Boston Palestine Film Festival 2011

Dates: October 21, 2011 – October 30, 2011

The 5th Annual Boston Palestine Film Festival features over 50 films from international filmmakers; many of whom will be present. Themes include: Work of Elia Suleiman; celebrating the legacy of Edward Said; recognizing women filmmakers; honoring past revolutions and witnessing the new Arab Spring.

Opening Film: The Time That Remains, with Elia Suleiman in attendance at 6:30pm on October 21st, 2011 at the MFA. 

Reception featuring Shusmo band follows at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Avenue of the Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.
For details:  www.bostonpalestinefilmfest.org 
For tickets call (800) 440-6975 or  Click here.

On Saturday, October 22nd join the Red Fez for dinner and entertainment by the talented dancer, Raquel, singer George Chamoun and Tarek Abdelhai.

For more information, visit their Facebook page, here.

Saturday, September 24 · 7:30pm – 10:30pm
Regattabar Jazz Club at The Charles Hotel
1 Bennett Street
Cambridge, MA

Atlas Soul is a band performing original music that celebrates and bridges Afro-Mediterranean melodies & grooves with Jazz, poetry, hip hop & Funk thus naturally creating music one could describe as Maghrebian-Funk, Rock’n Raï and Chaâbi-Jazz.

Expect a powerful, energetic & tight live performance guarantied to move any audience!  They have played countless prestigious venues both here and abroad such as The Montreal Jazz Festival, The Kennedy Center, The Festival International de Louisiane, Africa Nights Festival etc..  “What hits hardest about Atlas Soul’s sound is the natural funk of North African music and also powerful vocals, which span fluid, passionate Gnawa melodies and husky Raï hooks. There is great wisdom in a world-music outfit that embraces divergent genres (but not so many that the sound loses its identity” Banning Eyre – Afropop Worldwide  Atlas Soul sings and rap in English, French, Arabic and Hebrew.

The lyrics touch a wide variety of subjects such as love, happiness, music but also racism, oppression and poverty.  They have won or placed 3 times the Independent Music Awards, the Billboard World Song, The Unisong International, Global Rhythm Magazine, Just Plain Folks Music Awards, Boston Music Awards and many more..  “Atlas Soul’s blend of jazz, funk and Middle-Eastern/Arabic grooves is a fascinating sonic stew that will catch any listener’s ear. This is their second appearance on our CD’s compilation. We like’em, and you will too”. Global Rhythm Magazine  Philosophically and politically, Atlas Soul hopes to inspire world peace through a fusion of music and culture that gets people to the dance floor.
Their motto is world-music-for-world-peace

Ticket: $15  https://www.peltrix.com/getshowtix/regattabar/purchase.cgi?id=2396 

Join us on Friday, November 4th at the TAJ Hotel to celebrate an evening of culture, fashion and community with the internationally renowned fashion designer, Hana Sadiq, artist turned fashion designer who takes the best of Arabic art and re-imagines it into haute couture.  Using striking and bold colors, she adorns her dresses with Arabic calligraphy, either verses of love poetry or simply scattered letters.

CAC is proud to offer three levels of ticket packages Platinum, Gold and Student

Fashion starts at 8pm.
Private reception for Platinum ticket holders starts at 7pm.

Tickets are available for purchase at Brown Paper Tickets
or
By phone at 877.222.9740.

For  sponsorship opportunities please contact, Farrah Haidar at farrah.haidar@cacboston.org. View available sponsorship opportunities here.

For more information about the event email CAC at: info@cacboston.org

Sponsored by:

224 Harvard St
Brookline, MA 02446
www.alexandersamsalon.com
(617) 734-1244

93 First Street Cambridge, MA 02141
Tel (617) -354-3399 Fax (617) -876-7117

Join us for a fun, family friendly afternoon where children and adults of all ages can explore colorful, artistic and creative works from a variety of Arabic comic book artists.

You and your family will also have a chance to create your very own Arabic comic book!

Please join CAC and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Harvard University on Sunday, September 25th from 1:00 pm-5:00 pm at the Center for Arabic Culture, 191 Highland Avenue, Somerville, MA 02143
For more information email us at: info@cacboston.org or visit our Facebook Event page, here.

