In March 2009, I travelled to Gaza with an international peace delegation organized by CODEPINK, Women for Peace. Our mission was to witness the aftermath of Operation Cast Lead, Israel's 22-day assault on Gaza and to celebrate International Women's Day with the women and children of Gaza. One of the most disturbing experiences occurred when we visited children's centers and saw their drawings of people being killed and wounded. They showed their homes destroyed, their family's olive trees uprooted, and planes and helicopters dropping bombs and white phosphorus. They drew images of their traumas that no children anywhere should ever have to experience.

Event Details

Date/Time: 

Jan 29 2012 4:00pm - 7:00pm

Price: 

Contributions Requested
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Where: 

Hollywood Woman's Club
1749 N. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles CA 90046 (Jan. 29 only)

"Empathy is a wave that need never be stopped. If our children can catch this wave, from the ocean of tears shed by Palestinian children, they might have a future in a more stable and saner world." —Alice Walker [read Walker's original essay on the challenges of this exhibit]

Please come and see and support this new exhibition, A Child's View of Gaza, in Los Angeles.

Our proposal is the creation of a Middle Eastern arts complex with shared offices, facilities and services for like-minded cultural, social and peace organizations, as well as artists and writers, such that the Levantine Cultural Center (LCC) becomes a hub, a peace center, an arts center open to all. With the "Arab Spring" or Thaura (Revolution) that began in Tunisia and the protests and uprisings against governments that have spread across North Africa and the Middle East, we want to bridge cultures and build peace—to promote understanding across boundaries. Would you give us a mandate, knowing that the LCC has already devoted the past decade since 2001 building these bridges? Sign our petition.

The holidays are a time for levity and friendship! We are pleased to present fine art, books, DVDs, CDs, jewelry, clothing and various and sundry items for sale in our gallery-bookshop! All sales support the Levantine Cultural Center's arts and educational programming in 2012. Free refreshments and gift wrapping, up to 50% off all items in stock! Get your holiday shopping done early, stop by the Levantine Cultural Center. More items and info.

Event Details

Date/Time: 

Dec 9 2011 10:00am - 8:00pm

Price: 

Free entrance, gift wrapping and refreshments

Where: 

Levantine Cultual Center
5998 W. Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90035
Between La Cienega Blvd. and Fairfax Ave.
ample street parking or CVS underground lot

The holidays are a time for levity and friendship! We are pleased to present fine art, books, DVDs, CDs, jewelry, clothing and various and sundry items for sale in our gallery-bookshop! All sales support the Levantine Cultural Center's arts and educational programming in 2012. Free refreshments and gift wrapping, up to 50% off all items in stock! Get your holiday shopping done early, stop by the Levantine Cultural Center...

By Saba Mohtasham

A Palestinian woman sits on a hill of dirt, resting her heavy head on her left hand. Behind her lay the remains of her demolished home. And next to this photograph reads the quote “If you lived here, you would be home by now.”

Event Details

Date/Time: 

Mar 19 2011 11:00am

Price: 

Free to the public. Light snacks and cash bar available.

Where: 

L.A. Film School
6363 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90028

On Saturday, March 19, Women's Voices Now presents the final day of the Women's Voices from the Muslim World: A Short-Film Festival. The event will include screenings of a multitude of amazing and empowering films along with roundtable discussions and a book reading and signing. Topics include: girls in the Muslim world, health taboos in the Middle East, and women at work, among others. The event will wrap up with an awards ceremony and closing benefit.

Event Details

Date/Time: 

Mar 17 2011 7:30pm - 9:30pm

Price: 

Free to the public. Light snacks and cash bar available.

Where: 

L.A. Film School
6363 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90028

This evening is a tribute to women warriors through the power of film and will include an address from Oscar Nominated Shoreh Agdashloo.

Schedule:

7:30-9:30 pm The Woman Warrior opening screening, followed by
roundtable Discussion with:

• Roxana Saberi, author of Between Two Worlds: My Life and Imprisonment in Iran
• Mostafa Heravi, Festival filmmaker and director of It Is Written and Somaye
• Christina Asquith, author of Sisters in War
• Catinca Tabacaru, WVN Executive Director (Moderator)

9:30-11 pm Opening reception at the Los Angeles Film School, hosted by Christina Asquith.

Event Details

Date/Time: 

Mar 27 2011 8:00pm - 11:00pm

Price: 

Tickets: $35, $45, $55
Purchase tickets here.

Where: 

Herbert Zipper Hall
200 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Shari Rezai and Roxana Rastegar are proud to introduce Dang Show, an Iranian jazz band, performing for the first time in Los Angeles at the Herbert Zipper Concert Hall, featuring songs from their album "Shiraz, 40 Years Old." The band borrows its name from a Rumi poem. The name Dang Show in English translates to "give up your mind."

Reza Shaya Shoja Nouri (piano), Omid Nemati (vocals, percussion), Taha Parsa Shoja-Noori (vocals, saxophone), Darius Azar (upright bass), and Leon Darzibashian (drums) create their eclectic, avant-guard style of music from an inventive fusion of classical Persian poetry and Iranian folklore music with jazz instruments and percussion. 

For more information about Dang Show, visit the band's website at: www.DangShowMusic.com. 

Event Details

Date/Time: 

Mar 19 2011 8:00pm

Price: 

Tickets: $25/$35/$45
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Where: 

Luckman Fine Arts Complex
5151 State University Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90032-4226

Yasmin Levy at The Luckman

Yasmin Levy sings in Arabic, Ladino, Hebrew and English. Opening the evening is a special guest performance by Iranian vocalist Mamak Khadem.

Piercingly passionate, Yasmin Levy's voice is a true gem: the kind of voice that comes along only once a century. Haunting, strident and swooping, it revives the ancient art of Ladino singing, the Judeo-Spanish style whose songs reach back to 15th-century Spain. She will perform at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex one night only.