2019 Series: Finding Home

2019 First Friday Films

The loss of home is often complicated by long years as refugees. What does it mean to lose one’s home? What is involved in finding home? Families must often separate to thrive at all. Some face the danger of never belonging anywhere, once they are safe. Such elements of refugee-hood complicate other real issues of unemployment and isolation under another people’s sky.

Refugees are at our southern border, and living in countries not their own, trapped at the border in Gaza and living in refugee camps in the West Bank. Refugees can be found around the globe today.

In this year’s series, we join families engaged in complicated struggles. We discover what creates community and what is essential for finding home!

Join Us for:

• Friday February 1: First Friday’s Opening Night Reception at 6:15 p.m. Screening of “SOUFRA” at 7 p.m.
• February 10 March 17: The Sunday Forum at 10:10 a.m. in Bloedel Hall. Speaker: Rania Qawasma-Dana, Palestinian-American Architect and Author of This is Home, an award winning neighborhood guide for refugees in Seattle. (NB: This event was rescheduled due to weather.)
• A selection of films that educate, move, and inspire new ways of thinking.
• Special guest speakers who lead discussions after each film.

All films are shown on Friday evenings from 7–9:30 p.m. in Bloedel Hall. Parking and Admission are free. There will be a free-will offering.