Elle Flanders and Tamira Sawatzky's powerful new installation offers a unique chronicle of lives rarely seen and voices seldom heard. Comprised of a series of individual journeys, and shot using stop-motion animation that captures the landscape frame by frame, the work is presented on three large double-sided walls. Road Movie is the result of year-long travels-with passage through segregated West Bank roads, during which the artists met a cross-section of people living in the region. An episodic odyssey through haunting landscapes, Road Movie also features an evocative soundscape created by acclaimed audio artist Anna Friz.

Opening reception: Sat. Sept 10 6-9pm

Artisis' talks: Sun. Sept 11 & Sun Sept 18 at 2-4pm

Film: Memory & Memorialization - Remembering the Nakba

The screening of two short videos and a moderated discussion explores the basis of memory and the human need to memorialize.

The narrative surrounding the Nakba in 1948 remains central to Palestinians and their supporters. Despite criminalization inside Israel's borders by the Nakba Draft Law (February 2010), the commemoration of the Nakba is a reality -- independent of laws and media.

For many the Nakba references a specific history, for others it provokes questions of memory and personal loss, of collective loss and finally, the loss of truth or recorded reality. The filmmakers will be in attendance.

Myths of Progressive Zionism
Labour, Race, Gender and Colonialism

Dana Olwan - Assistant Professor of Gender Studies, Queen's University; Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR), Kingston

Katherine Nastovski -Graduate student, Social and Political Thought, York University; Labour for Palestine, Toronto

Moderator: Herman Rosenfeld, retired CAW staff person

Organized by:
Not In Our Name (NION) Jewish Voices Opposing Zionism
www.nion.ca

If you want to brush up on your knowledge of the issues before the Pride parade and Dyke March, or just learn some snappy answers to spicy questions, this is the tutorial for you.

Queers Against Israeli Apartheid will be holding the first in a series of Queering Apartheid 101 workshops for any members who are interested. Facilitators will include members from the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid, Faculty 4 Palestine, and Aswat: Palestinian Gay Women.

This is the first annual Platypus International Convention, which will take place at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. As a three-day convention, there will be a series of lectures, workshops, and round-table discussions among members of the Platypus Affiliated Society and the interested public. Each event deals with historical and contemporary sociopolitical and cultural issues that played a role in shaping the development - and downfall - of the Left as we know it. Our intention is to hold a conversation on all the work Platypus has done as a group since its founding in 2006.