We just had our second planning meeting for our fall event. Our event will be held Sunday October 4 tentatively planned for a banquet hall in Mt. Prospect, near O'Hare Airport seating 600 people... Mark your calendars for a trip to Chicago. We'd love to meet you.
Update on the plans for this benfit: The Iraqi benefit will be held Sunday 1:30-4:30 p.m. October 4 at the Crystal Palace, 1070 South Elmhurst Road, Mount Prospect, Il. 60056. Appetizers and beverages with open bar will be available starting 1:30 p..m. During this time you will be able to meet our speakers and get acquainted with others who are working to help our suffering brothers and sisters in Iraq. We are in contact with some excellent and knowledgeable speakers and when the list is firm we will list them. The event itself will begin at 2:00 p.m.
More information to follow including web address and how you may contribute and/or buy tickets. Mount Prospect is near O'Hare Airport for easy travel arrangements.
See also Father Loya's earlier interviews with Juliana in Broadcast 214, Broadcast 196, Broadcast 171/170 and with Carson on Broadcast 162
She also mentions the YouTube video "The Christians of Iraq"
Father Loya had Julinana Taimoorazy from the Iraqi Christian Relief Council on as a guest again this week, Broadcast 250 [byzantinecatholic.com] Sunday, July 12, 2009. She mentions among other things a new documentary The Transient [iraqichristianrelief.org] available to view on their web site, blue tab, right column about half way down their home page.
I haven't been able to view the film portion. My "high speed" internet appears to not be high speed enough. I've looked though most of the "photos" section.
Some background on the makers of the documentary appears in the About [projecttransient.com] tab of the site:
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With the support and blessing of my medical school...I spent the last three months of my fourth year of medical school in the Middle East, to study, learn, experience and photograph. I lived in Jaramana, a refugee camp a few kilometers outside Damascus, Syria, in a refugee health clinic established by the Assyrian General Conference... I hope the documentary film and photos will raise awareness and inspire others to continue to work to help Iraqi refugees.
Anobel Odisho Anobel is Assyrian, raised in San Jose, California and now lives in San Francisco...He is currently in his surgery residency at UCSF...
Adam Teale Adam was born and raised in Sydney, Australia.. He has worked in film and advertising as a visual effects creator, editor, and colourist...he met Anobel at a cafe in Aleppo, Syria... Adam became deeply interested in Anobel’s refugee health photodocumentary... he asked if he could help with the project... A few days later Adam and Anobel...began working for the next month on creating a documentary film to allow the refugees to tell their stories and showcase the photographs...
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