A Child’s View from Gaza exhibit
A Child’s View from Gaza is an art exhibit coming to Vancouver Mar 9, 2012.
Opening event: Friday, Mar 9, 7:30 PM, Unitarian Church, 949 West 49th Ave, Vancouver. Free admission. For full schedule and more details, visit the Child’s View from Gaza website.
The Vancouver Child’s View from Gaza Committee is very excited to bring this exhibition of 25 children’s art pieces, part of a 75-piece exhibition created in 2009 by the children of Gaza who witnessed the destruction of Operation Cast Lead and who participated in after-school children’s therapy programs. “Cast Lead,” Israel’s December 2008/January 2009 attack on a virtually unarmed Gaza, killed 1400 Palestinians, including 320 children.
At the opening event, Barbara Lubin, Founder and Executive Director of the Middle East Children’s Alliance, is a life-long peace, justice and disability rights activist. Since 1988 Barbara has regularly traveled to Palestine and has led nearly twenty delegations of North Americans to Palestine/Israel, Iraq, and Lebanon. She has lectured on the issue of Middle East politics and the plight of the children in the region to dozens of schools, universities, conferences, religious institutions and community groups. Barbara’s current presentation focuses on the impact of Israel’s occupation and siege on children in Gaza. Barbara visited the besieged Gaza Strip twice in 2009 and her presentation incorporates many of her own photos and eyewitness testimonies.
