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BREAKING POEMS: Suheir Hammad in New Orleans

Featuring Suheir Hammad, Kalamu Ya Salaam and Sunni Patterson

Type:

Music/Arts - Concert

Date:	Saturday, March 13, 2010
Time:	7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location:	Warren Easton Senior High School
Street:	3019 Canal Street (at Gayoso St, between Broad and Jeff Davis in Mid City)
City/Town:	New Orleans, LA
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Description

Tony Award-Winning Palestinian Actor and Def Jam Poet Suheir Hammad Is Coming to New Orleans! Please Spread The Word!

Suheir Hammad will be performing on Saturday, March 13, as part of a evening of poetry with world famous poets Kalamu Ya Salaam and Sunni Patterson, as well as musician Michaela Harrison. She will also be introducing the film Salt of This Sea on Friday, March 19. More info on both events is below.

For full details of this and other exciting programming at the PATOIS film festival, see: http://patoisfilmfest.org.

Breaking Poems
Saturday, March 13, 7:00pm
Warren Easton Senior High School
3019 Canal Street (at Gayoso St, between Broad and Jeff Davis in Mid City)
An evening of poetry and music with Tony Award-winning Actor and Def Jam poet Suheir Hammad, Def Jam poet Sunni Patterson, legendary poet, filmmaker and author Kalamu Ya Salaam, and singer Michaela Harrison.

Salt of this Sea
Friday, March 19, 7:00pm
Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center
1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd (By Terpsichore St, in Central City)
Film Screening, Introduced by the film's star, Tony Award-winning actor and Def Jam poet Suheir Hammad

Film Description: In Annemarie Jacir’s stunning debut feature, two young Palestinians steal a taste of freedom on the run from the law. Reviewers have called it, "A film that dares to imagine the impossible...Attractive, seductive, compelling, characters which claim a piece of your heart within minutes. Bonnie and Clyde meets Ghassan Kanafani - just what we needed to dream again." The film was an official selection at the 2009 CANNES Film Festival.

Soraya (played by Suheir Hammad), born in Brooklyn in a working class community of Palestinian refugees, discovers that her grandfather’s savings were frozen in a bank account in Jaffa when he was exiled in 1948. Stubborn, passionate and determined to reclaim what is hers, she fulfills her life-long dream of “returning” to Palestine. Slowly she is taken apart by the reality around her and is forced to confront her own internal anger. She meets Emad, a young Palestinian whose ambition, contrary to hers, is to leave forever. Tired of the constraints that dictate their lives, they know in order to be free, they must take things into their own hands, even if it’s illegal. 108 minutes, fiction. Directed by Annemarie Jacir. Regional Premiere.

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Artist Websites:
Kalamu Ya Salaam: http://kalamu.com/
Sunni Patterson: http://www.sunnipatterson.com/
Suheir Hammad: http://www.suheirhammad.com/
Michaela Harrison: http://www.myspace.com/michaelaanaya