Events
Celebrate Freedom & Democracy Rally
When: Saturday, October 19, 2024
2:30 – 5:00 pm
Where: Capitol Steps, State Street, Madison, WI
What: Reflections on Freedom and Democracy from community leaders
Link to Christa’s speech on Substack at Current Moment by Christa Bruhn
Local Author Meet & Greet
When: Saturday, August 31, 2024
12:00 – 2:00 pm
Where: Kismet Books
101 N Main St, Verona, WI 53593
What: Meet the author, book sales & signing
Local Author Open House
When: Saturday, July 20, 2024
10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Where: Oregon Public Library
Community Room 180
200 N Alpine Pkwy, Oregon, WI 53575
What: Meet the author, book sales and signing
Illan Pappé — Gaza in Context: Past, Present, Future
When: Tuesday, May 14, 2024, 6:00 pm
Where: First Unitarian Universalist Church
4605 Cass Ave, Detroit, MI 48201
What: Christa Bruhn introduces Ilan Pappé
Teach-in: The Nakba and the Right of Return
When: Friday, May 10, 2024
Where: Popular University for Gaza, UW-Madison Library Mall
What: Teach-in on the Nakba and the Right of Return and readings from Crossing Borders: The Search for Dignity in Palestine
2024 Wisconsin Grassroots Festival
When: Saturday, May 4, 2024
Where: Lawrence University, Warch Campus Center
711 E Boldt Way, Appleton, WI
What: Speaking on the Call for Peace and readings from Crossing Borders: The Search for Dignity in Palestine
Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom Breakfast Book Talk & Conversation on Palestine with local author Christa Bruhn
When: Wed, May 1, 2024 8:00 am CST
Where: Linden Cohousing
107 Sutherland Court, Madison, WI
What: Readings from Crossing Borders: The Search for Dignity in Palestine
Dearborn Open Mic English (DOME)
When: Wed, April 17, 2024 6:00 pm EST
Where: Mardigian Library, Rm 1211
4901 Evergreen Rd, Dearborn, MI 48128
What: Readings from Crossing Borders: The Search for Dignity in Palestine
Dearborn Open Mic English (DOME)
When: Wed, March 20, 2024 6:00 pm EST
Where: Mardigian Library, Rm 1211
4901 Evergreen Rd, Dearborn, MI 48128
What: Readings from Crossing Borders: The Search for Dignity in Palestine
Book Talk on Borders and Dignity in Palestine
When: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 6:00 pm EST
Where: The Center for Arab American Studies
University of Michigan – Dearborn, CASL 1013, 4901 Evergreen Rd, Dearborn, MI 48128
What: Reflections on the current crisis with select readings from Crossing Borders: The Search for Dignity in Palestine followed by a Q&A and book signing and sales
Ceramics, Stories, and Tchatchkes for Peace
When: Three dates in November
Sunday, November 19, 2023 4:00 pm CST
Friday, November 24, 2023 at 2:00 pm CST
Sunday, November 26, 2023 4:00 pm
Where: 2116 Jefferson Street, Madison, WI 53711
What: Reading from Crossing Borders: The Search for Dignity in Palestine
Open Mic in Conjunction with the Wisconsin Writers Association Fall Conference
When: Friday, October 6, 2023 at 6:30 pm CST
Where: Magellan’s On Main
370 W. Main St, Waukesha, WI 53186
What: Reading from Crossing Borders: The Search for Dignity in Palestine
Wisconsin Writers Association Fall Conference
Meet the Author & Book Signing
When: Friday, October 6, 2023, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm CST
Where: Orange Hat Publishing | Ten16 Press, 259 South St. Suite B, Waukesha, WI 53186
(Down the friendly alley!)
What: Meet the Author & Book Signing
Book Reading & Book Signing – Register Here
When: Wednesday, October 4, 2023, 6:00-7:30 pm CST
Where: Mystery to Me Bookstore, Madison, WI
What: Readings from Crossing Borders and book signing!
Returning to Humanity:
What We Can All Learn from Teshuvah for
Peace & Justice in Palestine, Israel and Beyond
When: Sunday, September 17, 2023, 10:30 am EST
Where: First Unitarian Universalist Church, Detroit, WI or via Zoom
Link to recording: https://www.facebook.com/100013895285168/videos/3700599593560426/.
