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…
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…
Thursday, April 3, 7pm at the Dalhousie School of Architecture auditorium. http://preemptingdissent.com/ The creative commons documentary Preempting Dissent (2014) builds upon the book of the same name written by Greg Elmer and Andy Opel. The film is a culmination of a collaborative process of soliciting, collecting and editing video, still images, and creative commons music files…
This video was produced as an appendix to our article “Between Success and Failure: Dwelling with Social Movements in the Hiatus” which appeared in Interface: A Journal For and About Social Movements 5.2 (November 2013) (interfacejournal.net/). It outlines our approach and perspective and also leads activists and organizers through a variety of exercises (to be undertaken…
The Radical Imagination Project’s co-director Alex Khasnabish’s new co-edited collection Insurgent Encounters: Transnational Activism, Ethnography, and the Political is out with Duke University Press. Check it out here. From the publisher’s website: Description Insurgent Encounters illuminates the dynamics of contemporary transnational social movements, including those advocating for women and indigenous groups, environmental justice, and alternative—cooperative…
June 16, 7pm Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen St. Halifax NS As a far-right tide rips across the continent and the country, and as the forces of austerity mobilize against social justice around the world, what do we need to do to achieve a different political landscape? More precisely: how can we best mobilize to…
7:30pm, Thursday February 17 2011 Venue: The Bus Stop Theatre Address: 2203 Gottingen St. Cost: Free The first of three public discussions on social movements and the future of Nova Scotia and the World. With governments here and elsewhere cutting programs and attacking workers, what are the possibilities for social justice within and beyond the current…
