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 poet Kat Norris
and the Palestinian children’s art exhibition -
A Child’s View from Gaza  

- additional performers to be announced!-

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.

…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!

Organized by Boycott Israeli Apartheid Campaign (Vancouver).