BLUE HILL—Deer Isle artist and videographer Patricia Wheeler will show her most recent video, “Hear My Song, Kathy Kelly: Stories from Iraq,” at the monthly meeting of Peninsula Peace & Justice, Aug. 6, 6:30 p.m., at the Blue Hill Public Library. The video is intended to raise consciousness and financial support for Kathy Kelly’s work aiding Iraqi refugees and for the publication of a pamphlet about the conditions for displaced Iraqis.

Founder of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, Kathy Kelly has been to Iraq 24 times in the last 12 years, and during 2007 and 2008, spent more than ten months with Iraqi refugees in Amman, Jordan. Of her experiences, Kelly wrote Wheeler, “I’ve felt like an urn, holding sad stories, traumas so harsh as to make me wonder how people survive—told sometimes furtively by mothers who don’t want to disturb their children.”

Wheeler’s video contains excerpts from several films sent by Kelly, telling stories from the people of Iraq. It also includes portions of Kelly’s speech in Portland last year, weaving an Irish barrister’s concluding arguments after a Plowshares action with the story of Lebanese children, killed while swimming in a canal. Wheeler was the 2008 Recipient of The Helene Van Buren Residency at the Sitka Center for Art & Ecology in Otis, Oregon where she completed this multimedia portrait. All welcome. Refreshments served. Info: 326-4405.