Please join us for a screening of Palestinian-Canadian multidisciplinary artist Rehab Nazzal’s Canada Park and Vibrations from Gaza. To be followed by a conversation between the artist and Coast Salish community member, Jada Gabrielle-Pape, who stands in unwavering solidarity with Palestinian people with audience discussion.

All funds raised at this event will go toward supporting Amani, a young girl from Palestine who is featured in Vibrations from Gaza (2023).

Registration

All Freedom School events are free and by donation. Registration is recommended but not required for this event.

Explore all events in the series at https://events.humanitix.com/host/freedom-school-a-people-s-university.

Accessibility

We encourage attendees to wear a mask as an act of care for those for whom this is an access need. Extra masks will be available on site.

The venue is located on the ground floor of SFU Harbour Centre. The theatre and washrooms (on the same floor) are accessible to wheelchair users.

Please contact the event organizers at drivinginpalestine@gmail.com if you have any questions about access to the space or to let us know how we can make this event more accessible to you.

About the Freedom School and Driving in Palestine

Held in conjunction with Driving in Palestine, Freedom School rides the wake of the Freedom Flotilla as we come together to assert that from Salish Seas to Palestine, occupation is a crime. Freedom School engages liberation praxis and community building in support of a free Palestine and all who advocate for justice in the face of settler colonialism, militarism, state violence and oppression in our shared and interconnected worlds.

In the free school tradition, we embrace education as critical, political, and liberational for ourselves and our community. Education as a practice of freedom must take place in community, which means that it is free, open, and accessible to all community members. This is the context in which we seek to activate and renew community solidarity, to bring attention to ongoing atrocities perpetrated by Israel in the West Bank, to bring an end to the genocide and weaponized starvation in in Gaza, and to centre Indigenous solidarity movements for justice in the face of settler colonial regimes of violence, apartheid, and genocide, more broadly.

Here and now, we amplify and insist on what Sarah Ihmoud describes as decolonial love in the face of colonial oppression where, “to practice feminism in the midst of bearing witness to genocide is to embrace love as a radical consciousness, as a radical decolonial politic of fighting for life.” We do this work together, in community because we know that it is through community that we will achieve collective liberation. Only we will save us.

For, as Nada Elia reminds us, “Today, more than ever, there is growing consciousness that our struggles are not parallel—a term which suggests that they will never meet—but intersectional, coming together at various nodes. Our hope is that the enactment of reciprocal solidarity is a long-term movement, not a ‘moment’.”