Film Screening and Artist Talk with Rehab Nazzal: Canada Park and Vibrations from Gaza
Film Screening and Artist Talk with Rehab Nazzal: Canada Park and Vibrations from Gaza
Mon, 11 Aug, 7pm - 9pm PDT
SFU Harbour Centre | Labatt Hall Theatre (Room 1700)
Vancouver, Canada
Event Description
On August 11, the public joined us for a screening of Palestinian-Canadian multidisciplinary artist Rehab Nazzal鈥檚 Canada Park and Vibrations from Gaza. To be followed by an artist鈥檚 talk and audience discussion.
91泡芙 the Freedom School and Driving in Palestine
Held in conjunction with , Freedom School rides the wake of the Freedom Flotilla as we come together to assert that from Salish Seas to Palestine, occupation is a crime. Freedom School engages liberation praxis and community building in support of a free Palestine and all who advocate for justice in the face of settler colonialism, militarism, state violence and oppression in our shared and interconnected worlds.
In the free school tradition, we embrace education as critical, political, and liberational for ourselves and our community. Education as a practice of freedom must take place in community, which means that it is free, open, and accessible to all community members. This is the context in which we seek to activate and renew community solidarity, to bring attention to ongoing atrocities perpetrated by Israel in the West Bank, to bring an end to the genocide and weaponized starvation in in Gaza, and to centre Indigenous solidarity movements for justice in the face of settler colonial regimes of violence, apartheid, and genocide, more broadly.
Here and now, we amplify and insist on what as decolonial love in the face of colonial oppression where, 鈥渢o practice feminism in the midst of bearing witness to genocide is to embrace love as a radical consciousness, as a radical decolonial politic of fighting for life.鈥� We do this work together, in community because we know that it is through community that we will achieve collective liberation. Only we will save us.
For, as , 鈥淭oday, more than ever, there is growing consciousness that our struggles are not parallel鈥攁 term which suggests that they will never meet鈥攂ut intersectional, coming together at various nodes. Our hope is that the enactment of reciprocal solidarity is a long-term movement, not a 鈥榤oment鈥�.鈥