[van-announce] Fri Aug 7 and Tues Aug 11 workshops w/Invincible and LAL!!!

[Harsha W.]

Details below on:

* Fri Aug 7 with Detroit-based Invincible "Colonization, Displacement,
Gentrification: Hiphop and Media Workshop"

* Tues Aug 11 Free spoken word workshop (must register) and spectacular
show with highly-acclaimed Toronto-based LAL:



Hip Hop and Media Organizing Against
Displacement, Colonization and Gentrification

w/Detroit based emcee & activist ** INVINCIBLE ***

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Friday August 7th. FREE!
Doors: 5:30 pm @ W2 Flack Block Gallery
Address: 157 W Hastings
Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish Territories

Bus tickets and snacks provided
Child-friendly/childcare on site
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On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=104700769846
Invincible on myspace: http://www.myspace.com/invincilana

Invincible will screen and discuss the hybrid docu-music-videos "People
Not Places" featuring Abeer and Suhell Nafar (DAM) and "Locusts" featuring
Finale, both directed by Iqaa the Olivetone. These films will show the
relationship between gentrification and colonization and ways that people
are not only resisting but also developing visionary alternative and
sustainable solutions. She will also lead a participatory workshop about
local organizing strategies and generating ideas to bring new people and
energy into the local anti-displacement projects in Vancouver and
surrounding areas.

Please join us in a rare opportunity with acclaimed and award-winning
artist Invincible, you won't want to miss it!  Presented by No One Is
Illegal with the support of W2, Under the Volcano Festival of Art & Social
Change, EMERGENCE Music, Downtown Eastside Power of Women Group, Boycott
Israeli Apartheid Campaign.

For more information call 778 885 0040 or email noii-van at resist.ca.

* Full info at: http://noii-van.resist.ca/?p=1166


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LAL returns to Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories
Spoken word workshop followed by show!

Two events on TUESDAY AUGUST 11TH:

On facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=55628184948

**** SPOKEN WORD WORKSHOP, 5-8 pm @ Broadway Youth Centre (691 e.
Broadway): Dinner and bus tickets provided. This is a child friendly space.

LAL will lead a free spoken-word workshop where participants will have an
expressive and non-judgemental space to explore social and political
issues from their personal perspective and develop performance works.

The workshop is unfortunately limited to 20 participants and
pre-registration is required. We would particularly like to encourage
youth under 20 yrs, seniors over 50 yrs, unwaged people, Indigenous
people, recent immigrants/refugees, and others with limited access to arts
training to participate. Please register by emailing noii-van at resist.ca
(preferable) or call  778-833-4484, confirmations will be sent 10 days
prior.

***** BACK TO THE SOURCE @ Nyala Restaurant, 4148 Main St (corner 25th
Ave)***** Doors @ 9 pm. $5 cover.

Where it all began. Foundation and Nyala restaurant getting us in touch
with our beginnings where we are all connected. Words, Music, Movement,
Soul. DJ's, emcees, spoken word including Toronto-based LAL!


ABOUT LAL:

LAL’s music is the outcome of a collaboration between vocalist Rosina
Kazi, electronic music composer and producer Nick Murray (a.k.a. “Murr”),
bassist Ian De Souza, and percussionist Rakesh Tewari. All their records
have been released to much acclaim, including their previous release being
awarded Best Soul Album 2004 by prominent Canadian music rag
Exclaim!Magazine.

LAL is a protest band representing Uganda, Bangladesh, Barbados and India.
The new record is called ‘Deportation’ and it was creatively triggered by
9/11 and it’s affects, deportations and national security measures, our
experiences as migrant peoples, our travels, and those we’ve met along the
way, our thoughts & spirits as individuals and communities. We are
grateful for the opportunity to make music that speaks to issues of social
justice.

“Sound-wise, Deportation is as compelling as its subject matter.”- Toronto
Star.

For more information about LAL: www.lalforest.com
For more information about No One Is Illegal: noii-van.resist.ca
For more information about Back to the Source: foundationradio.ca
For more information about LOVE-BC: www.leaveoutviolence.com
For more information about Under the Volcano: volcano.resist.ca