Vivien Sansour, puppeteer-clown-actor-organizer of the Olive Tree Circus, is back from the olive harvest tour of West Bank towns including Bethlehem, Hebron and surrounding villages. She will be removing her red nose and sharing with a large audience the slide show, video and personal experiences of the fourteen Arab, Jewish and non-Middle Eastern Americans who traveled together, creating puppets and performing for the children of the West Bank in the service of peace.
Cosponsored by the Iman Cultural Center and the American Friends Service Committee, Middle East Peace Education Program.
Free to the public, RSVPs strongly advised: 310.657.5511.
Olive Tree Circus 2008, creating puppets: a circus member works with a Palestinian youth
On location in the West Bank
On location in the West Bank...
Picking olives near Hebron
Picking olives near Hebron
Vivien Sansour and Jake Weinstein: a skit where they're both pregnant at a checkpoint
Children Happiness Center, Hebron
A mother and her kids in Hebron after an Olive Tree performance
Olive Tree Circus 2008, creating puppets
Olive Tree Circus 2008, creating puppets
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