BBC staff organise gig for Gaza

BBC staff organise gig for Gaza - 12 March

Media Workers Against the War www.mwaw.net

In this mailing:
1. MWAW supporters meeting on Saturday
2. GIG 4 GAZA March 12
3. The Trainer - a play about terror

1. MWAW supporters meeting on Saturday March 7

There will be a meeting for all Media Workers Against the War supporters to discuss priorities and campaigning:

Agenda items include: Gaza rally, website redesign, Afghanistan, Islamophobia...

Saturday March 7, 11am – 1pm

Lucas Arms
Gray's Inn Road
London WC1X 8QZ
(opposite NUJ headquarters)

All welcome!

More info: tel 07799 771 165

2. GIG 4 GAZA

BBC staff who were refused permission by their management to fund-raise in the BBC bar are holding this event in collaboration with Kings College students

Featuring Low-Key, Jeremy Hardy, Chris T-T, Nizar Al Issa, Sandy Walsh, Somaye and others

Thursday March 12 7pm

Tutu's bar, King's College, Surrey Street, WC2R 2NS

Tickets £8/£6 from http://tinyurl.com/b42845

More details: 07981 125 918

3. The Trainer - a play

By David Wilson and Anne Aylor

The Trainer is a rehearsed reading of a play with two strands: one concerning the composer Keith Burstein who sued the Evening Standard after being accused of "glorifying" terror in his opera, "Manifest Destiny"; the other concerns Leila, the young Palestinian gym-trainer of the judges in Burstein's Court of Appeal.

This is a surreal comedy about the "terror" laws that have descended into farce. It also demands that its audience re-define what is "terror".

with Tim Pigott-Smith, Corin Redgrave, Paul Herzberg, Joanna Watt,
Shahanara Begum and Anna Gilbert and others

Adviser, Keith Burstein
Director: Ben Henson

Friday 6 March, 7.30 pm @ Oxford House, Derbyshire Street
Bethnal Green, London E2 6HG
(nearest tube: Bethnal Green)

Tickets £5 online here: http://tinyurl.com/dmscpu

Proceeds from the reading to Stop the War Coalition and the fund for the re-building of the Gaza Music School

Credit card: ring 020 7278 6694
Cheques: send to Stop the War Coalition 27 Britannia Street London WC1X 9JP marked 'trainer' and enclose SAE for your tickets. Further information call: 07951 579 064

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