Please join us for a screening and discussion in partnership with from the river to the sea collective, CCMS (Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies), and the MENA Film Festival.

Trajectories of Care is a one hour screening program featuring Restoring Childhood Among the Rubble (2025), Dir. Ruwaida Amer and letter to a friend (2019), Dir. Emily Jacir. To be followed by discussion.

Light meal catered by Mariam’s Lebanese Cuisine.

Doors and food at 7:00; screening begins at 7:30.

Notional Space is an event space and also the living room of the hosts' home. As they practice a shoe-free house culture, please bring comfy socks or house-slippers to wear.

Image credit: still from Emily Jacir's film "letter to a friend" (2019).

Registration

All Freedom School events are free and by donation. Registration is 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 while not actively eating or drinking. Extra masks will be available on site.

Notional Space is down half-a-flight of stairs if accessed from the front door entry. We are on-grade at the rear of the building, however, and will provide access and assistance through the rear to anyone who requests it. You can either contact drivinginpalestine@gmail.com in advance to make arrangements or buzz from the front door when you arrive and we'll open up in back. Our rear entrance is in the laneway between Hastings and Pender, directly opposite the parking entry for the Bohême condos and shops.

Please contact the event organizers at drivinginpalestine@gmail.com to let us know how we can make this event more accessible to you, or with any questions.

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’.”

Contact the host of Palestine: Trajectories of Care Film Screening