(Presentation appears at 45:00 minutes into the recording)
What: Message during service followed by Coffee Hour with Discussion and Book Signing with Source Booksellershttps://www.facebook.com/100013895285168/videos/3700599593560426/
Author Showcase
When: Saturday, September 23, 2023, 10:00 am – 12 noon
Where: Waunakee Library, Waunakee, WI
What: Your chance to get a singed copy of Crossing Borders!
Book Reading & Book Signing
When: Thursday, September 14, 2023, 6:00-7:30 pm EST
Where: Pages Bookshop, Detroit, MI
What: Readings from my memoir Crossing Borders and book signing!
Printers Row Litfest
Stop by my booth and pick up your signed copy of Crossing Borders!
When: Saturday, September 9-10, 2023
What: Largest FREE outdoor literary showcase in the Midwest
Where: Chicago, IL
Virtual Book Launch at the Palestine Museum US
When: Sunday, June 4th at 11:00 am CST, 12:00 EST, 6:00 pm London, 7:00 pm Palestine
What: Conversation and select readings from Crossing Borders: The Search for Dignity in Palestine
Where: The Palestine Museum US, Woodbridge, CT via Zoom
Link to recording
What is Israel? What is Palestine? Finding Hope in a Contested Homeland
When: Sunday, November 14, 2021, 9:30 am – noon CST
What: Conversation and select readings from upcoming memoir Crossing Borders: The Search for Dignity in Palestine
Where: Aldo Leopold Nature Center, Madison, WI in person and via Zoom
Weekly Films & Madafeh Conversations at the Palestine Museum US
When: Saturdays & Sundays via Zoom, 11:00 am (CST), noon (EST), 7:00 pm (Palestine)
Where: Palestine Museum US, Woodbridge, CT
What: Join museum director Faisal Saleh and me at the Palestine Museum US for weekly films and Madafeh conversations with artists, writers, filmmakers, journalists, and many others to broaden the conversation on Palestinian history, culture, and current realities on the ground and in the diaspora.
Link to Register
Catalog of Weekly Programming at the Palestine Museum US
March 30, 2023 Film: The War Around Us by directors Abdallah Salem Omeish, Ayman Mohyeldin, and Sherine Tadros
March 3, 2024 Madfah: Listening Post: Is the New York Times losing its credibility on Israel-Palestine?
March 2, 2024 Film: Jews Step Forward by director Marjorie Wright
February 25, 2024 Madfah: The Chris Hedges Report with Rabbi Shaul Magid on Zionism and the subversion of Judaism
February 24, 2024 Film: Jews Step Forward by director Marjorie Wright
February 18, 2024 Madfah: Malik Qraiqea, AI Artist
February 17, 2024 Film: The Killing Zone by director Sandra Jordan and producer Rodrigo Vasquez
February 11, 2024 Madfah: Let Them Eat Dirt by Chris Hedges
February 10, 2024 Film: To My Father (2008) by Abdel Salam Shahadeh
February 3, 2024 Film: Gaza Calling (2012) by director Nahed Awwad
January 28, 2024 Madfah: Chris Hedges Interview with Craig Mokhiber
January 27, 2024 Film: Bank of Targets by director Rushdi Alsaraj (killed by Israeli airstrike)
January 21, 2024 Madfah: David Rovics, folk singer
January 20, 2024 Film: Banned In Berlin (2023) by director Nahed Awwad
January 7, 2024 Madafeh: Prof. Nurit Peled-Elhanan: Challenging Israeli Discourse and Promoting Human Rights (hybrid event)
January 6, 2024 Film: Chris Hedges Interview with Ilan Pappé
December 17, 2023 Film: The Genocide in Gaza by Chris Hedges (hybrid event)
December 16, 2023 Film: Resistance Climbing by Andrew Bisharat and producer Tim Bruns
December 10, 2023 Madafeh: Esther Farmer, JVP New York Chapter (hybrid)
December 9, 2023 – Video: “The 100 Year War on Palestine w/Rashid Khalidi | The Chris Hedges Report”
December 2, 2023 Film: Stone Cold Justice: Israel’s Torture of Palestinian Children (2014) by ABC Australia
November 25, 2023 Closing Ceremony – hybrid event on location at the Palazzo Mora in Venice, Italy, for the closing ceremony of the exhibit “From Palestine: Our Past, Our Future”
November 19, 2023 Madafeh: Raja Khouri and Jeff Wilkinson, co-authors of The Wall Between: What Jews and Palestinians Don’t Want to Know about Each Other
November 18, 2023 Madafeh: Open House “I Witness Silwan,” Art and Resistance in Occupied Jerusalem – A Community and International Solidarity Public Art Project
November 12, 2023 – Madafeh: Cultural Terrorism
November 11, 2023 Film: The Tower by director Mats Grorud
November 5, 2023 Film: Farha by director Darin Sallam
November 4, 2023 Gideon Levy as Keynote at the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs Conference (2018)
No recording of discussion
