PLEASE JOIN US FOR THESE EVENTS
During our run of I Have Before Me a Remarkable Document Given to Me by a Young Lady from Rwanda, PLTC will host three banquet dinners and discussions. Proceeds from these events will benefit the organization that is featured in that evening's discussion.

FEATURED SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

Sunday, June 15, 2008
Alan Jacobson, Partner
Rwanda Healing Project

Sunday, June 22, 2008
Fatima Haroun, Vice President
and
Jim Remsen, Executive Director
Darfur Alert Coalition

Please check back often for more information on topics covered.

Cost:
• Dinner Discussion tickets are $40 and do not include tickets to the show.
• A significant portion of this cost will be contributed to the featured organization for that evening's discussion.
• Tickets to the show are an additional $40 for the 2pm performance and $30 for the 7pm performance.
• There is no Sunday evening performance on June 22, 2008.

Where:
All discussions are held in the Places! Banquet Room.

FATIMA HAROUN is vice president of the Darfur Alert Coalition and one of the leading advocates speaking out on behalf of the people of Darfur. She is a native of Jebel Marra, a once-gorgeous area in Western Darfur that has been destroyed by the Janjaweed militias in recent years. A graduate of Khartoum University, she has an extensive background in rural development in her homeland. Prior to the current genocide, she helped establish womens' training centers that taught rural women handicrafts and marketing skills, as well as providing health and literacy education. She is currently working with Southern Sudanese women on reconciliation following the long war in Southern Sudan, and is helping to form an organization that speaks for Sudanese women in general. Ms. Haroun is now a social worker for the city's Department of Human Services. In her Darfur advocacy, she has testified at U.S. congressional hearings; been a featured speaker at demonstrations at the White House, the U.S. Holocaust Museum and the national Save Darfur rally in New York City; and has given many TV and newspaper interviews .

Before founding ex;it , ALAN JACOBSON founded and led the environmental graphic design firm AGS.   Over 31 years Alan has designed for clients such as: Johnson & Johnson, Kaiser Permanente, University of Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Merrill Lynch, MetLife, Glaxo, Sutter Health and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Throughout his career, Alan has always pushed to raise standards and help pioneer fresh approaches to environmental design. He lectures at conferences and universities internationally on touchpointing, wayfinding, and environmental graphic design that works to improve the human experience. In 2006 he authored a chapter on "Wayfinding in Healthcare Environments," Wayfinding; Designing and Implementing Graphic Navigational Systems (Rotovision). Alan twice won the SEGD (Society for Environmental Graphic Design) international design Honor Award for his work with the Main Line Health / Lankenau Hospital Wayfinding program in 2006 and his community-building work in Rwanda.   He chaired the SEGD 2004 national design conference, The Power of the Individual , and is currently chairperson for the SEGD 2010 strategic planning initiative. He was also selected as a Juror for the 2007 Cincinnati Design Awards

Alan was a feature speaker at the 2007 congress of the International Council of Graphic Design Associations (ICOGRADA) in Cuba on the topic of "Improving the Human Condition through Sustainable Design." Committed to finding new ways to integrate career and community, Alan is currently Board President of the internationally recognized Village of Arts and Humanities in Philadelphia. He is Board Chair of Camp Golden Slipper for deserving children. Alan's efforts to build humane communities reach as far as Africa.   As a partner in the Rwanda Healing Project he leads community arts and health initiatives in a genocide survivors village in central Rwanda.   To raise funds for the program, he climbed to the summit of Mt Kilimanjaro in June, 2007. ex;it is the latest example of Alan pushing the limits with new ideas.   He has created ex;it as a model for working with clients in a new way to improve the quality of design.   The firm practices a holistic approach to environmental graphic design, "touchpointing" that involves users directly in the process.   The goal is to pioneer new understanding and new thinking about how humans react and communicate in their surroundings, and to manifest the ideas in people centric solutions. Alan is a native of Philadelphia and is an alumna of the University of the Arts.   

JIM REMSEN is Vice President and Acting Executive Director of the Darfur Alert Coalition. He retired in 2005 from the Philadelphia Inquirer, where he was the paper's award-winning religion editor. He had a long career as a reporter and editor at the Inquirer, the Philadelphia Bulletin, and several other newspapers around the country. He now works as the Volunteer Coordinator for Intercommunity Action Inc., a social-service agency in Northwest Philadelphia. Long active in civic organizations, he joined the Darfur Alert Coalition early in 2006 after hearing a talk about the ongoing genocide in Sudan. He was the coalition's Education Director, arranging and giving dozens of public presentations, until becoming the interim executive director in January 2008.