ReOrient Festival 2009 (The First Ten Years)

Golden Thread Productions celebrates the tenth anniversary of its one-of-a-kind festival of short plays exploring the Middle East featuring a world premiere by MacArthur Genius award-winner, Naomi Wallace, as well as a retrospective of plays from the festivals past ten years including works by Yussef El Guindi, Motti Lerner, Betty Shamieh, Torange Yeghiazarian and Caveh Zahedi.
November 19 to December 13, 2009 at the Thick House, San Francisco
In association with the festival, Golden Thread will present ReOrient Forum a two-day gathering of theatre artists and field specialists engaging in discussions about Middle Eastern-American Theatre, Internet conferencing with theatre artists in the Middle East, and an original play interactively performed in San Francisco and Cairo via the Internet. In addition, Golden Thread is proud to showcase the best of Bay Area Middle Eastern Arts by featuring performances by Ballet Afsaneh and Aswat Bay Area Arabic Choir.
December 5 & 6 at the Theater Artaud, San Francisco
For more information please visit: www.goldenthread.org
ReOrient Festival is a full production of nine short plays presented in two alternating series running from November 19 through December 13. Series 1 is presented Thursdays and Saturdays at 8pm; Series 2 is presented Fridays at 8pm and Sundays at 5 pm. There is no performance on Thursday November 26th.
Dates: November 19 - December 13
Location: Thick House, 1695 18th Street, San Francisco
ReOrient Forum is a two-day conference presented in association with ReOrient Festival. The Forum includes panel presentations that are free to the public as well as three ticketed events: a concert by Aswat Bay Area Arabic Choir and Orchestra, a dance performance performances by Ballet Afsaneh, and the ReOrient Birthday Bash.
Dates: Saturday, December 5, 9am - 5pm
Sunday, December 6, 10am - 3:30pm and 7:30pm - 11pm
Location: Theater Artaud, 450 Florida Street, San Francisco