Monday – March 14th

Apartheid 101

University Centre Rm 103 – 5:30pm

Come learn why Israeli laws and Israel’s occupation are recognized as “Apartheid” by the United Nations and South African anti-Apartheid veterans alike.  A guest from Waterloo’s Students for Palestinian Rights will be presenting.  Explore the causes of Israeli Apartheid and learn about IAW and the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement.

Organized by OPIRG – Guelph

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Tuesday – March 15th

“Art as Resistance” display

University Centre Courtyard – Afternoon

Come check out photography from Palestine by a UofG student as well as solidarity art created by students.

Organized by OPIRG – Guelph

“Zero Degrees of Separation”

University Centre Rm 334 – 7pm

Zero Degrees of Separation looks at the Middle East conflict and the Palestinian Occupation, through the eyes of mixed Palestinian and Israeli gay and lesbian couples. Ezra is against the Occupation, yet he’s an Israeli. His partner, Selim, is a Palestinian whose protests against the Occupation landed him in jail at age 15. Ezra is a simple plumber whose courage and cheek take on prophet–like proportions as he travels across the country risking his life to protest the walls, fences and military checkpoints that divide them. Interwoven with their stories is footage of Elle Flanders’ grandparents, who were intimately involved in the founding of the state of Israel. Through these home movies, Flanders artfully retraces her grandparents’ travels as they tour a fledgling nation brimming with pioneering joyous youth, immigrants, refugees and endless open vistas of the Holy Land, contrasting the ideals at the birth of the “holy land” with the reality of today’s Israel, a country mired in the rubble of Occupation.

Organized by Guelph Queer Equality

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Wednesday – March 16th

“Slingshot Hip Hop”

University Centre Rm 103 – 5:30 pm

Slingshot Hip Hop braids together the stories of young Palestinians living in Gaza, the West Bank and inside Israel as they discover Hip Hop and employ it as a tool to surmount divisions imposed by occupation and poverty. From internal checkpoints and Separation Walls to gender norms and generational differences, this is the story of young people crossing the borders that separate them.  (Trailer)

Organized by The Critical Knowledge Collective

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Thursday – March 17th

“Art as Resistance” display

University Centre Courtyard – Afternoon

Come check out photography from Palestine by a UofG student as well as solidarity art created by students.

Organized by OPIRG – Guelph

Palestinian Unfreedom and Israeli Apartheid: Breaking the Silences

University Centre Rm 103 – 5:30 Pm

Speaker: Alan Sears

IAW-Guelph Keynote speaker.  Join us for an in-depth look at Israeli Apartheid and the fightback globally and in Canada.  Alan Sears teaches Sociology at Ryerson and is a long-time activist in queer and radical movements.  He is a member of Faculty for Palestine (F4P).  He has written about Palestine solidarity, queer movements, the education system, work, and radical activism.

Organized by The Peak and OPIRG – Guelph

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Friday – March 18th

University Centre Rm 103 – 5:30pm

Lia Tarachansky – Speaker and Film Screening

Lia Tarachansky, the Middle East correspondent for the independent video network, The Real News, will be speaking on Canadian campuses about covering the region outside corporate media and about Canada’s involvement in the region.  In an evening of stories, videos, and music, she’ll be showing the difference between what’s happening on the ground and what’s happening on your television.

Organized by The Peak and OPIRG – Guelph

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Sunday – March 20th

“The Time that Remains”

Bookshelf Theatre, 41 Quebec Street – 1pm

A beautiful, unique, and deeply personal depiction of Palestine since 1948 from the internationally acclaimed director of Divine Intervention, Elia Sulieman. The Time That Remains is a semi-autobiographical film, in four episodes, about a family from 1948 until recent times. The film is inspired by the director’s father’s private diaries, starting from when he was a resistance fighter in 1948, and his mother’s letters to family members who were forced to leave the country. The film attempts to portray the daily life of those Palestinians who remained and were labelled “Israeli-Arabs”, living as a minority in their own homeland.  (Trailer)

Organized by the Bookshelf