A five-day gathering bringing together art, critical thought and grassroots organising with film, music and workshops, exploring anti-colonial and abolitionist themes.
Arika is taking over Tramway from Wednesday 11 to Sunday 15 November for Episode 12: From the Rivers to the Seas, a five-day gathering that brings together avant-garde and militant cinema, experimental music and anti-neocolonial docu-poetry. It's produced by Arika and programmed with Counterflows, PANEL and the Beniba Centre for Slavery Studies, with support from Creative Scotland, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Tramway, Glasgow Life and the Consulate General of Brazil - Edinburgh.
The whole thing is framed around Gaza and the impacts of military occupation. Palestinian scholar and feminist Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, who coined the concepts 'Ashlaa' and 'lamlameh', is one of the speakers, and she'll be in conversation with David Lloyd. The bill also includes a screening of J'ai Huit Ans (1961) by Yann Le Masson, a landmark of militant cinema made with Algerian child refugees during the Algerian War of Independence. On Friday 13 November there's a workshop led by Mahmoud Alshaer.
It's a wide-reaching project, developed with friends in Palestine, Lebanon, Brazil, Armenia, Algeria, Réunion, the USA, Puerto Rico, Korea, France and Scotland. The set design is by JAMAC (Jardim Miriam Arte Clube) and PANEL, with catering from Soul Food Sisters and a bookstall run by Aye-Aye Books. All conversations are live-captioned, and BSL is available after 7pm.
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