Featuring:
ElShelleh (The Guys)
A Multi-media Documentary by Bridgette Auger
Thursday, September 8th, 7pm at The Center for Arabic Culture, 191 Highland Ave, Somerville, Ma 02143

**Please note:
Bridgette’s photography from the exhibit will continue to be on display at the cafe at the Arts at the Armory, 191 Highland Ave, Somerville, MA 02143. The cafe is open Monday-Saturday 9am-6pm.

ElShelleh is an intimate look at the personal histories and dreams of four Iraqi refugees as they search for direction in their new home in El Cajon, California. Through the use of images, interviews and music, ElShelleh tells the stories that led these men to build a new home in a country that still regards them with suspicion, fear and resentment.

The show is a beautiful and diverse representation of a collection of talented artists and their stories of home.

To RSVP please email us at info@cacboston.org or respond on our Facebook event page, HERE.

About the Artist:
Bridgette Auger is an independent media artist who has a degree in Photography and Imaging from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and a Master’s degree in Social Documentation from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Bridgette has lived in the Middle East for several years while working for The UN Refugee Agency in Damascus, Syria and as a freelancer in the Middle East and Asia. Her work has been published by CNN, Syria Today, and various UN publications, as well as in Out of Iraq by Sybella Wilkes, and The Iraqi Refugees: The New Crisis in the Middle East by Joseph Sassoon.

The show will also include printed photographs from the documentary as well as a screening of “ElShelleh”.

Photo Credit: Corey Amaro

Join CAC and artists from the Berklee College of Music for an evening of intercultural exchange of personal and community reflection on 9/11 through music, art, story telling, spoken word and poetry.

We invite you to attend and actively participate in this artistic dialogue  and to reflect on how the tragic events of 9/11 personally and culturally impacted our lives.
This is an event of hope, healing and culturally understanding.
On Sunday, September 11th from 4pm-6pm at 191 Highland Avenue, B1, Somerville, Ma 02143

For more information and if you’re interested in participating please email us at, info@cacboston.org  

To RSVP please email us at info@cacboston.org or respond on our Facebook event page, HERE.

Inta wa Ana (You & Me)
Whether you are a Mom, Dad, caregiver or an educator, the child you care for can benefit immensely from exposure to a foreign language. Our “Mommy & Me” groups use play and music to expose your busy toddler to the Arabic language! Caretakers must be present at all times.
Begins Sept. 21
Instructor: Reem Barghouty
Session 2 (1-5 years): 6 Wednesdays, 4pm-5pm*| $90

*Please note the time and date change from our Fall Cultural classes brochure.

To Register click HERE!

CAC always welcomes donations. But, sometimes, we get something special.  And this was it. The generous donor explained that it was an iconic painting by Abdal Rahman Al-Mozayen called Beautiful Women of the Intifada.

But, all we could think was – Wow, that looks like Beyonce. 

Now, let’s state upfront here that there is NO way the artist intended it to be that way. He painted this in 1986, when Beyonce was 5.  But, it doesn’t change the fact that there is an eerie resemblance to today’s Beyonce.

And, frankly, she’s been looking kind of lonely on our wall.

So, here’s the challenge – CAC will be accepting submissions for the Palestinian Jay-Z to keep Beyonce company. The submission can be a photo, painting, rendering and will be judged by CAC staff and volunteers (Farrah Haidar, Executive Director and Noor Dughri, Americorps member and volunteer).  Criteria for judging is humor, appropriateness (nothing lewd please) and how close of a match it is to our current painting. Submissions should be sent to info at cacboston.org and will be accepted till Sept. 7th, 2011. A winner will be chosen by September 9th, 2011. 

So, what do you get for all this? The winner will be given free tuition to ONE of CAC’s fall cultural classes and the submission will be posted next to the original painting. (Check them out here.)

Please remember that this is all in good fun. So, emails about our lack of scientific criteria for judgement, short timelines, etc will be ignored.  Legitimate questions will be answered.