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Arts-based non-profit Akira have announced the line-up for Episode 12: From The Rivers to the Seas, their five-day programme full of performances and discussions by artists, musicians, historians and more.
This year’s programme, running from November 11 – 15, will be hosted at Glasgow’s cultural venue Tramway and will explore how people can think with, and from and idea of, Palestine on a planetary scale.
Many contributors in this year’s line-up will be performing in Scotland for the first time, including Brazilian philosopher Leda Maria Martins, Palestinian poet Mahmoud Alshaer and Palestinian feminist, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian.
Barry Esson, co-director of Akira, emphasises that the strive for global understanding and support knows no bounds, saying: “For liberation, justice and revolution to be successful they must be planetary.
“At Arika we work to connect local and global struggles and believe that social desires can become embodied aesthetically.
J’ai Huit Ans (1961) dir. Yann Le Masson
“At Episode 12 we want to ask: How do we think with, and from, Palestine on a planetary scale? Can we connect different sites of anti-colonial resistance, without flattening them through analogy, equivalence or universalism? How can we learn in the back and forth between different colonial situations and the struggles of refusal that resist them?
“We’re really excited to see how this programme develops in real time, with all the invited artists and participants, and audiences in Glasgow; our friends and collaborators at Tramway, Panel, Counterflows; to see how a social space can develop in which together we can speculate, learn and share the joy of anti-colonial refusal.”
Highlights of Episode 12 will include a live film performance titled ‘The Nakba in the Room’ by Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri, a writing workshop titled ‘A Year on the Abyss of Genocide’ by writer and poet Mahmoud Alshaer, and ‘Time as an Object of Struggle in Palestinian Anticolonialism’ by Nasser Abourahme and Peter Makhlouf which is an exploration of how Palestinians rethink the cosmologies of time.
Tickets for the five-day long programme are available for purchase on Tramway’s website here: https://www.tramway.org/event/dd9c7512-ca9f-4186-bf95-b4cc008e2d1f/
