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Cultural Suppression and Revival
Event Type: Virtual SAVAC is pleased to co-present this panel discussion with the Toronto Palestine Film Festival (TPFF). As we witnessed in TPFF’s film The Journey of the Others, many artists and artistic productions representing Palestinian narratives are facing cancellations and other silencing tactics across the West. The attacks take various forms from rescinding awards,…
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Forbidden Images: art and resistance under occupation
A conversation with Rehab Nazzal and Sarala Emmanuel Followed by SAVAC’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) February 24, 2024 from 11:00am-1:30pm EST Event Type: Virtual What role can art play in contexts of war, apartheid, and settler colonialism? What makes expressions of resistance and solidarity so powerful as to be heavily censored? For decades, artist Rehab…
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THREE PROMISES الوعود الثلاثة
SAVAC Co-presentation with Toronto Palestine Film Festival Documentary THREE PROMISES الوعود الثلاثة Dir. Yousef Srouji 61 minutes 2023 – Palestine, Lebanon, United States Canadian Premiere Arabic with English subtitles A mother films her family’s life while sheltering from Israel’s attacks during the Second Intifada in the West Bank. Her son revisits this past through this…
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Gaza Lives: Honouring Gaza’s artists and writers
Gaza is home to a flourishing cultural and artistic community despite an illegal occupation and blockade. In a matter of months, Israel has destroyed Gaza’s educational, cultural and artistic institutions; and killed so many of Gaza’s emerging and established artists. And yet, amid the rubble, music, art and joy still lives, providing comforts and tales…
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Queer Cinema for Palestine
Queer Cinema for Palestine is: A pledge. More than 200 queer filmmakers have pledged not to screen at the pinkwashing, Israeli government-sponsored TLVFest, in response to calls from Palestinian queers. A global event. Queer Cinema for Palestine started as a film festival in 2021 as a solidarity initiative offering artists and arts groups around the…
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John Greyson – Berlin Withdrawl Video
In February 2024 Canadian filmmaker, video artist, writer, activist and educator John Greyson withdrew his new film Death Mask from the Berlinale film festival. Greyson’s withdrawal is part of a larger action, Strike Germany: STRIKE GERMANY is a call for international cultural workers to strike from German cultural institutions. It is a call to refuse…
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FOGGY: Palestine Solidarity, Cinema & The Archive
https://vtape.org/event/draft-foggy-palestine-solidarity-cinema-the-archive Bachir/Yerex Presentation Space & Commons @ 401 main space, 4th floor, 401 Richmond St. West, Toronto Monday, December 4, 2023: doors open 6:00 p.m., screening 7:00 p.m. Attendance: 94 Also presented online December 5 to 10, 2023, courtesy of the Toronto Queer Film Festival Presented by Viral Interventions, Vtape, The Arquives, Toronto Palestine Film…
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LET IT BRING… (Edmonton, February 10–March 16, 2024)
LET IT BRING… Latitude 53 (Edmonton) – FEB 10–MAR 16, 2024 The Question of Funding Collective, a collective of artists and cultural workers, spoke to Elitqa Collective in Gaza about how amidst destruction and desperation, canvases and frames from the gallery were burned for warmth. QOF asks “What is art in the time of genocide?”…
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Reflections on Freedom of Movement – Blackflash Expanded
‘Reflections on Freedom of Movement’ was initiated by artist Rehab Nazzal in response to an invitation by BlackFlash Expanded in the summer of 2022. Including works by Rehab Nazzal, Alaa Al-Dayah, Michael Jabareen, Khaled Jarada, and Haneen Nazzal, the project was organized by Christina Battle for Blackflash Expanded in 2022/2023. Read more about the project…
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Khaled Jarrar and Rehab Nazzal screening – February 2, 2024 – Tkaronto (Toronto)
wave~form~projects + re:assemblage collective presented The Infiltrators + A Night At Home First screening : Friday 02 February 2024 7 PM (doors at 630 PM) Free entry Venue: Bachir / Yerex Presentation Space 401 Richmond Street West, 4th floor Intersection: Spadina/Richmond | TTC: Osgoode == First in a series of film screenings affirming Palestinian people’s…