[IPSM] @: Film and Art at Montreal's ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR! (May 21, 2005)

[Jaggi Singh]

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Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 10:50:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Montreal Anarchist Bookfair <anarchistbookfair at taktic.org>

[Full Film and Art Programme included below ... Please post and forward]

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Montreal's 6th Annual
ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR
Saturday, May 21, 2005, 10am-6pm
2515 rue Delisle
(near Lionel-Groulx metro)
MONTREAL, QUEBEC
Free! Welcome to all.
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Mainspace and 1st floor rooms are wheelchair accessible.
The bookfair is a child-friendly event. Bring your kids!
Free childcare on-site. Kids and Parents Activities.

** The largest anarchist event in North America
** Part of the month-long Festival of Anarchy (April 28-May 24)
** Followed by a full day of Anarchist Presentations and Workshops (May
22, 2005)


Some Bookfair highlights include:

* Introductory Workshops to Anarchism (Rooms 302 and 305):
Twenty-first Century Anarchisms, The History of Anarchism in Quebec,
Building an Anarchist Movement: Lessons Past and Present, and more!


* Solidarity Room (Room 125):
People's Global Action (PGA) and the Campaign Against SNC Lavalin (11am);
Self-determination in Haiti (Noon); The Struggles of Kanien'keha:ka
(Mohawk Territories) (1pm); Solidarity Across Borders: The No One Is
Illegal March on Ottawa (2pm); Quebec's Student Uprising (3pm).


* Kidz Invasion! (Room 119, Cafe Mozaik, Arts and Crafts Room,
outdoors, everywhere):

With Arts & Crafts, Theatre, Dance, Music-Making, Sports and Games for the
kids (all ages);

And various discussions on: Deschooling: Getting Society Out of School;
Television, Advertising and Kids; Pregnancy and Birth: Empowerment, Change
and Action.

Including the Special Film Showing: FREE TO LEARN: The Albany Free
School's Radical Experiment in Education (3pm in Cafe Mozaik) (info:
http://www.freeschoolmovie.com/)


* The Bookmobile (Outdoors): A traveling collection of approximately
300 book works range from handmade and one-of-a-kind to photocopied
and small press publications. http://www.mobilivre.org


* And over 75 distributors, vendors and groups at the bookfair, from
Montreal, Quebec, North America, Latin America and Europe (Main Auditorium
at CEDA)


For complete information, please consult our website:
http://anarchistbookfair.taktic.org

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BOOKFAIR FILM PROGRAMME -- In Room #202 of the CEDA

11:00 IT'S ALL LIES! This fascinating documentary looks at a growing and
controversial movement in Israel, the Anarchists Against the Wall. Voicing
their uncompromising support for Palestinian resistance against Israeli
apartheid, the Anarchists Against the Wall fight empire in the belly of
the beast. Hebrew with English subtitles, 32 minutes, 2004.

11:40 JALIL MUNTAQIM: VOICE OF LIBERATION. A documentary about Black
Panther and Black Liberation Army Political Prisoner Jalil Muntaqim.
English, 20 minutes, 2002.

12:10 BEST OF THE LUCIOLES (www.leslucioles.org). Les Lucioles
("fireflies"), an activist video collective in Montreal, has been
producing socio-political films since September 2002. The films attempt to
show a different reality from that portrayed by traditional media. The
collective is proud to be engaged; to denonce, to propose, and to feed
social debate. The shorts bring together diverse styles and content
(housing crisis, non-status, gay marriage, the keeper, etc.). French, 40
minutes, 2002-2005.

1:00 LE POUVOIR EST DANS LA RUE (Power is in the streets). Alain Tanner,
an anarchist film-producer, was present in Paris in May 1968. With this
documentary taken on the spot, he gives voice to the street, to those who
made May '68. French, 41 minutes, 1968.

1:45 GRASS THROUGH CONCRETE. A 7-minute clip from a documentary about the
struggle by First Nations and various Hamilton citizens to protect the Red
Hill Valley (one of Canada's largest urban parks) from a four-lane
expressway. Through interviews with those involved and on site footage,
"Grass through Concrete" raises questions about local democracy, urban
sprawl and the value of green space in modern cities. English, 7 minute
excerpt.

2:00 ANARCHISM IN AMERICA. This is the Canadian premiere of Anarchism in
America ? a re-working of Pacific Street Film's 1980 feature-length
documentary, which explores new directions in thinking, philosophy and
action in North American anarchism. Includes a new interview with Murray
Bookchin (25 years after the original) and other contemporary anarchists.
English, 45 minutes, 2005.

