Poster design by AIM designer/researcher Roï Saade.
Image description: Poster of the panel with the panel’s title, date, panelists’ names, and funders information, and an AIM Lab logo on a mustard yellow background. There are two images in the middle. The first is a photo of Kanien’kehá:ka waters and lands by Kahérakwas Donna Goodleaf. Bright daylight with the sun lightening a beautiful tree with green leaves and Kanien’kehá:ka waters. The second is a screenshot from the film Canada Park by Razan AlSalah. The image shows the people of Imwas, Yalo and Beit Nouba returning to the site of Canada Park, an Israeli national park transplanted over the destruction of their villages by the Israeli Occupation Forces in 1967.
Land and Accessible Futures: Stories of Resistance and Survival
Land and Accessible Futures: Stories of Resistance and Survival is composed of two separate events, an online panel and an online exhibition, that will address the topic of Land and accessible futures by bringing together artists, educators, activists, and researchers – aka storytellers – from all over the Earth; from Turtle Island to Palestine, from Jordan to Lebanon, from Egypt to Tunisia and Iraq. Our storytellers, grounded in the lived realities of the Land from which they speak, will take us through stories of survival, resistance, and longing for liveable futures.
Online Panel
From Turtle Island to Palestine: Resistance and Survival
Panelists: Kahérakwas Donna Goodleaf, Turtle Clan, Kanien’kehá:ka Nation (Ed.D., Director of Decolonizing Curriculum and Pedagogy, Centre for Teaching and Learning) and Razan AlSalah (artist and teacher)
Date: 10, March 2022, 12.30-2.00
Registration Link: https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rvcJoqCHQWG28hnSXPwH1A
Accessibility information: ASL interpretation, live captioning, and image descriptions will be provided.
Online exhibition
Air, river, sea, soil; a history of an exploited land
Curated by: Roï Saade
(Website link coming soon)
An online exhibition bringing together six artists whose works focus on issues of access lands, waters and air in the SWANA region.
Zied Ben Romdhane, Lost in Moment
Mohamed Mahdy, Moon Dust
Nadia Bseiso, Infertile Crescent
Roï Saade, The Epic of Dalieh
Tamara Abdul Hadi, Decolonizing Photographic History
Razan AlSalah, Canada Park
Funding acknowledgement: This event is organized by the Access in the Making Lab and funded by Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Critical Disability Studies and Media Technologies, and Concordia University Aid to Research Related Events, Publication, Exhibition and Dissemination Activities (ARRE) Program. The co-sponsors of this event are the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture (CISSC) and the Centre for Sensory Studies (CSS).
