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To Light a Candle film & discussion
A film by Maziar Bahari, journalist, filmaker and human rights activist
To Light a Candle - film screening, free, open to the public
Date: Monday, February 23, 2015
Time: 4:00-5:00 PM: Film, 5:00-6:00 PM: Panel Discussion/Q & A
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Location: Hennepin Technical College – Auditorium13100 College View Drive, Eden Prairie
Questions: 763-488-2633 or 952-373-1246 or edenprlsa@gmail.com
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ABOUT THE FILM: The Baha’is are a religious minority in Iran. The Baha’is are banned from studying or teaching in Iranian universities. But the Baha’is do teach, and they do study. Since 1987 the Baha’is started BIHE, an underground university with hundreds of students in Iran, and dozens of teachers in Iran and around the world. Through powerful interviews, exclusive secret footage shot by citizen journalists, rare archival material and dramatic letters written by a Baha’i prisoners currently in jail in Iran, To Light a Candle shows how a small minority has defied the brutal systematic religious persecution through non-violent resistance and educating their youth.
Learn more about the film and the EducationIsNotACrime campaign here: http://www.educationisnotacrime.me/
This event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Baha’is of Eden Prairie, the City of Eden Prairie’s Human Rights and Diversity Commission, and Hennepin Technical College’s Office of Diversity.
