Aside from cash donations, the CAMP UNITY documentary project is also looking for in-kind donations for travel and equipment expenses. If you would like to help out by providing your frequent flyer miles for the crew to fly to Iraq, or providing camera equipment, or would like to learn about other ways you can help [...]

CAMP UNITY documentary project has begun fundraising on IndieGoGo. Please visit http://www.indiegogo.com/CAMPUNITY to learn more about the film and how you can help support the film’s July 2008 production in Kurdistan, Iraq.
 
CAMP UNITY is the story of music, dance, and theater students from different areas and ethno-religious backgrounds of Iraq attending an American performing arts academy [...]

Soulbird is pleased to announce its sponsorship of Ryan White’s Camp Unity, a film that will document the courage, spirit, and celebration of American Voices’ 2008 Unity Academy in Erbil and Suleimaniya, Iraq this July.  Ryan White is a gifted filmmaker and environmentalist, specializing in documentary films of ecological subject matters.  He is currently working freelance in Bangkok, Thailand [...]

Bahar Forouzandeh, a new Soulbird, submitted this article to us. If you are interested in contributing to Soulbird’s Projects Blog, please contact us for more information. We’re looking for articles, eye-witness accounts, photos, videos, and anything else that will contribute to our cause.
Make Art, Not War: Iran’s Gay Movement
By Bahar Forouzandeh
I fundamentally oppose [...]

The concert version of Edalat Square: Opera in One Act at Wichita State University has moved to Friday, April 25, 2008, which was originally scheduled for next Friday the 28th.  More details to come soon.

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Here’s a video from the Iranian Queer Organization to celebrate the Persian New Year (Nowrooz).

Mehdi Kazemi, a gay Iranian refugee, was to be deported from Europe after his application for asylum was turned down.
An Iranian homosexual man who has said he will be executed if he is deported from the Netherlands has had his claim for asylum overturned.
Medhdi is now safe after an intervention by European Parliament.
After the [...]

From The Times:
Homosexuals deserve to be executed or tortured and possibly both, an Iranian leader told British MPs during a private meeting at a peace conference, The Times has learnt.
Read the full article here.

R. Timothy Brady speaks with Birgitta Tollan about the success of Edalat Square: Opera in One Act. The program was part of a series of profiles on LGBT composers around the world.

in Creative Loafing
Based on the 2005 public execution of two young men accused of lavaat (sex between two men) under Iranian Islamic law…’Opera was the only format for this story,’ says Brady…Former bandmate Rodriguez even had a hand in the libretto, which went through five agonizing revisions.
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