Remi Kanazi – An evening of film & poetry

Catastrophe Club with Remi Kanazi

Passing Clouds, 1 Richmond Rd, London E8 4AA.

Tuesday 28th June, 7pm. Tickets £10 (or £5 unwaged).

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Join Hackney Palestine Solidarity Campaign and East End Film Festival for an evening with Palestinian American performance poet Remi Kanazi, touring his latest collection of poetry, Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up From Brooklyn to Palestine. A programme of contemporary Palestinian short films will screen from 7pm.

Remi is a poet and writer based in NYC, whose political commentary has been featured by news outlets throughout the world. His poetry has taken him across the US, Canada, Europe, and the Middle East, and he has appeared in the Palestine Festival of Literature as well as Poetry International. He is an Advisory Committee member for the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.

Omar

Tuesday 26th April

All welcome! Doors open 7pm,  start: 7.30pm.

Free entry

Passing Clouds, 1 Richmond Road, Dalston E8 4AA

A tense, gripping thriller about betrayal, suspected and real, in the Occupied Territories. Omar (Adam Bakri) is a Palestinian baker who routinely climbs over the separation wall to meet up with his girl Nadja (Leem Lubany). By night, he’s either a freedom fighter or a terrorist-you decide-ready to risk his life to strike at the Israeli military with his childhood friends Tarek (Eyad Hourani) and Amjad (Samer Bisharat). Arrested after the killing of an Israeli soldier and tricked into an admission of guilt by association, he agrees to work as an informant. So begins a dangerous game-is he playing his Israeli handler (Waleed F. Zuaiter) or will he really betray his cause?

Two Short Movies about Palestine

Tuesday 23rd February

All welcome! Doors open 7pm,  start: 7.30pm.

Free entry

Passing Clouds, 1 Richmond Road, Dalston E8 4AA

“Balls, Barriers and Bulldozers”: A journey through women’s football in the West Bank, Palestine through the lens of a British women’s team who went to play there.

“The Beautiful Resistance”: Shows the work of the Al-Rowwad Centre, where children and young people are helped to discover creative ways to bring about change through theatre, dance, music and art.  Their projects have included an outdoor film festival, where images were projected onto the Separation Wall, a festival of Palestinian Folk Tales and a professional photography and video training programme.  The aim is to “give hope in times of despair”.

‘Free Men’

Tuesday 24th November

All welcome! Doors open 7pm,  start: 7.30pm.

Free entry

Passing Clouds, 1 Richmond Road, Dalston E8 4AA

‘Where Should The Birds Fly’

Tuesday 27th Octover

All welcome! Doors open 7pm,  start: 7.30pm.

Free entry

Passing Clouds, 1 Richmond Road, Dalston E8 4AA

Dinner with Dr Mona El Farra (Vice President of the Red Crescent in the Gaza Strip)

Saturday, 10 October 2015 from 18:00 to 23:00 (BST)

Cafe Z Bar
58 Stoke Newington High Street
Hackney
N16 7PB London

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Come and hear Dr Mona El-Farra speak at The Big Ride re-union dinner. A physician by training and one of Palestine’s greatest human rights and women’s rights activist in the occupied Gaza Strip, where she lives. Dr Mona is also the Vice President of the Red Crescent Society in the Gaza Strip.

Dr. Mona is known in Gaza as “the mother of the poor children” for her tireless work for the Red Crescent and the Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA). She will share with us the painful stories of ongoing collective punishment by the Israeli military upon the civilian population, introduce us to her work in children’s psychological support programmes, in the aftermath of the latest Israeli aggression, and talk about her contribution to establishing a number of health and cultural centres, the most prominent of which is the al-Aouda Hospital.

As well as Dr Mona’s talk, your ticket also includes dinner and the opportunity to meet some of the cyclists who took part in the ride and hear first-hand their experiences along the route.

We look forward to seeing you!

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‘Waltz with Bashir’

Tuesday 30th June

All welcome! Doors open 7pm,  start: 7.30pm.

Free entry

Passing Clouds, 1 Richmond Road, Dalston E8 4AA