The Zionist Tango: Step Left, Step Right
October 29, 2023 Madafeh: Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian occupied territories
October 28, 2023 Film: Bank of Targets by director Rushdi Al-Saraj
October 22, 2023 Madafeh: Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian occupied territories
October 21, 2023 Film: Ambulance by director Mohamed Jabaly
October 15, 2023 – Madafeh: Discussion of Current Crisis in Gaza
October 14, 2023 – Film: Jenin, Jenin by director Mohammed Bakri
October 8, 2023 – Film: I Came, But I Didn’t Arrive by director Fidaa Ataya
September 30, 2023 – Film: From One Exile to Another by director Basela Abou Hamed
September 28, 2023 – Madafeh: Conversation with author Mohammed Sabaaneh’s on his book Power Born of Dreams: My Story Is Palestine
September 24, 2023 – Madafeh: Live Update from Palestine Writes Literary Festival, Philadelphia
September 23, 2023 – Film: Kofia by director Louis Brehony
Broadcast from Palestine Writes Literary Festival, Philadelphia
September 10, 2023 – Madafeh: Embroidery Thobe and Art Exhibit – in person and hybrid
September 2, 2023 – Film: Return to Lifta by director Umar Al-Ghubari
August 27, 2023 Madafeh: Fred Cadora, Professor of Arabic Studies, University of Cincinnati, on his book on Ramallah
August 26, 2023 Film: We Are Still Standing: The Stories of Women in Black by director Ellie Bernstein
Post-film discussion with director Ellie Bernstein
August 20, 2023 Madafeh: Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian occupied territories, Link to Discussion
August 19, 2023 Film: Two Kids A Day by director David Wachsmann and Producer Mohamad Babai
August 13, 2023 Madafeh: Linda Dittmar, Author of Tracing Homelands: Israel, Palestine, and the Claims of Belonging
Link to Discussion on Facebook or YouTube
Aug 12, 2023 Film: Foragers by director: Jumana Manna
August 8, 2023 Special Program: “Decolonization of Minds and Nature in Palestine and Globally,” a talk by Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh
August 6, 2023 Madafeh: Zeina Azzam, Poet
August 5, 2023 Film – Mayor by director David Osit
Link to post-film discussion on Facebook
July 30, 2023 Film: Native Sons (HD version) by director Tom Hayes
July 29, 2023 – Film: Checkpoint by director: Yoav Shamir
No recording of post-film discussion
July 23, 2023 – Film: Flowers of Ramallah (UN film 1962)
July 22, 2023 – Film: A Magical Substance Flows into Me by director: Jumana Manna – No recording
July 16, 2023 – Madafeh: Conversation with Matthew Hughes (Balfour) – author of Britain’s Pacification of Palestine: The British Army, the Colonial State, and the Arab Revolt, 1936–1939
July 15, 2023 – Film: Better to Jump by director Gina Anjeloni
July 9, 2023 – Madafeh: Conversation with artists Rasha Al Jundi & Michael Jabareen
July 8, 2023 – Film: The People and the Olive with director Aaron Dennis, producer Jacob Wheeler, and Nasser Abufarha, Director of Canaan Palestine
July 1, 2023 Film: Three Rs in the Sand & The Aftermath (UNRWA) – No recording
June 25, 2023 – Madafeh: Conversation with Ramsey Hanhan, author of Fugitive Dreams
June 24, 2023 Madafeh: Palestinian Chef Fadi Qattan, Bethlehem
June 17, 2023 – Film: Native Sons from director Tom Hayes
June 11, 2023 – Madafeh: Suhad Bishara, Adalah’s Advocate | Legal Director and Director of the Land and Planning Rights Unit
June 10, 2023 – Film: Two Blue Lines by director Tom Hayes
June 3, 2023 – Film: Voices from Inside by director Marjorie Wright
May 27, 2023 – Film: The Palestinian Diaspora Orchestra by director Sawsan Qaoud
May 14, 2023 – Film: Jews Step Forward by director Marjorie Wright
May 13, 2023 – Film: Abbas 36
Post-film discussion with Marwah Jbara Tibi and Nidal Rafa
May 7, 2023 – Film: Jews Step Forward by director Marjorie Wright
April 30, 2023 – Madafeh: Conversation with Students from the University of Connecticut with Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)
April 29, 2023 – Film: Ghost Town: The Hebron Story by director Ellie Bernstein
Post-film Discussion
April 23, 2023 – Film: Sabastia by director Dima Srouji
April 15, 2023 – Film: Deir Yassin Village and Massacre by director Sahera Dirbas
April 8, 2023 – Film: The Tower by director Mats Grorud
April 8, 2023 – Palestine Solidarity Politics: A Round Table Discussion with Amahl Bishara, Ph.D., Cynthia G. Franklin Ph.D., Sarah Ihmoud, Ph.D., J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Ph.D., and on the video monitor, Rana Daher, Ph.D.
