Arika Episode 12: From the Rivers to the Seas | Thu 12 Nov

Day 2 of Arika’s Episode 12: From the Rivers to the Seas. (link to intro page)
Five days of film, music, discussion and study.

A Conference of Butterflies in Three Movements - Notions, Notations Toward the Abolition of the Planetary Regime of Nakba 

Anti-Denialist Museum of Palestine (Ayreen Anastas, Rene Gabri, Peter Maklouf, Lara Sheehi, Francoise Verges, Carmel Alabassi, Majdal Nateel, Mahmoud Al-Shaer, David Lloyd, Nick Mirzoeff and more TBC)

Morning: 10.30am - 12 noon
Lunch: 12 noon - 1pm
Afternoon: 1 - 2.30pm (15 min break) 2.45 - 4.15pm (15 min break) 4.30 - 6pm

Conference / Discussion | Tramway 4
Free & unticketed. First come first served

A day-long gathering with leading Palestinian artists and collaborators. What does Gaza ask of us? How might we respond to Gaza beyond the dates, imposed temporalities and the language of a genocidal “peace” and denialist “war”?

Access: This is a relaxed event and attendees are welcome to move around the space and come & go as they please. Live Captioning.

Content Note: Discussion of the genocide in Gaza and settler colonial violence.

Ashlaa’ to Lamlameh: Fragments Made Whole
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian and David Lloyd
7 - 8.20pm
Discussion | Tramway 1
Ticketed via Thurs Evening Pass

A conversation between preeminent Palestinian feminist, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian and poet and scholar David Lloyd. Nadera has coined two incredibly profound concepts to understand Palestinian life today. Ashlaa'—the violent fracturing of Palestinian bodies, and lamlameh—the defiant collecting of a loved one’s parts.

Access: Live Captioning & BSL

Content Notes This conversation will cover subjects including: state crimes, gender-based violence, surveillance, and the impacts of military occupation on Palestinian women and children, including death and dismemberment.

J'ai Huit Ans (1961)
Yann Le Masson
8.20 - 8.30pm
Film Screening | T1
Ticketed via Thurs Evening Pass

A landmark of militant cinema, J'ai Huit Ans emerged from work undertaken by the great anti-colonial psychiatrist and philosopher Franz Fanon with Algerian child refugees, documenting their experiences of French violence during the Algerian War of Independence. Filmed portraits of these children are intercut with their drawings, originally collected by Fanon, as they narrate the stories behind the images.

Access: English Subtitling,

Content Notes: Descriptions and drawn representations of colonial violence against children and their parents, from the children's own perspective.

Countertechnologies of life making in Palestine, for Palestine
Nadera Shalhoub-Kervorkian & Lara Sheehi
8.50 - 10pm
Discussion | Tramway 1
Ticketed via Thurs Evening Pass

Our second event focused on the work of the preeminent Palestinian Feminist scholar Nadera Shalhoub-Kervorkian. Here, she sits down with psychoanalyst and author Lara Sheehi to discuss some of Nadera’s other vital concepts including the ideas of ‘overkilling’ and ‘unchilding’, which are fundamental to understanding Palestinian experience today.

Access: Live Captioning & BSL

Content Notes: This conversation will cover subjects including: state crimes, gender-based violence, surveillance, and the impacts of military occupation on Palestinian women and children, including death and dismemberment.

All conversations are Live Captioned, and BSL is available for all events after 7pm on Thursday. If you would like to attend an event before 7pm and require BSL interpretation Arika will try to make that happen. To request this, contact them, with as much notice as possible, on info@arika.org.uk.

Food will be served by Soul Food Sisters at lunch (12-1pm) and dinner (6-7pm).

Full schedule, programme notes and access details for all Episode events are available on the Arika website.

About Episode Tickets
Evening Passes are Sliding Scale and you can choose what you pay based on your circumstances. The Evening Pass grants you access to the full night of events and Arika encourages you to stay for the full programme.

Produced by Arika

Programmed in collaboration with Counterflows, PANEL, Beniba Centre for Slavery Studies

Supported by Creative Scotland, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Tramway, and Glasgow Life

Image - J’ai Huit Ans (1961) dir. Yann Le Masson