[van-announce] March 12: Hip-hop artist OsTwelve joining the lineup at RESISTANCE CULTURE: Spoken Word, Poetry and Art for Palestine

[Charlotte Kates]

*<http://www.boycottisraeliapartheid.org/biac/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/remikanazi-1.jpg>Hip-hop
artist OsTwelve is now joing the lineup Monday night at Resistance Culture!
Stay tuned for more artists joining the event Monday night. Don't miss Remi
Kanazi in Vancouver, along with Cease Wyss and Kat Norris.*

*When Gaza and Palestine are under attack, come together to celebrate the
continuing resistance and the culture of resistance and liberation - Monday
night.*

*MONDAY, MARCH 12*
*Resistance Culture: An Evening of Spoken Word, Poetry and Art*
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*
*Hip-hop artist OsTwelve*
*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:

 *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.

*Ostwelve* (Ron Dean Harris), was born in the Coast Salish – Sto:lo
Territory of British Columbia, Canada. Being introduced to music at an
early age, Os was experimenting with the art form of Hiphop by the age of
12 years old. Moving into the city of Vancouver at the age of 13, the
Hiphop scene there lead him to the sounds and sights of the growing art of
Hiphop. By the age of 19 Os was performing around the emerging Native
Hiphop scene in Vancouver and in 1999 he was asked to join Native American
rap artist Litefoot on his “Red Ryder Tour” throughout several states and
numerous Native communities in the USA. Since then Ostwelve has been
recording music and acting. Ostwelve has shared the stage with acts such as
Coolio, Snoop Dogg, Guru, K’naan, Masta Ace, Living Legends, Abstract Rude,
Swollen Members, Moka Only, Litefoot, Rez Official, Digging Roots, Pura Fe,
Joey Stylez and Kinnie Starr just to name a few. For more information,
please see Ostwelve’s website:http://ostwelveproductions.blogspot.com

…and presenting the art exhibition, *A Child’s View From
Gaza*<http://childsviewfromgaza.org/>,
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)

-- 
Charlotte L. Kates     charlotte.kates at gmail.com