Home

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Home is a multi-media project that explores the role of home--as location, destination, memory, history and myth--in the consciousness of Israelis and Palestinians living in the Holy Land. Writers Chana Morgenstern and Andrea Brooks will conduct thirty interviews with people from across the region, who will be asked to describe and discuss the different homes they have lived in during their lives. Interview transcripts, video and photographs will then be used to create a multi-media exhibit and CD using text, video and still images to draft a map of human stories that span centuries and continents. The project aims to illuminate the temporal, historic, and spiritual complexity of Israel-Palestine through the prism of home, a concept at the core of the dreams, desires and conflicts of its people.

Home, in collaboration with

Artifact Reading Series

is sponsored by

Intersection for the Arts

Artist/Staff Bios

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Artist/Staff Bios

Chana Morgenstern was born and raised in Jerusalem and resides in San Francisco. She is currently at work on a multi-media project combining over thirty interviews she conducted with Israelis and Palestinians on the subject of home. Chana was co-founder of SF School of the Arts Creative Writing Department and for two years served there as teacher and resident artist. She is an MFA candidate in fiction at Bard College and is working on an upcoming novel. Her plays and monologues have been performed at the New College Theater and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum. Chana is co-founder of Artifact: a reading series of innovative writing, which she curates with Melissa Benham in their Mission District home. She is the author of the chapbook Touching New Jersey (Little Red Press) and the recipient of Miriam Ylvisaker Fellowship in Fiction. Recent work of Chana's can be read in Red Letters Journal, On our Backs Magazine, El Pobre Mouse, Shifter Magazine, Marjorie Wood gallery, and forthcoming in Blithe House Quarterly.  

Andrea Michelle Brooks has served communities both overseas and domestically. For four years she was an international community mediator and HIV/AIDS educator, working in Tanzania, Nigeria, Israel and Palestine. Her experience in conflict resolution includes serving as a Coexistence Facilitator for Seeds of Peace International Camp. Recent showings of her photographic works have been displayed at START Soma gallery, San Francisco City Hall, Hotel Des Art and Earth Island Journal. In 2005 Andrea co-curated and exhibited in False Walls, a site-specific exhibition for emerging photographers. She currently resides in San Francisco and is the Director of Education and Client Advocacy for Pets Are Wonderful Support (PAWS), a non-profit organization devoted to assisting low-income, disabled individuals with their companion and service animals. Through both her activist and creative work she explores myths of creation, identity across borders, empathy and violence, the impact of history on modern conceptions of self and the health benefits of the human animal bond.

Bashar Azzeh, was born and raised in Jerusalem. He earned his BS and Masters at Murray State University, KY in Systems Management and is currently working on his PHD in Political Science with a focus on conflict system management and conflict resolution . Having returned to Jerusalem in 2006, he currently works as a senior economist for Italian Consortium of Solidarity (ICS). ICS is an international NGO engaged in protection of victims of armed conflicts and international crisis, with a focus on displaced people and victims of human rights abuses.. Within his responsibilities is to manage and coordinate a project entitled 'Strengthening of Rehabilitation Services to Victims of Torture in the North and South of the West Bank' in collaboration with TRC (Treatment and Rehabilitation Center for Victims of Torture).

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Artist/Staff Bios