Event ANNOUNCEMENT

Sabra and Shatila Commemoration - performance of 'Remains'

For Immediate Release
August 23, 2004

Please join Al Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, San Diego as we commemorate the Sabra and Shatila massacres with a performance of "Remains" by The Mo`olelo Performing Arts Company. The play will be followed by a speaker from Al-Awda San Diego.

DATE: Sunday, 19 September 2004.

TIME: Performance of "Remains" begins at 2 pm followed with discussion.

LOCATION: The ARK Center for the Performing Arts, 3554 Kettner Blvd, San Diego, CA 92101.

DONATION: $21 per ticket. For reservations prior to the event see deadlines below. Tickets may be obtained at the door.

RESERVATIONS: To reserve your tickets, please mail your payment prior to September 15 to:

Al Awda San Diego
PO Box 131352
Carlsbad, CA 92013-1352

Or to reserve online by September 17, simply click on the PayPal button:

Proceeds from this event will partly benefit Al Awda San Diego.

DEADLINES: Receipt of mail-in reservations by September 15; Receipt of online reservations by September 17.

ABOUT the Sabra and Shatila Massacres: The Sabra and Shatila Refugee Camps Massacres took place between 16 to 18 September 1982. These massacres are considered the bloodiest single atrocity committed against the Palestinian people in living history. Similar in magnitude to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the US, which left close to 3000 innocent people dead, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross, more than 2,750 Palestinian men, women and children were massacred in the Sabra and Shatila camps in Beirut while the city was occupied by the Israeli army. The principal war criminal bearing legal responsibility for these massacres is then Israeli Minister of Defense, General Ariel Sharon - the perpetrator of the Kibya Massacre nearly thirty years before. Even Israel's Kahan Commission could not hide the fact that Ariel Sharon was "personally responsible" for the Sabra and Shatila massacres. Ariel Sharon is Israel’s current elected prime minister.

ABOUT "Remains": Partially based on actual events, the play "remains" is about an American college student, Laila Ahmed, who is found dead in Tel Aviv. Her mother receives her journal through which she pieces together the last few months of her daughter's life, while a congressional assistant investigates. A play about "truths" and perspectives: whose truth is true?

Directions from North of Downtown San Diego

Take I-5 south to Washington Street exit. Do not make any turns, but remain on the off-ramp, which crosses Washington Street, becomes Hancock Street, and in another block becomes Kettner Boulevard.

The ARK Center for the Performing Arts is only about three blocks off the exit, on the right side. After the Pier 1 Clearance Store and Enterprise Rent-a-Car, notice the bright yellow "Rush Press" sign on the side of the building just before ours.

Slow down immediately and turn right into the first driveway, where you will find ample parking marked with our address "3554."

Directions from South of Downtown San Diego

Take I-5 north to Washington St. exit. The off-ramp becomes India Street. Follow the signs to West Washington Street, turning left and under the highway. At the first intersection (Hancock Street) turn left. Don't go too fast!

In one block Hancock becomes Kettner Blvd. and the Academy is in the next block. After the Pier 1 Clearance Store and Enterprise Rent-a-Car, notice the bright yellow "Rush Press" sign on the side of the building just before the sign of the ARK Center for the Performing Arts.

Slow down immediately and turn right into the first driveway, where you will find ample parking marked with our address "3554."

Directions to Avoid Highways

Take Broadway west and turn right onto Pacific Hwy
Turn right onto W. Washington St.
Turn right onto Hancock St.
Turn slight right onto Kettner Blvd.
As you come to Rush Press, turn right into the driveway between the two buildings to go into
the parking lot. Park in spaces marked 3554.

If all the spaces are taken, park on Vine St. or California St. around the building.