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Seattle Community Network |
Monday
July 17, 2000 |
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July 17
"'I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.' "Full-lengths, one-acts, shorts, one woman shows, comedy, drama, music and performance art. "Theatre Babylon announces the 4th annual Mae West Fest, a festival and celebration of women as playwrights, producers, directors and performers. ... "We began over four years ago out of the need for theatre that helped nurture and challenge local playwrights. Our work is as diverse as our audience, including an annual women's theatre festival titled appropriately enough The Mae West Fest. This summer marks Year Four of this celebration of women playwrights, directors, producers and performers. ... "We have 5 stages; 2 at Union Garage, the Odd Duck Studio, an evening at Richard Hugo House (not official yet) and a small studio space called Yard... "The Mae West Fest enables women to have their work produced, an opportunity to have creative control and an active powerful voice within the local theatre community. ... "The festival has no entry fee and no theme, other than work written or directed by women. Some shows contain adult content and nudity."
Registration date: August 11th, 11:00am - 7:00pm at the Good Shepherd Center at N 50th St. and Sunnyside Ave N in Seattle. Exhibit dates: August 31 - October 27, 2000 at Kirkland Arts Center, 620 Market St, Kirkland. Ten local PNNAG groups meet monthly in different areas around Puget Sound. Six study groups meet in Seattle, mostly at the Good Shepherd Center, to work on particular interests. Both day and evening wearable art groups meet monthly at the GSC.
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July 16 - 22
Seattle Site of the Week:  
Amnesty International U.S.A. Group 4 of Seattle, Washington
"Amnesty International seeks the release of prisoners of conscience. These are people detained for their beliefs, color, sex, ethnic origin, language or religion who have not used or advocated violence." ... "We welcome new members and everyone is invited to attend our meetings. Leave voice mail for a local Amnesty representative at (206) 622-2741, or send us e-mail at amnesty@scn.org." The next meeting is Wednesday, August 2 at 6:30 PM at the Fremont Public Library. "Please send courteous letters expressing your concern at the imprisonment of Ngawang Phulchung. Urge that he be immediately released on the grounds that he is a prisoner of conscience." Write to the Chinese officials on AI Seattle's Ngawang Phulchung page. "In April, 1989, Ngawang Phulchung was re-arrested for distributing leaflets supporting Tibetan independence and a Tibetan translation of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. ... He was accused of 'collecting intelligence and passing it to the enemy' (the 'enemy' is the Dalai Lama's Tibetan government-in-exile) and 'seriously undermining national security.' Ngawang was sentenced in November 1989 to nineteen years in prison..." "In 1987, Ngawang and twenty other monks staged a peaceful demonstration in Lhasa protesting the Chinese occupation of Tibet. For this the monks were beaten by police and taken to prison. Ngawang was held for four months without ever being charged with a crime. After being released, he began to print leaflets critical of the Chinese government. At his trial in 1989, the Chinese government stated, 'Let the sentence on Ngawang Phulchung serve as a stern warning for separatists both at home and abroad that those who split the motherland will come to no good end.'" ... "In April, 1991, Ngawang and seventeen other monks were severely beaten and placed in solitary confinement after a visit to the prison by US diplomats who were led by then-ambassador James Lilley on March 30. A group of prisoners handed the delegation a petition protesting conditions at the prison. ... After those prisoners were punished and transferred to a labor camp, Ngawang and the other monks protested and were beaten and placed in solitary confinement for six weeks." ... "Drapchi Prison has been the scene of some of China's most egregious human rights violations in Tibet. Amnesty has recorded at least nine deaths in detention in the last ten years. Reports of torture are common and well documented. During her 1998 visit to Tibet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson refused to visit the prison, citing a history of retaliation against prisoners who attempted to communicate with previous delegations." ... "Although Amnesty International takes no position on the Chinese occupation of Tibet, we expect that whoever governs Tibet will adhere to international standards of conduct as stipulated in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. As a member of the UN, China has agreed in principle to uphold these standards." |
