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Screening: This Changes Everything
Special event: A collaboration between The Radical Imagination Project, the Nova Scotia Public Interest Research Group and the Ecology Action Centre. Monday, December 14, 6:30pm - Central Branch Library, Room 301 Cultures of Resistance (2015) Directed by Avi Lewis and produced in conjunction with Lewis' partner Naomi Klein's bestselling book of the same name, This Changes Everything is an urgent dispatch on climate change that eschews the abstract and rhetorical in favour of the personal and immediate. With Klein serving as narrator…
Find out more »Screening: After the Last River
The Radical Imagination Project is delighted to be once again partnering with Cinema Politica and the Central Branch of the Halifax Public Library to curate a series of provocative documentary films to Halifax from September to December 2015. These films focus on key contemporary issues and will be followed by moderated discussions. All films are free and open to the public. Monday, November 30, 6:30pm – Central Branch Library, O’Regan Auditorium After the Last River (2015, director: Vicki Lean) In the shadow of a…
Find out more »Screening: Cultures of Resistance
The Radical Imagination Project is delighted to be once again partnering withCinema Politica and the Central Branch of the Halifax Public Library to curate a series of provocative documentary films to Halifax from September to December 2015. These films focus on key contemporary issues and will be followed by moderated discussions. All films are free and open to the public. Monday, December 14, 6:30pm - Central Branch Library, Room 301 Cultures of Resistance (2010, director: Iara Lee) In 2003, on the eve of the…
Find out more »Screening: The Wanted 18
The Radical Imagination Project and partners are pleased to host a screening of The Wanted 18 on January 13, 6pm at the Central Public Library, followed by a discussion with director Paul Cowan and guests. Through animation, interviews and reenactments, The Wanted 18 recreates an astonishing true story: the Israeli army's pursuit of 18 cows, whose independent milk production on a Palestinian collective farm was declared "a threat to the national security of the state of Israel." In response to the…
Find out more »Screening: Occupy, Resist, Produce
Join us for a screening and discussion of two films about grassroots factory occupations in Italy and Greece, where workers are reclaiming their workplaces and reimagining politics and solidarity from the shop floor in defiance of austerity.
Find out more »Screening: Sí, Se Puede: Seven Days at PAH Barcelona
‘SÍ SE PUEDE. Seven days at PAH Barcelona' is a daily account of Barcelona‘s Platform of People Affected by Mortgage in what could be a week of its tireless activity. Departing from the concrete and the everyday, the documentary tries to explain the complexity and diversity of a movement that has spread throughout the state and has been a real challenge for civil society to government policies and financial institutions after the economic and human disaster which marked the bursting…
Find out more »Screening: Black Power Mixtape, 1967-1975
The Black Power Mixtape is an archive- and music- driven documentary that examines the evolution of the Black Power Movement in the African-American community and Diaspora from 1967 to 1975.
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