The University of Valencia’s Cultural Center La Nau dedicates next Saturday 20 September to approach Palestinian reality. International first-class journalists, together with researchers and members of the Palestinian Community in Valencia will try to give light to the Palestine’s situation.
A Palestinian appetizer, tables with information and products related to Palestine, pictures of Gaza, Cisjordan and a final performance will shape a congress organized by the ‘Unió de Periodistes Valencians’ (Union of Valencian Journalist) and the Valencian Palestinian Community in collaboration with the Office of the Vice-Principal for Culture and Equality of the University of Valencia.
The congress will start at 17:30 in the Aula Magna of La Nau with a round table dealing with Palestinian refugees and will count with the presence of Lola Bañón, journalist specialized in the Arabic world, Journalism professor at the University of Valencia and founding member of the executive direction of UNRWA Spain; researcher Jorge Ramos Tolosa and Daoud Marwan, member of the board of directors of the Valencian Palestinian Community. Miquel Ramos, musician and journalist, will be the round table’s moderator. At the end, the Valencian Palestinian Community will offer an appetizer with typical Palestinian dishes.
The initiative will continue at 19:30 with a round table organized by the Union of Valencian Journalists with the presence of David Segarra (freelance journalist who has collaborated with media such as Al Jazeera or Telesur) and Yolanda Álvarez (TVE correspondent in the Middle East). Both professionals will tell their own testimonies informing on Gaza about the latest Israeli offensive. To conclude the congress, Blanca Casterà will carry out a dance performance in La Nau’s Cloister.
During the congress there is the possibility of acquiring a series of images on Gaza and Cisjordan done by journalist David Segarra and photojournalist Germán Caballero, who will destine the benefits to solidary initiatives in Palestine. The pictures will be exhibited on the Sala Oberta of La Nau. Information can also be consulted on the tables of UNRWA, Valencian Palestinian Community or GNRD.
The activities will continue around the city in places like the Sala Matisse, which will host a convert next Saturday 25 September.
After Israel's last offensive, the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip will cost 7,800 millions of Dollars. According to United Nations, during the 50-days-attack around 17,000 houses were left demolished, fact which affected more or less 100,000 people, more than 141 schools, 29 hospitals, dozens of factories and extremely wide extensions of croplands. Palestinian deaths exceed 2,500, with over 400 murdered children.
PHOTOGALLERY: GAZA PICTURES David Segarra
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Human Rights Cycle
Added to this congress on Palestine, the University of Valencia hosts since tomorrow Friday 19 September the ‘Ciclo de cine sobre Derechos Humanos’ (Cinema Cycle on Human Rights). For five years, the Valencian group of Amnesty International organizes at the University of Valencia’s Cultural Centre of La Nau a cinema cycle to visualize violations to human rights in at a global level by the use of full-length films. Entry to all sessions is free until full capacity is reached. A monthly projection is programmed (19 hours) and at the end of each there will be a colloquium with specialists. The projections will be shown in original version with Spanish subtitles.
The cycle will start with Alexandra (Aleksandr Sokurov, 2007) a story on the atrocious Chechen war which is shaped under the eyes of a soldier’s grandmother. After this projection, the sessions will continue next 14 October with ‘Come Back Africa’ (Lionel Rogosin, 1959), the first full-length movie on the apartheid system through Zachariah’s story, an immigrant looking in a city for an opportunity he cannot find in the rural medium.
The movie chosen for 26 November is related to a campaing through which the NGO asked governments to change their laws to guarantee respect to sexual rights. ‘Las cortesanas de Bombay’ (Bombay’s courtesans) (Ismail Merchant, 1983) is a British production that takes a look into Indian women, in particular to those who are singers and dancers doing slavery job serving men.
The year’s closure will come with ‘Terraferma’ (Emanuele Crialese, 2011) an Italian tape that deals with the tragedy of immigration through submerged vessels.
In 2015 the projection of other tapes related with Amnesty International are scheduled, with topics such as soldier children, immigration or the Sahraouian conflict. On 14 January there will be a projection of ‘Family Portraits’, Alexandra Cardona; on 11 February ‘The Bridge’ by Berhnard Wicki; on 4 May ‘Amerrika’ by Cherien Dabis; on April 15 ‘I am a fugitive’ by Mervyn LeRoy and on 27 May ‘The sand’s rumour’ by Daniel Iriarte and Jesus Prieto.
The cycle will conclude on 17 June with ‘Girls in Uniform’ (Leontine Safan, 1931) the first movie with a lesbian topic in history, reason why it was censored in many countries and was filmed again in 1958.
The whole cycle at:http://links.uv.es/PP1SbxQ
Last update: 18 de september de 2014 11:02.
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