Abstract Audio installation featuring Avri Levitan (Tel Aviv) and Tyme Khleifi (Ramallah)On the 65th anniversary of the formation of the Israeli State and the Palestinian Nakba, at the top of each hour the Rothko Chapel will play DUET an audio installation by Scottish artist,Ross Birrell. DUET features recitals of Birrell's composition Lift Me Up For I Am Dying, inspired by poet John Keats last words, performed by a Palestinian and an Israeli viola player in the historic Spiegelsaal of...

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Presented by Udi Aloni. Part of the Human Rights and Culture Series.Three films by Udi Aloni, artist and film maker from Israel, films shown at University of St. Thomas. Gaza, Forgiveness, and Local Angel

Abstract with Ilan Pappé, Israeli HistorianIsraeli historian Ilan Pappé, author with Noam Chomsky of the newly-released book Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel’s War Against the Palestinians, will speak at the Rothko Chapel. Born in Haifa, Israel to German-Jewish parents who fled Nazi persecution, Pappé is professor of history at the University of Exeter, where he is also co-director of the Exeter Center for Ethno-Political Studies and director of the Palestine Studies Center. He is...

Abstract Presented by Mohammad OmerPalestinian journalist Mohammed Omer was born in 1984 and was raised in the Rafah refugee camp at the southern end of Gaza near the border with Egypt. In 2008 this independent journalist and photographer became the youngest journalist ever to be awarded the Martha Gelhorn Prize for Journalism. He was cited as the "voice of the voiceless" and his reporting was described as a "humane record of the injustice imposed on a community forgotten by much of the...

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A talk by Devorah Brous, an Israeli human rights activist

Abstract Mai Shbeta, Jwana Ghaleb, Shirit Milikovski, Dottie Indyke, Creativity for Peace Suggested donation $10Art and dialogue are powerful mediums that can transform hearts and minds, even those of supposed enemies. Creativity for Peace uses art to give young Israeli and Palestinian women a language to communicate their shared fears, pain, and begin healing and peace-building. Israeli Mai Shbeta, Palestinian Jwana Ghaleb, and Israeli Shirit Milikovski are senior leaders with Creativity...

Abstract Naomi Shihab Nye and Chana Bloch Suggested donation $10To commemorate Israeli Independence Day and Palestinian Nakba Day, Palestinian-American poet Naomi Shihab Nye and Jewish-American poet Chana Bloch read from their poetry and translations. Both poets draw upon their heritage in their work, yet see peace as essential. Naomi Shihab Nye is the author of numerous books of poems, including You and Yours, 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East, Fuel, and Red Suitcase. She...

Abstract The Other Side of Israel: My Journey Across the Jewish-Arab Divide Susan Nathan Wednesday, October 25, 2006, at 7:00 PM *Please note this event will not be held at The Rothko Chapel. While living in Tel Aviv for four years, Susan Nathan became increasingly concerned about the Israeli government's systematic discrimination against the Arab-Israeli citizens. Against all the advice of her friends, she decided to move to the town of Tamra in northern Israel in...