The Freedom Theatre invites you to celebrate the life of Juliano Mer Khamis on Thursday 7th April 2011. At 13:00 we will walk from the Freedom Theatre in Jenin Refugee Camp into Jenin city in a symbolic funeral for Juliano.
This event is to remember a father, teacher and leader. A tribute to his brave struggle for art, freedom, dignity and equality, whose pure deeds and invaluable creativity in our society affected everybody who knew him, or even of him.
Murdered the leader, thinker, fighter Juliano Mer-Khamis, Director of The Freedom Theatre, Jenin Refugee Camp, Occupied Territories of the West Bank, Palestine
On the 4th of April 2011 at 16:00, outside the entrance to The Freedom Theatre in Jenin Refugee Camp, a traitor’s hand shot and killed the Palestinian thinker Juliano Mer-Khamis while he was driving home with his baby son and babysitter. Juliano was shot and died in a few instants, the remains of the bullet lodged in the babysitter’s arm.
Juliano Mer-Khamis, actor, director, filmmaker and cultural activist, son of Arna Mer and Saliba Khamis, was one of the founders of The Freedom Theatre in Jenin Refugee Camp in 2006. All his life Juliano longed to fight against occupation using the arts as a model of social change.
The people in the camp condemn what happened and have called it “a coward’s act”.
The Palestinian Authority are conducting an investigation and have contacted the Board of directors at The Freedom Theatre.