Friday, April 13, 2007

Desert Sunrise

Are you all going to see the 2pm or 7pm performance, or neither?


The Center for Global Culture and Communication, with a grant from the Ford Foundation Difficult Dialogues project presents:

Desert Sunrise: A new play by Misha Shulman Inspired by Ta’ayush - Israeli-Palestinian partnership for peace, Live Music by Yoel Ben-Simhon, Dance by Dalia Carella

Sunday April 15th
2:00 pm and 7:00 pm
The Marjorie Ward Marshall Dance Center
10 Arts Circle Drive
Admission FREE
Contact Amber Day at a-day@northwestern.edu to reserve your seat.

Desert Sunrise portrays an encounter in the South Hebron Hills between anIsraeli soldier, a Palestinian shepherd and a young tormented Palestinianwoman. Over the course of one memorable night the process of mutual understandingbegins, halts, gets rejected, but is ultimately embraced by the painedcharacters. Using humor, music, poetry and dance the play unfolds toward itstragic yet hopeful ending.

Come see what the NY Times called “elegant and affecting”and compared to Samuel Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot’.“Unforgettable….Shulman presents his message with intelligence, eloquence and beauty.” nytheatre.com

The Difficult Dialogues project at Northwestern is designed to confront a culture of indifference that defers civic engagement for individual self-advancement. Each of the several components of the project, by themselves and in concert with one another, encourage a more robust civility grounded in thoughtful public discussion of contemporary problems defined by cultural misunderstanding and conflict. Each feature of the program strives to help students recognize difference in others and in themselves, understand collective memory, and communicate effectively about and across ethnic, religious, and other commitments. The program is grounded in first-year seminars and public issues forums. Additional features include the theme of negotiating difference and memory, interdisciplinary faculty and curricula, seminars being embedded in the residence halls, attention to skills in public debate and conflict resolution, audience development for the forums to encourage diverse participation, pedagogy workshops for seminar faculty, and summer research opportunities for the students.

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