APA & Film Event of Interest
EastSide Arts Alliance presents
Final Fridays Films of Resistance & Solidarity Spirit of Bandung
Friday, March 31st at 7pm
WOMEN IN STRUGGLE
BY BUTHINA CANAAN KHOURY
&
a short preview of
LONG HAIRED WARRIORS
stories of Vietnamese women who were soldiers and prisoners of war
CO-SPONSORED BY THE ASIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER COALITION AGAINST WAR
at EastSide Arts Alliance
2587 International Blvd.
at 26th Ave. in Oakland
INFO: 510.533.6629
COMMUNITY DISCUSSION
on the role of women in the movement and an update on the current situation in Palestine.
FREE EVENT ** REFRESHMENTS SERVED
Seating is limited, please arrive early
The documentary film Women in Struggle is about Palestinian women whom are ex-political detainees demonstrating their struggle during their years of imprisonment in Israeli jails exploring the affects and influence on their present life and their future outlook.
The focus is on the lives of four women who came out of their regular roles as sisters, mothers, wives, and took on a different role being involved in the Palestinian national struggle for independence. Without narration, these women give their testimony in their own words about their past difficult experiences, of their suffering while living their daily difficult life in the current Palestinian Intifada which was not an element present during the initial research of this documentary nor was the so called “war on terror and the apartheid wall
These additional three elements have made this film critical in exploring, identifying, and understanding how these women detainees made the effort to preserve their dignity and integrate in the social and political aspects of the Palestinian life. Although these four women are out of the actual Israeli prison they actually find themselves in a bigger prison carrying “prison” within them in every aspect of their life.
Final Fridays Films, a free monthly community event produced by EastSide Arts Alliance, screens on the last Friday of every month. Alternate months¹ events are co-presented by KQED Community Outreach. Final Fridays Films is a part of Making Connections Oakland and is funded by the Annie E.Casey Foundation and Bay Area Mosaic. The EastSide Arts Alliance (ESAA) is a group of artists and community activists of color who live and work in the Lower San Antonio neighborhood of East Oakland. Founded in 1999, ESAA is dedicated to nurturing and supporting the work of the Lower San Antonio district¹s African American, Latino/Chicano, Asian, and Native American cultural workers, many of whom have not found a home within Oakland¹s mainstream arts community. Through our work, the Alliance hopes to nurture a genuinely multi-cultural community that benefits all people in our neighborhood.
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