The Valpo Core

Here’s an interesting film that ties in with current Core readings and discussions of Elias Chacour’s book Blood Brothers. A discussion will follow the screening.

Promises, a film by Justine Shapiro, B.Z. Goldberg and co-director and editor Carlos Bolado

Tuesday, 11/13 at 7 pm in CCLIR 205
Wednesday, 11/14 at 8 pm in VUCA 1412

Sponsored by the Core Program

Promises follows the journey of one of the filmmakers, Israeli-American B.Z. Goldberg. B.Z. travels to a Palestinian refugee camp and to an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, and to the more familiar neighborhoods of Jerusalem where he meets seven Palestinian and Israeli children.

Though the children live only 20 minutes apart, they exist in completely separate worlds; the physical, historical and emotional obstacles between them run deep.

Promises explores the nature of these boundaries and tells the story of a few children who dared to cross the lines to meet their neighbors. Rather than focusing on political events, the seven children featured in PROMISES offer a refreshing, human and sometimes humorous portrait of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Running time, 106 minutes.
Arabic, Hebrew and English dialogue with English subtitles.

(This description of the film is taken from: http://www.promisesproject.org/film.html. See this website for more information. See also http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0282864/.)

November 14, 7 pm, CCLIR Community Room

Shane Claiborne is the author of The Irresistible Revolution and the founding partner of the community “The Simple Way.” He will be speaking on the topic “Another Way to Be.” His talk will focus on his own experiences of living in simple community along with other Christians in solidarity with the poor in Philadelphia. A sample chapter of his book is available at:

http://www.thesimpleway.org/shane/sampler.pdf

Sponsors: Chapel of the Resurrection (SALT) with OMP and VUCAB