A performance by one of the most influential anti-colonial poets and translators internationally: a refusal to be legible that demands to be read, a translation of the unspeakable that must be heard.
An evening with one of the great decolonial feminist thinkers, sharing rarely seen films commissioned by her father, as leader of the Communist Party of Réunion, that celebrate the island’s insurgent anti-colonial resistance.
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.
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.
How can we acknowledge the violent history of museum and gallery collections? Can we detach Western art from capitalist systems?
Tell Me About It creates a space for direct one-to-one conversations with people who habitually find others (filmmakers, politicians, journalists) speaking on their behalf… In partnership with Edinburgh Art Festival.
Join Sex Workers For Decrim for a sex worker only collective art workshop and be part of creating a massive visual timeline of sex worker resistance in Scotland.
An excavation of the 1805 Lock Hospital in Glasgow. Its official function was to support ‘unfortunate females with venereal disease’, but really what happened was that women and girls were marched in, experimented on, and often never released.