Living Words: Multilingual Poetry Commemorating Land and People
🗓 Mon, March 30 at 5:45 pm
📍1803 East 1st Ave. xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh & səlilwətaɬ lands
⏰ Doors at 5:45 pm. Starts with light meal. Event at 6:30 pm
👥 PWYC, suggested $20 -$40+. Bring cash. ALL funds to Gaza.
Registration Required:
Join Weaving Our Worlds for an evening of multi-lingual poetry and cultural expression centering on the theme of land and resistance.
This will be an evening of intimate poetry and storytelling featuring poets, spoken-word artists and comrades sharing in different language traditions without translation or adaptation into the colonial English language. Oral tradition, in preserving cultural and historical knowledge through generations, has been at the heart of many resistance struggles around the world. Centering the Palestinian struggle for land and liberation, we invite you to explore the interrelation of our many experiences despite the oppression that threatens to disembody us from the land and people. We hope the poetry shared and time spent together serves as a balm in the face of raging fascism and imperialism.
This event commemorates Yom Al Ard يَوْم اَلْأَرْض (Palestinian Land Day). March 30th marks the anniversary of the 1976 killings of several Palestinians protesting Israel’s expropriation of land near Sakhnin in Galilee. This day not only commemorates the sumud of Palestinians but also the importance of the land to the survival of the Palestinian people and cultural heritage. The land knows no borders, and land connects us all.
This is a fundraiser with a suggested donation of $20-40+ and NOTAFLOF. ALL funds going to Gaza.
Accessibility + Housekeeping
🍆 Event starts with light meal. Food will be put away by 6:20 pm so people remain masked. Please bring a container if you want to take food away. Event starts at 6:30 pm
👥 PWYC, suggested $20 -$40+. Bring cash. ALL funds to Gaza.
♿ Venue has an accessible entrance at street level, which gives access to hall, washrooms, and kitchen. The washroom door opening is 86 cm, and the stall door is 61 cm.
👶🏾 Child-friendly space, and there is also a playroom in the venue. Childminding confirmed on-site.
😷Masks required to ensure that the day is accessible to immunocompromised comrades and protects all of us from Covid-19 transmission. If you are not someone who typically opts to wear a mask, we thank you for respecting this and helping us to enact a collectivist approach to wellbeing. Presenters may remove masks while presenting. Masks will be available on-site.
🚫We never collaborate with any policing agency. This includes never allowing entry to cops, cbsa etc, nor ever providing information or immigration status of people.
🌿 We welcome curiosity and conversation! This does not extend to harassing, discriminatory, oppressive speech or actions especially related to marginalised genders, sexualities, race, religion, disability, age, appearance, etc Everyone commits to a welcoming and dignified environment for all.