Come meet the young photographers from Balata and hear them speak about their experiences and work in the West Bank!

7pm Slideshow presentation by Picture Balata youth
Bowie-Vernon Room (N262), Second Floor

7:30-9pm Photography exhibition, classical Arabic music performance
by InTakht, reception
Fisher Family Commons, First Floor

Location:
Center for Government and International Studies
Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street
Map: http://map.harvard.edu/level3.cfm?
mapname=camb_allston&tile=F7&quadrant=B&series=M

Exhibition runs 9 April - 21 April, 2007.

Four teenage participants from the Picture Balata workshop are coming to the US the first two weeks of April 2007. Showing their work and speaking about their lives, the photographers will travel to New York City; Washington, DC; Pittsburgh; Boston; Chicago and San Francisco.

These young people, leaving the West Bank for the first time, will be able to educate Americans regarding the reality of the situation in Balata Refugee Camp and occupied Palestine. The tour will also give them the chance to see that eople outside Palestine support their work and the Palestinian struggle for justice.

The tour also aims to raise funds to purchase cameras, computers and Internet access so that after further training the workshop participants, nine in total, will be able to do everything from taking the picture, editing it on their own computer and then publishing it on a website for the entire world to see. This self-sustainable project will give these young people the opportunity to further pursue photography and other media as a
form of self-expression and resistance.

Picture Balata in Boston is sponsored by Alliance for Justice in the Middle East (AJME)
and co-sponsored by Tawassul, Justice for Palestine (Harvard Law School),
Palestine Solidarity Committee (Harvard College), Harvard College Student Advocates for Human Rights, Society of Arab Students (Harvard College)

www.picturebalata.net