A poetry reading by Mahmoud Alshaer, a central figure in Gaza’s cultural life and author of I Am Still Alive: Dispatches from Gaza. His poetry serves as a vital affirmation of presence and testimony of everyday life in Gaza in a time of genocide.
Michel will screen his landmark documentary of anti-colonial time and persistence, Ma’loul Celebrates its Destruction, clips from some other films, and discuss them with Rene and Ayreen as examples of Sumudic Cinema.
A book launch and conversation with JAMAC: an insurgent art project in São Paulo who visually embed stories into drawn patterns used towards processes of community self-determination. They have done the set design for Episode 12.
Join world-renowned Puerto Rican decolonial thinker and activist as he unpicks the Eurocentric lie of linear time, and shares anti-colonial temporalities that arise out of, and in light of the life ways, suffering, dignity, and creative drive of oppressed communities around the world.
How does Palestinian anticolonial resistance struggle against the colonisation of our concept of time?
An electro-acoustic performance composition for trumpet and field recordings of bombardment, sirens, TV clips, phone calls and the social geography of Beirut during the 2006 war, re-membered amidst the unchanging same of settler colonial violence 20 years later.
Collective listening as a political action. Ejrad will present sonic counter-narratives from the Edinburgh student encampment which mobilise the transformative power of listening as a bridge towards solidarity, action, and change.
Revolutionary songs of Arab resistance, for voice and oud, by one of the most revered figures in the experimental and alternative Arabic music scenes of the last 40 years.
Where eliminatory violence denies the basic necessity of breathing, Lungless is a spatialised performance for the specially built “Putin’s Organ”—7 trumpets powered by an air compressor—giving voice to a trumpet without breath.
Pluralising Palestine to unsettle colonialism everywhere. For liberation, justice and revolution to be successful they must be planetary. Between every river and every sea, and beyond every border and state.