[van-announce] March 12: Resistance Culture: An Evening of Spoken Word, Poetry and Art - Vancouver

[Charlotte Kates]

 *Resistance Culture: An Evening of Spoken Word, Poetry and Art* Monday,
March 12, 2012 - 7:00 pm, InterUrban Gallery, 1 East Hastings St.,
Vancouver (suggested donation $10, no one turned away for lack of funds)

*Featuring:*
*Remi Kanazi, Palestinian poet from New York *
*Special guests including Indigenous poets Kat Norris* *and Cease Wyss*
*and the Palestinian children’s art exhibition, *
*A Child’s View from Gaza  *

Facebook Event:https://www.facebook.com/events/175622595882387/

- additional performers to be announced!-

<http://www.boycottisraeliapartheid.org/biac/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/iaw-remi-kanazi-web.jpg>Join
the Boycott Israeli Apartheid Campaign for a powerful night of cultural
resistance and poetic in/justice. Art, culture, poetry and performance are
a part of the struggle for liberation, reflecting its creative potential,
insisting on existence in the face of genocide, colonialism, occupation and
imperialism, speaking truth to power and tearing down apartheid walls.

Featuring powerful spoken word and poetry from:

Remi Kanazi, acclaimed  Palestinian-American poet, writer, and activist
based in New York City. He is the editor of Poets For Palestine (Al Jisser
Group, 2008). His political commentary has been featured by news outlets
throughout the world, including Al Jazeera English, GRITtv with Laura
Flanders, and BBC Radio. His poetry has taken him across North America, the
UK, and the Middle East, and he recently appeared in the Palestine Festival
of Literature as well as Poetry International. Remi is the author of the
long-awaited collection Poetic Injustice: Writings on Resistance and
Palestine, a diverse mix of unabashed resistance poems. You can find out
more about Remi and Poetic Injustice at poeticinjustice.net.

Videos of Remi’s performances: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ60E1Y-yNE,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZJ4bWfPa1k&feature=related

Kat Norris is the founder of Indigenous Action Movement and survivor of the
Kuper Island Residential School. Kat joined the American Indian Movement
and has been a social activist since.

T’Uy’Tanat-Cease Wyss, Skwxw’u7mesh Nation, Ethnobotanist/Media
Artist/Educator/Activist – Food Security has been the leading force of
Cease’s life journey. She has witnessed, as a child, her family being
robbed of their salmon from DFO, as well as the police, and has stood up
with other Indigenous Peoples, to fight for native peoples’ rights to hunt,
gather, and fish in their traditional territories. Community Gardening and
Community Kitchens have become the contemporary common grounds to fight for
healthy foods and food systems, and traditional foods and medicines being
brought back to the people.  Cease has been actively gardening throughout
her entire life, and attributes her gardening skills to her family.  Her
father is a master gardener, as were her Nahanee family ancestors, who
started a farm near Stanley Park at the turn of the century, which was once
called Kanaka Ranch.  This was located at Coal Harbour.

…and presenting the art exhibition, A Child’s View From Gaza, featuring 25
drawings and paintings created by Palestinian children and youth from the
Gaza Strip following the 2009 Israeli assault on Gaza. It will be touring
the Vancouver area, organized by the Vancouver Child’s View From Gaza
Committee. The full exhibition will join us at InterUrban Gallery for this
evening of resistance culture!
 This event is part of Vancouver’s program for Israeli Apartheid
Week<http://apartheidweek.org/>, an
international series of events held each March in cities and campuses
across the globe. This year, Vancouver will be joining more than 70 cities
around the world in raising awareness about the system of apartheid in
Israel and building the growing international movement of Boycott,
Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns. For the full Vancouver series of
events, please seehttp://boycottisraeliapartheid.org/iawvancouver<http://www.boycottisraeliapartheid.org/iawvancouver/>
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Q9vRM0k2TdA

Organized by Boycott Israeli Apartheid Campaign (Vancouver).

 For more information on IAW globally:
http://apartheidweek.org

For more information:
http://boycottisraeliapartheid.org
boycottapartheid at gmail.com
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Charlotte L. Kates     charlotte.kates at gmail.com