City Spotlights is a cultural performance exploring and celebrating four Boston neighborhoods through the performing arts. This performance features original performance pieces by neighborhood ensembles from Allston-Brighton, Hyde Park, Roxbury and South Boston as well as local performing arts groups from each neighborhood.

This year's City Spotlights Special Guest Artists are dance artist Adrienne Hawkins, hip hop dancer Isiah Beasley, folk musicians Curragh's Fancy, Grant A.M.E. Church Male Chorus, Johara & Snake Dance Productions, musican Missing Traces, theatre group Mixed Emotions, O'Dwyer School of Irish Dance and Uptown Dance Center.

A program of the Citi Performing Arts Center Education Department, City Spotlights strives to connect communities through the performing arts.

Tickets: $5 General Admission

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City Spotlight Partners: Ask Darcie Consulting, Hyde Park Arts Initative, The Parents and Community Build Group, Riverside Theatre Works, Roxbury Presbyterian Church, South Boston Health Center-Young At Arts, South Boston Neighborhood House, and Tobin Community Center.

Directed by Jeremy Podeswa (The Five Senses), Fugitive Pieces is a powerful and unforgettably lyrical film about love, loss and redemption. Jakob Beer (Robbie Kay) is just a young boy when the Nazis invade Poland in 1942, killing his parents and abducting his older sister. After finally coming out of his hiding space when he feels safe, he's rescued by Athos Roussos (Rade Serbedgia), an archaeologist who smuggles Jakob to safety in Greece. Years later, an older Jakob (Stephen Dillane, John Adams) becomes a university professor in Canada where he must come to terms with his past before feeling safe in the present with his new girlfriend, Alex (Rosamund Pike).

The film, based on the best-selling novel by Canadian poet Anne Michaels, opened the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival. (Canada/Greece, 2007, English, 105 minutes).

This special pre-release screening is presented by The Boston Jewish Film Festival.

Tickets are on sale now. $12 general admission; $10 Boston Jewish Film Festival/WGBH members, seniors, students. To purchase tickets online, go to TicketWeb.com, keyword bjff. To purchase by phone, call TicketWeb toll-free at 1-866-468-7619. Service charges apply.

Remaining tickets will be available for purchase at the West Newton Cinema one hour before screening time (cash only).

Fugitive Pieces will be released theatrically at the West Newton Cinema and Harvard Square Theatre on Friday, May 9.

A Public Forum on the Armenian Genocide, the Jewish Holocaust and the Rwandan Genocide

On Sunday, April 13, 2008 the Armenian Library and Museum of America (ALMA) will host "Genocide Committed, Genocide Denied, Genocide Repeated:  A Public Forum in Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide, the Jewish Holocaust and the Rwandan Genocide" in conjunction with Armenian National Committee of America, the Massachusetts Coalition to Save Darfur, Facing History and Ourselves (Brookline), The Armenian Assembly of America, The Strassler Family Center for Genocide and Holocaust Studies at Clark University, Orphans of Rwanda and the Survivors Fund.

     The public is cordially invited to attend this event that aims to raise awareness about past genocides and the necessity to prevent such future atrocities.  The forum will begin at 2 p.m. in ALMA's Contemporary Art Gallery with WBZ talk radio host Jordan Rich serving as the moderator.

Please join the Jewish Community Relations Council, for the annual Yom Hashoah Commemoration. We were there, I am here: Stories of Survival will explore memory through personal accounts and readings of excerpts from diaries of young people during the Holocaust.

We will be joined by survivors, Izzy Arbeiter essay contest winners, local dignitaries and honored guests.

For more information contact:

Elyse Rast
617-457-8652
erast@jcrcboston.org