[tadamon-l] [Montreal] Thursday! new info: Artists Against Apartheid III.

[Tadamon!]

Artists Against Apartheid III
bridges from South Africa to Palestine...

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THURSDAY, MAY 8th, 8:30pm
Doors: 8-15$
La Sala Rossa, 4848 St. Laurent
Montreal, Quebec
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http://tadamon.resist.ca/index.php/post/1369

A cultural event organized by Tadamon! Montreal and the Kalmunity Vibe 
Collective, the third in a series under the banner Artists Against Apartheid, 
uniting Montreal artists in support of the growing international movement to 
boycott Israeli apartheid. This evening will draw parallels between the 
struggle for freedom and against apartheid in South Africa and the contemporary 
struggle against Israeli apartheid today in Palestine. Artists Against 
Apartheid III: Brides from South Africa to Palestine takes place within a 
context of commemorative events to mark the 60th year of the Palestinian Nakba 
('catastrophe'). 60 years of dispossession, ethnic cleansing and exile for 
Palestinians resulting from the creation of the state of Israel...

* Including solidarity statements from Palestinian artists / musicians recorded 
in Palestine for Artists Against Apartheid III including statements from:

Jadal Band, traditional Arabic Jazz fusion from Beit Sahour, Palestine

Tornado Lights, youth hip-hop group from Beit Sahour, West Bank, Palestine

Iman Hamori of the Popular Arts Center in Ramallah, West Bank, Palestine
(http://www.popularartcentre.org)

Nidal el Khairy, Palestinian graphic artist from Ramallah, Palestine
(http://www.nidal48.com)

statements on-line at:
http://www.ncra.ca/exchange/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=70287


performances from:

* Kalmunity Word Sound System with DJ Andy Williams featuring:

Jason "Blackbird" Selman (poet, trumpet)
Fabrice Koffy (lyricist)
Joel "Jahnice" Janis (vocalist)
Katalyst (lyricist)
Zibz Black Current (lyricist)
Karl Pricot (percussion)
Mohamed Mehdi (guitar, voice)
Empress Deeqa (voice)

* members of Nomadic Massive featuring:

Lou Piensa (lyricist)
Waahli aka Wyzah (lyricist)
Butta Beats (lyricist / beat-box)

* 23 (Tu-Three) with DJ Crook

As a Muslim-American hip-hop artists 23 addresses through beats and rhymes 
struggles for social justice from inside the walls of fortress North America. 
Recently 23 (Tu-Three) released an album with Abdelkader Belouni, an Algerian 
refugee living in sanctuary at St. Gabriel's Church in Point St. Charles, who 
has engaged in a protracted struggle for status from the Canadian government 
making headlines throughout the local press and throughout the world. 
http://www.myspace.com/23andkader

* Featuring a raffle with original art works from Palestinian artist Nidal 
Elkhairy (http://www.nidal48.com) and Freda Guttman, raffle will be drawn at 
the concert and tickets are two dollars at the door...

information on performers:

* Nomadic Massive is a Montreal based collective of independent Hip-Hop artists 
who have come together in an effort to combine their energies and spread their 
music across borders. The crew is made up of independent artists who share a 
similar vision of music and life as well as a desire to travel and experience 
the cultures of the world through their art. Although this collective is new, 
its members have been working in the music community for many years as artists 
but also as radio show host, organizers, educators, street-workers, producers 
and other community oriented roles. WHY Nomadic Massive? Because they are 
cultural nomads, all uprooted since birth and latching on to Hip-Hop to express 
this disruption. The crew reps a cultural diversity reflective of the city they 
evolve in. Musical nomads also, representing an open-minded Hip-Hop which finds 
its inspiration in the tradition of the past, combining samplers, turntables 
and traditional instruments. Well aware of the contradictions of Hip-Hop.s 
globalization process, the massive feels it is vital to be in touch with other 
scenes across the world, especially those in less developed economies, to 
share, learn, be inspired and spread a message of love, peace and universal 
understanding. http://www.nomadicmassive.ca/

* Kalmunity Vibe Collective has caught the minds and consciousness of people 
throughout this city, as the cultural network Kalmunity Vibe Collective 
presents a groundbreaking cultural space celebrating social justice and 
innovative musicality. As A collective of local artists dedicated to promoting 
and perpetuating the potential of art as a tool for communication and activism 
for social, political and environmental consciousness. Their uplifting 'live 
organic improv' every week is at Montreal's Sablo Café. 
http://www.kalmunity.com

This event is hosted by Tadamon! Montreal, whose work is directed at building 
solidarity between movements for social and economic justice in Montreal and 
the Middle East. In Canada, Tadamon works to support the boycott, sanctions & 
divestment of Israeli apartheid & to challenge the listing of Hezbollah as a 
terrorist organization by the Canadian government.

* Tadamon!: Delisting Hezbollah
http://tadamon.resist.ca/index.php/campaigns/de-listing-hezbollah

* Tadamon!: Boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israeli apartheid
http://tadamon.resist.ca/index.php/campaigns/boycott-divestment-and-sanctions-against-israeli-apartheid

Tadamon! Montreal
514 664 1036 / tadamon[at]resist.ca / http://tadamon.resist.ca

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