3:00 GALERES DES FEMMES (Women's hardship). Fleury-Merogis is the biggest
women's prision on Europe. This documentary traces the portraits of seven
women during their detention and then their attempts at re-insertion.
About their quest for life and liberty, solitude, anguish and
difficulties. French, excerpts of 1 hour, 1993.

4:00 LEADED, UNLEADED: THE STATE UNLEASHED. This film by Indymedia Beirut
documents the 2004 Beirut general strike called to protest skyrocketing
prices and lack of social services. The Lebanese army opened fire on
protestors in Hay el Seloum, one of the poorest working-class
neighbourhoods of Beirut. Consisting of footage of the clashes and
interviews, the powerful video places the protests in the historical
context of Lebanese state violence. English and Arabic with English
subtitles, 34 minutes, 2004.

4:40 A selection of short films, including GHOST SQUAT by Satan McNuggit
(English, 6 minutes, 2005).


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BOOKFAIR ART EXHIBITS:

The Bookfair is showing diverse works by artists from Montreal and
elsewhere, focusing on issues close to anarchists and exploring themes of
autonomy. The works can be found in the hallways of the first, second and
third floors and on the stage in the Main Hall of the CEDA.


-> Travelling Wobbly Show
Panels
www.wobblyshow.org

Touring 25 cities in the US and Canada, a collection of graphics
commemorating the centennial year of the Industrial Workers of the World
(IWW).


-> Celebrate People's History
Poster series
Josh McPhee (www.justseeds.org)

An on-going project producing and showing posters that focus on important
moments in "people's history": from the Mujeres Libres to the recent
Bolivian water struggle.


-> History of Street Stenciling
Slide show (loop)
Josh McPhee

One hundred photos of street stencils from throughout history and around
the world, to convey the important role street stenciling has played in
social movements.


-> Soleil Radieux and Blitzkrieg Brain Wash
Acrylic on wood and mixed media; acrylic on canvas
Tournesal Plante

Two works which represent our civilisation, consumption, its opulence. The
city is represented as a dump, a place founded on ruins and war.


-> Three tableaus
Mixed media
Jocelène Jean-Baptiste

The sidewalks are overflowing with discoveries and an unlimited quantity
of metal, rusted by acid rain ?


-> Recess ; Satellitehead ; Asswipe and untitled
Acrylic on canvas
Kim Fox

The paintings are part of an ongoing study of North American culture;
examining our relationships with television and relations of suppressor
vs. suppressed.


-> Punk tribe, Night life, and Killing to Survive
Pencil on paper
Tal H

Three sketches by an Israeli artist which explore modern tribalism, urban
alienation, and survival.


-> Plan Colombia
Banner (recycled soda bottle fabric)
Beehive Design Collective

This graphic attempts to expose the so-called "war on drugs" as a
smokescreen for the interests of multinationals in the Amazon's natural
resources.


-> Fight against impunity and international accompaniment in Guatemala
Photos
Project Accompaniment Quebec Guatemala

The exhibit is meant to raise awareness about the impact and consequences
of repression of armed conflict, and about the work of Guatemalan
communities and organisations for justice.


-> The Massacre of the Innocents (Guatemala)
Diaoramas (wood, paper and ink)
Freda Guttman (1984)

Part of a large installation work, "¡Guatemala! The Road of War" created
at the height of the brutal repression of the Mayan people of Guatemala;
also a homage to Goya's "Disasters of War' etchings.


-> Modern Democracies
Acrylic on canvas
Nidal El Khairy

Arab countries are "led" by dictatorships that rule with an iron fist,
many of them US allies and serving as their local police. American
"ideology" is freedom and democracy; American reality is imperialism and
hypocrisy.


-> Baghdad - Jerusalem, via Montreal
Photographs
Ehab Lotayef

A selection of photos from Lotayef's trip to Iraq in 2003 and a few from
his trip to Palestine in 2004, which bring home the resistance of daily
life under brutal occupations.


-> Reading in the Ruins
Diorama (cardboard and paper)
Freda Guttman (2004)

Paper replica of a work in Guttman's installation, "Notes From the 20th:
Walter". An inspirational confirmation of the power of words, of thinking,
of the mind, of understanding and knowledge in the midst of the horror of
our times.


-> Unravelling
Works on cloth
Romy Ceppetelli

Our bodies and their stories are tangible and ephemeral; choices that we
make about what to remember and what to let go create history and new
possibilities for the present and the future.


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