Benefit Gala Performance of Ariel Dorfman’s play Speak Truth to Power

[paineinthearse]

http://www.icujp.org/



SAVE THE DATE:
Saturday Evening
June 11, 2005

Benefit Gala Performance
of Ariel Dorfman’s play
Speak Truth to Power:
Voices from Beyond the Dark
based on the book by Kerry Kennedy
a staged reading and reception

to benefit ICUJP and Speak Truth to Power
One Night Only Performance

Directed by and Featuring
Bradley Whitford
and also starring

Martin Sheen
Hector Elizondo
Alfre Woodard
Allison Janney
John Spencer
Rocky Carroll
America Ferrera
Melissa Fitzgerald
and
Aaron Sorkin

8:00 pm
All Saints Church
132 N. Euclid Ave
Pasadena CA 91101

On the evening of June 11th, acclaimed performers (listed above) and leading activists will join us for a staged reading that presents inspiring stories of fifty-one women and men from around the world who have stood up to oppression at great personal risk in the non-violent pursuit of human rights. The individuals portrayed include Vaclav Havel of the Czech Republic and Baltasar Garzon of Spain, as well as Nobel Prize laureates The Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Elie Wiesel, Oscar Arias, Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Jose Ramos-Horta, Bobby Muller, and Wangari Maathai.

For tickets and more information,
please call 626-683-9004 or e-mail [e-mail]

A small number of tickets are still available! If you are interested, please contact Harvin Rogas at 5B Events, tell her you are an ICUJP supporter and would like to atttend! But act quickly! You may reach Harvin at 310-559-9334, or by e-mail at [e-mail]

(ICUJP, a program of the Regas Institute, and Speak Truth to Power, a program of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial, are both 501c3 charitable organizations.)

ALSO!
Earlier in the day...
A Workshop with
the Heroes of Human Rights

10:30 am
All Saints Church
132 N. Euclid Ave.
Pasadena CA 91101
directions

In conjunction with Amnesty International, three of the actual defenders portrayed in Speak Truth to Power (Marina Pisklakova, Russia’s leading women’s rights advocate, Ka Hsaw Wa from Burma, founder of EarthRights International and a leader in the call for multinational corporate responsibility, and Van Jones from the United States, founder of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, which challenges abuses in the US criminal justice system) will discuss an education curriculum on Human Rights with students from local schools. An educational packet and a disposable camera for each student will be provided.

More information: 626-683-9004
or e-mail [e-mail]

[stickdog]

1. I'm a big fan of Professor Dorfman (nt)

[paineinthearse]

2. Surprised no West Wing fans have commented

Also posted this in the California forum, zip replies.

:shrug: