up in South Africa and Israel. He is the author of A Year of Two Summers, Seven Sweet Things, and most recently: Snapshots of The Boy. He is the founding ediotor of the literary journal, Chroma, and teaches creative writing on the Conmplete Creative Writing Course.
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