Links to Discussion:
https://www.facebook.com/PalestineMuseum.US/videos/133012072951372
April 1, 2023 – Film: Britain in Palestine 1917-1948
Post-film discussion with British diplomat Sir Vincent Fean and British historian John McHugo
March 26, 2023 – Film: The Blue Box by director Michal Weits
Post-film discussion with film director Michal Weits – No recording available
March 19, 2023 – Madafeh: Palestinian artist Steve Sabella, author of The Parachute Paradox and The Author’s Curse
March 18, 2023 – Film: Stitching Palestine by director Carole Mansour
March 12, 2023 – Special Program: International Women’s Day
March 12, 2023 – Madafeh: Anna Younis, Berlin, Germany
The Art and Craft of Palestine – Celebration of International Women’s Day
March 11, 2023 – Film: The Sabra and Chatila Sky by director Eliana Riva
March 4, 2023 – Film: Since You’ve Been Gone by director Mohammed Bakri
February 26, 2023 – Madafeh: Luisa Morgantini
February 25, 2023 – Film: Haifawi حيفاوي
Post-film discussion with film director Darwish Abu Al-Rish & Production Manager Sahera Dirbas
February 19, 2023 – Madafeh: Conversation about Settler Violence
February 18, 2023 – Film: Jerusalem… the East Side Story by director Mohammed Alatar
February 12, 2023 – Madafeh: Open Topic
February 11, 2023 – Film: A Handful of Earth by director Sahera Dirbas
Post-film discussion with film director Sahera Dirbas
February 5, 2023 – Film: Objector by director Molly Stuart
Post-film discussion with film director Molly Stuart
February 4, 2023 – Opening Ceremony From Palestine With Art at the Academia del Arte di Roma
January 29, 2023 – Madafeh: Fida Jiryis, author of memoir Stranger in My Own Land
January 28, 2023 – Film: On the Doorstep by director Sahera Dirbas
Post-film discussion with film director Sahera Dirbas
January 22, 2023 – Film: Tantura by director Alon Schwartz
January 14, 2023 – Film: The Sons of Eilabun director Hisham Zreiq
Post-film discussion with film director Hisham Zreiq
Open Mic – Wisconsin Driftless Writing Center
When: Friday, June 2, 2023 @ 7:00 PM CST
Open Mic – Wisconsin Driftless Writing Center
When: Friday, April 7, 2023 @ 7:00 PM CST
Open Mic – Wisconsin Driftless Writing Center
When: Friday, January 2, 2023 @ 7:00 PM CST
Related Events
Going Deeper in Palestine: Finding Peace in the Midst of Conflict, Guest Speaker, 23 October 2017, Midcoast Senior College, Brunswick, Maine.
From Palestine to Standing Rock: The Search for Dignity, Real Life Book Libraries, Madison Public Library, February 4, 2017. Served as a ‘Real Life Story’ for patrons of the library to tell my story and check out from the library as a video.
Interview with Women’s Liberation Radio, Madison, WI, January 7, 2017. Interview about my experience at Standing Rock, including the Women’s Silent Prayer March to the frontlines to enable Native women elders to pray and do ceremony at the river.
Interview with Green TV and YouTube video release, Madison, WI, December 2016. Interview about my experience at Standing Rock and the connection to issues of land and water in Flint, Michigan and Palestine.
Women’s Silent Prayer March, Standing Rock Reservation, North Dakota, 27 November 2016. Participated on the Front Lines of the march to escort Native Elder Women so they could pray at the Cannonball River.
Cook at the Oceti Shakowin Camp, Standing Rock Reservation, North Dakota, November 2016. Prepared Palestinian food at the California Kitchen over Thanksgiving weekend as a Water Protector.
